How The Internet Knows Everything About You
Note: This post was written in 2014. Visiting a website seems simple doesn’t it – open a browser, type in the address and watch it load. Perhaps you are the … Read more →
Thrive Visual Theme Builder: a WordPress Theme Built for Customization
Update: After 2 years of development, Thrive has finally (!) released their drag-and-drop theme and it’s now called Thrive Theme Builder. Read a review of Thrive Theme Builder, or become … 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 →