Black Hat SEO Methods
By Adam Steele | Basic SEODeveloping a profitable website is simple: Provide great content, stunning design and an overall pleasant user experience. Ok, most of that isn’t actually simple. In fact, it takes a lot of hard work, investment and collaboration to pull off any of those features. Some people like to take the easy way out. Instead of providing
Best Free Directories to Submit your Blog
By Alex Cross | Basic SEO, BloggingGetting your blog exposed in the search engines is key to getting traffic. It is important that people find your blog in a search. While the organic traffic is great, submitting to blog directories will diversify your traffic sources and contribute to your overall traffic count. Blog directories offer two main perks: referral traffic and
How to Write an Effective Link Bait Post
By Alex Cross | Basic SEO, BloggingIn the worlds of web design, development and SEO, it is no mystery that link building, coupled with good content reign king and queen. There are many ways to create backlinks – some good and some not so good (whitehat and black/greyhat respectively). The good backlinks are the ones that come from quality,
Effective Link Building Techniques
By Alex Cross | Basic SEO, BloggingRanking in the search engine results pages (SERP) is crucial to getting traffic to your website. Link building is a significant factor in building up your SERP rankings as well as your site’s PageRank (PR). Developing an effective link building strategy is key to your success and the long term value of your website. Quality
Tips to Choose a Good Domain Name
By Adam Steele | Basic SEO, Business, MarketingTips to Choose a Good Domain Name Unless you live on a deserted island, words like Facebook, Google, YouTube, or Twitter have probably crossed your ears or lips within the last 24 hours. If you add a .com to the end of any of these words, you will find their website. Besides being household names,
Tips to improve your page rank
By Alex Cross | Basic SEOTips to Improve Your Page Rank Building traffic for your website is important whether you are looking to capture more subscriber-ship, readership or clients. In order to increase organic traffic, your website needs to rank higher in the search engines. This is affected by your website’s page rank. Page rank is determined by a complex
The 5 best FREE tools for keyword research
By Alex Cross | Basic SEOBest Free Keyword Research tools With the abundance of information on the internet many of us waste tons of time in research. When it comes to keyword allocation the situation is no different. There are dozens of ways to find the best keywords for your niche, but many of them amount to wasted time, duplicate
Hosting Myths Debunked: Private vs Public
By Alex Cross | Basic SEORecently I had a client ask me if having his hosting on a private server versus a public server would make any difference to his rankings in Google. This has been a long debated argument in the online community, mostly centering on shared cloud servers and VPS, or Virtual Private Servers. The first thing to
SEO 101 (pt 3): Heading Tags
By Alex Cross | Basic SEOHeading tags are an important way to improve your chances of ranking well in the search engines. Granted, like anything else, they certainly don’t guarantee you any sort of top placement, but rather they are another element which contributes. Heading tags have long been overlooked by web designers and continue to be ignored. In most
SEO 101 (pt 2): The Other Guys…
By Alex Cross | Basic SEOMeta information is not visible to those viewing your webpage. Instead, it is used to communicate with crawlers. Search engines crawl web page headers for this information which helps determine who you are and what you do. It should look something like: Description Tag The Description Meta Tag is pretty self explanatory. It describes what