Discover Who’s Eating Your SEO Lunch… And How To Beat Them

The combination of web analytics and a thoughtful SEO strategy is a winner. Here’s one of my favourite strategies to ensure you’re beating your competition at SEO linkbuilding.

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7 SEO Truths Every Business Leader Must Understand

If you’re still caught up in SEO practices and know how that worked in 2007, it’s time to get up-to-date — fast! Unless you catch up with recent developments in business and search marketing, you’ll get run over by the competition that’s zooming along at high speed….

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A Complete Guide To The Essentials Of Post-Hummingbird SEO

Google has made stark changes over the past couple years in the way it ranks websites. When one of its most recent algorithm incarnations, Hummingbird, was released in August of 2013, it created a whirlwind in the search landscape and has since continu…

Lessons From Google On Optimizing Your SEO

Dan Cobley, Google UK’s Managing Director, recently revealed that Google’s infamous 2007 “50 Shades of Blue” experiment involving ad links in Gmail increased revenue by $200 million a year. These results switched the balance of power from design-driven to engineering…

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Secure Search & SEO Methodology: Key Strategies & Enablers

One of the primary ways SEO changed forever in 2013 was Google’s move to 100% secure search — otherwise known as “Keyword Not Provided.” SEOs long accustomed to measuring their performance at the keyword level have been forced to rethink their measurement criteria in order…

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5 “Foundations” Of SEO That Were Torched In 2013

The basics of SEO haven’t changed much in the last 15 years. If you followed the mantra of creating good content and obtaining quality links, they still haven’t changed… or have they? Here are five SEO “foundations” that were absolutely torched in 2013. If you are still counting on any of these,…

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The New SEO — It’s About People, Intent, & Meaning

There are two ways to try and understand the future. One is to gaze into the misty depths of a magic crystal ball and guess what might happen. The other is to view facts from a coldly logical standpoint and draw verifiable conclusions from them. To mak…

6 SEO Challenges Every Business Owner & Marketer Must Contend With In 2014

There isn’t much left of this year. Companies that haven’t started planning their marketing strategy and budgeting for 2014 must begin soon. When it comes to online marketing, most businesses rely excessively upon Web analytics to decide what was (or wasn’t) effective. What they…

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SEO in 2013: Do’s and Don’t Do’s

seo is my job memeDon’t be stuck in your ways when it comes to SEO tactics. Read this post to learn those tactics you should drop, and those that your should be embracing.

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SEO in 2013: Do’s and Don’t Do’s