How much traffic can we potentially get if we rank #1 for this keyword? How much our traffic will increase if we go from position X to position Y for that keyword? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? Whether a keyword is good, whether it is worth focusing on..
When working with Google all we [...]
Yandex is very different from Google, when it comes to stable rankings and updates of search results. It is very important to keep in mind that while Google SERPs are never 100% stable, in Yandex not many changes happen on a daily basis.
This used to be the case with Google before as well, but it [...]
In the end of last year Russian SEO society was shaken and excited at the same time by a sudden change or ranking algorithm from Arzamas to Snezhinsk. Snezhinsk came with over 1000 ranking factors and ad a result better spam detection, better dupe content filters and better geo-targeting.
Right now local results are available for [...]
Yandex Webmaster panel is on the way to better usability! Finally the day has come when we can download all backlinks into a file, just like in Google webmaster tools.
To do so you need to activate this feature here (being logged in, of course): http://webmaster.yandex.ru/settings/offline_links.xml.
It will take about a week for Yandex to generate a [...]
Yandex Webmaster tools (also called Yandex Webmaster panel) is a highly useful tool for all Yandex SEOs. It is good. It is free. It is an (surprise! ) almost exact copy of Google Webmaster Tools, hence it won’t take much time to figure out how to use them.
Yandex webmaster tools can be accessed here: [...]
In April Yandex launched a new algorithm known as Arzamas these days (Arzamas is a name of a Russian city btw). Apart from many new factors affecting rankings, such as for example duplicate content filter that removed over one million of pages from the index in one night, in the new algorithm was implemented a [...]
The basics:
When creating keyword lists for your American, German or French sites, you turn to Google for keyword suggestions. But what do you do in Russia?
Google is not very good with Russian semantics, besides the amount of searchers in Google.ru is not that high. Is Google.ru keyword data reliable? Who is using Google? Can it [...]