Category Archives: SEO articles
Labor Day = Yeah
When you think of labor day what comes to mind? For me it is these 2 thoughts lower earnings because few people are online today since almost nobody is online, any hours worked today are me getting ahead of the market 
Working hard & working long hours can almost be a disease…the web makes it easy to be addicted . But for every person who is putting in hard work trying to help people there is another person selling image . Continue reading
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Tagged animals, banking, business, children, credit-card, environments, federal, financial, government, labor-day, lies, life, light, person
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Interview: Mel Carson of Microsoft Advertising
Spotlight on Search Interview: Mel Carson Microsoft Advertising If you attend Search Marketing industry conferences, you’ve no doubt run into the ever optimistic and charming Mel Carson from Microsoft. When I was last in London, Mel connected me with an excellent Fish n Chips that the pubs around Trafalgar Square couldn’t get close to. Continue reading
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Tagged data, discipline, interview, online-marketing, social, tools, work
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Are You Thinking Like Google?
No, not like that, but in the good way! 
The following is a guest post by Jim Kukral highlighting one of the most fundamental tips to succeeding online. Have you ever really taken a step back from all the technical SEO stuff and thought about why Google wins Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, because-google, business, google-or-not, money, rolling-stones, target-audience, wife
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Win a Free Pass to MN Blogger Conference
TopRank Online Marketing is proud to be a founding sponsor of the first Minnesota Blogger Conference . Tickets for this event “sold out” within a few hours and there are over 100 people on the waiting list. Thanks to conference founders Melissa Berggren, Arik Hanson, Suzi Magill and Katie Schutrop, it’s already one hot event. Continue reading
Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Google
Aaron Goldman is an accomplished digital marketer that I know through MediaPost’s Search Insider Summit conference. Continue reading
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Tagged aaron goldman, amazon, book, content marketing, googley-lessons, learned, marketing, online-marketing
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How To Write Good
Yes, deliberate mistake 
It grates when people write poorly, huh. When writers write well, the words almost become invisible. The focus shifts away from technical details, and onto the message. Continue reading
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Tagged america, audience, dilbert-mission, goals, hyperbole-doesn, message, person, project, reader, shape, space, tips, united, words
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The Real Cost of Buying Links for SEO: $4 Million
I was reading a copy of the Inc. 500 issue on my flight back from Dallas this weekend and came across an article about a seasonal online retailer that was “penalized” right before the Holidays for paid links. Continue reading
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Tagged dark side of seo, gross-backlinks, links, marketing, online-marketing, paid-links, public-relations, retailer, seo
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Social Media SEO Success with Blogging
Army Golden Knights: SFC Dave Herwig (@gkdave), SGM Steve Young (@gksteve), LTC Joe Martin (gkjoe) My presentation on how to leverage Social Media SEO to improve the reach and effectiveness of blog content for marketing at OpenCa.mp DFW this weekend ended up being a lot of information in a very short period of time. The use of a video interview I did with Brian Clark as the segue into my presentation ate into some of the 30 minutes I had to present plus I simply had too many slides Continue reading
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Tagged marketing, media, online-marketing, photo, search, social, social seo, social-media
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Brian Clark Interview: Copyblogger on Content Marketing with Blogs
OpenCamp’s Sunday schedule included presentations on blogging that included Chris Pirillo , Brian Clark and myself. I caught up with Brian before he gave his presentation to give us a little preview. Continue reading
Chris Pirillo on SEO & Social Media @ OpenCa.mp
At the OpenCa.mp conference in Dallas this weekend I was able to re-connect with Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome and the Gnomedex conference (We’ve interviewed each other in the past). We both jumped out of the same airplane with the Army Golden Knights last week and are also speaking today about blogs at OpenCa.mp . I caught up with Chris to talk about his take on SEO and social media. Continue reading
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Tagged always-relevant, chris-pirillo, dallas, links-on-search, lockergnome, online, seo, social, social-media, strong-opinions
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