The only way to avoid hearing criticism is to be deaf or dead. The only way to avoid being criticized is to never have been alive.

Many SEO practitioners as well as clients of SEO firms like-mindedly dream of watching organic search referrals climb from month-to-month and from a year-over-year perspective for that matter.  While any SEO firm can boast the ability to lift organic traffic to a site, the dream of this success is much like that of my fantasy [...]

You don’t always need to be a search engine optimization specialist or link building expert to make sure your site is moving up the search engine listings. However, it pays to understand that there are a lot of nuances in the SEO world that can work against you if you are coming to the world [...]

Getting outranked for your own content I wanted to highlight a little problem that might see you being outranked for your own content. I am not talking about scrapers either, legitimate situations. You may ultimately be screwed for all your hard work developing quality content. Actually, the better you do your job, the more likely [...]

It’s no secret that we’re fans of Rand Fishkin and the team at SEOmoz. So when Rand posted a recent video on choosing the right kind of links to build your ranking, we just had to share it with you.

A friend of mine told me that by including Google Analytics code on my site I am leaving open doors for hackers to break into my site and deface my pages or hijack the server entirely. Now I’m kinda freaked out. Is this true?

Search isn’t an isolated experience. The act of looking for information is now fused with validation, which means the socialization of search will unite discovery with context and relationships. It all begins with where we purposely search for relevant content and also where we respond to interesting information that crosses our path.

A common piece of advice given to webmasters by Google is to create a site as if search engines did not exist. In the world of search engine optimization (SEO) this hint carries a good piece of value when it comes to link building practices. Basically, if you are soliciting links, but not providing links [...]

If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you’ll know that it’s “enhanced with Apture.” Well, you may not know that, actually. But you will have experienced Apture when you’ve clicked on certain links that show you information as elegant popup screens overlaying what you’re reading on this site instead of taking you away.

A recent report shows that Fortune 500 countries aren’t very good at SEO. This can be very good for small and medium sized businesses who are competing in the same product and service fields with major players. By using a set of sound SEO tactics, you can often get enviable positions on search engines despite [...]