“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 learning how to tie a Double-Windsor knot [Continue reading]
Google Tips and Trends
The End of Doorway Pages
March 23, 2015 by Tripp Hamilton
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 to rank for specific keywords to drive more traffic to the primary website. Doorways [Continue reading]
How blogging generates business
March 4, 2015 by Megan Bostwick
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 for any business to be actively engaging with consumers online. [Continue reading]
An Insider’s View on Link Steroids
February 2, 2015 by Kyle Whigham
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 drawn to the idea that link building in the world of SEO is now [Continue reading]
Yahoo Business Directory Reincarnated
January 6, 2015 by Tripp Hamilton
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 people reporting it thought. In actuality, [Continue reading]
The Great Support Debate
December 16, 2014 by Michael Fine
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 more efficient having interactions behind a screen or [Continue reading]
Did you Receive a Reconsideration Request Feedback Form from Google?
December 15, 2014 by Tripp Hamilton
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 screenshot from our Gmail account with the message: Interestingly enough, the Google Search Quality [Continue reading]
How to Submit a Reconsideration Request
December 10, 2014 by Tripp Hamilton
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 steps in the manual penalization process. Please note, if you do not [Continue reading]
Getting Highly Optimized Content from Outsourced Content Creation
December 20, 2013 by Russ Jones
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. It is a right of passage [Continue reading]
Authorshipocalypse! The Great Google Authorship Purge Has Begun
December 19, 2013 by mtraphagen
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 confirms that Authorship results in search are being intentionally reduced. It appears that the Matt [Continue reading]
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