
Beware of shady link schemes from black-hat SEOs
Recently, one of my clients received an unsolicited email from a person named “Nicholas Salmons” offering to feature their business on...

Is selling SEO services getting harder or are SEOs just not good at it?
Is selling SEO services getting harder, or are SEOs just not that good at it? I ask this question this because I’ve recently had a number...

Discover the link between SEO data and influencer marketing
This white paper from gShift includes: why influencer marketing should be in your mix; the link between SEO data and influencers;...

Back to basics: Why you need to stop stressing over backlinks
Backlinks are important — there’s no argument on that fact. The emphasis that has been placed on backlinks in the past decade, however,...

Take this link and shove it
When I opened up my email this morning, the top five — yes, five — emails in my inbox were for sites wanting to sell me a guest post, a...

How to quickly find and export all subdomains indexed by Google
The good old search operators An easy way to find indexed subdomains is to use search operators. Start with “site:” and the root domain....

Moz shows you how to clean up your citations to rank higher in search
how to quickly perform a citation audit and the free tool that helps you do it; how to identify the extent of your or your clients’...

7 e-commerce SEO trends we’re seeing in 2016
Few types of online business can benefit from SEO more than e-commerce websites that allow for direct consumer transactions. Not only can...

What is quality content?
We’ve all heard that content is king and that you need to write high-quality content, or now “10x content,” as coined by Rand Fishkin....

5 contemporary strategies that help improve your rankings
Improving your rankings isn’t as simple as it used to be. As businesses have become more invested in SEO, search ranking algorithms have...

Two tried and true methods to make social media impact SEO
Much has been written about the interplay between social media and search engine optimization. I have seen a few tips and tricks to use...

Link building outreach: preparation meets persuasion
Securing real links requires outreach. No matter the site, industry or audience, the only way to earn worthwhile links is through some...

Is your SEO data steering you wrong?
With the rise of SEO platforms and enterprise-level technology, we are drowning in a sea of SEO data, with a lot of information right at...

My SEO optimized & UI-friendly e-commerce Frankenstein
I spend a lot of time browsing e-commerce sites. While there are some websites that are doing e-commerce incredibly well (looking at...

Are we making SEO too complicated?
As I was looking over reports the other day, I realized I was nearly drowning in statistics, benchmarks, KPIs, rankings, conversions,...

Enterprise SEO Platforms Marketer’s Guide — Updated for 2016
This 44-page report is your source for the latest trends, opportunities and challenges facing the market for SEO software tools as seen...

Can moving to a new TLD boost search rankings?
One of the big questions in SEO today is how new TLDs (top-level domains), like .LIVE, .NEWS or .ATTORNEY are affecting search engine...

True performance baselines & ROI for SEO without attribution modeling
It’s an old trope of the Search Engine Optimization industry that SEO is the channel with the greatest return of any online marketing...

Google releases the AMP features & enhancements roadmap
Google has announced they’ve released a roadmap document for the accelerated mobile pages (AMP) project. In short, this roadmap will...
























