How to Become a Link Building Expert in 30 Days
If you are a consultant juggling clients and managing your own business, it is only natural to find yourself focusing more efforts on some strategies and letting other tools of your trade slide. There are plenty of SEO Services that can help your business and your...
4 Tips to Capture More Leads Quickly & Easily
Of course, email marketing happens to be one of the most cost-effective means of advertising online. But email marketing can be effective only when you have built up a long list of responsive email subscribers. If you want to make money online quickly, you’ll need to...
Where to Focus Your Photo Sharing Efforts in 2013
Photo sharing has made a booming market in recent years helping both small and large businesses alike. It can be used to properly manage marketing strategies, keep employees up-to-date and better interact with customers and clients. While it started as a simple tool...
Get Your Products Found in Google: Essential SEO for Online Retailers
Moving away from eBay and Amazon to sell your products on your own webstore is a fantastic strategy for most online retail businesses. Aside from not having marketplace fees butcher your profit margins, you also get away from the overwhelming level of competition that...
Email Marketing for a Higher Conversion Rate
In today’s digital times, we sometimes focus too much on SEO and PageRank. While they’re incredibly important to a site’s success, they’re also not the only driving force that’s in play. After all, if your sole aspiration is SEO and not your conversion rate, you’re...Your Website SEO Checkup: Part 1 of 8 – Search Engine Friendly Site Structure
Probably the most important part of Search Engine Optimization is making sure that your website is search engine friendly. When I say search engine friendly, I mean that when search engines “crawl” your site, they are able to read all of the content,...
How and When to Move from A/B to Multivariate Testing
Most of us who have a website would love to get it to perform a little better, two obvious ways to do this are to increase traffic to the site or to increase what we get from the existing traffic. By increase what we get from the existing traffic I’m talking about...How Online Press Releases Can Benefit Your Business
Most of today’s business professionals are well aware of the benefits of marketing on sites like Facebook and Twitter. But with the rise of social media and blogging, the power of the press release seems to have gotten the cold shoulder. If you’re looking to boost...
How Article Marketing can Help Your Blog
Article marketing is a great way to promote your blog. Many people might think, article marketing is dead or “old”, but the fact it, it’s not. It works, and it works very well. Basically, you submit an article to the article directories. Once approved, your article...
8 Link building Tips That Still Matter in the Post-Panda Era
Google’s Panda algorithm update has nearly obliterated countless sites, especially those based on article marketing and those containing weak content. It has really made an effort to penalize sites with duplicate, scraped and spammy content. While the update has been...
How to Blog Comment as an Effective Link Building Technique
Blog commenting has been and still is, an effective link building technique…when done right. Simply running a piece of software that blasts out irrelevant comments to 1,000’s of blogs will just piss off a bunch of blog owners and/or HURT your rankings. ...
Online Marketing Crossing The Conventional Conception of SEO
The connotations associated with the word online marketing include the processes of SEO and PPC. To most of the businesses in the market, the online marketing is either search engine optimization or Pay per click. Businesses are either oblivious of the rest of online...
SEO Tips for Any Budget
It can be quite tough to compete online with your competitors if they have lots more budget than you, after all – if you’re a small business on a budget and they have high profile SEO agencies and online marketing professionals on their side – you might even feel like...
Your Website SEO Checkup: Part 5 of 8 – Link Building
Link Building is probably the biggest aspect of off-site SEO. In this post I discuss how to find links, analyze your competitors for top link partners, how to develop great content for people to link to, and how to spread the word about your content. Analyzing Links...
The Link Wheel Concept Explained
There seems to be a rising popularity in developing what is called a “Link Wheel” for your blog. A link wheel is the process of creating backlinks to your website or blog AND other off-site properties. The goal is to create a system where all of your...
Google Announces User-Generated Filters for Unwanted Search Results
Google may have finally discovered a way to rid the internet once and for all from undesirable search results. The answer: Let its users handle it. The Official Google Blog on March 10 announced the debut of a new feature that allows you to block all results from any...
Why Link Builders Don’t Share Their Top Secret Strategies
Last month, I did a post on Search Engine Journal on the five types of link building. It was geared towards a more beginner’s audience, or maybe for the intermediate SEO who may have forgotten that link building is for more than just building PageRank. The first...
14 Free SEO Tools and Resources from SEOmoz
SEOmoz just updated their site with a new design, as well as some new resources. Here are the best SEO resources offered by SEOmoz without having to be a PRO member. Simply sign up for a free account and take advantage of the following resources. Free SEOmoz Tools...
The 5 Minute SEO Audit
The 5 Minute SEO Audit Tools to have installed prior to performing this SEO audit. – SEO Toolbar – Web Developer Toolbar – Reverse IP Checker – Copyscape 0:00 – 1:00 (Domain History) – Check PageRank – Check # of inbound links...
Holiday Marketing Guide 2009: Hot Products, Tips, & Resources for Online Retailers
Forrester estimates that online retail sales will reach $44.7 billion this holiday season. That is a 8% increase year over year. The contributing factor is the increase in buyers doing more of their shopping online, as well as retailers focusing a larger portion of...
Part I: The Ultimate Guide to Meta Description
You’ve just taken over a client from an unscrupulous agency; title tags are stuffed with keywords, there’s a dodgy backlink history and the meta keywords are used on every page. Worst of all, your just not getting the traffic you’re expecting from the rankings you’re...
How to Generate Extra Cash from Your Top Exit Pages
While I work for websites, one of the most important statistics that I keep my eyes on is the exit pages. Yes, it’s extremely important to know from which pages on a website or a blog people are exiting most. Exits from web pages can be both ‘positive’ and ‘negative’....
Design to Convert!
You can design a website in a thousand different ways but above all your designs should convert casual viewers into loyal users and buyers. One way to do this is by incorporating conversion optimization into your website designs. Your website will only have a few...
Why More Traffic Doesn’t Always Mean More Sales
If you have visited as many blogs as I have over the last few years, or if you are relatively new to Internet Marketing, you will probably have read many articles that totally distort the truth. One of the best I’ve seen goes something like this: “If your website...
Top SEO Blog Category Added to World Media Awards
Just yesterday, a new Top SEO Blog Category was added to the World Media Awards Event and Stay on Search was the first blog to be nominated. While marketing bloggers often write about SEO, and some SEOs are marketing bloggers, the Top Marketing Blogs category is...![Gain Insight on a Typical SEO Client [60 Second Poll]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/typical-seo-client-poll.jpg)
Gain Insight on a Typical SEO Client [60 Second Poll]
I thought it would a good idea to create a short poll to ask SEO’s about their everyday clients. I’m sure there are a lot of Internet Marketers out there, wondering how they stack up against other agencies and interactive firms. This is a great way to...Web Developers: Educate Yourself with SEO Knowledge
I am writing this post in regards to a recent article I read on HubSpot. Mike Volpe’s lists 7 reasons why marketing can’t trust the Webmaster with SEO. I agree with all 7 reasons but I feel the view from the Webmasters eyes needs to be known as well. I...
Is SEO Changing to a Holistic Marketing Approach?
Ten years ago, hiring a good search engine optimization firm was enough to get great search engine rankings and relevant traffic. Since then, the internet has evolved and become saturated with millions of websites. Everybody now fighting for the 1st page of Google,...
10 Website & SEO Analysis Tools
There are a number of SEO tools out there that will let you analyze a site for a number of different factors. There are link analysis tools, competitive research tools, keyword analysis tools, domain info tools, social bookmarking tools, etc… So instead of...
How Do I Know My Web Content is Good Enough?
I love when readers, clients and social media connections ask questions; the answers make great fuel for articles, so please keep them coming! Recently, a reader asked, “How do I know my web content is good enough or SEO’d well?” Thus, the topic of today’s blog. So...
5 Benefits of Blogging from a Junior SEO Analyst
I’ve been in the SEO blogging industry long enough to know that though there is a difference between being a SEO Consultant/Analyst/Executive and a Blogger, they pretty much go hand in hand. I like to think I’m a combination of both, a hybrid if you like...
Quick Tricks to Checking Your Backlinks
Having backlinks is vital for good SEO. Knowing how to monitor your backlinks is beneficial to improving it.
Top Strategies To Optimize Your Site For Knowledge Graph
Google has been saying that user experience is paramount for quite sometime. A trustworthy SEO company would tell you the same. With the launch of Google Knowledge Graph, it looks like offering top-notch user experience is going to become the most important SEO...
5 Plugins to Make Your WordPress Blogs SEO Friendly
If you are blogging for personal reasons only, you don’t need to think much about search engine optimization and all. But what you will do if you are blogging with the intension to grow your business or making money from blogging. All of your hard work in writing good...
How Many Links Should I Build Each Month?
I’ve spoken with many site owners over my 13 year SEO career and one of the most common questions I get asked is “how many links should I build each month?” This is if they plan on handling their own link building execution. If the site owner is looking to outsource...
Live From SMX Seattle: Conversion Optimization – Winning After They Arrive
Moderator: Jeffrey Rohrs, Vice President, Marketing, ExactTarget Speakers: Scott Brinker, President and CTO of Ion Interactive Robert Bergquist, CEO of Widemile Tom Leung, Business Product Manager at Google Jonathon Mendez, Founder and CEO of RAMP Digital Tom Leung...
Increasing Conversions by Removing Usability Roadblocks
What is conversion optimization Conversion optimization is the process of testing your website and landing pages to improve your conversion rate. A conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who complete the desired action on a page (example: submitting a form or...![Making Money Online with SEO [Webinar Replay]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/70_webinar_replay1.jpg)
Making Money Online with SEO [Webinar Replay]
Hey guys, I wanted to give everyone who missed the webinar a few weeks back, a chance to watch the replay. Daniel Lew and I discuss a number of different tactics and strategies for turning your SEO efforts into dollars. We went for almost two hours, so there is a lot...
SEO Experts Are Holding Back Important Strategies
I’m very excites to be sharing my first guest post here on StayOnSearch which is ran by one of the good guys online..Mark Thompson. What I’m looking to achieve in this post is just to shine a little light on the world of seo. Seo is my passion and something I been...
Niche Shark: Untapped Resource for Finding Hundreds of Profitable Niches
Keyword research is the foundation for deciding on whether you should enter a certain niche or not. If you enter a niche with high search volume and high competition, it could take years before you can see any type of return. If you enter a niche with low search...
The Importance of Conversion Rate Optimization
Have you ever heard of Conversion Rate Optimization? I hope most of you are already aware of it but for those who don’t. Here is its simple definition – Conversion rate optimization is a process intended to increase the percentage of visitors who are converting...
Selling SEO Is Not Just About You
Stepping into the corporate world of SEO is not a simple task. SEO is no regular desk job. As a businessperson who wants to make it big in SEO, you’re going to be meeting people from different industries, not only for the purpose of introducing and selling your...![Google Panda Algorithm Update [Infographic]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/8-16-2011-6-24-30-PM.png)
Google Panda Algorithm Update [Infographic]
I was recently contacted by Carlos Paulinich, who created this amazing infographic that shows a graphical representation of the Google Panda Update. I thought I would share it with the readers. Make sure you give him some props on his amazing job! Image...
Major Tips to Improve the SEO of All Website
Search engines such as Google are smart. They appreciate websites with creative and original content, and reward them with high page rankings. SEO (search engine optimization) is followed by some quality websites to get rightfully noticed by search engines, while most...
Keeping Your SEO Clients Expectations In Check – 5 Rules To Live By (Part 1/5)
Have you ever been faced with an SEO client who wants instant results? If you are in the SEO business – it is safe to assume that the answer would be an emphatic “YES!” Imagine being able to drastically cut down on the phone calls and emails of panicked clients who...
Increase Conversions with this Pre-Launch Product Checklist
When you create a new product that you plan on launching on your website or blog, it takes more than just a good product idea for it to be successful. It needs to be marketed properly to your target audience. A few things I learned from when I released the Link...
How to Increase Your Page Rank by Getting Links to Your Website
Ever since Google became the major player among search engines, web masters have been trying to figure out the algorithms Google uses to rank websites. Although the actual numbers are a closely guarded secret, we do know that one important factor in ranking pages has...
Robots.txt Guide for Popular CMS and Shopping Carts
It can be difficult to know which directories should be restricted from search engines and which should be allowed. I thought it would be a good idea to create a robots.txt reference guide for popular content management systems and shopping carts. Depending on what...