Using HubPages to Make Money Online and Build Backlinks to Your Blog
Is it possible to make money on another site while promoting your blog? Of course it is! One easy way is through article marketing on HubPages. Why HubPages out of all of the other article directories and income sharing content generation sites? HubPages gives you...
Marketing SEO vs Webmaster SEO
Ideas about different types of SEO approaches.
Trackur Review – Link Building & Reputation Management Tool
There are plenty of good SEO tools out there, both free and paid, that will help you analyze on-page and off-page optimization. One of the most important factors of modern day optimization is link building and finding one-way links from relevant, authoritative...
How is Google Ranking the Local 7-Pack Listings?
Now that Google has condensed its local business listing results in the SERPs from 10 to 7, it is important to improve your LBL rankings. After reading many articles and blogs, including David Mihm’s Local Search Ranking Factors and through lots of experience...
5 Basic Tips for Creating Profitable Niche Websites
Recently I have been doing a lot of building niche websites and blogs. I have learned a lot through my extensive research and through actual testing in various markets. For anyone who is thinking about building a niche website or blog, there are some basic, yet...
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...
Client Feedback Exercise to Kick-Off a SEO Project
A few things I have learned from working with clients is that sometimes it can be extremely hard to get the necessary information you need to get a project started-off on the right track. Sometimes it can be the agencies fault because they are not being clear as to...
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...
Squeeze Theme Review, Receive 20% Off for StayOnSearch Readers
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...
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 Ranking #1 in Google is Like Winning the Superbowl
Since we are fresh off a Superbowl victory by the Green Bay Packers , I thought we would analyze how winning the Superbowl is like getting a #1 ranking in Google for a highly competitive keyword/phrase. If you actually stop and think about it, they are very similar....
Why Invest on SEO Even Though It Isn’t Cheap?
There are approximately 6.89 billion pages indexed on the World Wide Web as of July 10, 2012. Out of the 7 billion people that currently populate the Earth, about 2.26 billion are Internet users as of the end of 2011. When a start-up company thinks of creating a...
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...
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,...
Why You Need to Run Multivariate Tests
It’s been several years since your website’s last major update. The design is starting to look outdated even though you’re still adding new content every day. You know it’s time for change, but you’re understandably hesitant because things seem to be working out just...
Google Rich Snippets – What They Are and Why You Should Use Them On Your Site
If you’ve done a Google search lately, you’ve seen rich snippets. They’re the results that stand out on the page because they feature a thumbnail video or photo, a summary of ratings, or some other little added extra that tells you what you’ll...
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. ...
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...
How to Form a Good Relationship with your SEO Clients
“SEO? Oh, we’re set. We’ve got links in the footer.” At some point in our careers every SEO has heard a client make an outrageous statement likes this gem from Ian Lurie. Anyone who has worked at an agency knows, when working with clients there are always bound to be...
The Importance of Building a Natural Link Profile
Link building is essential to any website that wants to climb the search engine rankings and stay there. What a lot of people fail to understand is that this is not as simple as finding as many links as you can, no matter where from, and then adding them all in one go. If a website is to be consistently successful in the search engines, it has to possess a natural link profile.
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Can These 13 Search Engines Steal Google’s Crown? [Infographic]
Over 15 years, Google has risen from a mere idea to prominence – and solidified its position as the world’s leading search engine. However, even though Google has absorbed many of its rivals there are still new contenders popping up all the time. Most of these new...
Link Building – What Works
Over the course of the last week, I have seen people saying what works and what doesn’t in link building – and they all contradict each other. Some say the old fashioned link request from webmasters is dead and guest blogging is the way to go, while others...
Your Website SEO Checkup: Part 7 of 8 – Testing
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,...