Building links sucks. Yet, for some odd reason I do it for a living. There are a million different ways to get links, but getting good links that actually skyrocket you up the SERPs can be akin to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack or worse. The truth is, you want to get editorial [...]
Read MoreI just plain hate reading an SEO blog where they offer tips like "check your competitors' links". Don't get me wrong, you should do that to look for prospects, but if your competitor has links in AARP magazine you have to strategize (thank you G.W. Bush for expanding our vocabulary) to get a link there [...]
Read MoreI'm not the first person to blog about this topic, not by a long shot actually. But for those of you small business and DIYers, you may not have heard about this method of building links, or not seen a real example of it in practice. The concept is simple, you do something helpful to [...]
Read MoreI love free samples. Sometimes I don't even care what they are. Walking through the local supermarket I'll gladly take several helpings of something I would never eat...just because it's free. However, when that free sample is something you enjoy...EUREKA! You've struck gold. Now that I've reached a happy place imagining myself wolfing down a [...]
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 MoreOne of these days all of my pimping of Ontolo & SEOmoz tools is going to get me an affiliate fee, I swear (I'm not associated with these organizations other than being a customer, fyi). I recently posted a cool way you could use the new Ontolo Link Building Toolset in concert with Google Custom [...]
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 MoreNothing is worse for the budding online businessman than to see their traffic numbers plummet...particularly their search numbers because they are often the least understood form of traffic. Often search traffic is oversimplified as, "Work hard in SEO and link building to get top positions and the traffic will magically appear." But like any business, [...]
Read MoreLife isn't a beauty contest. Plenty of ugly people can be successful (even *I* earn a living), and I've seen some horrific websites make money for companies. One thing that I've learned in the SEO business over the last few years is that sometimes it pays to say no to a hideous website when someone [...]
Read MoreI'm sure this last could be a whole lot longer, but since I find myself doling out a lot of advice to SEOas and budding SEOs these days and while a lot of times people are on the right track, they tend to overlook little details that can make a big difference. Here's a short [...]
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