Is SEO In 2016 Any Different From SEO In Past Years

Keywords have changed into long phrases

SEO practitioners were so obsessed with exact-matched keywords in the past. But, these days, the norm has shifted to long-tailed ones.

Today, we are optimizing longer search terms or the most popularly known as the long-tail keywords, the ones that define the intent of the user.

Long-Tail Keywords: A Better Way to Connect with Customers

“Long-tail keywords are longer and more specific keyword phrases that visitors are more likely to use when they’re closer to a point-of-purchase. They’re a little bit counterintuitive, at first, but they can be hugely valuable if you know how to use them.

Example: if you’re a company that sells classic furniture, the chances are that your pages are never going to appear near the top of an organic search for “furniture” because there’s too much competition (this is particularly true if you’re a smaller company or a startup). But if you specialize in, say, contemporary art-deco furniture, then keywords like “contemporary Art Deco-influenced semi-circle lounge” are going to reliably find those consumers looking for exactly that product.

Managing long-tail keywords is simply a matter of establishing better lines of communication between your business and the customers who are already out there, actively shopping for what you provide.”

http://www.wordstream.com/long-tail-keywords

2016 SEO tips:

1. Keyword research is still very important
2. On Page Optimization is still vital in making a website crawlable and indexable
3. Site-wide SEO is still important

Internal links: The number of internal links on high-ranking pages has increased since 2014. According to the report authors, the number of links you include in your content isn’t as important as optimizing your overall link structure: “What counts is not the total number of internal links, but rather the optimization of the internal structure and page information so that the user (and also the search engine) is optimally guided through the provider’s content and to ensure that the user stays on the page and is satisfied.” |Source: forbes.com

Robin Burton’s blog post in SEOsitecheckup.com gives us a good insight about SEO in 2016:

7 On-Page SEO Optimization Tips Everyone Must Know

“Ever since Google introduced the Google Panda and Google Penguin updates, the focus has been shifted greatly on the off-page SEO. And while backlinks and other off-page SEO factors are important, it doesn’t mean that you should just forget about the on-page SEO optimization.

On-page SEO optimization, as its name suggests, refers to optimizing the content of your blog post, its URL structure, and other front-end optimization issues that improve your search engine rankings.

Ideally, you should be combining the on-page SEO optimization with off-page SEO optimization to extract the best possible results. In this post, we are going to discuss 7 very important on-page SEO optimization tips that everyone must know.

So, here we go …

http://seositecheckup.com/articles/7-on-page-seo-optimization-tips-everyone-must-know

The changes in SEO in the recent years forced publishers and entrepreneurs to develop a responsive website design. This is to respond to the growing demand of the massive mobile market.

What’s coming for SEO in 2016? The top 7 SEO trends you MUST get ready for

“We’ve been all eyes and ears for you, and here’s what we brought back — the top 7 SEO trends for 2016 as seen by the SEO PowerSuite team:

• Higher Google ranks no longer mean more organic clicks
• The rise of rich answers: a threat or an opportunity?
• Page speed and why you need to improve it right now
• Tracking organic traffic in Google Analytics gets even harder
• Keywords are not dead, but how Google looks at them has changed
• Link penalties are no joke, but all penalties are removable
• How user behavior will be affecting your rankings soon

Closing:

SEO has been constantly changing through the years. This is to provide searchers the ultimate user experience and return high-quality results that can truly answer their queries.

Now, with the changes in effect through the evolving SEO scenario, business owners need to adapt or be left behind and lose out to their more SEO savvy competitors.

You can talk to Qamar Zaman, an SEO and web marketing specialist  based in Dallas. Zaman has over 15 years experience in helping startups and online entrepreneurs grow their business through cost-efficient yet competitive search engine optimization tactics.

source: https://kisspr.com/seo-2016-different-seo-past-years/

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Study Finds ‘Large-Scale’ Vertical Motion Along San Andreas Fault System

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Is California’s most volatile fault line ready to rumble?

A new analysis of GPS data has revealed new areas of motion up and down the roughly 800-mile-long fault that extends as far north as Eureka down to Baja California.

The study published in the journal Nature Geosciences identified 125-mile-wide “lobes” of uplift and subsidence along the San Andreas, which has seen a few millimeters of movement every year along the fault.

Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa analyzed data collected by the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory’s GPS array and finally confirmed crustal movement that had long been predicted by computer models.

“While the San Andreas GPS data has been publicly available for more than a decade, the vertical component of the measurements had largely been ignored in tectonic investigations because of difficulties in interpreting the noisy data,” said researcher Samuel Howell, lead author of the study. “Using this technique, we were able to break down the noisy signals to isolate a simple vertical motion pattern that curiously straddled the San Andreas fault.”

The findings could mean researchers can use GPS vertical motion measurements to better understand – and possibly even predict – behavior of the San Andreas and other fault lines, even when no major ruptures have occurred for decades or centuries.

'Chewbacca Mom' gets her own figurine from Hasbro

In what could be the crowning achievement for her viral fame, "Chewbacca Mom" now has her own action figure.

Toy maker Hasbro unveiled the one-of-a-kind figurine to Candace Payne at its headquarters Friday.

The toy has 13 catch phrases including “That’s not me making that noise, it’s the mask.” “I am such a happy Chewbacca,” as well as her signature laughter,according to Entertainment Weekly.

Payne, who is from Texas, donned a talking Chewbacca mask and broke Facebook viewing records with her viral video. It has been seen more than 114 million times since she posted it May 19.