Find out in this great, interactive linkbait piece by Vertical Measures. Those of you who are subscribers know that you can always download my link reporting/scoring spreadsheet. [And have been able to download it for almost 2 years!] The spreadsheet features the various factors that go into scoring etc in detail. Full details in my original SEOmoz post. So… …
Jim’s thinking on buying links can’t be that far different from Aaron Wall‘s or Greg Boser‘s or Todd Malicoat‘s thinking, imho. They’re all part of the Vet SEO independent webmaster school of thought. And if you have done any reading at all on search, you’d know that Aaron, Greg, Todd and others encourage big brands to buy text links to rank higher. Now consider that Jim and We Build Pages have got …
Ok, I’ve actually been to SMX Advanced, where I spoke, celebrated my 21st birthday, during which I devoured delicious homemade cake (thanks mom!), been helping Ice.com Jewelry fix their SEO issues, which meant auditing and now planning implementation, and handling other stuff too besides! After regaling you all with the wonderfully exciting tale of what I’ve been up to for …
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Hey gang, I’m back from SMX West – the best three days of my life EVER – and have got some great material to share with you guys. Here are some highlights of what’s coming: 1) I had the good fortune to do an interview with Todd ‘Stundubl’ Malicoat (now of Clientside SEM), who’s a very approachable and …
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I’m organizing a contest for SEOs to share their most creative and powerful tactics, which I first announced to my advanced SEO newsletter / the people who get a free chapter from my book. Entrants can win a variety of prizes, discussed below, and the best entries will be included in the next edition of …
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It’s no secret that this auberge de jeunesse in Montreal, the Auberge de Paris (I realize the name is unusual), is a client of mine. For a while now they’ve had issues with their reviews being merged with their sister downtown Montreal hotel‘s reviews. The problem is that since the youth hostel’s reviews tend to score lower than the …
Continue reading “Wrecking Local SEO 201 – Do External Links Cause Merged Reviews?”
1. You need social proof? “As Seen In [the following media]” is a popular and well-trusted form of social proof. So next time you run a campaign, why not hit up Google News for inspiration, plus the internal search functions of major news networks and trade publications? On that note, why not check out my press, …
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Officially, SEO best practices say you can’t use those beautiful branded fonts in those pictures-of-text for your headings. And conversion best practices say that you may not always want to use keywords in the headings – just use whatever converts best. So wrapping an image with keyword-rich text in h1 tags is not the solution. …
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I wrote a while back that Google Maps Guide Jen offered a way to demerge merged listings in Google Maps. Well, while things seem to have gotten better, it appears that the filtering on Google Maps still isn’t perfected. Consider these reviews of a hotel. The reference to a hostel is due to a sister business being located …
Continue reading “Google Maps: Listings Still Merged; Centroid Losing Prominence?”
Hey there boys and girls – want to get into multiple niches really fast? Are those niches just slightly different from one another, being a “base keyword” + modifier combination? Know that if you just duplicate the copy from one “base keyword” + modifier A page to a page targeting “base keyword” + modifer B, …
Continue reading “Finding [Mass] Niches With Content-Spinning”
