Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
Good Title Tags for SEO
The good old title tag. The poor maligned title tag. The title tag has been taking a beating recently in…
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
The Solopreneur to Entrepreneur Transition
I work directly with expert solopreneurs to help them make this shift, to build a small agency that supports their lifestyle and leaves them with plenty of profit and plenty…
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Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
What is a Robots.txt File?
This post is another in the spirit of my Sitemaps post, where I explained how to create an XML sitemap…
Guest Posts
Guest Posts
How to Get Testimonials (and Links) with Free Stuff
This is a guest post from Mike Essex. See his full bio at the end of the post. Also, are…
Miscellany
Miscellany
SEO Cannot Be Done Alone
Is SEO a team sport? SEOs are often known individually in the industry, not necessarily for who they work for…
Miscellany
Miscellany
My New Job at Distilled
*Note – this post contains no SEO tips or tricks or ideas. It’s strictly informational and I am extremely excited…
Miscellany
Miscellany
What Blogs Should I Read to Learn SEO?
I’ve been asked a few times what blogs I have been reading to increase my knowledge of SEO. I’ve decided…
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
Building Links in a Competitive Space
Linkbuilding is a notoriously difficult task. Think about all of the sessions that take place at advanced seminars and you…
Miscellany
Miscellany
The Meta Description is Dead (Long Live the Meta Description!)
I’m a search marketer. It’s what I do. I’m also a human being. It’s what I (as the philosophers like…
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
Distilled Lost My Page Title and Google Plays Jokes
Well everyone, we have a fun discovery on our hands. Yesterday about 3pm I noticed the title had changed. My…
Miscellany
Miscellany
Help Me Reclaim My Page Title from Distilled!
On Monday, my post entitled “How Distilled Stole My Page Title” went around the Twittersphere. It was interesting to see…
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
How Distilled Stole My Page Title
Google changed my page title in favor of the anchor text from Distilled’s blog. Yesterday I was doing some research…
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
Formatting and Creating A Sitemap
I was trained as a web developer. Therefore, often many of the technical on-site details and issues get passed on…
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
Should I Use My Brand Name in the Page Title?
Today I’ve been thinking about brand SEO (again) and how branding your site may be good for SEO purposes as…
Miscellany
Miscellany
Why Brand SEO Is Good For Humanity
Do you ever long for the days of 1950’s or 1960’s America, where most Americans lived in small towns, walked…
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
Conversion Rates Are Dropping
Well, today was an interesting day in my SEO world. After an eye appointment this morning (unrelated to SEO, obviously,…
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization
Why I Should Be An Entrepreneur Again
Today at work I began to have an epiphany. Does that sentence even make sense? I’m not really sure. Anyways,…
Book Publishing
Book Publishing
An Introduction
As this is my first post on Wordpress, I guess I should introduce myself. My name is John. This is…