Reviews are incredibly important to your business. They influence customer decisions in a number of ways. This includes both positive and negative reviews. Positive reviews may be sponsored or false, while no business will pay for negative reviews. Public negative reviews are a way for a business to showcase… Read more“11 Tricks to Increase Your Google+ Reviews”

  Webmasters looking to optimize their site for SEO leave no stone unturned. Everything is a potential vector for site improvement, from the pixel height of the navigation links to the hex color code of the call to action buttons. The home page is absolutely one of the most important… Read more“How Many Words Should You Have on Your Homepage?”

  Meta tags are a type of tag included in your HTML, either in your site header or as attributes in links – effectively descriptors for other tags – that direct web browsers and search engines to parse your site in a particular way. Some of these tags are automatically… Read more“The Ultimate List of Google Recognized Meta Tags”

  It happens to everyone. Users come to your site, they look around for a moment, then they leave. They bounce off your page and back to the search engine. Some convert, some explore, many do neither. This is a scary thought for many marketers. If they aren’t sticking around,… Read more“How to Dramatically Lower the Bounce Rate of Your Website”

Some concerns in SEO are brand new. Issues come up every month with new technologies, new interactions and new rules. Some issues, on the other hand, are as old as communication itself. Since the dawn of language, some words have been considered taboo. Those words change across generations, but the… Read more“Can Profanity Hurt Your Search Engine Results?”

  Some time ago, WordPress implemented a feature designed to make it easier for blogs to talk to each other. This feature, known as trackbacks, was an interesting concept with a flawed execution. The system has gone through several changes to reach what it is today, and many SEO professionals… Read more“Why Approving WordPress Trackbacks Can Hurt Your SEO”

We all dream of being able to do everything right the first time, but it’s not always possible. In the world of business, this is more true than anywhere else. Starting a business is all about making mistakes, correcting your actions, growing from them and improving. Some mistakes will be… Read more“Five SEO Friendly Steps to Move Your Website to a New Host”

Published by in The views of contributors are their own, and not necessarily those of   Optimizing your title tags is one of the most basic and yet most important actions you can take in an SEO plan. When you’re starting a WordPress blog, or you’re optimizing an established blog,… Read more“How to Optimize Your WordPress Meta Title Tags for SEO”

  Fiverr debuted as a novel concept; a fixed price point of $5 for services, where anyone could offer to do anything for that price. Regulated by a free market experience, some services quickly dropped in quality, while others have maintained some utility. SEO through Fiverr is no different. A… Read more“Are Any SEO Services on Fiverr Actually Worth Using?”

Conventional linkbuilding wisdom holds that you should, if at all possible, try to get backlinks from as many .edu and .gov sites as possible. People attribute these domains with an almost mythical power, claiming that a .edu site backlink can be worth as much as ten .com backlinks. A string… Read more“Why .Gov and .Edu Backlinks Are a Worthless SEO Fad”