Follow @justinrbriggs Over the last several months, I’ve seen a site take a series of hits in traffic that I feel is the result of increased usage of user data to reorder search results. What I’ve seen is that the Continue reading »
Prospecting for bloggers in a niche is common practice in link building. One quick way to do this is to search for queries like “top <keyword> blogs” to find curated lists of blogs. For example, a search for “top SEO Continue reading »
This weekend I had an amazing time at WordCamp Seattle, a local WordPress conference put on by the guys who run the local WordPress Meetup. The conference covered everything WordPress including themes, development, and yes SEO. A huge thanks to Continue reading »
Google Suggest / Autocomplete has been causing grief for business owners for a while, especially after the launch of Google Instant. Searchers would have queries suggested that might include terms like torrent or scam. Back in January, Google started censoring Continue reading »
Two weeks ago, I had a chance to present on Actionable Metrics and Diagnosis at SMX West along with Vanessa Fox, Conrad Saam, and Jim Yu. It was my first time speaking at SMX West and was a great experience, Continue reading »
As an SEO there are a lot of questions I’d like to answer that don’t have simple solutions. Many of these are associated with profiling a list of URLs based off the information located in page content. Using available tools, Continue reading »
I spend most of my time in the trenches doing link building. I’ve recently been looking around at tools available to improve my processes and scale up my efforts. So I spent this week poking around Raven internet marketing tools. Continue reading »
Last week while I was at lunch, I came across this submission on Hacker News about how Avinash discussed the effectiveness of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‘ SEO practices. A tag cloud very quickly shows the story Continue reading »
I entered the world of SEO as an affiliate marketer working from the bedroom of my college apartment. Even as my career progressed, I still worked alone. But when I became an SEO consultant at Distilled, managing a project that Continue reading »
Back in July of 2009, Google Australia launched Google Real Estate Search. Search Engine Land has done a great job covering Google’s move into real estate search. I was researching a few weeks ago and found little about how to Continue reading »