When it comes to announcements from Google and their advice in general I'm not one to follow blindly. I've always tried to run my own tests and let the data guide my actions. With the Mobile friendly scare (Mobilegeddon) it seemed like just another shake up to me. Don't get me wrong, I realize how important mobile is from a user and conversion ... Read More →
Today I’m going to get a bit guru on everyone, sleeping more = higher rankings. For a long time I undervalued sleep, I thought I was some sort of machine that could go harder than everyone else. This was not the case at all, in fact I made myself petty sick about a year back from burning the candle at both ends. Over my career I’ve had ... Read More →
Yup you read right, I have some bad news for you today. Scraped domains for the most part, are complete bullshit and likely been spammed with before. So you’ve probably seen all these domain scraper services popping up over the last year, right about when this method had been pumped to the absolute maximum, shocker. Before diving deeper into this, ... Read More →
Do you like wasting time? I sure don’t, which makes me think of fun things like I’m about share with you in this post. If you’ve done any sort of blanket email outreach then you know you’ve got a shitload of emails to send. Sure tools like buzztsream make this process a hell of a lot smoother and easier to manage, but it’s still not set and ... Read More →
When it comes to analyzing lots of domains or even backlinks there’s only so much filtering that can be done before having to manually check things like anchor text. So there you are with a list of say 100 domains to check, you could go one by one copying each domain and pasting it into ahrefs. For a long time this is exactly what I did, then one ... Read More →
Believe it or not you can build a private blog network that is a complete useless piece of shit. You spend countless hours between domain prospecting to actually hosting and setting up your sites. But what if after all that hard work you go to drop some links and things just don’t move the way you want? There are so many factors now days trying ... Read More →
If you've run a semi popular site with a visible email or contact form then you've likely seen your fair share of spam. For years now my contact form has been getting assaulted by fellow SEOs, sometimes trying the latest tactics they cobbled together from their favorite SEO blogs. You could say my blog is a sort of honey pot for these messages. ... Read More →
The idea of broken link building is pretty cool. You find some relevant pages with broken links, email the person and tell them about the broken links, then ask them to link to your shit instead. Sounds easy right? Yeah wait until you try to scale it. Well a project came across my desk that was just way too much of slam dunk for this tactic. ... Read More →