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17 Things You Should Stop Doing to Your Websites
We see dozens of guides and tutorials on how we should make our websites better to rank, convert, and perform. On the other hand, there’s...
The Evolution of Searcher Intent Markers: a New Way to Look at SEO
Just for a moment, let us move away from how we, search optimizers, view search and look at it through the eyes of people who...
Facebook Launches A New Way To Target More Categories of People
Facebook advertising is my favorite medium of PPC. Not only is it more robust than AdWords, but it’s also easier for the new guy to pick...
Matt Cutts on Page Ranking Over Time
Undoubtedly, when you’re checking your rankings, you’ll find some interesting things happening with your content. I personally believe the activity of checking your rankings every...
3 WordPress Plugins to Diversify Your Content
We all have a little trouble coming up with fresh ideas for blog posts from time to time. It would be wonderful if we were...
Bing Ads Responds to Google Enhanced Campaigns
I was hoping that Bing Ads would finally come out and say something about Google’s new Enhanced Campaigns but wasn’t counting on it given how...
The Coming Penguin Update: Should You Reevaluate Your Link Building Strategy?
A couple weeks back, Google’s head of web spam Matt Cutts said that there will be a massive update to Penguin sometime this year, and...
Expanding Search Campaigns Up The Purchase Funnel
You are probably familiar with the purchase funnel that illustrates the customer journey to a conversion. You can also use this concept to identify keywords...
Google Places Is Being Upgraded To Google+ Local
Without question, Google places and Google + has been somewhat of a nightmare for local business owners. Local business owners rely on their local SEO...
The Hunt for the Optimum Link Building Speed
Not that many people were very concerned with link juice or the velocity at which new links are built five years ago, but today Search...
Keyword Bulk Uploads Saves You Time
We were all happy when Google released their bulk editing back in November of 2011. Google stepped up the game even more yesterday when they made...
Everything I Know About Link Building I Learned in 1998
When you think back to how the world of SEO and link building has changed over the past 2 years, it’s absolutely amazing. Before the...
Top 10 April Fools Day Jokes for 2013
Google’s latest Porcupine update suggests you should be skeptical about what you read online today! So today for many of you that haven’t figured it...
Learning From The 2012 SERPs [Infographic Included]
My favorite part of the new year is being able to see all kinds of stats, studies, and results of the previous year. Every year...
Google Analytics Real Time Gets Event Reporting
Every website owner needs to be using Google Analytics. It’s what helps us identify our problems, successes, and future content opportunities. The amazing Google did...
6 Feed Readers to Replace the Google Reader Void
So July 1st is looming in the distance with gray clouds hanging heavy and your anxiety is building as to what you’re going to do...
What Are Linkable Assets Anyway, and How Do You Build Them?
Cyrus Shepard recently discussed the growing importance of natural links, stressing that the less control you have over the anchor text, the more useful a...
New Calculator Helps You Determine The Effectiveness of Your Mobile Efforts
PPC is a great investment, but it’s been difficult to know how effective we’re being. Mobile devices have changed the game dramatically. People are not...
How To Build Amazing Creative Without A Designer
The SEM Expert’s Guide To Google Display Ad Builder Maybe you’ve taken Google’s Display Ad Builder for a test drive. It’s a handy tool with...
Can A Globalised SEO Strategy Save The British Economy?
How can we grow as a nation if we do not sell much to the rest of the world? This is the question I have...
LinkedIn Search Just Got A Facelift
With growth comes change… usually for the better too. LinkedIn has helped many SEO’s get good paying jobs over the previous years. Today they are helping everyone...
DIY SEO on a Shoestring Budget
In a perfect world, building search engine referral traffic would be easy. You’d pull out your limitless marketing budget checkbook, call up the industry’s most...
Link Building Wins For A New E-Commerce Site
You have a new e-commerce site, where do you begin? Here a few ideas to help get the ball rolling for you when it comes time to...
5 Simple Ways to Stop Building and Start Earning Links
As the search engines change, the amount of effort required to build a resilient and worthwhile link increases. It’s becoming difficult enough that some are...
Solutions for New Email Delivery Challenges Imposed by Email ISPs
As if getting your emails through to subscribers was not already challenging enough, email service providers are making the job of email marketers even harder....
What Really Happened With Raven Tools: Interview with Jon Henshaw
In late 2012, Internet marketing tools platform Raven Tools raised eyebrows in the SEO world when the company’s CEO announced that Raven would remove “all...
Digg Banned From SERPs (Updated)
Updated (see below) I’m always following SEPS’s and big companies out there getting slapped by Penguin and Panda updates. Matt Cutts talked last week about...
Mapping the Search Partnership Scene – A Definitive Look At The Deals That Shape the Landscape of Search
This article provides a definitive look at the deals Google, Bing and Yahoo! have in place with software and hardware companies and service providers listing...
Internet Marketing In China
The Chinese economy stands as the second largest in the world, behind the USA. Much of the world’s manufacturing is Chinese, and there is a...
Link Building for Small and Local Businesses
If you read a blog post about link building recently, the odds are pretty good you’ve read about content marketing, info-graphics, or RCS. These are all great....