Google Analytics is a powerful reporting tool, recording the people and entities that visit your site and what they do while they’re there. There’s just one problem; robots. Robots ruin everything. Or, rather, robots skew your data tracking and data reporting. If a search engine crawler hits your page… Read more“How to Filter Out Bots from Google Analytics Reporting”

  If you’re about to launch a new business and you’re already investigating SEO, congratulations! You’re ahead of the average. If you’re migrating hosts or redesigning your website, now is a great time to investigate your web host of choice. Do they provide everything you need out of a host… Read more“How to Pick The Best Website Host for SEO and Speed”

  A 301 redirect is a type of code that works in much the same way that a postal change of address form works for physical mail. It essentially tells anyone looking to visit www.example.com that the real new address is www.newexample.com. Browsers automatically load the new URL. More importantly,… Read more“How Much Link Juice Is Lost with a 301 Redirect?”

  Stumbleupon is a powerful platform that has become a dominant of traffic for leading social media sites and other well-designed websites. The unique and intelligent platform is used to filter out all of the stale websites on the Internet by making more than 1.2 billion website recommendations to users… Read more“30 Tips for New for StumbleUpon Marketers”

  The vast majority of SEO advice on the Internet applies to English-language sites with a specific focus on the United States. England and Australia can put much of the advice to use, with regional preferences and spelling, but still; the fact remains that multilingual and foreign sites are in… Read more“The Right Way to Have a SEO Friendly Multilingual Site”

  Tiered link building is among one of the most persistent and tenacious forms of gray/black hat SEO on the Internet. The core concept has been around for over a decade, and while it has had its ups and downs, it’s still potentially relevant today. A Note of Caution Before… Read more“What Exactly is Tiered Link Building and Does it Work?”

For a long time, businesses have been pushing to include brand mentions in incoming content. It was always a beneficial practice to expand your brand recognition; users are more likely to convert if they recognize the company they’re investigating. Brand mentions have had a nebulous impact on SEO, however. Until… Read more“Proof That Brand Mentions Alone Can Influence SEO”

  With Google’s tame Panda on the prowl, it’s always possible that your site may wake up one day penalized by the dreaded algorithm. A high search ranking lost overnight. Panic at the office as you search for what went wrong. Then the words strike you; duplicate content. You don’t… Read more“How to Recover from a Duplicate Content Penalty”