Posted on April 21 2010 by admin
Aaron’s discussed content mills in his interview with Tedster yesterday. What is a content mill? A content mill is a site that publishes cheap content. The content is either user-contributed, paid, or a mix of the two. The term content mill is obviously pejorative, the implication being that the content is only published to pump [...]
Posted on March 20 2010 by admin
There are quite a few spy tools on the market currently, some more heavily promoted than others. They come in a variety of flavors such as SEO spy tools, PPC spy tools, and some which do both. Spy tools can be useful in an SEO and/or a PPC campaign. However, many of these tools essentially [...]
Posted on February 22 2010 by admin
The following is a guest post from Tom Demers. One of the most pivotal aspects of driving large volumes of search traffic in most verticals is effectively targeting long tail keywords. While ranking for competitive phrases and developing link authority are certainly crucial aspects of SEO, much of ranking on long tail keywords is properly [...]
Posted on February 10 2010 by admin
So Aaron, a friend of mine at the farm, turned me onto Google Analytics a couple. It’s basically another reason to shudder and say, “Google knows too much,” then shrug because in the end, it’s cool and you know it’s cool. … Read the rest here: Dissertation to Dirt: Google Analytics Share this on del.icio.us [...]
Posted on January 13 2010 by admin
Do you remember when you used to use the Yellow Pages? Every few months a 30 pound book was dropped off at your front door, filled with hundreds of thousands of people who you didn’t know and thousands of businesses/services that you never needed or used. If you actually took the time to pick the [...]
Posted on January 13 2010 by admin
Do you remember when you used to use the Yellow Pages? Every few months a 30 pound book was dropped off at your front door, filled with hundreds of thousands of people who you didn’t know and thousands of businesses/services that you never needed or used. If you actually took the time to pick the [...]
Posted on December 7 2009 by admin
In the past I have vented email frustrations in many ways (and truth be told I am still way behind on email to this day) but I thought it would be worth sharing why forums are a way better business model than personalized emails for helping people. I am not sure if all my thoughts [...]
Posted on October 9 2009 by admin
The following is a guest post by Ari Ozick, a member of our SEO Community who frequently shares great insights. The above graph is based on an intensive questionnaire of over 2500 world class SEOs, including freelancers, in-house corporate types and SEO entrepreneurs. In the questionnaire, I asked one simple question – what is the [...]
Posted on August 31 2009 by admin
Professional SEO Blogger If you are a public SEO and your only gig is writing a blog about SEO and selling client services then it can be quite easy to share and not care. If you destroy a technique or someone else’s business to earn a bit of attention who cares? You got the attention, [...]
Posted on August 25 2009 by admin
What is the purpose of that new page you’re adding to your site? Is it to rank highly for a keyword term? That’s half the battle won, of course After the visitor has arrived on your page, what do you want the visitor to do next? According to Seth Godin, you probably want a visitor [...]