As an owner of SocialAdr, a social media marketing web service, I get the opportunity to hear what people think about different SEO techniques on a daily basis. Occasionally I learn a thing or two. But most of the time it’s just plain wrong. Social media involves many people from around the world “talking” about a webpage from many different…
Author: Kane
Life after the Google Panda update
Google’s latest major algorithm change, rolled out in Feb 2011, is called “Panda” and was big news for anyone doing internet market or SEO. Many marketers reported huge SERP drops while a lesser number noticed gains. Rumor has it that the Panda update came about from a focus group that Google held. They had real humans evaluating actual websites and…
Get Traffic for Free
I stumbled across this site recently and thought it was a pretty clever idea. YouLikeHits.com allows you to: Get Twitter followers Get Facebook likes Get MySpace followers Get StumbleUpon followers Get Digg followers Get visitors to ANY website And you can do all of this for FREE, it just takes time. Here’s how it works, using Twitter as an example: Enter…
SECockpit Review – The Best Keyword Research Tool
I’ve tried A TON of keyword research tools: Micro Niche Finder, Market Samurai, Word Tracker, Keyword Elite, you name it…I’ve tried ’em all. What sets SECockpit apart from its competitors is that it’s ridiculously fast. Since it’s a web service rather than a local software app, you can run as many queries as you want simultaneously…in fact it can handle 200…
Google Ranking Factors by Importance
WebProNews recently posted this super interesting article about an experiment done by SEOMoz that looked at different Google ranking factors, and how many Search Engine Optimization experts view their importance. A few things that stuck out for me: Page-level backlink metrics are the top algorithmic factor (compared to domain-level, link authority, social metrics, etc.) Diversity of backlinks is greater than…
A variety of noFollow / doFollow backlinks is key
I just saw a very interesting video post on SEOmoz: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/correlation-data-for-seo-and-social-media-analysis-part-2-whiteboard-friday One of the things we did when we saw no-follow links having a really high correlation was we went, well that’s just weird. Maybe what’s going on here is that no-follow links and followed links have a high correlation with each other, and in fact, they do. If you…
One Hour Backlinks is WINNING
A recent link building service I’ve tried and wholeheartedly recommend is One Hour Backlinks. The dude who created Linklicious launched this creative site that makes it super simple and super quick to blast your sites with backlinks. I’m a big fan not only of the ease-of-use of the site but its pleasing design. It’s rare to find an internet marketing…
Best Email Marketing Companies
There are many email marketing companies to choose from, so it can be a bit overwhelming trying to decide which one is the best for you. Luckily I’ve done plenty of research, as over the years I’ve had to change email marketing services several times for various reasons. Below is a table which outlines the common features and functionality of…
Two cool SEO services to check out
Occasionally I come across an SEO tool that I feel is worthy of blogging about, and oddly enough today I have two of ’em. Linklicious Instead of wasting hours building RSS feeds and pinging the feeds hoping for crawls, Linklicious eliminates all of the guesswork by providing a guaranteed 100% crawl rate. It comes with a WordPress plugin so…
Skype – Gmail Integration
If you’re like me and use Skype for a lot of internet marketing communications, you’ve likely noticed that it saves all conversations in encrypted files on your local hard drive. Why? I have no frickin’ idea, but it’s a bit ridiculous. This means that if you have Skype installed on your laptop, desktop, and cell phone, there’s 3 different versions…