Once you've built a backlink, you have no power over it, right? Wrong. Here's how to drop middle-man links into your site to control your backlinks. ... Read More

Googled yourself lately? Has it been a while? Give it a try. Surprised? Like what you see? You just did something people do all the time. In fact, there are so many searches for names that they often appear in Google Keyword Planner reports. Personal SEO is important, and it's time to take control of your search results... Read More

Google's decision to reinstate Rap Genius's SEO ranking after a massive penalty for link-spamming highlights the complex nature of user experience and eliminating spam from search results. ... Read More

By Blake Boldt In the early years of SEO, businesses could fill their content with a series of keywords to appease search engines. The search engines were looking at meta descriptions and title tags, displaying websites in results based on how well they were optimized. However, SEO isn’t simply a matter of stuffing pages full of keywords to boost visibility. The process now requires a more [&hellip... Read More

By Gini Dietrich I feel like the sky is falling with all of the changes at Google in the past two months. They are no longer providing the keywords people use to find your site and the Hummingbird update means marketers have to be even smarter about the content we’re creating so we’re found in search results. Add that to the in-depth articles you should already be [&hellip... Read More

By Gini Dietrich About a week ago, we talked about content marketing and how to get started. In that blog post, I promised to come back and talk about on-page search engine optimization, a topic that still evades many PR professionals. Though experts on storytelling tell you not to start at the beginning, that’s precisely where we’re going to start today. The beginning (I feel like Julie [&hellip... Read More

It’s not breaking news Google has been changing things lately. A lot. About once a month, in fact. The old ways of optimizing websites and content for search engine optimization are no longer as effective. Google has changed it up, and today there are new rules we all should follow. Personally? I think it’s for the better!... Read More

Despite being a professional search marketer, at school my goal was a career in public relations. I even studied the discipline in university, learning a lot about the skillset required to be an effective communicator. Understanding the processes and what it takes to be successful in that business is why it puzzles me so many tend to gloss over the importance of search engines. While keeping [&hellip... Read More