If you’re handling multiple email addresses, you’ll probably want to be able to send from multiple email addresses from the same email address account, as opposed to having to individually log in to a different email address account every time you need to check or send an email from/to that email address. Having to constantly log …
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SEO for 2015: The State of SEO and some Predictions
2015 is here and SEO is barely recognizable from SEO in 2005 (the year I began doing this professionally), when carpet bombing link and article directories, adding some keyword-stuffed”rich” landing pages, and making sure you weren’t doing anything stupid (like blocking your site via robots.txt) was enough to dominate the SERPs. Today, good (even decent) …
Read MoreSEO Spy Tools – 6 SEO Spy Tools to Research your Competitors
SEO Spy Tools Ahrefs SpyFU SEO Spy Glass A1 Website Analyzer Compete.com Your Brain In a previous post, SEO Keyword Research – Choosing Keywords for SEO, I mentioned the ability to spy on your competitors for SEO purposes. I’d like to expand on that in this post. Below is a list of free research & …
Read MoreGoogle Analytics/Adwords Tracking Audits with A1 Website Analyzer
Google Analytics makes our lives easier. Easy installation, intuitive (usually) reporting/metrics, easy integration with Adwords and Webmaster Tools, etc. Best of all, it’s free. Of course, installation is also easy to botch, and future installations don’t always correctly overwrite the old ones . You may have failed to add the tracking code to certain pages. Or …
Read MoreUpdating Chromecast when you change your Wifi network
I first purchased a Google Chromecast over a year ago. It’s been pretty amazing what this $35 has been able to. Aside from the obvious things like streaming YouTube, Netflix, etc there are some other really cool things like streaming security camera feeds. It’s a great shortcut for getting a lot of the functionality you’d …
Read MoreYelp Advertising Review
The rise of Yelp has fundamentally changed internet marketing, especially for local businesses. Many consumers bypass Google and other traditional search engines altogether and simply conduct their search on Yelp. Many will check out a company’s Yelp reviews before bothering to contact them. In addition to this, Yelp listings and categories often shows up in …
Read MoreTraveling in Mexico – Safety Tips
I just came back from another vacation in Mexico (Puerto Vallarta this time). As usual, it was a great time full of food, partying, great weather, beautiful sunsets, and really interesting and kind strangers. As usual, my trip was preceded with the usual warnings from friends about the dangers of traveling to Mexico. While there …
Read MoreSEO for YouTube (Updated 2014)
Making sure your YouTube videos Rank Optimizing your YouTube videos is more important than ever. Google often ranks videos on the first page of their traditional SERPs. The extent to which it does so varies by subject and algorithm update, but overall, the trend has been to rank YouTube videos and other parasite pages. Furthermore, …
Read MoreMarginal Revenue Product (MRP)
The marginal revenue productivity theory of wages states that wages are paid in accordance to the marginal revenue product of labor. As long as the incremental revenue of an additional worker is greater or equal to the cost of the additional worker a firm will hire the additional worker. However, no firm will higher an …
Read MoreUseful SEO/Marketing Chrome Apps/Extensions
As I’ve become more a Chrome junkie and found it necessary to better manage my time, I’ve come across a number of apps, extensions, tools and hacks that have become a necessary part of my routine. Here I will focus on 5 Chrome Apps/Extensions. This is not a complete list, and there are several non-Chrome …
Read MoreStop Saying SEO is Dead!
It seems that every time Google deploys a major change in their algorithm, a few authors/bloggers proclaim the death of SEO, and marketing websites/blogs are awash with titles like “SEO is Dead” and “Is SEO Dead?” In most cases they admit (later on in their piece) that it’s not really dead, but rather that “SEO …
Read MoreBlogroll Links and the Link Building Overreaction
Between Google’s latest round of penalties, and Matt Cutts’ new outspoken stance on guest blogging for the sake of link-building, many SEOs have been spooked to the point of actually refusing voluntary, natural links. Companies are asking hobby bloggers to remove links, or at least embed nofollows on them. This is defeating the purpose of …
Read MoreSEO for 2013 Checklist – New Rules for SEO
The world of SEO has seem some significant ‘changes’ with Google’s major and much publicized Panda and Penguin updates, along with the less known but equally important constantly-updated algorithmic changes being tracked by MozCast. Countless articles, blog posts and podcasts have proclaimed major changes in the SEO world and along with it, numerous catch phrases like “inbound linking is …
Read MoreSome Great SEO Links
Every once in awhile you run into some SEO-related content you just want to share. Microsoft Excel for SEOs – Whether you’re a freelance or office monkey SEO (or like me, both), you really need to be on top of your excel game and avoid as much manual data entry and copy-pasting as possible. After …
Read MoreWebsite 101: The Essentials of Website Creation
It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything. I’ve been busy with several projects, one of which is a short Kindle book I published through Kindle Direct. The book is meant as a guide for those who’d like to build a website but aren’t sure where to start and those with a website and no idea …
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