How to Prevent Google from Thinking Your Name is a Misspelling? (Weekly Q&A)
Google is the best search engine around (yes, I said that!). Sure, there are others that try to compete. Plus, there are those niche searches that fans will claim are better than the net’s largest corporation. But when it comes down to it, Google runs the web, in more ways than one. Which is why […]
- 11-08-2012
- Branding
4 Tools Breaking Your Backlinks into Categories
Backlink research has long gone beyond anchor text analysis. Nowadays any backlink research should contain thematic, placement, neighborhood, etc insight. Today we are looking into one type of backlink profile analysis: backlink categorization. You’ll see some rating for each tool: please bear in mind that those ratings are very personal (that’s my subjective opinion) and […]
- 11-07-2012
- Link Building
Local News Site Linkbait Ideas (Weekly Q&A)
We all love linkbait and there’s never too much brainstorming there. Therefore I enjoy discovering forum threads discussing linkbait ideas. This thread is from SEOchat forums discussing link bait ideas for a local newspaper site: 1. Create news instead of re-printing it: Don’t re-use news: create it! You need to piss someone off to get […]
- 10-31-2012
- Link Building
8 Awesome FREE Social Media Guides to Download
Social media is a helpful tool (some would say a crucial one), but getting a handle on its use can be tricky. We all know how to use it in a social context, but what about in a professional one? Where do you draw the line between social and inappropriate? How do you find the […]
- 10-29-2012
- Social Media
Can Removing Backlinks Help You to Penguin-Recover? (Weekly Q&A)
There’s an interesting thread over at SEOchat forums discussing the possible ways to recover from the ranking drop caused by Penguin update. One of the most interesting points being discussed: “Does backlink removal make sense?” Let’s first see what Penguin is actually is. Algorithm Update vs Penalty Your website rankings may drop because of either […]
- 10-10-2012
- Link Building, Penguin
7 Most Awesome Internet Trolls of All Times
Ah, the internet troll. A new breed of annoyance – and often hilarity – you have many different types. The opportunistic prankster who has only began to troll because the situation was too perfect not to. Many people I know have been building their whole careers in the Internet marketing by trolling… some were really […]
- 10-08-2012
- Social Media
Optimizing Your Logo for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google Plus
Everyone is using social media these days, and that isn’t exactly a surprise. It is the number one way to increase visibility and engage with a target base. Especially as people from all over the world, of all ages, genders, income levels and other demographics are equally likely to have at least one profile. In […]
- 10-01-2012
- Social Media
Copying My Competitor’s Links = Avoiding Banned Tactics? (Weekly Q&A)
There’s an interesting discussion over at SEOchat Forums: Will I avoid spammy links by copying competitor’s link profile (which seems to work)? There’s some logic in that: If my competitor’s rankings are good, his links must be working; If my competitor’s rankings are stable, his links must be good and safe. Right? Wrong! While competitor […]
- 09-26-2012
- Link Building
8 Infographics to Understand Social Media Etiquette
Who uses the internet, and for what? At what point does the age barrier begin to be clearly seen, and how can we use that to out advantage? It is an issue addressed in this interesting infographic from Business Week. The main positive of knowing the statistics of such questions is being armed with information, […]
- 09-24-2012
- Social Media
Toolbar Pagerank is Still a Signal… of What? (Weekly Q&A)
With all those Penguin updates forcing us to look into our IN-coming links, we almost forgot about another neglected Google’s love indicator: Google Toolbar PageRank. Yes, people are still looking into that and yes, it still indicates something we want to pay attention to. And this is what being discussed over at SEOchat forums: Sudden […]
- 09-19-2012
