How I Learned SEO From RSS Feeds
SEO isn’t something you’ll find in college classes. Although there are several “online programs” offering degrees in digital marketing it just isn’t something that can be sat down and taught to...
View ArticleWordPress Tips For Small Businesses: Priceless
I originally saw this video on WordPress.tv a couple weeks ago and thought I would share it here on my blog. I was hesitant at first. Seeing a middle-aged real estate agent talk about WordPress doesn’t...
View ArticleTop 10 Chrome Extensions for Productivity and WorkFlow
1)SEOmoz toolbar This toolbar enables you to see some very key metrics: page authority, domain authority, domain trust, linking root domains etc. If you’re heavy into SEO, this extension is vital in...
View ArticleWikipedia – The Grandfather of Internal Linking
There’s a lot of talk in SEO about the importance of internal linking. The thought is that you need to be very clear about what pages are important and internal linking is a great way to let Google...
View ArticleSubscribe via AdWords – Really Google?
I Googled “digital marketing” and was presented by numerous advertisements for different services. Something weird (and possibly new?) that popped up was an opt-in email subscription in the paid SERP...
View ArticleHere Comes The Hammer – SEO Needs to Change in the Wake of Penguin and Panda
SEO in it’s traditional sense encompasses several technical areas of onsite and offsite optimization: meta information, headers, inbound links, site architecture, sitemaps etc. – all components of...
View ArticleGoogle Now 404-ing to HomePage
Google has always encouraged webmasters to display 404 pages properly by having a message like “sorry, this page cannot be found”, which is technically what happens when a page is requested (by the...
View ArticleHouston, We’ve Got Site links!
Some SEOs wonder exactly what it takes to get site links in Google search results. Not only has it been proven to increase click through rates but it also adds instant legitimacy. Google has gone so...
View ArticleOpen For Business – SEO Consulting in Atlanta
I am now taking freelance clients for my growing SEO consulting business. I have over four years of experience working with medium sized corporate websites and large-scale eCommerce. I’m well versed...
View ArticleReputation Management (Battling the Haters)
Extorsion is running rampant in the 21st century. On a wide scale, sites that aggregate mug shots, product reviews, and other “sound off” forums are beginning to stray from their original purpose: to...
View ArticleNoFollow Links Warn Google of Product Placements
I understand why Google implemented the noFollow tag for links. Spammers were abusing the “link part” of the algorithm to no end. The noFollow […]
View ArticleWhat’s The End Game For Structured Data?
I’m beginning to understand more clearly why Google wants us to “mark up” the elements of our web pages; it makes it easier for […]
View ArticlePersonal Lessons From Penguin and Hummingbird
I was hit pretty hard when Google rolled out Penguin 2.1 on October 4th. The rolling algorithm update has been in effect since April […]
View ArticleVideo: The Final Frontier in SEO
Link “Building” is No Longer Sustainable I have to be careful how I word this but I have the firm belief that digital video […]
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