How Successful Blogging for Money Actually Works
* Does blogging success mean you have to become a superstar? Do you need millions of followers? Is this how successful blogging for money actually works? Is it about fame or notoriety? Not really. The superstar blogging approach may have…
Dark Horse SEO Blogs That Look Very Appealing
* You may already know blogs like Moz, Search Engine Land or SEMrush. Some people need even more content to read though. I’m here to help! Thus I have compiled a list of lesser known or not yet popular aka…
Three Timeless SEO Strategies and the Tactics to Boost Performance
This is a contribution by Ryan Woolley, Vice President of Client Services, Response Mine Interactive. I added some emphasis and text formatting here and there. When we’ve reached our 10-year mark at RMI it’s hard to believe! Many of us…
The Future of the Web According to Eric Schmidt of Google
* Over the years Eric Schmidt – formerly CEO and now chairman of Google – has been known for giving some intriguing insights into Google, the Internet and the future of technology. Some of his remarks were very controversial to…
How Do I Get More SEO Clients?
* Getting clients as an SEO is a no brainer in a way, still many people struggle at the beginning it seems. One day I answered a question on Quora: “How do I get more SEO clients?” The person who…
PushON
PushON is an “award-winning” British SEO agency from Manchester. PushON has first caught my eye in 2008 with their humorous commentary on the wide-spread anti-SEO sentiment of that time, their SEO Bullshit Bingo. I have been connected to the company…
RKG/Rimm-Kaufman Group
RKG, short for Rimm-Kaufman Group has not been a well known SEO company until it has acquired Audette Media in 2010. Long-standing industry veteran Adam Audette who originally coined the term search engine optimization as in SEO back in 1997…
Portent Interactive
Portent Interactive is an US based Internet marketing company located in Seattle, WA. For years I have been an avid reader of the Conversation Marketing blog by the founder of Portent Interactive, Ian Lurie. He always impressed me with his…
Fresh Egg
Fresh Egg is a “digital search agency” from the UK. It’s based in Worthing, West Sussex. I have been following Fresh Egg ever since I was first contacted by one of its most renown employees, the now deceased Jaamit Durrani….
Post-Panda Link Building for Affiliate Websites
Does link building for affiliates work at all after the numerous Panda updates? You may ask yourself this question ever since Google decided to dump sites publishing “low quality content”. Jason Acidre of Kaiserthesage asked me to provide answers to…
Future Proof SEO: Real Life Link Building
* Over the years I have repeatedly expressed my belief in “people SEO”. It means that the only future proof SEO approach in a social media world is to forge relationships. I have never elaborated on it in a single…
Zeta Interactive
Zeta Interactive is a multidisciplinary agency based in the US (New York) that focuses among others on search engine optimization (SEO), social media and branding. I have been friends online with its vice president Hugo Guzman who is responsible for…
SiteVisibility
SiteVisibility is an SEO agency from the UK. It has been in my original best SEO website design list from 2007. I have followed it and its founders footsteps ever since. I’ve been also following one of its most important…
Slingshot SEO
Slingshot SEO is a reputable SEO company from Indiana in the US. Why do I say reputable? It has been recommended so often to me along with the one of the founders who specializes in SEO: Jeremy Dearringer. They also…
LOL: The Positive Brand of SEO!
Do you get the SEO acronym? Even if you do, do you understand what SEO actually means? Once you grasped the definition of SEO you probably think it sucks! SEO has a bad rep for manifold reasons. Yet don’t fret!…
Your Business is Not Boring – Your Content is
People often ask me: How can I promote my boring business? I cringe every single time and want to shout “you are not boring!” What they really mean is: I don’t want to create engaging content. In fact most businesses…
Can Inbound Marketing Replace SEO?
Can you replace SEO with (inbound) marketing? Hell no! Such a shortsighted idea! Hear me out! The idea might sound tempting though. Why? Can Inbound Marketing Replace SEO? Inbound marketing can’t replace SEO. Neither can Why do I ask then?…
The 3 Social Sites Every Business and Professional Should Use
Many people argue that there is no single social media to go after for businesses trying to “join the conversation”. They’re right to some extent but I disagree nonetheless. There are just 3 social media sites you have to join…
How to Determine Content Quality and Write Accordingly
There seems to exist a broad consensus that “content is king”, but only great content or rather quality content. With the so called Panda or high quality update Google made quality content the ultimate goal. How to determine content quality…
Pinterest or How to Evaluate Social Media Opportunities
Every year or so a new social media “next big thing” appears on the Internet. Sometimes it’s a fairly new site gaining traction fast, sometimes it’s a household name that finally arrives in the mainstream. As a business person you…
