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 30, 2015 | Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Negative SEO, you may know someone who has been a victim of this underhanded, easily-replicated technique to hurt webmasters and their websites. In an effort to prevent negative SEO, I have come up with a short list of rules to abide as to avoid any SEO from amoral...
by Michael Fine | Jan 21, 2015 | Google+, LinkedIn, Online marketing, SEO
Every time I create a “top” list, I start to hear Casey Kasem’s voice somewhere saying “now let’s get back to the countdown.” Creating this list is important because whether you’re an SEO expert or a beginner, these accounts below will help you gain a firm grasp in...
by Russ Jones | Jan 19, 2015 | Apps, Free SEO Tools, SEO
Every now and then, I find myself in the awkward situation of having to prove to a client that their organic traffic is really “worth it”. There are lots of ways to go about this, normally through conversions and analytic goals, but it is especially...
by Michael Fine | Jan 14, 2015 | Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, SEO, SMX Social Media, Social Media, Twitter
I have had a number of clients come to me asking how do I grow my brand while simultaneously building sales through LinkedIn. Have no fear because this is all very possible to do. LinkedIn has over 330 million users and reaches 200 countries and territories. This...
by Michael Fine | Jan 5, 2015 | Content Marketing, Facebook, Free SEO Tools, Google+, SEO, SMX Social Media, Social Media, Twitter
Christine Moorman is the T. Austin Finch Professor, Sr. of Business Administration at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. I have followed Professor’s Moorman’s work on her site, www.CMOSurvey.org, and have found her studies to be very...
by Michael Fine | Dec 23, 2014 | LinkedIn, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube & Video
To respond or not? That is the question. Every business deals with it. If your brand never received a negative review how would you ever grow? The lovely internet has created multiple options for consumers to review your product. There are so many mediums to vent on...
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 Russ Jones | Dec 11, 2014 | SEO
For all of you blackhats freaking out, please read my disclaimer below detailing how this is meant to show that PBNs do not make economic sense on a small scale. Only if economies of scale are reached through larger investment do they make a viable financial model....
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 Tripp Hamilton | Dec 8, 2014 | Link Removal, SEO
Ethical Analysis of Link Removal Ransoms If you have performed link removal outreach, you have received an email asking for payment to remove the link, directory listing, content from a blog/article site, etc. The real question here is: Should I pay a webmaster to...
