Months ago I wrote about why understanding your niche was so crucial for quality link building. Most of this piece dealt with issues such as target demographic, key terms to use, and content. However, the last two points that I covered have recently come up again and I decided to flesh them out a bit [...]

Are you tired of turkey yet? By now we should all be just about done with turkey sandwiches and leftover sweet potatoes. But using up all of the extra food is one of the best parts of Thanksgiving. It challenges us to find inventive ways to make the best of what we have. Most of [...]

On-page internal linking to benefit SEO will occasionally deal heavy damage to the conversion funnel. If sites wish to thrive in the future, on-page linking strategies needs to be planned holistically and framed with an understanding that SEO is just one aspect that needs to be considered. If you took inventory of all your site [...]

Building links is tedious work, whether you enjoy it or not. I’ve done almost every form of SEO at one time or another, and I can truly say that link building is the absolute most time-consuming (and occasionally boring) bit. The results can be amazing, but you definitely have to work hard to see them. [...]

So you are probably reading this post title thinking that this is too good to be true. Well it’s not! And I will prove it… Back in March of 2009, I came across a regular column on CNN: Small Business, called Website Remedies. This column “enlists Web marketing and search-engine optimization specialists to analyze small-business [...]

A few months ago I decided to turn my blog into a do-follow blog to see if it helps increase activity, but honestly I can’t really say how much it’s helped or not. Sure, I’ve gotten some spam comments, but I always remove them. Just because it’s a do-follow blog doesn’t mean I have to [...]

If you send me a link request, I’m going to go ahead and assume you want my feedback. What? You don’t? You just want the valuable back link that I can provide? Wow, I feel dirty and used. No not really, because unfortunately I’m used to it by now. Sure sometimes link requests are annoying, [...]

I ignored the opportunity to link build with infographics for far too long. As an engineer turned search engine professional, the idea of creating art scared me. I prefer complicated puzzles and problems over design, but after seeing so many others succeed I decided to go all in. So, a few months back, we created [...]

Linkbait is one of the crucial types of Internet marketing. Linkbait takes some time to create, but the results can be both viral and effective. However, with all types of Internet marketing methods, publishers must be willing to spend a significant amount researching, prepping, formatting, and creating linkbait that is going to be strong enough [...]