We recently redeveloped the website for my day job, and we’ve been doing a big push in the web design avenue. Thus far, I’ve been spending a lot of time organically building links for a plethora of local web design terms… (”city name web design” or “city name province web design”).
Initially, I had a lot […]
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SeoMoz has just released an SEO Experts quiz! The questions are actually pretty thorough, in my opinion - unlike the ones in that Professional Blogger quiz that’s floating around. I got 66%, but it was quite late when I wrote it… and I mis-clicked a few of the answers (meant to click one, but […]
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As I mentioned, I’ve joined the revolution… this blog is now officially part of the Do Follow movement. Taking some inspiration from fellow bloggers (J David and David Airey specifically), all comments on this blog have the No Follow tag removed.
There are many reasons why I’ve chosen to go this route, and all of them […]
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I want to talk a bit more about a phenomenon in the blogsphere I discussed a while ago. To start off, I’m going to mention a few names like Darren Rowse, and maybe Shoemoney. If your name is here and you are reading this, please help a guy prove a point and post a quick […]
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The other day, in my StumbleUpon Series (Part 1 , Part 2), I had been sent a little traffic from them a few days before I wrote those posts. Little did I know that it was merely the beginning… the day those posts went live, SU started referred over 2200 visits to my website, and […]
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You can find Part 1 of this article by clicking here
Welcome to Part 2 of my overview of SU. As the title suggests, today I’m going to give you a rundown of methods you can actually use to drive traffic to your site. So without further ado…
Getting Started With StumbleUpon
It’s relatively simple to get […]
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Earlier in the week, one of my other blogs got stumbled. If you haven’t heard about StumbleUpon or how they were recently purchased by Ebay for $75 million:
1. Move out from the rock you’re living under, and keep up with the latest tech news. :)
2. I’ll give you a brief run down […]
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Okay, so we’ve all heard that meta tags have gone the way of the dinosaur, right? Well, that’s not quite true… sure, they don’t have much (if any) influence in your rankings, but they are a major piece of the puzzle when it comes to increasing your click through rates from whatever rankings you have.
Why? […]
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One of the major challenges we all face is finding new ways to build links, and quite honestly, cracking the concept of getting 1 way links is perhaps the biggest thing you will ever do online… but sadly, few ever accomplish it. As part of our recent review of SEO Elite we thought it would […]
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These days, everyone and their dyslexic left-handed orangutan pet are running a blog contest to create some buzz and to generate some incoming links. While it’s true that contests are a great way to promote your blog, if not managed properly you will not see as much of a benefit to your blog as you […]
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