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”

  Creating a blog is a great way to share your passions, interests and knowledge with the world. It’s also a great way to make some extra money with ad revenue. Some people even make a living from the revenue made off of blogs. Blogging is a vast and interesting… Read more“Why Hiring a Ghost Writer for Your Blog Is a Great Investment”

  Sometimes, SEO is about the long haul. It’s a marathon that never ends, where each step is a blog post, status update or follower gained. The finish line is the always-moving number one spot in Google for as many queries as possible. It’s never enough. Other times, SEO is… Read more“6 Programs to Track Your Google Rankings Daily”

  The Google Sandbox is a concept that’s been around for over ten years. It was initially created to describe the phenomenon where websites would struggle to rank for months after any sort of bad SEO actions were penalized, even if those penalties were lifted. It was the cause of… Read more“The Ultimate Guide to Recovering From Google’s Sandbox”

  One of the easiest and most lucrative ways to monetize a blog is through affiliate links and affiliate networks; the modern iteration of lining your site with advertisements. There are a number of very good reasons to clearly mark your affiliate links, not the least of which because it’s… Read more“How to Hide Your Affiliate Links in an SEO Friendly Way”

  From the very beginning, Google – and other search engines that followed, grew, and lived or died – needed some way to find pages to index. At the start, Google used manual feeding with a staff of employees. With the size and scale of the Internet, however, this was… Read more“How to Make a SEO Friendly Robots Text File”

  Often times, when your site dramatically decreases in search ranking overnight, it’s because you’ve been hit with a Google penalty for something you’ve done. It might be the ad-to-content ratio. It might be purchased links or social signals. It might be keyword spam. Whatever the case, it’s something you… Read more“How to Detect If Your Website Is a Victim of Negative SEO”