
How to build an in-house link building team
Getting traffic and attention through the ‘usual’ means of social media is simply not enough. You need a solid link-earning strategy in...

YouTube SEO: How to find the best traffic-generating keywords
Video marketing is becoming a digital marketing necessity. (It’s not a “nice-to-have” marketing strategy anymore.) People love to watch...

How to track conversions like a pro
How do you know if what you are doing is actually working? Sure, traffic may be going up, but what about after that? Are your new...

How to compare paid search and organic search without sounding foolish
Last week, I had the misfortune of encountering perhaps the most misguided thread on digital marketing I’ve ever seen on Twitter (which...

Google warns authors, publications against misusing links in syndicated articles & posts
Google’s out this week with a warning for anyone who is distributing or publishing content through syndication or other large-scale...

Crafting a successful holistic search approach
Now more than ever, brands are looking to maximize ROI for their marketing spend. Yet when discussing holistic search strategy and...

The consumer decision journey in the increasingly complex search retail marketplace
In the retail space today, it’s no longer business as usual. Retail is in a constant state of flux as more and more brands announce store...

Google is testing 11 variations of black links in search results
Google appears to be testing a new look for its search results pages that would change the color of links from the traditional blue to...

Want more links? Be more likable.
One of the things I like best about link building is that it really is as much art as it is science, if not more so. I do roll my eyes...

Stop oversimplifying everything!
Once upon a time, our world was simple. There was a thesis — “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” by Sergey Brin...

The silent revolution of search
Conventional wisdom within ad tech is that search is boring. In the display ecosystem, life is exciting: in the last decade alone,...

5 reasons why websites still matter to local search in 2017
Specifically, a Capital One survey of 400 small businesses — its Fall 2016 Small Business Barometer Survey — found that only 56 percent...

Stop overloading your Local SEO content!
For some reason, more than ever before, it seems like most business owners (and many marketers) are equating content with SEO. It’s like...

Using search and social to support TV advertising
Brands still invest a significant amount of advertising in TV. According to eMarketer, TV spending will be over $72 billion in 2017....

The effect of Moore’s Law on behavioral marketing
Big e-commerce sites had access to sophisticated analytics packages costing thousands of dollars a month. Not me. I was spending about a...

5 massive SEO and content shifts you need to master right now
Google has thrown a lot at marketers in just the last five years. All of these big changes — from rolling out major algorithm updates to...

Relevance vs. authority: Which link has more value? (Part 3)
Welcome to the third and final installment of my series on relevance versus authority, exploring which link has more value. To really...

How to build an SEO strategy to dominate your market
Do you want an SEO strategy that goes beyond incremental growth? One that is defensible by being inherently more difficult for your...

SEO vs. PPC: Pros, cons & an integrated approach
A question we are often asked is, “Which is better: SEO or PPC?” This is not a question with a general answer, as it really, truly...
























