3 Uncommon Ways to Pump Up Traffic (When You’re Broke)
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SEO After Hummingbird, Penguin, & Panda: How Link Building & Content Marketing Are Really Changing
At this point, the word “change” is pretty much passé in the SEO community. Every year, we proclaim that SEO is changing. Some of those...
3 E-commerce Start-up Marketing Tips to Level the Competition
Let’s face facts: e-commerce isn’t the Wild West it was just a few short years ago. Amazon has virtually monopolized the sector, and niche opportunities...
3 Things Missing From Your Facebook Marketing Strategy
Marketing on Facebook is difficult. On average, social conversion rates are 0.71 percent, while email conversions are around 3.19 percent. It’s not uncommon for marketers,...
No Wizardry Needed! The Ultimate Guide for Monetizing your Blog
Bloggers have only three reasons to blog: make money from your blog; communicate for passion, or both. A few things are a must for bloggers...
Creating and Promoting Linkable Assets, the Ultimate Guide
You know the SEO story. You produce “great, unique content.” Then you write guest posts and ask influencers for links. It’s a simple story. And...
5 Digital Marketing Tactics that Make You Look Like a Robot
They say the new game in marketing is all about building relationships and trust. Most companies that dive into digital marketing accomplish just the opposite:...
A Visual Guide to Using Google Properties for Content Research
Content is King! Meh. So naturally, everyone is trying to create kings of their own. With king-making now an inevitable part of digital marketers’ business,...
5 Ways to Avoid Link Patterns
Anything that irritates Google’s users is a threat to Google. Any tactic that, en masse, reduces user satisfaction is something that Google would like to...
A 3 Step Shortcut to Earn Mindshare in Record Time
We all know that clients want to see swift, measurable results, and that they’re likely to drop you if they don’t see something within half...
5 Things Your SEO Consultant Won’t Tell You
Natural Google traffic makes up half of the traffic on the web. The runner up, direct traffic, doesn’t even come close, taking up only a...
4 Awful Marketing Lessons We Learned from SEO
We love SEO. We love the fact that it brings cumulative results instead of temporary ones. We love that it makes consumers feel like they...
The 5 Essential Steps to Effective Content Marketing
It’s probably not possible to teach you everything you need to know about content marketing in a single post, but our goal is to get...
How Google Gambles With Your Rankings: 3 Ways to Arm Yourself
As we all know, Penguin 2.0 is out now. Some are surprised that the impact of the update wasn’t as large as they suspected, while...
10 Unique Ways Small Businesses Can Win at Link Earning (Part II of II)
We love innovative strategies for earning links and attention in the online sphere. While very few marketers can win without mastering the basics, it takes...
10 Unique Ways Small Businesses Can Win at Link Earning (Part I of II)
We’re seeing the industry shift now that massive corporations finally understand the value of online marketing. Enterprise level SEO is becoming more prominent. This is...
5 Link Building Tactics that Buck the Content Marketing Trend
Content marketing is undoubtedly one of the most powerful ways to attract attention and build links in the modern era, but by no means is...
10 Mistakes Every Startup Should Avoid When Optimizing for Search Engines
Search engines are still the number one place people turn when they want to learn something new or solve a problem. If you want your...
The Definitive Guide to Recovery from the Unnatural Link Penalty
The unnatural link penalty was one of the most significant changes Google made last year. In January and February of 2012, they sent out roughly...
5 Principles of Effective Outreach
Outreach is hard work, sometimes so damn hard that we wish it were true that great content really did promote itself. Those of us who...
5 Strategies for eCommerce Sites to Leverage the potential of Pinterest
Pinterest was one of the big success stories last year. Just when nobody thought another social media site could take the online world by storm,...
The Coming Penguin Update: Should You Reevaluate Your Link Building Strategy?
A couple weeks back, Google’s head of web spam Matt Cutts said that there will be a massive update to Penguin sometime this year, and...
What Are Linkable Assets Anyway, and How Do You Build Them?
Cyrus Shepard recently discussed the growing importance of natural links, stressing that the less control you have over the anchor text, the more useful a...
5 Simple Ways to Stop Building and Start Earning Links
As the search engines change, the amount of effort required to build a resilient and worthwhile link increases. It’s becoming difficult enough that some are...
Your Link Building Approach Outweighs Your Link Building Tactic
Penguins and Pandas abound, and SEO has changed forever. Consultants everywhere debate just how many SEO tactics will become outdated in the years ahead, but...
Multitasking Will Ruin Your Link Building Campaign
We recently talked about how link building is anything but a cookie cutter process. Response was mostly positive, but a few of you have correctly...
Why Link Building Isn’t a Cookie-Cutter Process
If you’ve been doing link building for a significant amount of time, you already know that it’s not a simple or linear process. Even so,...
5 Social Media Marketing Strategies for eCommerce Websites in the Year Ahead
Social media has revolutionized the way we use the internet, and how we consume information. Consumers are no longer the silent majority, and media companies...
Transform Link Building into Brand Building for 2013
One question is on just about every SEO’s mind as we confront the New Year: “What strategy will protect me from updates in the future?”...
The 7 Habits of Content Brands That Dominate
Can you hear that sound? It’s the sound of a million fingertips clicking against keyboards, pumping out the tsunami of content that’s about to bury...