Writing About Trendy Topics is so Trendy
The goal for every website is to get as many clicks and links as possible. Getting one of those is great. Both at the same time is Internet marketing gold. One of the easiest ways for sites to make that happen is to write about…
What’s Scary About Self-Auditing Your Website
Auditing your own website can be a scary thing for us SEOs. We think of ourselves as invincible and pride ourselves in turning around poor websites into Page One successes. But the problems about auditing your own SEO is that you have to face your fears and…
Paying for Link Removal: Fighting the Internet Mob
Paying for Link Removal: Fighting the Internet Mob Some people just want to watch the internet burn….. The internet isn’t a bad place it just attracts a few scum buckets. So I’ve started running into a problem that’s I’ve been hearing about, but have never…
Social Media: Today’s Black Plague
Social media has ruined our planet. The rules of common decency have become as irrelevant as Miller Genuine Draft, Atari and comedy that doesn’t emphasize poop jokes. If you offer an opinion someone doesn’t agree with on Twitter, lock your kids, wife and dog in…
When Does Google Lose Focus On The User?
With a company as big as Google, it’s easy to nit-pick. When you look closely enough, you find problems. Imagine that, when you go on a hunt for mistakes, you find them. The question often arises: When does Google lose focus on the user? As…
Pure Speculation: The Demise Of Google
Realistic: Spending More Than They Take In Google dominates the Internet. Google is the titan of email. Google is king of search. Long live the king! Or is Google’s greatest strength its greatest weakness? Steve Jobs told Google’s CEO they needed to simplify. Google is…
Where Are All The Penguins?
In August it was rumored the new Penguin update would make you ruin your favorite pair of shorts. From SEOs to webmasters, if you didn’t ruin your shorts over the news, your head was in the sand. Google’s all-powerful Matt Cutts all but said as…
How to snag the big catch on HARO
So much in the business of search engine optimization is akin to fishing. Too bad we can’t wash the frustration of not getting any bites down with an ice-cold beer. When you throw out your line on the lake, river or stream, you never know…
Nine Things Every SEO Should Know About Reddit for Social Marketing
If you work in the digital marketing arena, whether in SEO, Social Marketing or a similar field, chances are you’ve heard of Reddit. It is one of the most active and popular social gathering places on the web and the self-ascribed “Front Page of the…
Why is buying links bad?
Why are paid links for passing PageRank bad? Google’s guidelines on many issues is often described as being too vague about what is and is not a bad practice for SEO. On the issue of paying a site $xx amount of dollars to link to…
Understanding How PageRank Decays & The Importance of Depth
PageRank, named after Larry Page co-founder of Google who started developing it during his time at Stanford is the backbone of Google’s algorithm. We know that the methods for calculating PageRank have certainly expanded over the years and by increasingly addressing the failures of PageRank,…
Google’s Disavow Tool: When To Use It and When Not To
On October 16, Google officially launched its Disavow Links tool. This tool is used to remove low-quality links that are believed to damage ranking for websites. While removing harmful links, it is also possible to remove entire domains, as well as comment on specific URLs….