SEO

We all know that links are an important part of SEO. They help users and bots navigate a site and give search engines information about its quality and authority. With links confirmed as one of Google’s top three ranking factors, we’ve all been reminded of the importance of quality, relevant …

If you're not checking your client's HTTP headers, you're not giving them good service. I'm not talking about the stuff in between the and tags, either. I'm talking about the server response that you get before you get all that nice HTML, or that fancy PDF, or whatever …

Each year I lead an intro to SEO session for the brilliant students of Drexel University in Philadelphia in their New Media Marketing class. These are their questions and my answers.

There’s tons of value in Meetup.com groups. If you’ve never taken part, they’re organized get-togethers that can resemble little mini-conferences, meet & greets, networking events, game nights, and basically any idea that can bring together a group of like-minded people. That’s right – a bunch of people, united by a …

Over the last few years, SEOs have been talking about relationship building as a concept. We're often reminded how link building is becoming digital PR. And with that, I've been pitched more and more by big brands looking for a collaboration of sorts, using a different spin. Note: This is …

These days, most clients and prospects I talk to believe they’ve run out of things to write about. One ceaseless option is to update (and improve upon) their existing assets and stale “evergreen” pieces. Yes—evergreen pieces do go stale. But this post is about new ideas in a modern age. …

Necessity is the mother of invention. Many years ago, one of our clients bought a popular, content-rich website and redirected it to their current domain. SEO (and retaining the backlinks) were not on their radar at that time. Upon learning about the migration, we asked if they had redirected the …

Google gives you a few ways to "deindex" pages. That is, kick pages out of their index. The problem is, despite some serious speed improvements in crawling and indexation, they're pretty slow to deindex and act upon canonical tags. This quick trick can help you isolate and remove pages en …