TL;DR You may have committed a link building sin if YOU: Made Google Look Bad Underestimated Competition Turning in Your Tactic Always Pushing to Close to the Edge Outsourcing Link Building to Someone Who Didn’t Care Didn’t Write Any Content Focused on Only Homepage Focused […]

AuthorityLabs created a new report called “Now Provided”.  The report is simple, useful, and excellent for taking back your page level keyword data for SEO campaigns. 3 Awesome Now Provided Report Features Identifies keyword opportunities (with data to support them) Provides long tail keyword information […]

I’ve often heard doing a site audit is like telling someone their baby is ugly.  This is obviously news that can be sensitive to deliver to a site owner.  You need to have all your information in order, as well as suggestions for how to […]

I’ve always used the analogy that link building is a bit like fishing. This has been for a handful of reasons: You need reliable hooks and good bait You have to understand the climate/ weather A great team catches together If you want quality, it […]

General thoughts on website appraisal; TLDR version Rule #1 – You can’t sell potential.  Take the word out of your vocabulary.  Cringe when you hear it from others. Selling a website: Selling a website is tough.  Most people can’t even understand how a website works, […]

When re-doing my site for the first time in 4 years – I had to get rid of a lot of 404’s.  I also found all my posts to threadwatch.  My buddy Tony Spencer mentioned doing a roundup of some of the favorites.  Enjoy your […]

16 things that are wrecking the “SEO Community” I’ve been putting this post off for quite a long time, but I figured it is a great way to start off a new run of blogging, and is still pretty much as accurate as when I […]

Last week I got some great feedback on the post about Using KOB Analysis to plan SEO Campaigns. Here’s a few more links – a mini-interview with Todd Mintz about the upcoming presentation on KOB Analysis at SEMPDX. In addition, I did a video with […]

KOB Analysis stands for Keyword Opposition to Benefit Analysis. It’s the process I’ve used for the past several years to determine which projects have the most opportunity. It helps to determine which keywords to target so that resources will be used most efficiently for maximum […]

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