How often have you read or even said the following? “If you’re doing x like y you’re doing it wrong.” “Oh I can’t believe that agency x still uses that link building technique…” “Any clients that have been bludgeoned by an update were won after they were hit, nothing to do with us!” When you […]

Hey dudes & dudettes, guest post time again 🙂 Today we are with Dustin Verburg a writer and musician based in Boise, ID. When he’s not playing guitar, Dustin writes about good blogging practices, white hat SEO and internet ethics. He writes for Page One Power, a relevancy first link building service. You can also find him on Twitter. […]

Don’t worry Moz fans this isn’t a blog post written about Rand. I have nothing nasty to say 🙂 No this post is based around an interesting email I received the other week. I’ve decided to post it but I’ve left the links in because I’m a nice guy. ——————————————————————————— Dear Rand Fishkin, I really […]

Lolled at this from No Pork Pies

I’ve just seen an amusing tweet from Lyndon Antcliff (if you’re not following him, go now and do so.) which links to this article The post talks about not aiming to make specific content but just to make something exceptional. The post and tweet combined made me think of a few possible ways to redefine ‘content’ […]

Does the following sound like you? *slow walk towards the camera* I don’t know what to write about. My client works within a really dry sector so I struggle to create content for their potential customers. I’m lacking creative ideas. If I could only work out what my potential customers wanted! Well fear not! Your […]

This particular SEO has spammed this website for a while and I’ve got bored of it. I know my comments are ‘do follow’ (suddenly making it highly valuable…) but just don’t be a twat eh? Yes, especially if you have a webpage called ‘Proof of Power’. No I’m not linking to it. Oh that? A […]

This is how you do a 301 redirect, right? In case the above is misunderstood, me and a band of online idiots are creating something of note at Evoke. Don’t wait up 🙂

I’ve just read the following tweet from Chris When I see people moaning within the SEO community I always like to have a look and see what it’s about. I need the drama in my life, without which I’d be nothing. Now the link provided is pointing to a wonderfully titled article –  Finally: An […]

Below you will see some traffic data over the last 20 months for https://01100111011001010110010101101011.co.uk The numbers are lame in comparison to my other SEO superstar peers but it doesn’t really matter, so yeah, here it is. If this isn’t proof that spamming the internet with irrelevant content and occasional guest post can get you traffic what else […]

The SEO world post Panda and Penguin has been difficult leaving many an SEO pretty angry, stressed and confused. I doubt that there are any of you out there who have not had any SEO problems to deal with be it with current or new clients looking to fix algorithm related issues. Maybe you’ve had issues […]

Linking out to quality content is what I’m doing today. I’m trying to help you guys but you don’t seem to be taking this stuff on board. If you read this stuff, you will improve your service and that’s what we all want really right? I haven’t put a name/url next to each link as […]

Today is a very special day for the community – Link Builder Awareness Day #LBAD is something very close to our hearts, if you have any spare change or links to go towards this excellent cause then please give where you can. I’ve recently asked the community some tough questions about link building and where […]

Hi. Pull up a chair. Pour yourself a drink. I’m going to ramble for a bit. This post is more for my benefit than anyone else. I know, another shit personal opinion post plugging up the SEO sector. Close is top right. SEO appears to revolve around 3 areas: Editing pre existing content (relevance) Creating new content […]

A simple way to improve an outreach email Today I’m starting a series of #protips. I’m really excited about the project and the opportunity to add some real value to the community. So many outreach (acceptable guest post link spam) emails follow the same line: Hi I’m a massive fan of www.asiteiwantaguestposton.com It must be […]

Hmmm… whoever notices the slight lol in the image above wins a discman! This to me typifies 99% of content within the SEO/inbound/online marketing sector. Attempting to come across as knowledgeable without actually using any of their own advice. I’m sure the content is half decent but come on guys, you take ages to put […]

You have probably forgotten it already but I recently wrote a post about SEO Merchandise featuring a few T-Shirts full of in-jokes and lols aplenty. I had fun making them, had a chuckle in the comments section and thought nothing more of it. A few weeks later I got an email from Bill Rowland the organiser of […]

Real basic survey where I ask a few quick questions about link building. Check it out. I’ll be putting together a post on the results once they come in.  

This post isn’t about trust in a domain authority or a brand sense but in terms of good ol’ fashioned, reliably certain trust. If you have trust issues the definition is below… Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence. How can you build trust? Fear not. there are many ways to build both real and artificial trust online. Unfortunately the […]