by Tripp Hamilton | Sep 3, 2015 | Online marketing, SEO
Have you hired an SEO specialist to optimize your website for search engines? If so, one primary question you need to ask yourself is if the person or agency you hired is sending regular reports that show the work that they have done. Whether that is on-site or...
by Jake Ratliff | Jul 20, 2015 | Online marketing, Paid Search
The Power of Digital Marketing Everyday I get to see how beneficial online advertising is for Hive Digital’s clients. I don’t mean beneficial in a vague, esoteric sense. I get to see exactly to the penny how Hive Digital’s advertising team has...
by Russ Jones | Jun 30, 2015 | SEO
It happened again today. After helping a client build an amazingly effective natural, content-based link building strategy, links started pouring in and the complaints began. “The Page Authority isn’t high enough. The Domain Authority isn’t high...
by Russ Jones | Jun 29, 2015 | SEO
I have always been intrigued by the organic search ecosystem. You can think of it like a marketplace where different sites come to life, grow, thrive, or die depending upon their performance. Like the natural ecosystem governed by physical laws, or the marketplace...
by Russ Jones | Jun 24, 2015 | Analytics, SEO
It is inevitable that with the release of any major update from Google we will see the quintessential “winner vs loser” list and some speculation as to why certain sites topped the list and others faltered. While the approach is itself not flawed, the...
by Russ Jones | Jun 22, 2015 | SEO
Every link data set (Moz, Majestic, AHrefs, Webmeup, SEMRush, Bing and Google Search Console) have multiple delays – the natural delay between the time in which the bot revisits a page to find a link has been added or removed, and the unnatural delay between the...
by Russ Jones | Jun 22, 2015 | SEO
If you haven’t had a chance yet, go check out SEOAlarms. If you have, I wanted to let you know about 2 new features. SEOAlarms is based on a very simple concept – connect all your analytics and monitoring software into a single hub that notifies you when...
by Tripp Hamilton | Jun 8, 2015 | Google, Online marketing, Reconsideration
Are you a website owner and did you receive a message about a hacked site penalty? Or when you search your website in Google, does it have a message under the URL that states, “This site may harm your computer”? If so, you may have had your website hacked!...
by Russ Jones | May 20, 2015 | SEO
There are tons of great in-depth articles on keyword research across the web, but they all try to be comprehensive when most of us want “good-enough”. So, is there a Pareto Principle version of keyword discovery and research? Is there a way to get 80% of...
by Russ Jones | May 13, 2015 | Google, SEO
We all hate them (if you don’t, your vote doesn’t count), but they are here to stay: answer boxes. Answer boxes are one of Google’s more controversial methods of taking content from webmaster sites and displaying it directly in their search results....
by Russ Jones | May 4, 2015 | SEO
Search rankings volatility has become a staple of search metrics. Leaders in the space including MozCast, SERPs Volatility Index, Algoroo, and SERPMetrics Flux all measure flux slightly differently but ultimately look at movement in the search results. SEOAlarms takes...
by Russ Jones | Apr 28, 2015 | Analytics, Content Marketing, Google, SEO
There are so many metrics from so many different vendors in SEO these days. As much as we hate Google pulling referral keyword data from our analytics tools, we are in a golden era of SEO data. We have a half dozen or so link data sources, a trove of rankings data...
by Tripp Hamilton | Apr 24, 2015 | Link Removal, Online marketing, SEO
Over the past several years I’ve been involved in the Internet marketing community, one thing has really gotten under my skin: comment spam. Almost every back-link analysis I’ve performed has comment links in one form or another. Many of these links can be...
by Russ Jones | Apr 21, 2015 | Analytics, Content Marketing, Online marketing
Frequently Asked Questions What does the % mean? We aggregate the search results across 30,000 keywords searched on mobile and determine what percentage are labeled as “mobile friendly” by Google. We then subtract the percentage that was mobile friendly on...
