How Much Money Do People Make on YouTube?
Founded in 2005 and bought by Google in 2006 for $1.6 billion, YouTube is the world’s most popular video-sharing platform. The volume of videos and viewing number for YouTube are … Read more →
16 Real Life Examples of Successful Small Affiliate Marketing Websites
Creating a successful affiliate website is a goal for anyone with a laptop and the slightest bit of SEO knowledge. While the barrier to entry is super low when it … Read more →
How to compete with huge brands (SEO Case Study)
When Mike Kugler bought the domain Vacation.rentals last year for $500,300, he did so with an ambitious plan to rank high for the mega-keyword “vacation rentals” in the US. I … Read more →
8 SaaS landing page designs using custom illustrations
Move over flat design, there’s a new design trend kid in town: the whimsical custom illustration! SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) companies have run with this trend recently, to the point where it’s … Read more →
How to Build an Amazon Affiliate Website
There are many ways to make money with a website – sell products, display advertisements, accept donations – but my favorite way to make money online is affiliate marketing. As … Read more →
5 Keyword Difficulty Tools (Free + Paid) Compared
I’m a fan of keyword-first SEO, aka putting the time in to select the best target keywords before anything else. It’s the foundation that the rest of your SEO campaign is … Read more →
Thrive Visual Theme Builder: a WordPress Theme Built for Customization
Thrive Themes is a WordPress theme and plugin company founded by Shane Melaugh in early 2013. As an internet marketer himself, Shane developed the company with a conversion-focused ethos that … Read more →
Cheap WordPress Hosting That Doesn’t Suck
So, you’re starting a new WordPress website and want to find a cheap hosting provider that doesn’t completely suck? A noble quest, but if you’ve Googled around a bit already, … Read more →
Why I Think This $500,300 Domain is Worthless
This post is about a man who paid over half a million dollars for a domain name to gain an SEO advantage, and why I think it was a huge … Read more →
Will a CDN Make my WordPress Site Faster? Experiment Results
It’s time for an experiment. I love WordPress, I’ve been using it for almost 10 years now, but it’s not without its problems. Mainly, speed. Anyone who’s used WordPress on … Read more →
The organic SEO strategy this cryptocurrency blog used to get 2.7 million monthly visitors in 4 months
CoinCentral.com is a cryptocurrency blog that launched in August 2017; 4 months later (December 2017) its traffic is estimated at 2.7 million monthly visitors. This site caught my attention because … Read more →
StudioPress Sites Review – Is Hosted WordPress Worth It?
StudioPress Sites is a premium, all-in-one WordPress service that combines Genesis themes with managed hosting. StudioPress is part of the popular CopyBlogger family – you can read the CopyBlogger guide … Read more →
Where Has All The Traffic Gone? MOZ, Search Engine Land and more
A few months ago I wrote a post about how easy it is to confuse the different search engine news sites (Moz not withstanding). Is it possible that the lack … Read more →
“Kim Kardashian is nothing without facebook” (and 9 more lessons I learned from BuzzSumo)
“Kim Kardashian is nothing without Facebook”. A bold statement that I’m happy to put my name to thanks to data pulled from BuzzSumo today. For those of you in the … Read more →
FTC Guidelines? Pah! The Rise Of Invisible Advertising
Sponsored media posts are nothing new. Native Advertising – to give the practice its correct title – has been around for centuries. From its beginnings as newspaper advertorials (which are … Read more →
Don’t Do It! Google’s EU “Right To Be Forgotten” is an SEO nightmare
In May 2014, after a controversial ruling in Spain, EU law dictated that residents have the “right to be forgotten” by Google and other search engines. In simple terms, this … Read more →
Shocking SEO Agency Fail – How Not To Do Link Building
Profoundry, aka Col Skinner, revealed on Twitter today a shocking link network in action. #SEO FAIL! Stumbled across a link network made by @sozodesign on 64 of their client sites: … Read more →
How The Google Trust Button Works (and what this means for the future of search)
On June 24th 2014 Google was granted a patent for a trust-based recommendation system that’s been labelled as the trust button patent. This new system adds to the company’s earlier patent … Read more →
How Sky Ranks For “Fantasy Football” With Mass Web Spam
Welcome to Part 1 of The Big Spam Project. In this first case study, I analyse Sky’s linking practices and reveal how they rank for a high-competition keyword (“Fantasy Football”) … Read more →
The Big Spam Project
Link farms, keyword stuffing, exact-match anchors – sounds like a list of “what not to do in SEO 2014”, right? Contrary to what we’re led to believe by Google and … Read more →
Updated: Growing My Twitter Following The Natural Way
As you may have already noticed, I only recently started full-time blogging on this site. Before I took the plunge, I had made very little effort to promote the site … Read more →
Dear Moz, Anything Can Violate Google’s Quality Guidelines
Before I get started, I want to make it clear that I am an avid fan of Rand Fishkin and the Moz community; their ethical approach to SEO and the … Read more →
Social Media Strategy: Why You Need One (And How To Write It)
Whether you’re a huge conglomerate or an indie blogger like me, you can benefit 1000%* (*not a verified statistic!) from having a well-written social media strategy. If you have a … Read more →
I’m Not Hitler! When Google Images Gets It Very Wrong
A few days ago I started an experiment to test the SEO benefit of unique images. Amongst other things, I analysed the top-ranking images on Google.com and noticed that, along with … Read more →
Search Engine News/Watch/Land/Journal – What The Hell Is The Difference?
A Simple Guide To The Best SEO News Sources On The Web I come across many blogs and news sites when trying to keep afloat in the Google SEO era, but … Read more →