Internet Marketing Ninjas Still a “Best Place to Work” in 2012
With all of the exciting things happening here we’ve barely had a chance to breathe. So, it’s been a few weeks, but we we’re immensely proud to announce we’ve been named one of the Albany Area’s “Best Places to Work” by the Albany Business Review for the second year in a row. The companies on […]
5 Great Tips for Better SEO Strategy Creation
One of the big differences between SEO and some other channels, such as PPC, is the sheer number of stakeholders involved to getting a successful strategy moving: Who owns or assists with content creation in your organization? What stakeholders are involved in revising code on your site? Whose approval do you need before making changes […]
HOW TO: Prevent Google from Ranking a Certain Web Page (Weekly Q&A)
There’s an interesting thread over SEOchat forum: What if I don’t want Google to rank my web page for a certain keyword / key phrase? These things usually become the reason of constant misunderstandings, so let’s sum up: Robots.txt WON’T help you get your page unranked. It will stop Google from accessing and re-caching the […]
This Week’s Cool SEO Tool: Chartelligence
Chartelligence is a sweet Google Chrome extension that allows to get more insight from your Google Analytics graphs. Basically it overlays your traffic graph with whatever data you will set it to. Here’s the quick video review: Quick Tips: Install the Google Chrome extension and read a short instruction you will be provided with. Now, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Saving the Pandas and Penguins and Other Stuff Too!
It’s been a few weeks since our Save the Pandas and Penguins Party in Las Vegas at PubCon. But we’re happy to report that a total of $4,709 for the black and white animals SEO’s love to hate. The little friendly competition between them indicates that people are slightly more enamored with Penguins than Pandas […]
Consolidating Content to Futureproof Your SEO
Since the Panda update and refreshes, content consolidation projects have widely undertaken as both to lift the effects of Panda and as preventative measures. This article will show you three risky but popular content strategies, how to diagnose them and tips for how to approach consolidating.
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 […]
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 […]