Thrive Architect vs Elementor Pro: Which is Better?
Thrive Architect and Elementor Pro are two of the most popular premium page builder plugins for WordPress. Collectively used on well over half a million sites, these plugins make it … Read more →
Thrive Optimize Review & Tutorial – WordPress A/B Testing Plugin
Thrive Optimize is the first new plugin released by the Thrive Themes team in 2018. I’m pretty excited to review this one, as it’s no secret that I’m a fan … Read more →
Thrive Architect Review: a WordPress visual editor plugin that actually works?
Drum roll please…. Thrive Architect has arrived! I am very excited about the launch of Thrive’s latest WordPress visual editor plugin (a remake of the original Thrive Content Builder I … Read more →
The Best WordPress Quiz Plugin? – Thrive Quiz Builder Review & Walkthrough
Thrive Quiz Builder is a premium WordPress plugin that allows you to create and embed unlimited quizzes on your WordPress website. I’ve been marketing websites for over 8 years now, … Read more →
My Favorite WordPress Visual Editor – Thrive Content Builder Review & Walkthrough
UPDATE: Thrive Content Builder has now been updated to become Thrive Architect. And it’s even better than the first version. Read my full review here. Thrive Content Builder is a … Read more →
5 Best Page Builder Plugins for WordPress (free + premium)
It’s no secret that I love WordPress. But sometimes, designing an attractive blog post or landing page can be tricky if you’re not a coding expert. That’s why I like to … 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →