The landscape and ranking factors of SEO are always changing and evolving. In 2010, we are starting to see a fundamental shift in the way search engines are rankings sites. With the evolution of social media, video, and rich media, the organic SERPs are becoming...
All PPC and SEO experts are aware of the importance of building links for the marketing and promotion of a website. Backlinks are essentially important when it comes to getting organic traffic for the website and enhancing the visibility of the website in the search...
Evolution of Search Engine Optimization Death to the Old SEO Methods There is a prevailing theme often heard in Internet Marketing that Search Engine Optimization, better known as SEO, is DEAD. Any number of reasons can be attributed to this idea, and there are many...
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...
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...
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...
Testing can be a never ending battle, depending on how thorough you are looking to test. The idea is to find the most effective web page that will lead to the best results. Your results may be, increased time on site, increase in page views, increase in # of signups,...
Advertising on Facebook quadrupled last year. More than three-quarters of big American companies use some sort of social networking, and most small businesses take off from social media-induced traffic. It’s clear that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and their...
A great deal of small business owners has created a website just because others have recommended it. They do not even promote it thinking that customers will find them amidst the millions of others out there. This can be due to the fact that many small business...
I originally wanted to write a post showing examples of really bad SEO and highlighting some of the worst offenders. However, I decided it wasn’t fair to single out websites and criticize their SEO. After all, not everybody claims to do this for a living. But what...
You may have been wondering where I have been the last 2-3 weeks. I have been working around the clock on a new product with my business partner Tim Atkinson called Local Cash Empire. Local Cash Empire is a new Warrior Special Offer, that consists of software plus...
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...
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...
With the rise of social media marketing, the notion of collaboration, integration and disseminating information with a click of a button has become an evident norm. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and recently Google have all found multiple innovative ways to make it...
As anyone can tell from Google’s stock on the trade market, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Google+ is a testament to the new technology in search engine features, which Google continues to improve upon. This awesome Google software enables social...
I want to start off by saying that this post is a little bit of a different topic than I usually write about. However I think it is relevant to everyone and can be applied to any topic. Now that I am writing for my blog on a much more regular basis and recently...
As some of you may or may not know, I am not one to do product reviews, however Squeeze Theme is one product I truly believe in and want to give you some useful information about how you can use this product. Basically Squeeze Theme is a suite of premium WordPress...
“SEO is not dead, but it’s changing.” These are words extracted from the interview of Lisa Barone of Outspoken Media. SEO, like the rest of the world, is now in 2011 – another year of progress, struggle and learning for me and for everyone in the...
BlogGlue is a blog marketing plugin that creates related links between partner blogs as well as on social media. Although not advertised they have a solid SEO Analyzer built into the system. The SEO tool lets you grade your posts before you publish them and even gives...
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...
Personally I have never been very fond of all of the broad directories out there like Superpages, CitySearch or YellowPages. Mainly because there are just SO many businesses listed in each of these directories, that your head will start to spin. It makes it hard to...
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. ...
Search engine optimization needs to be correctly integrated from the start of a website for best results. With the correct implementation of on-page SEO and solid content writing you will be able to rank much sooner. But, a lot of the time we have clients come to us...
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...