Forget Conversions! High SERP Rankings Maybe a Strong Brand Booster

Brands are like people: both have a physical structure, a name, a personality, and a reputation. Both can be respected or even loved, liked, and considered as part of our…

Monitor Backlinks Review: The Good, The Bad, and The Awesome

This is a sponsored post. I was given an account with Monitor Backlinks to review for SEJ readers. What I really like about SEO tools, particularly Monitor Backlinks, is not just the detailed information you…

3 Digital Marketing Trends That Will Start in 2015

Digital marketing works like traditional marketing; there are trends that need to be watched, and savvy marketers need to stay ahead of the curve. As we start 2015, there are trends…

How to Clean Up Your Bad Backlinks

With the new year just around the corner, Yoast has decided to provide you with a head start for your website. The general idea: clean up your entire site for…

Stop Making These 8 Stupid Press Outreach Mistakes

Outreach is a huge part of SEO and when PR and search engine optimizationstrategies are combined it creates a highly effective way to get exposure for your business on industry…

Which Sites Have The Most Valuable Search Engine Traffic? [INFOGRAPHIC]

If you’ve ever used the tool SEMRush before, you’ve likely noticed how it assigns a dollar amount to your organic traffic. This value is based on the amount of money…

7 Under-the-Hood Optimization Techniques That Will Rock Your SEO

Whether you’re an SEO at the top of your game, or a site owner looking to do more with your SEO, this article is for you. Most SEO advice is…

Baidu is Now a Mobile First Search Engine

  On october 29th, Baidu, China’s largest search engine, announced their Q3 earnings. In their earnings report, they declared that they had a “very strong quarter,” mostly as a result…

Battle Link Penalties in ‘Chuckie Links,’ The SEO Video Game Sequel to Donkey Cutts

We had a blast playing Donkey Cutts, a Donkey Kong-inspired game about earning social media cred and avoiding panda and penguin updates that I wrote about earlier this year. Now…

The State of SEO Agencies 2014: An In-Depth Study by linkbird [Infographic]

During the period of August and September 2014, my company linkbird conducted an in-depth study on the international SEO services industry. In this post I’m publishing the results of our…