3 Times That Link Isn’t Worth It
If you’ve been building links for any amount of time you’ve probably realized that link building is a time-consuming, tedious, and often frustrating. Finding high-quality,...
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Nick Stamoulis is the President of Brick Marketing, a full service Boston SEO firm. With nearly 13 years of experience in the Internet Marketing industry, Nick Stamoulis shares his B2B SEO knowledge by contributing to the Brick Marketing Blog and publishing the Brick Marketing SEO Newsletter, read by over 160,000 opt-in subscribers.
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Don’t Discredit The Value of Referral Links!
Next time you poke around your Google Analytics account, take a look at the Traffic Sources Overview page, in particular at the pie chart that breaks...
Blogging Success- A Lot of Hard Work and a Little Luck
The beauty of the Internet is that anyone can write and publish a blog on any subject they want—pure breed Labradors, open source software development,...
Small Businesses Can Still Have Big SEO Success
image credit: ShutterStock Many small business owners feel like they can’t compete with the “big” brands simply because they don’t have the money or the...
3 Tips for Better SEO and Social Media Time Management
Be honest, how many times have you said to yourself “Oh, let me just check this one thing in Google Analytics” or “I’ve got a...
SEO Clients Sometimes Don’t Implement My SEO Recommendations!
After being in the SEO industry for 13 years, I am still always amazed when a site owner chooses to completely disregard my on-site SEO...
Transparency is Key to Building SEO Client Trust
Let’s face it, the SEO industry, like any other, has its fair share of less-than-scrupulous players looking to take advantage of unsuspecting site owners. I’m...
How Unique Can an SEO Firm Really Be?
I was talking with an SEO prospect a few weeks ago and they asked me “What differentiates your SEO firm from everyone else?” In essence,...
Consider Removing the Share Buttons from Your Email Newsletters
Disclaimer: I am not an email marketing expert. This post was inspired by observations with my own email marketing campaign. If your email newsletter uses...
Why Yellow Pages Will Be Dead in Five Years
Let me start of by saying that I do have a Yellow Pages listing for my SEO company, Brick Marketing. It costs me about $50...
SEO Software: Is It Worth the Money?
When I search for “SEO software,” Google comes back with 40,000,000 results. Even if only 1% of those results are unique SEO software product pages,...
SEO Shortcuts Take You Nowhere Fast
In our modern world, every second counts. How long does it take to get around the Starbucks drive-through? How fast can you text? How quickly...
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Custom Website Design
Your website is an incredibly important component of your online marketing. While that may seem like a “well, duh” statement, there’s no shortage of poorly...
The SEO Industry Needs Better Industry Associations
Compared to other marketing practices like advertising and PR, the SEO industry is incredibly young. As an industry we are still finding our way, establishing...
How to Turn Black Hat SEO into a White Hat Approach
The SEO industry has seen its share of horrendous grey and black hat approaches for many years. It is truly amazing to me that I...