Linkbuilding

  • Linkbuilding: When Have You Succeeded?

    Linkbuilding: When Have You Succeeded?

    That’s not how this question is usually phrased. Usually, clients want to know if they’re through. And typically, the answer to that question is the same as the answer to any question about when to stop marketing efforts: you should stop marketing as soon as you have as much business as you’ll ever want.

  • What’s Linkbuiding?

    What’s Linkbuiding?

    Google uses literally hundreds of factors to rank the pages of your website, and many of those factors are affected by who’s searching. But one of the most important factors is still the links your website gets from other websites. That means that linkbuilding continues to be important for modern websites. This is logical and…

  • Linkbuilding vs. Content Marketing

    Linkbuilding vs. Content Marketing

    Google uses hundreds of different factors to determine which page to show to your customers when they search for the goods and services you’re offering. Some of the factors are easily quantified — is your content too brief? is your website responsive? do you have grammatical errors in your text? do you have complete contact…

  • Trying out Spyfu

    Trying out Spyfu

    Spyfu has been around for years, but they’ve changed a lot. This is a tool that estimates the level of domination any website has over specific keywords. Keywords are search terms, the things people type into the search engine box to find you. If you offer medical spa services, your top keywords might be things…

  • Trying Out SEOlytics

    Trying Out SEOlytics

    I have to admit that I tried out SEOlytics because of the cute lizard that popped up in an ad while I was doing research on something else entirely. This was of course why they included a cute lizard in their ad. But the tool is not cute — it’s a pretty serious suite of…

  • Getting Backlinks Updated

    Getting Backlinks Updated

    High quality backlinks — links to your website from other websites — continue to be important for SEO, and longstanding links can also send traffic. Those links are valuable. However, they only work as long as the URL works. When you make changes at your website that change the web address of your page, you…