Welcome to the long overdue second segment of my podcast series Talking with Industry Experts.
In this podcast I speak with Captain Todd Malicoat, Author of the Stuntdubl SEO Blog, Faculty SEO Chair at MarketMotive, and Fishing Charter Captain at Miami Fishing Charters.
Listen to Todd and I discuss his thoughts on Panda’s integration into Google’s normal algorithm, negative SEO, link building, and find out …
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When it comes to business – SEO is a unique monster, because unlike most vertical markets, you don’t need products, vendor relationships, distribution channels, or even start up capital.
But without the right strategy, leveraging search for business can feel a lot like trying to capture lightning in a bottle.
In this post I am going to step through creating a keyword opportunity model to …
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Keyword research is quite possibly the most important part of SEO.
You cannot begin to plan for a campaign unless you know which phrases you are targeting, and you cannot estimate costs and returns from SEO unless you first know who you’re competing against.
This post is pretty long and I will be keeping it up to date, so I have created a table of contents to make it …
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This is a case study on how I built a website that receives over 100,000 visitors per month, in less than 1 year, without spending $1 on advertising.
This was done 100% through SEO and content strategy.
Before we dive in, allow me to clarify a few things:
Jon Cooper’s Link Building Course is a comprehensive approach to explaining how to build links in plain language.
He put several months of research, interviews, and tests into practice to write one of the most definitive guides I have read on how to approach link building.
He steps through specific strategies, research tactics, and even gives you an up to date list of places to acquire authoritative links.
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Think about it.
Does your content really deserve to rank on page one for your target keywords? Is it one of the 10 best, most informative, most useful pieces of content on the internet?
If not, the answer is probably no.
This post was inspired by this tweet from Russ Jones:
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This may seem harsh, but you know what – he’s right.
I really like …
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It’s no secret, and it certainly doesn’t happen by accident: in 2017, ranking in major search engines such as Google has become a science, the science of knowing your competitors, of knowing your customers/visitors and of course of knowing which SEO practices to ditch and which to keep and improve.
What used to be a handful of on-page, off-page, and architecture factors has evolved into hundreds of signaling attributes fed …
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This is more of a beginner post than I would usually write, but several friends at Indy Hall and around the Philly start-up community have been asking for a while, so I decided to write it.
The goal of this post is to provide a simple, straight forward, and step-by-step guide on how to approach optimizing a page on your website for your target keywords.
This is a pretty long …
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Last month’s post on Fresh Insights from Some of Philly’s Top SEO’s generated a lot of great feedback in the form of comments, tweets, and even some very nice emails. The reoccurring theme of the feedback was for more; more Philly SEO, more Q&A, and especially more coverage of the brilliant minds in or from this great city.
This post features some awesome industry feedback and insights from SEO’s who …
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