I was drawn to two interesting stories on inbound.org today: – The first was from Barry Schwartz at searchengineland and was titled ‘Google’s Matt Cutts: Over Time Backlinks Will Become Less Important‘ The second was from Jennifer Slegg at searchenginewatch and was titled ‘Matt Cutts: Google Won’t Devalue Links Anytime Soon‘ Woah… that’s some conflicting […]
Continue readingAn interesting experiment/case study today. I decided to take a mega competitive (and lucrative) keyword for our industry – ‘SEO’ – and take a look at what the top guys were doing to rank there. The results were shocking . Before I start, let me say that I’m not advising you follow what these guys […]
Continue readingWhile scanning through twitter yesterday I was drawn to a new post on Enstine Muki’s blog titled ‘Backlinks can ruin your SEO‘. In a nutshell the post is about being careful: – Who you get links from Where you link to Sounds sensible right? Well, unfortunately there is a problem with the message here and […]
Continue readingEarlier this week I went in depth into one of my favourite white hat link building techniques in my broken link building tutorial. Today I’m going to focus on what I like to think of as the big brother of broken link building; an often overlooked, but highly effective SEO tactic called link reclamation. What you will […]
Continue readingToday I’m going to share my personal strategy for implementing one of my favourite white hat SEO tactics – broken link building. I’ll be walking you step by step through a real example of how you can use advanced broken link building to build solid, white hat links to your content pages and boost your […]
Continue readingEmail outreach is an intrinsic part of SEO and whether you are looking to promote your latest article or are looking for guest posting opportunities, crafting the perfect outreach email should be a key part of any internet marketer’s skillset. Unfortunately, there are lots of ways to suck at outreach and this particular gem (from […]
Continue readingI wrote the other day about why procrastination is one of the biggest things that holds us back from getting where we want to with our online ventures. I’ve often found that a primary reason for this stuttering (or non starting) can be that a task simply seems too daunting, particularly when it comes to […]
Continue readingI’m going to stop procrastinating… tomorrow. No, seriously, a short post today. One of the biggest obstacles to succeeding online (and with anything in life) is actually starting the journey… taking that first step. If you’ve been thinking about starting up an online venture, then stop thinking about it and do it. But What About […]
Continue readingI was going to write up a simple list of my top SEO and internet marketing bloggers to follow in 2014. But then I thought… Lists are boring. So instead, I imagined I was the manager of SEO F.C. (that’s soccer to my American friends) and went ahead and selected my SEO and internet marketing […]
Continue readingThis is a follow on to my post about why I am supporting My Blog Guest. Guest blogging is dead. Long live guest blogging. Google’s recent (unwarranted) nuclear bomb attack on MyBlogGuest has left a bitter taste in the mouth and a fear that, what was a great way to gain new readers and build […]
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