If there’s one thing I hate to do it’s attempt to forecast traffic and conversion numbers for a brand new site that is just now starting an SEO campaign from ground zero. I actually hate doing it, period, even with established sites. Unfortunately, this is exactly what new SEO clients want to hear. They want to know if they are spending X amount of money, then how much traffic will they get and [...]

I’ve been looking for a software program that can help me automate some tedious SEO tasks. I don’t have a problem writing content – blog posts, articles, etc. – but I don’t really have the time or the patience to go setting up hundreds of accounts at Web 2.0 sites, article directories, forums, etc., etc. This shit really drives me nuts. I’d MUCH rather spend my [...]

Fiverr has proven to be a great place to outsource SEO work. You can’t really find an entire linking campaign for $5, but you can definitely find the individual chunks of a linking campaign for $5. This is great for guys and gals like us who know what needs to be done for our campaigns to succeed, but we don’t necessarily want to do it all ourselves. Either because we’d like to be [...]

There are many aspects of SEO and online marketing that go unnoticed but which are absolutely essential to ensuring that your website ranks where it deserves. One such issue is that of canonical URLs – if you’ve not heard of these, the chances are that your website may be suffering as a result. Fortunately, the majority of SEOs will have an in-depth familiarity with canonical URLs (largely [...]

An internet marketing consultant may be able to provide you with the best advice you have ever received in regards to your online business. Even if you do not operate entirely online, building a solid reputation on the internet is important. There are many helpful articles, ebooks and guides available that can help you come up with your own search engine optimization and marketing plan. The problem [...]

I came across a really handy set of regular expressions over at Dynamical.biz that you can dump into Google Analtyics to sort your keyword data by number of keywords. In other words, show me all single word keywords, or two word keywords, three word keywords, etc. This is a great way to have a look at how your long tail keywords are performing. Here they are: ^\s*[^\s]+\s*$ one keyword ^\s*[^\s]+(\s+[^\s]+){1}\s*$ [...]

Google loves to tout the holiness of relevancy and yet they continually work toward making their search results less relevant. Take, for instance, their latest move to integrate Google+ and other social chatter directly into search results. Now, if you are logged into Google, you will see tons of social mentions, recommendations, shares, and other such nonsense when you are doing searches. Google’s [...]