SEO Advice

Below you’ll find all of the posts filed under the SEO category. SEO isn’t an exact science no matter how many folks may try to convince you that they have all the answers… mainly because the engines keep their algorithms a secret.

Some parts of SEO are “evergreen” meaning that they are pretty standard, agreed upon and “non changing” in nature (like making use of title tags and that link building is important if you want to rank). However, many aspects of SEO are about theory and who can guess (from experience and testing) the best. And I do my best to put my experience and love of testing to use.

Search Engine Submission Services? DON’T – Here’s Why…

Trash

This is a short post - and a very basic post - but a needed one. Think of this like a PSA that is attempting to pay it forward to new marketers everywhere. In doing some keyword research today, I was a little startled to see tens of thousands of ...
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My SMX West 2013 Takeaways

SMX West

I'm at the airport getting ready to head back home after spending 3 days in San Jose, California at SMX West. I figured I'd post a few of the things I found interesting as takeaways from the conference for those who weren't able to attend. Tips & ...
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The Great Site Migration (or Trying to Turn Lemons into MobileMoo)

MobileMoo-thumb

Sometimes forces outside of your control send a once awesome website spiraling to its revenue death. That's been the case for BBGeeks in the last 14 months or so. The absolute SMACKDOWN that RIM (and it's beloved BlackBerry) has taken from the ...
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Google Liked It, But They Wouldn’t Put a Ring on It

rings

Honestly, I knew almost immediately upon meeting my husband that I was going to end up married to him. When he proposed to me during a game of poker, I immediately said yes. Then I went and registered domains and twitter handles with different ...
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How I Doubled My Blog Traffic (& Got a Bigger Audience) in 3 Weeks

Doubled Blog Traffic

Building more blog traffic requires work. But it's not rocket science. It's a series of simple steps that require time and effort to execute, but the steps themselves aren't a secret. You simply have to be willing to DO THE WORK. 3 weeks ago, I ...
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The Number 1 Mistake New SEO Consultants Make

Mistakes

After having spent more than a decade in this industry as both an affiliate marketer and a provider of various SEO services, I've seen a lot of new folks enter the ranks, with their aim being to become a successful SEO consultant. And as a ...
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Why You Should Never Build Your Site on a Free Subdomain

Say no to free subdomains

As I mentioned in finding the money to get started with affiliate marketing, I've been asking my readers and subscribers for feedback on what they find to be obstacles to finding success with affiliate marketing. As a result, I've been learning a bit ...
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Simple Linking Maintenance for WordPress Sites

Linking Maintenance

The site structure of the Sugarrae blog has changed several times over the years. Sometimes for testing, sometimes for "bettering" SEO. This blog has been moved from Moveable Type, to Expression Engines, to WordPress. The internal linking ...
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SEO Checklist for Local Small Business Websites

Small business SEO checklist

Hard to believe, but it's been almost FIVE YEARS since I wrote my original primer for small business SEO basics. Now, the below information is intended to be extremely basic. If you run an e-Commerce store, dynamically generated website, ...
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Google Invests in Creating Paid Links?

Google Ventures

Wednesday I posted an interview I did with Oliver Roup after accidentally stumbling onto his company, VigLink, through an article in Internet Retailer. And something pretty interesting resulted from it - well, interesting to me as an SEO anyway. ...
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