Retargeting Old Contacts for New Links

Retargeting Old Contacts for New Links

Today I want to talk about a simple tactic that you should try if you have been working on linkbuilding for a specific site for a while and have had some blog posts written about your site, without links. The Skinny At my old job, my coworker had been working on building links to the […]

Good Title Tags for SEO

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 the SEO world, and I feel bad for it. I want to further explain the little-loved lines of text that receive so much hate, yet have such a large effect on your rankings AND click […]

What is a Robots.txt File?

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 for inclusion into Google and Bing Webmaster Tools. Today I want to talk about the robots.txt file, which is an extremely powerful and oft-misunderstood part of websites. I misunderstood it myself recently. Overview The robots.txt […]

SEO Cannot Be Done Alone

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 (though it is great when the company pushes the SEO into the spotlight, and the SEO gives love back to the company). At the beginning of my SEO career, I assumed that everyone had skills […]

What Blogs Should I Read to Learn SEO?

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 to put together a list here of blogs that I subscribe to via RSS. The Lucky 13 Blogs I Read via RSS SEOmoz: If you don’t know that SEOmoz has an incredible blog with the […]

Help Me Reclaim My Page Title from Distilled!

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 the feedback and there were a lot of comments from a lot of people I respect. Read the comments here. Now I run into an issue. I’ve never confronted something like this before, and I […]

How Distilled Stole My Page Title

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 on my blog and trying to find it using different keywords, searching old-school (like a normal Web user) using Google.com. I’ve been hoping to get this site ranking high for “John Doherty”, as it’s my […]

Why Brand SEO Is Good For Humanity

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 to the corner store for groceries, knew their neighbors across the white picket fence, and used word-of-mouth as their gauge for knowing where to eat and who to do business with? I think we’re heading […]