Looking for sound link-building strategies for your small business?

Let me guess… you’re a small business owner in search of search-safe link-building strategies to boost your website’s search rankings.  

Your hope is that it won’t cost you an arm and leg, and it won’t take an eternity to achieve page-one rankings, boosted website traffic, and increase sales conversions.  

Well, the good news is that you can achieve it today by downloading and reading my “Guide to Effective Link Building”.  It’s FREE!  

Yes, a FREE SEO guide aimed to help small businesses successfully secure high-quality external and internal links for your website.

Search is a forever changing beast of algorithms, tips, tricks and fads all to obtain the “holy grail” page one search rankings and traffic to boost one’s business.

For local business owners, search has definitely been taking many zigs and zags with the dismissal of Google Authorship, increased focus on Mobile search, and now semantic search with Google Hummingbird.

All of the above mentioned concepts have directly and indirectly impacted the SEO efforts of local business owners.

For local business owners seeking to gain ground in local and mobile search, it’s best to ensure that your website’s design and architecture is one that is responsive, both search- and user-friendly, to the variety of devices viewing your website.

Responsive design and architecture is only a start in addition to creating a sound content marketing strategy that engages and educates your customers.

One SEO area that’s worth mentioning for local business owner’s to focus on is semantic search.

And so it goes, I’ve been on the fence about the new domain extensions since hearing about their arrival to the domain market mid to late 2012.

I’ve closely followed the opinions of Mike Berkens, Morgan Linton, Page Howe, Rick Schwartz, and a host of others on a weekly basis.

All in all, I’ve been on the fence about the new domain extensions and their positive or negative impact.

My original thoughts were that ICANN had lost its mind and was off its rocker to allow such a massive tsunami of new domain extensions to confuse hit the market in an already seemingly working system of domain extensions.

But then again, and in my humble opinion, releasing new domain extensions is a pure money grab for ICANN.

However, as of late, one thought I’ve toyed with is based on the uniqueness the new domain extensions bring to the domain market and their impact on SEO and Search.

Just hear me out for a minute before calling me crazy. Okay, so here’s my thought…

Like clockwork, I receive an email or phone call every few months from either a prospecting or existing customer questioning me about the value of buying and forwarding expired domains to their website.

Most of the time, those that are inquiring about such SEO magic usually have run across some forum thread, or an outdated article claiming to have achieved increased rankings or page one ranking across major search engines.

Obviously, just because one reads this type of SEO nonsense on the Internet, without a thorough and deeper investigation, does not make it search safe, nor the gospel truth.

I know, if this is you, I’m putting a damper on your newly found silver-bullet SEO.

However, there are pros and cons to consider when buying and forwarding expired domains as a part or the sum of your SEO strategy and effort.

Gray Thursday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and holiday shopping is fast closing in on us as we near the end of 2014. And if that’s not enough to ask and prepare for, Google has begun the holiday season kicking off the last Penguin 3.0 update.

It’s been a while since we last posted about mad Pandas and Penguins being unleashed throughout the web. Well, that all changed and continues to change as of October 17th with the rollout of Penguin 3.0.

The latest rollout is not complete as of yet. Therefore, it will be a few weeks before any of us really truly know the damage caused by this update.

Sometimes you can do more harm trying to sell a domain during a news frenzy, than any other time.

I make this statement based on perusing various domaining news bytes and coming across an article entitled, “‘Ebola.com’ can be yours for $150,000”.

The article, written by CNBC’s Jeff Daniels, focuses on Jon Schultz, the owner of premium domain Ebola.com, and his interest to sell the domain name after purchasing it for an undisclosed amount in 2008.

With YouTube video viewing on the rise due to exponential mobile and tablet use, individuals and businesses are desperately trying to find feasible methods to increase their YouTube views, comments and likes.

Everyone is competing to have their video ranked for a multitude of keywords. The hope is that their video will snowball and become a viral sensation.

For some, having their YouTube videos go viral is the difference in their business being in the red or black for the entire year.

With much on the line, personally and professionally, many businesses posting YouTube videos are willing to try just about anything to increase their subscribership and viewership numbers.

But today, I’ll share with you the 3 top actions you shouldn’t take when trying to increase your YouTube video viewership and subscribership numbers. The actions that I’ll discuss will definitely decrease, if not destroy, your YouTube video rankings in search engines.