I hope that you’ve never had to go through the pain of being hit by an algorithmic update. You wake up one morning, your traffic is decimated, and your rank tracker is littered with red arrows. Algorithmic penalties are not a subject I like to trivialize, that’s why...
Foreword by Matt Diggity: Very shortly, I’m going to be turning things over to Rick Lomas. Rick is an expert in manual penalty removal. I’ve been working with him for quite some time, helping folks recover from manual actions, whether they be...
Every once in a while you run an SEO campaign that changes the way you do everything. The lessons you learn, the challenges you face, and the results you achieve inspire you to rewrite your whole SEO gameplan. This is the story of one of those SEO campaigns. As you...
About a year ago, I was introduced to a site called 10beasts.com. At the time, it was an 8-page affiliate website in the technology niche that quickly busted out of the sandbox in six-figure profitability within 8 months. December 2016, it broke $80k. This site...
PBNs are dead! Just kidding. This isn’t one of those posts. But PBNs may actually be dead if you don’t know how to use them correctly. Tell me this… Have you noticed in the past year or two that expired domains aren’t packing the punch that they used to? Well, I have...
Most folks are familiar with the various types of SEO. We have black hat SEO, where people are using techniques like content automation, backlinking software, hacked sites, and sneaky redirects in order to climb the ranks. On the other side of the equation, we have...
This is, without a doubt, the most common question I’m ever asked: How do I get my website unstuck from page 2? Doesn’t it seem like almost every time you try to get a site ranking, Google reserves a special spot just for you right on page 2. I’ve...
Early on when I first started SEO, I made it a priority to seek out a mentor. By leveraging a  mentor’s experience, your learning curve is significantly shortened as you’re able to make quick advancements while avoiding disastrous pitfalls. In this...
If you’ve ever had a penalty, you know the feeling. After countless hours of creating content, setting up hosting, linking, social signals, and waiting for the site to get out of the sandbox, it’s starting to jump up the rankings. Traffic is starting to increase and...
This is a list of the tools and services that I'm currently using to rank my own sites. Everything you find here has been tested and proven to show value in the many tests you've seen on my blog.
