Krasen Markov

Want to rank higher than your competitors? Reverse engineer their content, create something better, replicate the links they have and, chances are, you will outrank them! In this tutorial you will learn how to piggyback your competitors' content marketing efforts, so that to find the best content ideas you should focus a lot of effort on. Sounds good? Let's get started!

As many of you may know, Google is continuously releasing updates in order to improve its services, particularly in the area of generating better search results. In Jan 31, 2012 Google started to implement Country-Specific url redirects to Blogger. What is that mean? In simple terms, if you are viewing a blog with an address such as example.blogspot. com from France (FR), then you'll be redirected to a .fr domain: example.blogspot. fr . Similarly, if you are viewing from United Kingdom it will be redirected to example.blogspot. co.uk . This might sound like no big deal—who cares what a blog URL ends with, right? Wrong. Google’s motives are something any serious blogger should care about in this case; this is happening so that Google can easily block any content which is not appropriate for a specify country according to the law of that country, and can easily serve that same content in another country without any issues. This is an act of “selective censorship” being perpet...

Search engine optimization is often about making small modifications to parts of your website. When viewed individually, these changes might seem like incremental improvements, but when combined with other optimizations, they could have a noticeable impact on your site's user experience and performance in organic search results. You're likely already familiar with many of the topics in this guide, because they're essential ingredients for any web page, but you may not be making the most out of them. This document first began as an effort to help teams within Google, but we thought it'd be just as useful to webmasters that are new to the topic of search engine optimization and wish to improve their sites' interaction with both users and search engines. Although this guide won't tell you any secrets that'll automatically rank your site first for queries in Google (sorry!), following the best practices outlined below will make it easier for sea...