Jayson DeMers

How to Recover from Penguin 2.0

Penguin 2.0 has just rolled out. Brace for impact. Here's what you need to do to recover your rankings.

Brian Dean

4 Untapped Link Building Opportunities for Startups

If you're like most start ups, link building is at the bottom of your overflowing to-do list. Fortunately, you don't need a full-time hire or a pricey SEO firm to bring your site the search engine traffic it needs to thrive. In fact, you only need to set aside a few hours of work per month to take advantage of these these quick and dirty link building opportunities....

Chris Warden

Local SEO - "Rank Factors: Review Sites"

"What is Local SEO? How do "reviews" influence my ranking? What can it do for my business?" This series will provide you with steps and knowledge you can use to improve the visibility of your business with local traffic. Get yourself started in this fast-growing field and make yourself more recognizable than your competitors....

Jayson DeMers

SEO Principles From Volkswagen: How They Made It Cool Again

Volkswagen has embarked on a new bid to capture an even larger piece of the pie in the American auto marketplace, and Internet marketing techniques are playing a big role in that campaign....

Chris Warden

Local SEO - "Rank Factors: Places Listing and Social Media"

"What is Local SEO? What factors influence my ranking? What can it do for my business?" This series will provide you with steps and knowledge you can use to improve the visibility of your business with local traffic. Get yourself started in this fast-growing field and make yourself more recognizable than your competitors....

Stoney deGeyter

The Narcissist's Guide to Blogging

If you're not yet a blogger but are thinking of blogging, you're probably even more of a narcissist. Why? Because the only reason you haven't started blogging yet is because you haven't figure out what's in it for you.

Jason Corrigan

5 Reasons Brands and Businesses Earn Big with Guest Blog Posts

For businesses and brands that are serious about developing comprehensive search campaigns and are unable to actively create new forms of content due to limited resources, guest blogging is the solution....

Nick Stamoulis

What Kind of SEO Mess are you About to Inherit?

There are many reasons that someone might want to invest in a pre-existing domain. For instance, one of my former B2B SEO clients, a large software company, would occasionally buy up smaller companies and enfold that second company's products into their own software line. Eventually Company B's website would be "sunsetted" and redirected to the new product pages on my client's site, giving those new pages a valuable SEO boost. Other companies might have several microsites from past marketing efforts that they want to redirect to their main corporate website, pushing any visitors, links, and SEO value over. And other...

Mike Fleming

Why Communicating What a Customer Is Losing Works

There's an old adage that says "The pain of losing is twice as strong as the joy of winning."This principle can help your business if you use it wisely.  Even the threat of potential loss creates agitation in people that plays a powerful role in their decision making.  Psychologists call this the principle of scarcity.  It says that humans hold more appeal for things that they perceive will become less available in the future.  This is why you see scarce items get valued at ridiculous prices.  For example, a baseball card might be worth hundreds or thousands of dollars simply...

Chris Warden

Local SEO - "Optimization and Understanding Your Users"

"Optimization?" "Understanding the Habits of Your Users?" Part Two of Chris Warden's series "Local SEO" will provide you with steps and knowledge you can use to improve the visibility of your business with local traffic. Get yourself started in this fast-growing field and make yourself more recognizable than your competitors....

Mike Moran

What if your boss only wants to measure brand awareness?

We've all seen that look on the face of the boss. It says, "What on earth are you talking about?" Sometimes that look is something we deserve to see, because we really don't know what we are doing, but often, it's because we just have something to say that the boss doesn't understand. Recently, a client asked me how she can wipe that look off the her CMO's face every time she starts talking about measuring Web conversions and offline conversions. Her boss waves these ideas away, saying he only wants to measure brand awareness. What can you do in...

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