Advanced link building strategies are hard to come by these days.  One of the most beneficial types of links you can possibly build are those that your ranking competitors already have.  Finding these links is easy, obtaining them isn’t.  The key to obtaining competitor backlinks is choosing what type of links to go after.  Learn what link types we are going after, how to find them, and how to obtain them after the break.

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A detailed infographic dropped yesterday which outlines advanced SEO tactics.  The chart was developed and sponsored by Response Mine Interactive, a digital customer acquisition and lead generation company.  This SEO tactics chart focuses on the 4 key areas of search engine optimization including keyword selection, on-site, off-site, and reporting/analysis. Read the rest of this entry »

You can’t pull up a search engine news feed and ignore the overwhelming amount of posts regarding Google Instant Preview (GIP).  Almost every post I’ve read on the issue praises Google and speaks to the benefits of Google Instant Preview (GIP).  Some go into more detail then others.  Here’s just a small sample of claims about GIP I’ve read over the past few days…”Google Instant Preview may just shake up web design forever”. GIP is a “weapon” that Google will use to fight Facebook for internet traffic. GIP can “improve your SEO rankings”. GIP could potentially be “more important than Google Instant itself”.

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The days of the one domain internet are over.  More and more webmasters have multiple domains and try to leverage their strength in numbers in order to achieve high search engine rankings.  Over at the good old WebmasterWorld SEO forum, more and more users are asking for information on how to leverage multiple domains through a strategy called cross linking.  The most common implementation of this strategy is to link to the other sites you own via the footer.  You can see plenty examples of this in large corporations like Proctor & Gamble who have multiple brands.  These big brands sometimes receive a free pass for strategies like this where normal sites would be penalized in some cases.  For us “small timers” a simple footer link just doesn’t cut it anymore.  So how can webmasters that own multiple domains link them together for better rankings and no penalty?  The answer is below the fold… Read the rest of this entry »

Reduce Web Page Load Times

After the announcement of Google’s newest ranking factor, web page load time, webmasters are looking for ways to speed up their site.  While developers and web designers usually know where to look to improve their page speed, this can be a daunting task for SEOs with a minimal technical background.  Below is a list of factors that can affect your web page load time, what they mean, and how to fix them.  See them below the fold.

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