5 Ways SEMRush Makes Me Look Like a SEO Wizard To Potential Clients

Prank Pack RankingsFirst off, thanks to SEMRush for providing me with a free account for the very long time it took me to write this. I appreciate your patience. I have used a lot of SEO tools over the years. It’s a fragmented, confusing space. So from time to time I thought it would be helpful to […]

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Secrets Of Successful Enterprise SEO Part 2: Building A Winning Team

In the first part of this series, I outlined a powerful method used by successful enterprise SEOs to tackle the challenge of enterprise SEO. While operational planning is critical to get in place, the best laid plans are useless unless you can execute …

Hummingbird In The Trenches: A Canary In The Coal Mine

I’ve been gathering and analyzing reports and in-the-trenches data from in-house marketers about Google’s Hummingbird, and I believe what I am seeing is on par with finding a dead canary in a coal mine. Pardon the morbid analogy, but the writing is on the wall, folks, and it has been…

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SEO & Social Media Alignment

I recently presented at SMX East on how SEO and Social teams can no longer operate separately. Why? Because social media is playing an ever-more important role in SEO, and it has the potential to be disruptive to the status quo. Everywhere I turn, I find examples: personalized rank results, results…

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White Papers: Key To B2B Enterprise SEO Power

Enterprise marketers, particularly in the B-to-B space, often find content development a difficult proposition. The company’s thought leaders, although happy to pontificate, are often afraid of committing to a writing schedule – and the marketer, admi…

Global SEO And Localization Excellence – What Localization Really Is

Enterprise SEO marketers developing a global footprint see tremendous value in global SEO. Targeting greater performance from global search engines is a top priority for enterprise search marketers since it is a gateway to increase leads, conversions a…

Is Link Building Dead? 3 Tips For Link Builders Post-Penguin 2.0

 ”We’ve detected that some of the links pointing to your site are using techniques outside Google’s Webmaster Guidelines….” For enterprise SEOs, receipt of this notification is usually followed by a deep, sinking feeling in your chest. You check your keyword head-terms…

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Removing URLs From The Index In Bulk

Need to remove URLs from the index? For a small number of URLs, this can be a relatively straightforward process — when you are dealing with thousands or tens of thousands, it can be a lot more complex, especially if you feel a great deal of urgency about the matter. This is what I am […]

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Rel=Can’t Stand Them: Why the Rel=Canonical Tag Sucks

Dr. Pete Myers’ post, Rel=Confused? Answers to Your Rel=Canonical Questions, has reminded me that I have had a bee in my bonnet about the rel=canonical tag for a while that I’ve been meaning to get off my chest on these hallowed pages.  In short, the rel=canonical tag sucks. You can’t always tell if they are working Contrary […]

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When It Comes To SEO, Don’t Always Believe The Engineers…

A friend who is a former spook told me how he once smuggled an Arab man out of the Middle East.  ”I dressed him in short pants.”  ”Why?” I asked.  ”Because Arab men never wear shorts.  People tend to only see what you tell them to see.” Which brings me to the following response I […]

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The Ultimate List of Pharmaceutical SPAM Keywords

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Low-T & Low-O www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive A new client has been seriously dinged by Google because their site is littered with SPAM. This is quite common for UGC sites where the U is a perv merchant or […]

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