Well I have been dragging my feet on this project (no surprise really). Last week I finished setting up my ranking properties (see a reputation management case study) and I began link building on Sunday. I hope over the weekend to finish my link building push but I figured I would outline what I [...]
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Last week I closed the deal for a new reputation management campaign with a client of mine. This is a pretty interesting case, in that this is a client I have had for years who now needs to “shift” his branding from 1 industry to another. In fact it is important for the client to [...]
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Earlier this evening I caught wind that a friend of mine had set up a page for his cousin. His cousin (fred) was in a car accident and they are working to raise funds to help with the cost of his healing/recovery. Justin Johnson was my first business partner, and I owe him a lot. [...]
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Considering that SEO has taken both a leap forward (mediocre ”grey hat” doesn’t work) and a leap back (doorway pages = MONEY!) I decided to check out the GIF world again. Here are some resources for all the webmasters and SEO Bloggers writing Penguin and Panda blog posts. All images are from animationlibrary.com and gifs-paradise.com. Also… at the [...]
Continue readingSo you are building a SEO network out of dropped domains. You have a budget to bid on good drops, and the SEO hosting in place. Now comes the tricky part…. content. You should have a content rehab plan before you bid on a domain. I have wasted expensive acquisitions by simply 301ing them to [...]
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I have to thank Kris Roadruck and his Tweet this week for inspiring me to write this post. (no, not saying he is a lady boy, you will have to keep reading to understand). Beyond this being a kiss ass tweet, it exemplifies one of the major misconceptions that SEO’s (all shades) seem to forget… [...]
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Two years ago I went to Affiliate Summit in Vegas. It was my first time meeting up with people from the industry and I was lucky enough to chill with a few awesome people from Wicked Fire. Rob (Bofu, creator of the rank tracking tool – Microsite Masters) is someone I have looked up to for a [...]
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Let me first preface this with, I hate and suck at blogging. I really do. I started to “blog” 5 years ago at Frye/Wiles and had some really crappy posts. Frankly, I was blogging because my boss wanted me to (and I also felt it was an important part of our SEO strategy). I quickly found out [...]
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The big news over the last couple weeks has been the fall of many major blog networks. BMR, ALN and HighPR Society (the only one I have experience with) have all seen massive deindexation. As the dust is settling, I am hearing a lot of SEO’s talk about private networks. Containing a private network of [...]
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I love Glossaries, especially using them to grab links. Here is how I usually implement one on my site to acquire links, and pass around “link juice” as I want. (you can automate a lot of the tedious portions).
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Hi, my name is Julian. From branding to SEO, if it has to do with influencing people, I love it. This blog is a way for me to rant a bit, and put some ideas out in front of people. Enjoy.