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 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 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 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 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...
by Tripp Hamilton | Jan 6, 2015 | Google, News, Online marketing
In late September, Yahoo reported that it would be shutting down one of the most well-known and respected directories on the web, the Yahoo business directory. A few days before the end of 2014, on December 26th, Yahoo did as it said and shut it down, or so many...
by Michael Fine | Dec 16, 2014 | Facebook, Google, Google+, LinkedIn, Online marketing, SEO
Hello, anyone there??? We text rather than talk, meet our future Mr. or Mrs. online and the most efficient way to keep up on our family/friends whereabouts is through a news-feed. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. However, society has now decided that we can be...
by Tripp Hamilton | Dec 15, 2014 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, SEO
Reconsideration Request Survey from Google Search Quality Team We had a penalty lifted two weeks ago and received a message from Google requesting the Site Owner to answer 6 questions to “help Google improve how [they] handle reconsideration requests”. Here’s a...
by Tripp Hamilton | Dec 10, 2014 | Google, Link Removal, SEO
How do I Submit a Reconsideration Request? What follows is our step-by-step guide on the proper process by which to upload a reconsideration request to your Google Webmaster Tools account. It may seem like a daunting task at first, however, this is one of the easiest...
by Russ Jones | Dec 20, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, SEO
Admit it – you and me and most everyone you know outsources some of their “SEO” content. It is the textual content that needs to be on pages to make sure there is enough context to a page otherwise filled with a product picture and a buy now button....
by mtraphagen | Dec 19, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO
December 2013: Authorship in Search Results Gets Restricted UPDATE 21 January 2013: I have now published results of my study detailing who lost Google Authorship and why. UPDATE: While composing this post, Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Land reported that Google...
by mtraphagen | Nov 12, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO
At Pubcon this October, John Rampton of Search Engine Journal interviewed Russ Jones, CTO of Virante, about how to Penguin-proof a website. The Google Penguin algorithm update, which has now had several updates and refreshings, primarily goes after sites that have...
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