Back to Fundamentals: 6 Untapped Keyword Sources that Will Boost Organic Traffic
9/10/2014 Tapping out of keyword sources and running out of ideas? Use these not-so-obvious ways to get more keywords that'll improve your organic traffic.
Blog Posts
How to Become a Blogging Superstar
5/2/2012 Do you have what it takes to become a superstar blogger? While anybody can set up a blog…not everyone can take that blog and turn it into a world-renowned blog that ends up on Time Magazine’s best blog list or Ad Age’s Power 150....
How to Improve Your Rankings with Semantic Keyword Research
4/17/2012 Don't forget about semantic keyword research to help you focus your content and and improve your rankings.
12 Things That Will Kill Your Blog Post Every Time
3/6/2012 When you look around at successful blogs -- whatever industry or topic -- there are several undeniable basics to success. And it starts with blog posts that kill it…rather than get killed. But what kills a blog post? Here’s a list of 12 things. Ignore them and you will have a tough time being successful.
The Inside Scoop to Finding Link Building Opportunities with Free Alerts
2/16/2012 We all know that when it comes to getting high rankings in the search engines link building is one of the most critical activities you can engage in…whether you are using tactics to get a large amount of links or zeroing in on attracting high-authority links.
The 10 Golden Rules to Attracting Authority Links
2/2/2012 In the world of link building, getting an authority link to your site/blog has been one of the most important aspects of growing your blog. Back in 2009 Page Level Link Metrics and Domain Level Authority Features accounted for over 46% of your pages own authority.
The Five Marketing Lessons That Took Me a Long Time to Learn
12/20/2011 Because I grew up surrounded by entrepreneurs I learned early that working for yourself was a great way to make money and improve your lifestyle. However, even though I had this early drive to build businesses, I didn’t always know the right way to go about building or marketing them. In fact, through trial and error I eventually discovered what it takes to build and market a successful business, and the following five lessons are what I think to be the most important.
How To Brand Your SEO Agency
11/16/2011 Last month I talked about 7 lessons I learned from running an SEO agency. One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that you can command clients to pay you 6 and even 7 figures a year if your agency has brand recognition. Brand recognition also gets you more inbound inquires from c...
7 Lessons Learned Running an SEO Agency
10/19/2011 My first real company was an SEO agency. I was only 17 years old when I started it and I had no clue what I was doing. The only thing I knew was there was a business to be made from SEO because companies spent millions of dollars on pay-per-click advertising. I was fortunate enough to get my agency $10,000 to $20,000 a month in revenue within a year, but scaling the company to millions of dollars a year was a much harder challenge.