by Tripp Hamilton | Mar 23, 2015 | Google, Online marketing, SEO
Google recently updated their post on doorway pages and released a blog post detailing those changes as well. There are many names for this particular brand of black-hat SEO; bridge, portal, or gateway pages, more commonly known as doorway pages, are typically created...
by Tripp Hamilton | Mar 20, 2015 | Link Removal, Reconsideration, SEO
Acquisition of a penalty can be a daunting task to address. You have been told by your SEO that the work they have done up to this point abides by the Google Quality Guidelines, and now that trust is broken. More than likely you have severed ties with your SEO...
by Jacob Bohall | Mar 18, 2015 | News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO
Google Mobile Usability Algorithm Update – April 21st, 2015 from Jake Bohall Google doesn’t often provide advance notice to the world when they are going to make an algorithm update, so it is important we embrace the knowledge and ensure that we are...
by Russ Jones | Mar 18, 2015 | Free SEO Tools, Online marketing
There aren’t many things more annoying that waking up one day to find out that your website has been hacked or spammed – that somehow, someone has been able to infiltrate your site with tons of spammy outbound links with high commercial anchor text....
by Michael Fine | Mar 9, 2015 | Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Besides constantly hoping to wake up and have hair on my head, most of my day is spent trying to make our current and potential clients as happy as possible. You may think it’s cheesy, but having an employee dedicated to supporting your current and potential...
by Megan Bostwick | Mar 4, 2015 | Content Marketing, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Online marketing, SEO
It’s no secret that having an online presence is the best way to reach your target audience. Knowing how to accurately reach them though is a different story. Since our reliance on social media and mobile devices has grown exponentially recently, it has become crucial...
by Nicole Betterbid | Feb 27, 2015 | Content Marketing, Facebook, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
Before Netflix became the media giant it is today, CEO Reed Hastings did what no other streaming service had done before. Instead of only investing in other networks’ programming, as they had been doing since the streaming service launched in 2007, he decided to...
by Jacob Bohall | Feb 23, 2015 | Google+, Social Media
I’m currently working on a project for a client that brought about some extreme frustration. They had created a Google+ account, and did some work to build up a following, created YouTube videos that were linked, posts, photos, etc. Meanwhile, Google had...
by Tripp Hamilton | Feb 16, 2015 | Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
In an online world dominated by Pandas, Penguins, and other black-and-white animals, there is one savior that website owners who need a guide to traverse the ever-changing SEO landscape… this blog post about SEO for the modern world of Internet marketing! Over...
by Michael Fine | Feb 13, 2015 | Facebook, Social Media, Twitter
Winning cures all. The statement holds true in some respects, but none more certain than with social media. Whether it’s sports or SEO, if your brand is on the up, people will want to watch. Even though this is not a sports blog, we still feel other industries...
by Jacob Bohall | Feb 10, 2015 | Online marketing, SEO
In handling the majority of sales and customer service for Hive Digital since 2007, I’ve had the joy of listening to thousands of stories about other SEO agencies, link building services, paid search optimizers, rank-quick-rich schemes… you name it. Almost...
by Nicole Betterbid | Feb 6, 2015 | Online marketing, Social Media
The Game Changer It’s no secret, social media has changed the landscape of marketing in a way that surpassed even industry expert’s predictions. Between DVR and our society’s obsession with mobile devices, businesses and brands soon came to the realization that there...
by Tripp Hamilton | Feb 4, 2015 | Online marketing, Reconsideration, SEO
The onset of manually-applied Google penalties had many internet marketers scrambling to remove once-valuable links that were now threatening to devalue their clients’ and their own websites. Fortunately for these webmasters, Google released the disavow tool in...
by Kyle Whigham | Feb 2, 2015 | Content Marketing, Google, Link Removal, Online marketing, SEO
Two great passions in my life are baseball and SEO. Having played baseball throughout college and now leading link development at Hive Digital, there are countless similarities when it comes to preparation and execution of strategy. So naturally, I was immediately...
