Search Engine Optimization

Google KO’s Even More Affiliate Marketers

The saga continues. GOOGLE-tang is here forever. 98% of you won’t get that reference, but that’s okay (remember, rap music is my drug of choice).  In layman’s terms, Google’s mission to reward high quality sites – and slap lower quality sites that have worked hard to manipulate their rankings – is on like Donkey Kong, [...]

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Should You Worry About Negative SEO?

With the recent onslaught Google’s been dishing out to blog networks like BMR or any webmaster who’s been engaging in paid link building, those in the know about SEO are growing more and more concerned about “negative SEO.” What is negative SEO? Basically, it’s when competitors spam those outranking them with enough paid, over-optimized and/or [...]

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Google Ain’t Playing Around

In yesterday’s blog post I talked about Google’s latest spanking episode and what it might mean for webmasters going forward. After a little more digging around today, I confirmed one thing… Google ain’t playing around. The pimp slapping of weak affiliate sites is something I have been forecasting for a long time now, but it [...]

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Minimizing Bounce Rate

In one of my most recent 2012 Internet marketing predictions posts, I said that user experience would become the new SEO.  At the end of that (geeky) cliffhanger, I said I’d be following up with some aspects to think carefully about in regards to maximizing your visitors’ onsite experience. One of those objective units of [...]

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User Experience — The New SEO?

Picking up where I left off with my 2012 Internet marketing predictions, I want to discuss what I refer to as the “new SEO.” Search engine optimization is no longer something that any ole’ affiliate can just learn in a mini-course and then go out into cyber land and start gaming it an hour later.  [...]

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Fresh Content and Search Engine Optimization Continued

A couple weeks ago I did a Google Caffeine 2011 video post, where I pointed out that Mr. G had improved the previous algorithm update that dealt with speed of indexing, freshness of content and so on. With this newest update, they’re apparently even “awesomer” at spitting back SERPS that contain both the most relevant [...]

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Is Your Website Mobile Friendly?

Alright guys, let’s do a little forward thinking here… I just got off the phone with one of my coaching clients (see:  Internet Marketing Coach) and we were discussing trends that would be hot in 2012 and beyond.  One of the “biggies” is undoubtedly mobile marketing. It’s estimated that within just a couple of years there [...]

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Google Caffeine v2.0 (aka Version Double Espresso)

How you living? Large? Hope so. I made a quick video while drinking a double espresso “drink” from Starbucks (I don’t really get down with the Starbucks nomenclature — I just tell Staci to get me something that’ll provide a sh*t ton of energy)… … and the funny thing is, the topic is basically how [...]

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Google Analytics Changes — Should We Freak Out?

I stumbled upon this article the other day:  Making Search More Secure… In a nutshell, big G says that going forward, they’re not going to show keyword data for visitors who landed on your website while logged into their Google account. This change stems from a privacy concern, although I’m totally clueless as to how [...]

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SEO Tip: Strategic Anchor Text Variation

Hey everyone, let’s talk SEO strategy real quick. (… I’ll be back with the next step in our Affiliate Marketing Tutorial shortly… ) There are many different moving pieces that make up the entire SEO ‘machine’… … and that actually makes it pretty tough to accurately and definitively test out different elements and gauge the [...]

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