How I Lost My #1 Ranking and My Profits Exploded Overnight!
Getting the coveted #1 ranking in Google search is something companies spend a lot of blood, sweat, and tears on. So losing that top spot would be devastating, right? Not […]
Does Social Media Impact Search Engine Rankings?
It’s the question that anyone using social media as part of their web marketing wants the answer to: Does social media impact search engine rankings? Most SEOs agree that […]
Search Engine Rankings Are The Trophy, Not The Goal
We all love good search engine rankings. But one thing I’ve been realizing more and more lately is that we need to stop treating search engine rankings as if they […]
Do You Really Need to Be #1?
We’re all a competitive bunch. We love to win! We watch sports and root for our team, to do what? Win! When we play games, we want to be the […]
How to Get Search Engine Rankings in 2014
[Video] The Importance of Social Media in Search Rankings
In the past two months I’ve had the opportunity to speak at two large industry conferences, Pubcon and SMX Social Media Marketing. A recurring theme at both conferences was the […]
5 Steps to Organic Ranking Success
If you’re looking for some new, profound or revolutionary “trick” to getting #1 rankings, you can just stop reading this post right now, because you won’t find it. In fact, […]
Seven (Non-SEO) Tips to Having a Successful SEO Campaign
If you ask people if they want to be successful, almost unanimously, they will say yes. But if you watch what people do, you’ll see that they are neither interested […]
Who Needs Profits…When You've Got Good Rankings?!!
Search engine marketing is an intense game of strategy, analysis, and patience. But, it’s also a game with multiple, sometimes even conflicting, goals. Depending on who you talk to you, […]
Why You Should Never Duplicate Your Competitor's SEO Strategies
Engaging in competitive research before and during your SEO, PPC, Social Media, and Link Building campaigns is smart business. As they say, “information is power.” But, too much information can […]
15 Questions That Will Change The Way You Think About SEO Forever (Q’s 11-15)
As much as the title is vastly overstated, these questions will at the very least help you ponder SEO in a way you hadn’t pondered before. At least that’s my […]
15 Questions That Will Change The Way You Think About SEO Forever (Q's 6-10)
Below is the second set of questions from an interview I had given late last year. If you started this series with the introduction, you already know that the answers […]
Don't Let Duplicate Pages and Bad URLs Destroy Your SEO: Kill It Dead! (Pat 2 of 3)
This series is pulled from a presentation given at SMX East. Part I of this serious covered the problems duplicate content creates. This post covers the causes of duplicate content, […]
Where Your IA Is, There You Will Be Also
I’ve been doing a lot of Information Architecture (IA) work for clients over the past few months, and each time, I can’t help but think, “Why didn’t we do this […]
Everything I Know About SEO I Learned in the 80's
There was no commercial internet in the 80’s, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t reach into the recesses of our past to see that, everything we know now about […]