SEO Through Bad Writing: Just Stop.
OK, we get it. Getting your site ranked is really important to your business, and you’ll do almost anything to make it happen. The problem is that you’re not an optimizer — you’re a business owner, and...
View ArticleCalm Down, SEO People
So I was listening to the radio, and on comes this odd song by Busta Rhymes and Eminem called “Calm Down.” I can’t claim to remember much of it — it was long, and Busta was doing his Busta thing with...
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Contrarianism In SEO
So I wrote a blog post about SEO and bad writing a few days ago, and I was re-reading it this morning when I noticed a pattern. And it immediately occurred to me that this pattern isn’t new — it’s a...
View ArticleDesign Is Solving Problems, Not Adding Sparkles
In all of my scanning Al Gore’s tubes for useful information about what I do on a daily basis, every once in a while I come across something that shocks me. No, not like politicians shock me or like...
View ArticleOne SEO Guy in Favor of Net Neutrality
I don’t like to get political online; it’s not really something that I’m comfortable with. But I saw what happened on the FCC website today, and I had to say something. After a comment period that had...
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Why Are So Many Web Design Blogs Nothing More Than Collections of Crap?
If you’re not a web designer, chances are that you’ve never actually Googled “web design inurl:blog” and looked at the results. Try it. No, seriously, don’t try it. I’ll show you what you get:You get a...
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You Say You Want Some Evolution? Well, You Know…SEO Is A-Changin’
If you’re into digital marketing, you can basically count on the idea that some aspect of what you’re doing is going to be phased out in the next year. Just like those bell-bottoms that were out, than...
View ArticleOptimizing YouTube Videos –Tips and Best Practices
YouTube is the second search engine after Google that attracts millions of traffic daily and its Alexa Traffic Rank is 3. Optimizing YouTube channels makes sense when you want to see a traffic-boom on...
View ArticleSEO Basics a Newbie Can Trust
A newbie who is just starting on applying SEO (search engine optimization) on his website faces various bottlenecks along the path. If you are new to SEO, and want to learn the ropes of the game then...
View ArticleGoogle Plus to Boost SEO Rankings
Improving SEO ranking is one of our top priorities and we never shirk on that responsibility, because that’s how we can drive more traffic to our websites. Framing a precise game-plan and executing it...
View ArticleTop SEO Tools for Content Writers That Come In Handy
It’s a fundamental truth that in order to boost traffic on a site you need to make a targeted copy following the exact, correct search engine optimization techniques. There are a nice bunch of handy...
View ArticleWhy is Google Webmaster Tools Vital for SEO?
When we make a comparison of various SEO tools, we find that Google Webmaster Tools ranks top in terms of usability. Although, it doesn’t come with the kind of perks that paid SEO tools offer, still we...
View ArticleUnorthodox Link Building
Link building — for a while there, when Google announced that guest blog posting was ‘spammy’, we all kind of thought it might be dying out. But as it turns out, link building is still an absolutely...
View ArticleSix Simple Steps to Sterling SEO: Blogger’s Edition
Every blogger wants the “secret weapon” for SEO: the one super-ninja trick that’s going to get your ranked and get you traffic. News flash: it doesn’t exist — the last 20% of that climb to the top is...
View ArticleSEO Insights You Can Achieve Just By Googling
I read a lot. It’s part of the job, when you’re a content producer that writes for sites as varied and different as the clients of Net Profit Marketing are. You have to get to know several unique...
View ArticleSioux Falls, SEO, Net Neutrality, and the Value of Commerce
All three of the people who represent Sioux Falls in Congress are trying their hardest to undo the Net Neutrality ruling that the FCC passed at the end of February, and while this isn’t a political...
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Content Creation: How to Reach Your Audience — by Age
When you’re putting out great content, it might seem like the quality alone is enough to nail the best results — but because of the way that Google parses social media, there’s actually a significant...
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Effective SEO: The Difference Between “Right” and “Not Wrong”
There’s a lot of great SEO advice out there, but there’s an unwritten assumption behind a lot of it — that being that the audience has even the slightest clue what part of that advice is good for them....
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Content Marketing: Outreach as Networking, Part I
You’ve probably encountered the concept of ‘networking’ as something that professionals should do in order to increase their chances of success. The website LinkedIn is literally designed specifically...
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Content Marketing: Outreach as Networking, Part II
OK, last week we talked a bit about how the ‘outreach’ part of the content marketing cycle is essentially ‘professional networking’ under a different name. We’re going to keep going with that theme...
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