The Solopreneur to Entrepreneur Transition
I work directly with expert solopreneurs to help them make this shift, to build a small agency that supports their lifestyle and leaves them with plenty of profit and plenty…
Read more →Good Title Tags for SEO
The good old title tag. The poor maligned title tag. The title tag has been taking a beating recently in…
What is a Robots.txt File?
This post is another in the spirit of my Sitemaps post, where I explained how to create an XML sitemap…
How to Get Testimonials (and Links) with Free Stuff
This is a guest post from Mike Essex. See his full bio at the end of the post. Also, are…
SEO Cannot Be Done Alone
Is SEO a team sport? SEOs are often known individually in the industry, not necessarily for who they work for…
My New Job at Distilled
*Note – this post contains no SEO tips or tricks or ideas. It’s strictly informational and I am extremely excited…
What Blogs Should I Read to Learn SEO?
I’ve been asked a few times what blogs I have been reading to increase my knowledge of SEO. I’ve decided…
Building Links in a Competitive Space
Linkbuilding is a notoriously difficult task. Think about all of the sessions that take place at advanced seminars and you…
The Meta Description is Dead (Long Live the Meta Description!)
I’m a search marketer. It’s what I do. I’m also a human being. It’s what I (as the philosophers like…
Distilled Lost My Page Title and Google Plays Jokes
Well everyone, we have a fun discovery on our hands. Yesterday about 3pm I noticed the title had changed. My…
Help Me Reclaim My Page Title from Distilled!
On Monday, my post entitled “How Distilled Stole My Page Title” went around the Twittersphere. It was interesting to see…
How Distilled Stole My Page Title
Google changed my page title in favor of the anchor text from Distilled’s blog. Yesterday I was doing some research…
Formatting and Creating A Sitemap
I was trained as a web developer. Therefore, often many of the technical on-site details and issues get passed on…
Should I Use My Brand Name in the Page Title?
Today I’ve been thinking about brand SEO (again) and how branding your site may be good for SEO purposes as…
Why Brand SEO Is Good For Humanity
Do you ever long for the days of 1950’s or 1960’s America, where most Americans lived in small towns, walked…
Conversion Rates Are Dropping
Well, today was an interesting day in my SEO world. After an eye appointment this morning (unrelated to SEO, obviously,…
Why I Should Be An Entrepreneur Again
Today at work I began to have an epiphany. Does that sentence even make sense? I’m not really sure. Anyways,…
An Introduction
As this is my first post on Wordpress, I guess I should introduce myself. My name is John. This is…