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Most blogs have one thing in common: that people writing them have something to say. If you’ve just started a blog, then you know how difficult it can be to put yourself out there. To research, write, and edit (and edit, and edit, and edit…). The problem is that building an audience to read what you’ve […]

For a long time, reciprocal links have remained at the forefront of most inbound linking strategies. This is going to have to change. Google now discounts all reciprocal links. The algorithm has been altered to identify the exchange of links by two parties for the purpose of increasing their number of inbound links. The concept of reciprocal […]

If mobile technology were devised for the people on-the-go, then why is it slower than the fast-paced generation today? Mobile browsers can’t keep up and are prone to a lot of problems due to bugs and advertisement overload, which seems to slow down and even lead to frequent crashes. This is a dilemma shared by […]

When it comes to creating email addresses for your new website and employees, there are some important aspects to remember. The following are the four most important steps to setting up email addresses for your new website. Determining Whether Your Host Provides Email Services Whether you’re using Hostgator, GoDaddy, or Bluehost (three of the more common […]

The answer is simple – inbound linking cannot hurt your search ranking. How is this known for certain? Well, for one, if inbound were to hurt your rank, your competitors would continually link to your site from link farms. Such a scenario is beyond your control. For this reason, Google cannot penalize your site for […]

Whether you are new to the online community, or been around for a while, niche leadership is quite a common phrase to encounter. You know that it’s a good thing, all the entrepreneurship sites say so, but you just don’t know how to get started. Niche leaders are those who have found their places in […]

Absolute Links vs. Relative Links – SEO Value The debate between absolute links and relative links continues to live on in the SEO world. The individual significance of each has been contested, but it is widely regarded that absolute links provide better SEO value on the whole than relative links. Many believe that absolute links have less […]

I got an email yesterday, and this was the gist of it: “Most of the literature I’m reading about SEO say Google has been penalizing press release syndication since the Panda update[…]I’m going to need to be convinced that there isn’t a chance that this could actually do more harm than good.” Until about a […]

When we talk about creating a sitemap, the SEO benefits of a sitemap are numerous. But for the record, let’s make sure we are on the same page. There are two different types of sitemaps. There is the user-driven sitemap; this is the sitemap page which acts as a roadmap, it is an index of […]

2016 was a crazy year for SEO. Lots of changes in Google. Lots of changes… Here are SEO predictions for 2017 RankBrain is slow and sneaky (and because we only track 500-ish words), we won’t notice any changes, but 2017 will experience the biggest shift in SERP history. Long tails are going to see massive swings. […]