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...
by Russ Jones | Apr 16, 2015 | Online marketing, SEO
It is rare that we get the chance to know of a Google Update in advance. It is even rarer that we are given the exact date (i.e. Mobilegeddon). And it is even rarer than that when we are given the exact metric which will influence the algorithmic update, much less...
by Michael Fine | Apr 7, 2015 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Google+, LinkedIn, SEO, SMX Social Media, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube & Video
“6 seconds? What can you market in 6 seconds?” Those are usually the first two questions I receive after telling a client to use Vine for promotional purposes. Just to clarify, there a ton of tasks you can accomplish in 6 seconds. However, this article is not about...
by Michael Fine | Apr 1, 2015 | Analytics, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Online marketing, SMX Social Media, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube & Video
I have been receiving one question quite often lately: What is the difference between a LinkedIn Company Page and a LinkedIn Group? Both of these options serve a great purpose for your company but accomplish different things. According to a HubSpot study of over...
by Tripp Hamilton | Mar 30, 2015 | Content Marketing, Online marketing, SEO
Most, if not all, easily replicated SEO tactics are now a thing of the past, and any SEO-provider / internet marketing company that offers those services are going to do more harm than good for your website’s rankings. In this post, we are focusing on why...
