When one first hears the term linkbaiting they are immedieatly reminded of their unseemly cousin, clickbaiting. Linkbaiting may share the family resemblance, but it falls far from the family tree. To outline the deviance from family traditions we will define what ethical SEO practice look like. This is more commonly referred to as White Hat […]
If the 80’s was the Lousiannia purchase of the internet, then the 90s was the Wild West and PageRank was the smoking gun in the hands of outlaws and sherrifs . But has modern technology made the 6-shooter irrelevant to the SEO gunslinger? History: PageRank was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as part […]
Despite massive SEO budgets and content teams held by large companies, a solo blogger was able to outperform all of them in a specific area of SEO. In the niche area of tiny house solar power, a solo blogger who we will call Ben (the blogger wrote anonymously) beat our major solar companies in SERPs. […]
Have you ever wondered what all the extra stuff in some URLs is? For example, gcc.edu/admissions?category=majors=accounting&finance=undergrad. All the stuff after the question mark (category=majors=accounting&finance=undergrad) is called the URL parameters. Parameters are strung together by “&” and “=” symbols. When put together they are called query strings. These are things you can add to your URls […]
In 2017, the SEO software company Moz realized their blog had become bloated, and much of their content was getting very little traffic. Moz had been publishing for over a decade and at this point they had thousands of articles. After surveying their content, Moz found that many of the articles were outdated, no longer […]
Just because a company is selling a niche product it doesn’t mean that the seller won’t face strong competition from other sellers. Selling products in highly competitive niche areas comes with some specific challenges and ultimately SEO is still just as important for selling and conversions. There are some specific and some more general SEO […]
There are some specific applicable aspects of SEO that you wouldn’t usually consider when you think of Search Engine Optimization. One of those specific applications is the use of SEO strategies for podcasts, or other forms of audio content. Posting audio online can pose some specific challenges in regard to SEO, because search engines can’t […]
A crucial aspect of SEO is mobile SEO and ensuring that your site and content is optimized for mobile devices. But why exactly is it so important, and what are some ways to optimize it? Mobile SEO is so important because Google has switched to mobile-first indexing, which means that it primarily will use the […]