{"id":3045,"date":"2012-11-21T05:18:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T09:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2012-11-17T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T13:34:05","slug":"why-am-i-watching-co-citation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/11\/21\/why-am-i-watching-co-citation\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO &#8211; Why I Am Watching Co-Citation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just asked all the time what are you watching, what&#8217;s new and exciting, what trends to you see happening? This week I will be writing three blog posts about what I&#8217;m watching and why. Today&#8217;s post is about <a title=\"Web Visibility Services\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/seo\/index.php\">why I am watching co-citation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3046\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/nancy-droid.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3046\" title=\"nancy-droid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/nancy-droid-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/nancy-droid-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/nancy-droid-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/nancy-droid-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/nancy-droid.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy McCord is really watching co-citation for organic search placement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Google has made really sweeping changes to how it rates websites and what used to work for years to garner organic placement is not considered spammy by Google and may even run into a placement smackdown filter. This is why I am very carefully and intensely watching co-citation.<strong>Here are a few articles about co-citation that you may want to read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blog\/prediction-anchor-text-is-dying-and-will-be-replaced-by-cocitation-whiteboard-friday?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seomoz+%28SEOmoz+Daily+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=My+MSN\" target=\"_blank\">SEOMoz take on co-citation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmarketingninjas.com\/jim\/co-citation-understanding-how-it-effects-your-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Boykin&#8217;s take on co-citation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In lay terms, co-citation is close to link bait and article marketing but with natural growth. Both authors state that Google and Bing as so smart now that they do not have to be fed keyword phrases, they will decide on their own based on the content that links to you. But, here&#8217;s the change it is not the link text that they are weighing, but rather the jist of the content where the link to your website is embedded. In fact, the page that links to you may not even link to your service and may not even contain keywords on which you want to place. Instead it is an &#8220;authority&#8221; factor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So here&#8217;s what I understand so far&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google and Bing spider the web, they read incidents of mentions of your name and content, they spider your own website and get a picture of the services you provide, then they review how what people say about you and the authority of the site that links to your site talks about you. They then use this in their algorithm to place you in importance to being an authority on a specific topic. Way Cool!<\/p>\n<p>Although I don&#8217;t think that anyone in my industry really knows yet <a title=\"What Works for Organic Placement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">what works for organic placement<\/a> in this new world on Google and Bing, but it is clear that content, the sharing of your content will be a very strong impact for organic placement.<\/p>\n<p>I will be doing further research on co-citation and will let you know what I find out and what I think about it in the months to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just asked all the time what are you watching, what&#8217;s new and exciting, what trends to you see happening? This week I will be writing three blog posts about what I&#8217;m watching and why. Today&#8217;s post is about why I am watching co-citation. Google has made really sweeping changes to how it rates websites and what used to work for years to garner organic placement is not considered spammy by Google and may even run into a placement smackdown filter. This is why I am very carefully and intensely watching co-citation.Here are a few articles about co-citation that you may want to read: SEOMoz take on co-citation Jim Boykin&#8217;s take on co-citation In lay terms, co-citation is close to link bait and article marketing but with natural growth. Both authors state that Google and Bing as so smart now that they do not have to be fed keyword phrases, they will decide on their own based on the content that links to you. But, here&#8217;s the change it is not the link text that they are weighing, but rather the jist of the content where the link to your website is embedded. In fact, the page that links to you may not even link to your service and may not even contain keywords on which you want to place. Instead it is an &#8220;authority&#8221; factor. So here&#8217;s what I understand so far&#8230; Google and Bing spider the web, they read incidents of mentions of your name and content, they spider your own website and get a picture of the services you provide, then they review how what people say about you and the authority of the site that links to your site talks about you. They then use this in their algorithm to place you in importance to being an authority on a specific topic. Way Cool! Although I don&#8217;t think that anyone in my industry really knows yet what works for organic placement in this new world on Google and Bing, but it is clear that content, the sharing of your content will be a very strong impact for organic placement. I will be doing further research on co-citation and will let you know what I find out and what I think about it in the months to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,17],"tags":[438,436,198],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-search-engine-optimization","tag-google","tag-search-engine-optimization","tag-seo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SEO - Why I Am Watching Co-Citation? | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/11\/21\/why-am-i-watching-co-citation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SEO - Why I Am Watching Co-Citation? | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I just asked all the time what are you watching, what&#8217;s new and exciting, what trends to you see happening? 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