When you think about links, it seems fairly simple what a natural link would be.  A natural link is exactly as it sounds, one that happens naturally without any outside influence are artificial assistance.  A natural link is one that we do not buy, ask for or personally generate.  They simply occur naturally, because someone [...]

Ah the elusive traffic.  That rushing sound is not the sound of traffic flowing into your site, but instead the mass and throng of people zipping around you to other sites.  So what gives?  You’re on the first page of Google, in the upper echelon, but your traffic is awful. As much fun as it [...]

If you hadn’t noticed recently, the landscape of search has changed a little bit as Google has once again shifted its dynamic to scare the hell out of anyone involved in search engine optimization.  The latest change that’s come from Google, one that has caused a great deal of concern among SEO agencies and individuals, [...]

Link bait might be good for online publishers that want to boost their traffic levels but is it really doing anything for their bottom lines? Not really.  Though that depends on the subject.  Others get more attention, more traffic and thus more time investment from users. At the top of the list you’ll find the [...]

If you want to market your business online then there are two core skills that you’re either going to have to personally master… or you’re going to have to learn your way around the freelance system in order to find and hire a skilled individual to do it for you. The first, of course, is [...]

It is too easy for the standard website to get lost in a sea of competitors, and worse, completely irrelevant pages. If you are a restaurant, real estate agent, lawyer, doctor, car dealer, etc. You are not only in competition with possibly hundreds of businesses in the same market, but as far as link-building goes, [...]

Over the years I’ve seen a number of sites that, based on some of the “best practices” of SEO I would call “over optimized”.  These sites stand out among others because they have some, all of or more than the following elements within: Massive amounts of the same keyword plunked in (with some minute variation, [...]

There are so many blogs on the internet it is a wonder that there is any other kind of page left at all. I mean, if they have their own search category on Google right next to “music” and “videos” it has to be a pretty good portion of the overall number of pages. Even [...]

There comes a point in the life of every marketer working with SEO techniques where he has to make a change.  Whether working on their own website, or a client website, we’ll find that things start to go a little stale or progress less favorably than we originally wanted. When that happens, when do you [...]

If you’re doing any keyword research for yourself or a little manual market research you know you’ve got to dig pretty deep into the search results to get that relevant data.  You can use these 4 tricks to help bolster your own research and get some of that data a little faster.  I use these [...]