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These days, most of us have learned that spammy techniques aren’t the way to go, and we have a solid sense for the things we should be doing to rank higher, and ahead of our often spammier competitors. Sometimes, maddeningly, it just doesn’t work. In Rand’s Whiteboard Friday, he talks about five things that can infuriate SEOs with the best of intentions, why those problems exist, and what we can do about them.

These days, most of us have learned that spammy techniques aren’t the way to go, and we have a solid sense for the things we should be doing to rank higher, and ahead of our often spammier competitors. Sometimes, maddeningly, it just doesn’t work. In Rand’s Whiteboard Friday, he talks about five things that can infuriate SEOs with the best of intentions, why those problems exist, and what we can do about them.

With the advent of Google’s recent crackdown on link networks and link schemes, there has been little room for SEOs to properly build inbound links for better rankings. There are some real and good effective ways of building links for exposure and increased authority, but you should know that SEO goes a bit further than just links. The resources above can definitely get you started and following below are some recent videos from Google Webmaster help and other resources that you should get familiar with, in case you are using some of the tactics that are now being devalued. Should I…

Link building can absolutely help in your rankings, if done properly. Sometimes, you put in a lot of effort in your link buidling tactics (best practices) and yet nothing happens. No improvement in rankings whatsoever. Why? In Rand’s video below, he shows us four things we should look at in these cases, help us hone our link building skills and make the process more effective. Why the Links You’ve Built Aren’t Helping Your Page Rank Higher

They are all over the web. From Instagram to Twitter, from Pinterest to Facebook, hashtags are an essential part of social media. However, one thing is being essential and the other is to use it porperly. There are so many people using it wrong that you see hashtags that don’t mahe sense at all (#dontmakesenseatall). Seriously? Anyway, why should you care about hashtags? Done right, hashtags are a great way to increase your overall social media traffic. As an example, tweets with proper hashtags can generate as much as two times more engagement than tweets without them. Now the key is…

Many say that SEO for 2015 will focus mainly on content creation and content marketing. Social media is an ever going trend and as mobile issues start to arise, you should know that mobile usability of your site is more important than before. Recently on SearchEngineLand.com, they published an article saying… Google’s webmaster trends analyst, John Mueller, recommends you do not focus on link building and if you do, it may lead to more harm for your web site than anything good. With that said, those fine folks from CJGdigital.com created an infographic that can boost your digital marketing campaign this coming 2015 by simply…

Have you ever wondered popular bloggers build a loyal audience with my sites? To explain how most of them have been able to do so, Neil Patel of QuickSprout.com created an infographic that explains what it takes to create a loyal audience. Click on the image below to see a larger view:

What’s been the marketing story of 2014? Content marketing? Probably, as it certainly consumed a lot of digital buzz. But, now that we are almost wrapping up another year, we come to wonder what is going to happen in 2015. Many are giving their predictions and Wheelhouse Advisors are one of those people that kindly created a nice infographic with what they think will happen in 2015? What do you think? Do you agree? The Ten Marketing Predictions for 2015

Have you ever wondered what makes a great website? You know things like content, videos, and images are all important, but there has to be more to it, right? There is! For example, 79% of people scan web pages, so if you don’t know how to make your page optimally scannable, it won’t do well. And that’s just the tip of it… there are a ton of small things you need to do in order to create a high quality website.

Just like anything else, doing SEO requires not only knowledge of the best practices and techniques, but also effort and hard work. Yes, effort and hard work is a “standard” requirement with just about anything you do online to succeed. One of the things you need to have, when providing SEO services, or doing it your own, is a set of tools that will help you achieve a specific objective. Before the privacy issue and other unknown reasons, there were a lot of free tools out there that helped you conduct your keyword and competition researches, without any problems. While…