10 Great Link Building Tips for New Sites
By Ross Hudgens with 1 Comment
Getting traffic for a new website can be difficult if you go about it the wrong way. Link building for a newly launched website differs strongly from websites in the mid to late stages of growth, as there are certain quality signals and processes to undergo that tell the search engines that your site should be trusted. Using poor link building techniques can lead to a lot of wasted efforts in the initial stages of site development.
Building authority and trust is vital to getting recognized by the search engines. Start with the below tips and you’ll be well on your way to blasting up the SERPs. Read More
6 Tips for Scaling your SEO Efforts
By Sujan Patel with 5 Comments
If you’re in a competitive space, the battle for top rankings is fought in a battle with other, similar business models. The difference between ranking one and two can sometimes be a result of length in the space, but in a long-term effort to secure top rankings, wins come to those companies that can scale their SEO campaigns in the most efficient way possible, creating links, content and efficient strategies in the least expensive, most manageable way possible.
Whatever company can do this most effectively will most likely get the rankings, get the traffic and get the money, creating a turnover that means more money that can be spent on SEO and SEO processes, which creates a wider gap between one and two. Every business must do their best to grow their SEO efforts, get links and scale their campaign to win the battles that happen every day in the SERPs.
Here are just a few tips to get your scaling started so you can grow your SEO efforts to the top of the SERP ladder. Read More
24 Actionable Productivity Tips
By Ross Hudgens with No Comments
What the internet did for all of us is help us solve problems at a hyper-speed that we had previously never thought possible. As the internet advances into a mature stage, new applications and shortcuts make these initial improvements seem turtle-slow in comparison. Every day, new and exciting developments emerge that allow us to do what we did yesterday, faster.
I have compiled 24 of these tools and tips, all actionable, to speed up your productivity on the internet, or in life, in a way that actively improves your online productivity. These suggestions are most relevant for the internet marketing professional, allowing you to boost the production of your 8+ hour day to previously unseen limits. Read More
5 Books Every SEO Should Read
By Ross Hudgens with No Comments
Search Engine Optimization, and internet marketing in general, is a strange beast. Due to the hyper-connectivity of its infrastructure, it is evolving quicker than print can catch up. Because of this, accurate paper books on the subject are few and far between, and as such, there are few paperbacks SEO’s can take on their camping trips and beach visits to indulge in some off-hour learning.
While few directly-targeted SEO books exist, there are several other around or near the profession that will broaden and intensify every SEO’s skill set, whether it’s away from the computer or on it. Read More
How Social Media Will Replace Search
By Sujan Patel with 6 Comments
Remember back before Google? Back when we had Infoseek and AltaVista and all those other early search engines? Remember back when keyword stuffing on a page actually worked, to the horror of literate people everywhere? Then Google came along, with its reliance on links and anchor text and other elements, and the game changed.
It’s changing again. In fact, it already has changed in many ways.
Links worked because they were like references; users were telling Google what a page was about. Links, back in the day, were a measure of trust. Social media also relies on this very powerful force. Read More
