If you follow this blog, see me on any of the Internet Marketing Forums, are part of any SEO groups (virtual or in real life) in which I participate or just happen to randomly get stuck having a cup of coffee with me you will have heard me say more than 88 times, "Diversify Your Backlinks!". I'm pretty annoying about making sure that people get that message (well pretty annoying in every other aspect as well). As website owners we are not always looking to achieve keyword domination.... actually we should not always have that as our focus.  What we should really Read more →

One of the ways I start my Keyword Research is using conversational keywords... words and phrases that come to mind just as if I was having a conversation with a friend, family member or colleague.  For instance if I was talking about linkpushing with my friend and partner, Kevin, we would talk about a variety of other backlinking processes, ideas and thoughts that we and others have about off site SEO and use those keywords in our research. Even if those keywords have no ranking qualities (searches, local or global and competition) I still use them on my money sites and Read more →

Exact Match Domains (EMDs) Can Rank! With the recent Google Algorithm updates many sites that relied mainly on the strength of the domain name being an exact name domain and not the other Onsite or Offsite SEO lost first page rankings in the Google search engine. The reason for that can be attributed to many factors but I'd like to explore a couple today. Three Things You Need to Do to Rank Exact Match Domains (EMDs) in Google Content. Content. Content. Content is still King and that will probably never change in my lifetime and I doubt it will change in yours Read more →