How Buying Links in Public Ends Up – Interview with Vitaliy Kolos

We are happy to host an interview with Vitaliy Kolos, the man behind the famous turmoil with Webdesign.org and T-Mobile. When it occurred, it was widely discussed on various websites. Five days later, Webdesign.org was penalized by Google for selling links. Vitaliy decided to shed some light on the situation.…

8 Risky Black Hat SEO Techniques Used Today

In the world of SEO, we have clear policies to follow. Rules are established to provide a useful, relevant,t and safe environment and to ensure the quality of user experience. Ranking high requires keeping up with the current and changing SEO trends and constantly adjusting your approach to suit any…

How Big Brands Do SEO (and a Few Hacks to Beat Them)

  Big brands are everywhere. But I don’t care that there is hardly an aspect of our lives that Apple, Samsung, Nestle, and others do not dominate. Given my professional affinity, though, their unfair prominence in search gets to me. Type any keyword into Google, and you are bound to…

5 Critical e-Commerce SEO Errors and How to Fix Them

  It’s not only the e-commerce start-ups that make mistakes; even many of the renowned e-commerce enterprises are guilty of committing basic SEO errors. We’ve published a post SEO for E-commerce: 7 Most Critical Disorders & How To Cure Them, but we have more to say about this topic. Reasons…

Why Covering Content Beats Links for Attracting Influencers

  For the last few years, “link building” has been the magic topic that made a blog post succeed in the Internet marketing arena. Just cover that magic topic without sounding silly, and you attract enough influential people to share your article. Now, it’s the same mechanism but a different…

How to Carry out Competitor Backlinks Analysis

  There are many ways you can build backlinks and analyze your site, so naturally, there are questions to consider. How do you analyze competitor backlink profiles? How can you improve your site? Which tools can help you rank high? If we begin by taking an analogy from the world…

A Beginners Introduction To The Canonical Tag

Major search engines have supported the canonical tag since early 2009, but the Major search engines have kept the canonical tagte operators. Still, despitement it. This reluctance can often be attributed to a lack of knowledge regarding the tag, its purpose, and its implementation. In this article we will examine…

The Art of Understanding Visitors’ Behavior with Heatmaps

  Today we have access to a myriad of tools marketers of previous generations would have loved. Tools we can use to make solid, steady improvements to our online, and offline, marketing results. These tools can be used to help small businesses level the online marketing playing field against the…

3 Conversion Hacks that Will Boost Your Revenue Sky High

  It’s easy for marketers to fall victim to vanity metrics. What are ‘vanity metrics,’ you ask? These are numbers that get us excited, despite a total lack of relevance to a business’s bottom line. Think: pageviews, raw, downloads, and registered users. These are awesome, top-of-funnel numbers that kickstart the…

The Zen of SEO: Earning Links by Helping People

  While many people use Zen solely as a synonym for “awesome,” I’d like to show that you can translate your Zen practice into your work as an online publisher. Helping people without judging them is one of the main tenets of the awakened Zen practitioner. How does it differ…

Looking for Effective DIY Link Building Tips on a Budget for 2016?

  Suppose you are here to learn how to grow your online presence by increasing the organic traffic to your sSupposee from search engines like Google or Bing, and you are a small business owner or a freelancer without the online marketing budgets of the ‘big boys’. In that case,…

7 Ways Domain Name and Web Hosting Impacts E-commerce SEO

  When starting a new e-commerce business, one of the most important decisions you have to make is choosing the right web hosting service provider and a domain name. Many people do not know about the significance of domain names and web hosting related to search engine optimization. Your online…

How to Generate More Leads? Try These 7 Top Ideas

  It takes more than just a fancy name and awesome services/products to develop the kind of lead generation required to skyrocket your brand as the next billion-dollar company. With traditional cold-calling running out of style and a push for inbound marketing on the rise for the past decade or…

8 Free Local SEO Tools That Will Help You Dominate Your Niche

  Local SEO used to be easy. A few months ago, all that you needed to do to lack in the seven-pack was smack your category to your Google Places page, go out there, and get a few dozen citations. With competition heating up, it becomes very important that you…

SEO for E-commerce: 7 Most Critical Disorders & How To Cure Them?

  Many popular e-commerce sites have hundreds of thousands of products and a great potential to do well online. However, when it comes to optimizing for the search engines, they assume their enormous size will stamp out any SEO troubles they might face. Others put their faith in social media…

DMA National Client Email Report 

  Where Email Marketing Meets SEO Organic Search Engine Optimization and Email Marketing are two traditional channels used to build online businesses. This HubSpot’s Research has shown that they are the two methods with the highest ROI: 1) Inbound Marketers who have prioritized blogging are 13 times more likely to enjoy positive…

What Google? 4 Alternative Ways to Generate Traffic

It’s always nice to get traffic to your blog or website. Watching the point on the graph slowly edge towards the top right of the screen is one of the favorite pasttimes of content strategists (I can testify to that). Unfortunately, more than often you don’t really hold the key…

How To Get More Organic Traffic To Your Website

If anyone tries to tell you building organic traffic is easy, don’t listen to them. If you’re looking for a quick fix, I’m afraid you’re not going to find it here. Building organic traffic is the hardest work you’ll ever put on iintoyour website. With that being said, it’s also…

Google Panda: How One Algorithm Update Forever Changed Content Creation

Google’s algorithm updates over the past few years have become increasingly strict, with a far wider impact than before. The purpose of these updates is not only to maintain their position as the dominant search engine but also to improve the user experience. The success of any search engine is…

Now that Google Authorship is Gone: Do You Still Believe in "Author Rank"?

  Danny Sullivan, the most important pundit in search, is still advocating the so-called Google “Author Rank,” a hypothetical ranking boost based on your cross-site popularity as an author. I’m not sure what Danny Sullivan’s motives are in trying to convince us to use an obsolete feature, but I asked…