If you look up “cheesy photo pose” in the dictionary guess who’s at the top? Yes my old pal Leslie, but he does know his SEO.
So since the dust seems to be settling from the double P (Penguin & panda) and more information seems to be leaking from Google I decided to get The Godfather of SEO back in for a chat (after nearly 2 years of absence!).
Out of the tens of questions you guys asked we decided to focus on the most popular ones and Leslie will be back to answer the rest next week.
Check it out here:
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UPDATE: After recording this interview we held a live webinar. You can get access to the replay here
Discussed in the interview
00.04 – Mindless chit chat
02.25 – Question: Google is looking for brands (as far as I understand). Any advice on how to generate ‘branding signals’?
02.45 – Leslie’s Answer and then some…
05.05 – Question: What percentage of your anchor text links should be exact match keyword targeted
05.15 – Leslie’s definitive answer
05.50 – Question: How do you see the future of Bing / Yahoo?
05:58 – Leslie answers and talks about Yahoo CEO – Marissa Mayer
07:20 – Question: What, in your estimation, would be the percentage of value these days between IBLs (Inbound Back Links) & on-page factors, like keyworded content, anchor text, etc?
07:50 – Leslie answers and talks about how the core algorithm has stayed the same but it’s the new filters that have made the big dent. He gives some examples of how not to do it.
11:20 – Question: I have been hit with really bad with negative SEO (even porn links) & pointed this out to Google via WMT recon request but they just keep sending the same robotic template response about me having unnatural links. I know this already and this is what I keep telling them (5 times now) yet they have not acknowledged it and someone is building about 1000 bad links to my site every months so having them taken down is a futile mission. Any advice?
12:02 – Leslie answers and talks about how you should deal with the links and also how to deal with Google in this situation.
17:50 – Wrap up, more mindless chit chat & planning webinar next week
If you have any further questions for Leslie please place them in the comments below and as always please share, retweet & like if you found it useful
To listen to previous recordings with Leslie from nearly 2 years ago click the links below:
Interview – session 1
Interview – session 2
Interview – session 3
