Words that Damage Trust in Your Blog

Words that Damage Trust in Your Blog

These words may be correct English but nonetheless they make you appear like an idiot when you use them on your blog. Why? They have obviously negative or hidden meaning that influences your readers. Thus they damage trust in you…

Are Category Keywords in the URL a Significant Ranking Signal?

Are Category Keywords in the URL a Significant Ranking Signal?

Google has more than 200 ranking signals or factors that determine the fate of websites on their search results. One day I was trying to assess the impact of stolen and otherwise copied content on my rankings here on the…

10 Fatal Content Strategy Mistakes Most Businesses Make

10 Fatal Content Strategy Mistakes Most Businesses Make

* Everybody seems to agree by now that you need “great content“ to succeed on the Web. Both social media and search engines require quality content as their business model relies on others, us, to create that content. The problem…

Does Google Index Your robots.txt?

Does Google Index Your robots.txt?

This is a contribution by SEO strategist Moosa Hemani. It has been slightly edited by myself, Tad Chef – the owner of this blog. robots.txt is a protocol that helps search engines to find out which part of a website…

How to Practice Social SEO? Share Resources from Readers

How to Practice Social SEO? Share Resources from Readers

SEO 2 is for real. I practice what I preach. It’s not just talk to make more people follow me. No wonder some people call it the “social SEO“. How do you actually do it? Read below! How to Practice…

SEO Activism: Detox Campaign by Greenpeace

SEO Activism: Detox Campaign by Greenpeace

For years I’ve been a proponent of using SEO for more than just making money. Even on the Web it’s “people before profits”. You can’t just do business as usual when the planet and humanity with it goes down the…

Starting a New Blog? Read this First!

Starting a New Blog? Read this First!

So you want to start a new blog? Are you starting a new blog already? Have you started a new blog recently? In case you said “yes” at least once this article is for you. You will save lots of…

Does Link Building Still Exist as an SEO Practice?

Does Link Building Still Exist as an SEO Practice?

* It might sound strange that I still use the term link building! After all those years and despite new terms like “earning links” etc. It sounds funny in a way because I am the guy who has explained years…

How to Fight Big Business on Google and Beyond with Smart Mob SEO

How to Fight Big Business on Google and Beyond with Smart Mob SEO

* Let me brag for a minute. You understand why I have to a bit later. Over the years I’ve been outranking big businesses, well known brands and major news media. I’ve been successfully competing with whole agency and in-house…

[Content SEO] Run DMC and Google Want You to “Keep it Fresh”

[Content SEO] Run DMC and Google Want You to “Keep it Fresh”

* Are you spitting rhymes about gold chains and Adidas kicks? Or shaping your SEO and content strategy? One thing is for sure and essential… “Keepin’ it fresh.” Fresh content is unique and engaging, and Google likes that. It seems…

Who is Your Competition on the Web?

Who is Your Competition on the Web?

Who are your competitors? You think you know. Yet your offline understanding of competition does not work on the Web! You don’t know or realize though! Let me explain. Who Do You Think Your Competition is? When business owners contact…

Level343

Level343

Level343 is a copywriting and content creation oriented SEO company based in the US. Gabriella Sannino alias @seocopy who is leading it is one of the most valuable players when it comes to social media participation and influence in the…

SEO ROI

SEO ROI

SEO ROI aka Gab Goldenberg is an advanced SEO consultant from Canada. He is widely known in the SEO industry and I follow him and his blog for a few years by now. Gab has always been a great help…

Google Buys Links with Hidden Anchor Text

Google Buys Links with Hidden Anchor Text

I was awestruck today when I noticed that the perhaps most important German blogging conference re:publica sells high PageRank links. Paid links are forbidden by the Google Webmaster Guidelines since 2007 and Google has repeatedly asked webmasters to report paid…

What Are the Core Values of Your Blog?

What Are the Core Values of Your Blog?

* A business blog is not only a blog it’s also obviously a business. A business has to have some core values to be able to succeed in the long term. The market is volatile so that you need some…

Hobo UK

Hobo UK

Hobo UK is a British SEO company based in Glasgow Scotland and run by Shaun Anderson. Shaun Anderson is by now a quite well known figure in the SEO industry and beyond partly due to his ongoing efforts of spreading…

AimClear

AimClear

AimClear is not just an SEO company it’s a “Internet-focused advertising agency, based in lovely Duluth, Minnesota” in their own words. While I never met him in person I know owner Marty Weintraub for a few years now. In 2008…

Redfly: Online Marketing Company from Dublin, Ireland

Redfly: Online Marketing Company from Dublin, Ireland

Redfly Ltd is an online marketing/Internet marketing company from Dublin in Ireland. They focus on four key service areas: search friendly web design SEO PPC and Adwords management Google Analytics   Why do I like and trust Redfly enough for…

Can You Keep Up with the Joneses?

Can You Keep Up with the Joneses?

A few days ago I’ve watched a very intriguing movie called The Joneses. It’s about a seemingly happy family who is moving to a new city. Their main motive is to sell products though. How do they do it? They…