Having been in this industry for a very long time, I come across the same situations over and over again in regards to the cost of an SEO campaign. You here the same questions and concerns from clients. You here the same complaints and stories from them too. Everyone thinks that they can save a [...]
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One of my favorite blogs, SEO Blackhat, recently did a post on duplicate content and what it means today. Yes, I read black hat blogs. There is a ton of great info to learn from black hats and they do alot more experimenting and pushing of the proverbial envelope than other SEOs do. Black hat [...]
Optimizing for Google Local is still one of the most underutilized and cheapest forms of online marketing. There are thousands of local businesses in every town and the competition for local search is underway. It is becoming increasingly critical that you are ranking for your local keywords as competition gets tougher by the day. The [...]
I have been on a long blogging hiatus, for a wide range of reasons. But I am back with a renewed interest in educating and keeping you all up on the latest in search engine optimization. If you would like to recommend a topic for me to write about please do not hesitate to leave [...]
Link building schemes, there are thousands of them out there. I think it all started when Google came out with their early algos based around link popularity. That is what Google was founded on, it was THE defining moment in search history. When Sergey Brin and Larry Page did their paper at Stanford on link [...]
You have heard me talk about not diluting your keywords previously. The idea being that if you target too many keywords in a given page then you will dilute the strength of any one of those keywords. And the same thing goes with keywords in the title tag, you should only use two keywords and [...]
You bet your first place rankings they are! There are MANY people in the Internet marketing community that will tell you that paid links are dead and that it is merely a matter of time until all link buyers will get caught and penalized. Well I have news for you all, Google doesn’t and never [...]
Yes, there is! A 2006 study from Cornell University studaied the distribution of clicks on a SERP. How many more clicks does a #2 spot get over a #3 spot, etc.? They used eye-tracking to conduct the experiments, as well as a sample of undergraduate students performing 397 queries on various topics like music, movies, [...]
