Yes, it's easy to get attention by picking on Google. That's not the intent here. For years Google has given away services and done so many nice things for us that sometimes we forget they're a business. I can understand and appreciate that at the end of the day, they provide their products and services [...]
Read MoreYes, there are a million ways you can build competitive links and a lot of it can be brutal and time consuming. The easiest links often come from come from co-citations, or places that link to more than one of your competitors. Rather than parse through a list of tons of singular backlinks that you [...]
Read MoreA few months back we were contracted by a local organization that came to us with a very clear problem – they weren’t showing up on search engines. Any of them. For anything. After a brief conversation with the developer we found out that the site had been live with a noindex command in the [...]
Read MoreNot to toot my own horn, but I've done pretty well in doing SEO for real estate clients. The unfortunate thing I've noticed is that so many of these sites are outdated and built on platforms whose only real purpose is to display MLS listings relatively efficiently. What that leads to for us poor SEOs [...]
Read MoreI wanted to call this blog something else... !@$# @#%&#! Okay, I've wanted to start a series of blogs on this forever, and someone just gave me a reason to start. So this came into our sales email today: Dear webmaster, I am seeking out possible link partners that our visitors would be interesting in [...]
Read More(Note: This is a tongue in cheek take on the recent flurry of changes to Google). Things just aren't the same... Dear Google, First off, I'm writing this as a loyal user, not as an SEO. I know we've had our ups and downs in the past (like you refusing to index a site [...]
Read MoreI recently put together a white paper that went into great detail on a lot of different checks that someone with little to no knowledge of SEO could do to make sure they're not getting ripped off. After some internal review, we thought it might have been a bit too in depth for the audience [...]
Read MoreIf you haven't heard about it yet, Ontolo launched what is quite possibly the greatest invention in the history of mankind recently. After producing a plethora of fabulous tools that made link prospecting and qualification easier the past few years, they finally put everything together in one fabulous package with the Ontolo Link Building Toolset. [...]
Read MoreThought I'd try something new and interesting and throw a poll on my site just to see if anyone's paying attention. Anyhow, with all of the advancements made available by Google Analytics, I was wondering what people thought about the possible obsolescence of the long standing web analytics players. Can Google push them out of [...]
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