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Good marketing, fun as it is, can be a time suck. Keywords don’t research themselves and links don’t magically pour in to every blog post. So when you come across a few time-saving ways to do more with less, you have to take advantage of it. Marketing automation, IFTTT, VAs and smart email management have […]
“The Internet of Things” has become “The Internet of Google™ Things.” Google has gone from being the friendly concierge of the information superhighway to becoming the manufacturer of the car you use on an actual highway. Google’s focus on “expanding the pie” by growing the number of people interacting with the web has helped launch […]
If you’ve worked in the SEO business for any length of time, chances are good you’ve found out how different SEO looks depending on the industry served, campaigns, and budgets. Whether you are an SEO at an agency or an independent consultant, learning how to deliver awesome work for small business clients with small budgets […]
As marketers, we often focus on the technical side of things – optimization, promotion and conversion. But without quality content, even the best marketing strategies can fall flat. So how can you be sure that your articles, blog posts and other content interests your audience and makes them want to share? It all starts long […]
I love to overcomplicate link building. I’ll start out trying to earn a few new links to a site and six hours later I have a 23,346 row Excel file open, 52 Ahrefs tabs open, three empty coffee cups and a half-written link prospecting formula jotted down on a post-it note. It’s like the SEO version of The Hangover.
There’s a scene in The Sopranos where an up-and-coming rap artist, named Marvin, makes one of the strangest marketing decisions in TV history. He decides to spend $7,000 to get shot. Yes, $7,000 not on social media or a radio spot but on one bullet to the “fleshy part of the thigh.” After seeing fellow […]
Take a gander at recent “news” headlines involving SEO and it’s no surprise most people have a negative perception of search marketing. Forbes tells us about 7 critical SEO mistakes people make. The lesson: SEO is scary. Huffington Post relays a heartwarming story called “True Confessions of a Former SEO Whore.” The lesson: SEO is […]
The SEO industry clearly has more than 9 lives. For every linkbait piece proclaiming the death of SEO, there’s a retort published on a marketing blog. Society can’t quite decide if SEO still has a pulse or not. As long as search exists, I don’t see SEO going away. SEO isn’t something that dies; it […]
Panda 4.0 rolled out over the past several days, and it seems to be a pretty significant update. While some Panda updates have been a ‘data refresh,’ there are a lot of bigger ripples this time around (~7.5% of English queries.) Panda is designed to keep websites with low quality content from ranking near the […]
We’re all slowly being suffocated online. It’s not a super secret NSA protocol or Anonymous. We’re doing it to ourselves. Marketers are to blame. Newspapers are to blame. Teenage girls are to blame. Most of all, our human brains are to blame. The clickbait apocalypse is here. Online content now fully commoditized. You can’t differentiate […]
We get it. If you read enough posts or watch enough webmaster videos, you’ll soon learn that that key to any marketing success online is to create and promote remarkable content. Ideally, “great content” is what Google and other search engines would like to use as the most significant factor in their algorithm. If you […]
Recently, another blog post “outing” a website for poor SEO practices went viral. Not only was a well-funded startup left looking bad, but its founders made excuses for their tactics, outing six other competitors in the process. Outing has always been somewhat of a hot-button issue in the SEO world. If you spend time digging […]
