etting up a Twitter chat is really easy, especially for social media marketers who already know how to utilize the power of a Twitter account. All it takes is a set date, a topic, and a hashtag. You let people know it is happening, and ask them to tell others who might be interested. Then you carry on a conversation at the set time with anyone using that hashtag. read more...

I love SEO tools. I’m sort of a pack-rat when it comes to Google Docs tools and Excel add-ins. I went absolutely nuts when Tom Critchlow posted his Google Docs SEO tutorial on distilled. Since then, I’ve rolled a few tools of my own and collected pretty much anything to do with SEO and spreadsheets since then. read more...

Wouldn’t you like to know how much money you make from organic search? Or your marketing campaigns? Read here to learn how to use Google Analytics to do just that! read more...

Social Bookmarking can give huge benefits for your website but there are sites you should avoid and sites you should really pay attention to. Find what the best social bookmarking sites are here. read more...

Learn how to use Google Analytics 5 to measure social media ROI and the relationship between social media referral traffic and conversions. read more...

I’m going to lay it to you straight: Google Analytics doesn’t offer any value out of the box - it’s costing you money because you spend too much time looking at metrics that don’t matter. read more...

A refreshingly different approach to link building - who knew that's why they put ridiculous requests on celebrity riders! read more...

Not everyone has massive budgets or time to invest in link building so this post is for all the people out there that need to find creative ways to get the highest ROI from any time they do invest in link building. I want to show you a process I use to get links without spending all day sending outreach emails or building expensive infographics; I call this passive link building. read more...

This article has been kept up to date with the best practices for WordPress SEO since early 2008 and the release of WordPress 2.5, the most recent update was on March 28th, 2012, with WordPress version 3.3.1 being the most current release. The goal of this article is to let all the info of all the different articles I wrote about the topic, here and on other sites, fall into one big piece: the fi read more...

Only recently has the SEO factor been incorporated into blog commenting. Back in the day, people commented on other's blogs because they were truly interested. read more...

Before we look at those awesome sites that will link back to you based on your Twitter information, let’s start by making sure your Twitter profile is ready to help build links. It’s really simple. You just need to have a link in both the Web and Bio fields for your Twitter profile read more...

AuthorRank could be more disruptive than all of the Panda updates combined. Read this read more...

In today’s post, we’re going to look at the steps to creating the ultimate guide to anything and how you can use your ultimate guide to get mailing list subscribers. Click here to read more. read more...

For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlining a rudimentary technique, but also evidence that the search titan has a serious trust problem on its hands. read more...

Outreach letters are a primary element in any quality link building campaign: If you're not getting responses, you're not getting links. It takes a lot of trial and error to find what works, which can be difficult for new link builders. To make things easier for everyone, I wanted to give several outreach letters I use for contacting different sites. read more...

We’re going to look at how to set up your personal profile for marketing and eight things you can do with your personal profile that can’t be done with business pages. read more...

There are times that you get surprised to see a sudden spike in traffic when you check your site’s traffic stats in the morning, and you often wonder where those visitors came from and how you were able to pull read more...

So we should know by now that achieving viral status on a video should not be your goal. But for the past few months I have read several articles trying to make sense of why a video does go viral. Back in November, YouTube Trends manager Kevin Allocca spoke at TEDYouth about what makes a video become a phenomenon, and recently that video was posted to TED’s YouTube page. The reasons he gives a read more...

Overview of shady link practice by the link master Eric Ward read more...

Google is about to launch a new commenting system that will tie into the search giant’s Google+ platform, web services and web search, a source close to the product’s development confirmed with The Next Web read more...