
Human vs machine intelligence: how to win when ‘duplicate’ content is unique
As impressive as machine learning and algorithm-based intelligence can be, they often lack something that comes naturally to humans:...

8 best online reputation management tools for your brand
If your brand has an online presence at all, you can’t not worry about its reputation. Today, online reputation management (or ORM for...

How to boost search rankings using only your internal linking strategy
Links, even within a website, show relationships between content. They transfer value and importance between pages. Even more...

Why isn’t my fabulous content attracting quality links?
Inboxes are flooded with unsolicited emails, and spam is at an all-time high. You may run into issues with client guidelines that seem...

Why following SEO trends guarantees SEO budget waste.
A lot of content has been published on the virtues of SEO and why you should use it, but few have been published on what happens when SEO...

This SEO nerd says its OK to ask for links
I’m putting on my SEO nerd hat and want to dive into why this tweet excited me and give more context around the conversation. Google’s...

Case study: The tale of two internal link tweaks
optimizing internal linking structures. In the article, we discussed a range of issues from PageRank and link equity flow to anchor text...

Link-building tools you may not know about
actively building links, you probably already know about many of the main link-building tools. If your time and financial budgets allow,...

Rookie link-building and content outreach mistakes you won’t make twice
Link-building mistakes come with the territory: The longer you spend pitching webmasters, the more war stories and link failures you’ll...

Here’s why you should start thinking of content marketing as an SEO strategy
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a busy and dynamic market. As search engines regularly change their algorithms to take new factors...

15 checks you should make when choosing a link partner
When inbound links occur naturally, you don’t look to see if the site linking to you is a good linking partner. They just link in, and...

Link to my awesome content, please!
for building links in challenging industries. I focused on different ways to create link-worthy content, but as we all know, that’s only...

Should you keep your best content on your site or send it away?
Opinions vary and are dependent on the goals of the webmaster. Some webmasters openly ask for guest bloggers since they need content and...

How to determine if you’ve been hit by negative SEO
Have you ever experienced a rankings decline and suspected it was due to something a competitor was doing? For this second article, we...

Building links in boring industries
What is less understood, however, is how to earn those links in sufficient volume to achieve and maintain results — especially when it...

How to create catchy, effective subject lines for link outreach
In the world of link building, few things are more frustrating than spending hours sending carefully crafted emails to people and not...

The importance of transparency and understanding risk in link building
The most important part of the relationship between you and your link builder might not be what you think. You want them to follow...

What negative SEO is and is not
Today we are starting a six-part series on Negative SEO. The series will be broken into three areas and will show how negative search...

How to turn a boring email into an irresistible link pitch
Link building starts with an email between two people. More often than not, these are two people who don’t know each other. Yes, you know...
























