SEO Chat News | April 2017

[A Developer Shed site]( [Forums]( [Tools]( [Articles]( SEO Chat News Did Google’s Fred update give new meaning to “March Madness” for you? A few of our forum members were affected as well. But Fred has been talked about to death – so this month, we’re bringing you the other highlights! We promise that they’re just as interesting – maybe more so – than Fred was. Some of the topics are old – like signature links and Google Sandbox – and some are new. We think you’ll enjoy them all! [Facebook]( [Google+]( [Twitter]( SEO Chat Articles [5 Tips for Selling Your Online Courses]( So you’ve been working in your industry for years. You consider yourself to be an expert. Now you’ve created an online course to help teach others your secrets...but just because you teach it, doesn’t mean that they’ll attend your classes! Just like everything else in life, you’ve got to sell it. We’ve got some practical tips for how to sell your classes in this article. [Read more]( [5 Psychological Factors That Affect Your Sales]( Psychological factors might sound a little like “soft science” to the ears of an SEO obsessed with data and analytics, but the minds of your audience (and how they work) are of critical importance. Factors like trust, social proof, consistency, and others might be the edge you’re looking for to take your online store to the next level. [Read more]( [When to Stop SEOing]( NSS – Never Stop SEOing! Right? Well, maybe not. Certainly, many of our senior members agree that you should never be so arrogant as to rest on your laurels. But this question is actually about how to separate the noise from the truth when analyzing data. If you’re always working and always making changes to your website, how do you know which changes are doing what or where you rank for real? Our senior members have boat loads of great advice in this thread. [Join the discussion]( [Internet Marketing Ninjas Blog]( [@][3 Tools to Quickly Create Awesome Visual Tweets]( Visual tweets attract more clicks and shares. Despite various levels of skepticism (many people were claiming visual tweets to be annoying), visual tweets are getting more and more adopted. Here are three free tools allowing you to create stunning visual tweets in seconds. 1. Twit Shot (Online, Mac App, Google Chrome Extension) TwitShot.com is a cool app that extracts an image from the given page and creates an instant visual... [Read More]( SEOChat Forum Discussions [Paywalls and Content – The Nuances of How Google Defines Cloaking]( A new member came to the forums to ask how to handle free vs subscriber content. How can they get Google to index everything, but restrict user access? That probably sounds a lot like cloaking to you – but Pierre Benneton found a neat Webmaster Hangout video where John Mueller explains that there is more nuance than just “yes” or “no” when it comes to cloaking. Give this a read (and a watch)! [Join the discussion]( [Signature Links and Penguin – What’s New?]( One of our senior members has been struggling to rank a site for several months. They had the site linked in their SEO Chat forum signature, with some keyword text. As a test, they removed the signature – and days later, they landed on the second page of SERPs. Was the signature link responsible? How is Google treating signature links in the post-automated Penguin world? [Join the discussion]( [Google Sandbox – Real or Not?]( It’s been debated for years – does Google hold new domains back in the SERPs, or is that just an illusion that eager SEOs gobble up to explain how difficult new domains are to rank? Our senior members are debating the idea of the Sandbox in this thread, with all the new context that the present day brings us. [Join the conversation]( Featured Tool >>[Analyze your meta tags in seconds!]( [Meta Tag Analyzer]( Provide your (or your competitor’s) URL and see the essential meta tags data from the page: title, meta description, and meta keywords. See what your competitors might be focusing on in their search engine optimization campaigns with this tool! [Check out more Tools today!]( seochat.com A Developer Shed site 21 Corporate Drive, Suite 200, Clifton Park, NY 12065 Phone: 518-270-0854 [( © 2003-2017 by DevShed, LLC. All rights reserved. This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Developershed · 21 Corporate Park Dr · Suite 200 · Clifton Park, NY 12065 · USA