A few days ago Search Engine Land announced that the Google PageRank Toolbar has been updated for the first time in ten months. The news has sent millions of website owners into a frenzy with reports that of many people sitting at their computers in funny hats smiling. The reality …
Pro Rank Tracker is a hugely popular SEO tracking solution that helps you check your rankings. It can be used to improve the performance of your websites in search engines and give you a complete picture of how your websites are ranked. The service provides a lot of interesting reports. …
Rank Cracker is a free tool from SEO blogger and internet marketing entrepreneur Matthew Woodward. The tool allows you to import a list of the backlinks pointing to your competitors’ websites, and then it will analyse those links to instruct you on how you can go about replicating them for …
Incoming links can actually hurt your search engine rankings. If you have a lot of incoming links from low ranked websites, your own search engine ranking may be affected because of it. It is a little crazy when you think about it: Competitors can hurt your ranking simply by linking …
I have seen many internet marketers dismiss Facebook as a source of traffic. This may be partly due to some internet users growing bored of Facebook, however the fact remains that most people who use the internet also have a Facebook account. Currently, Facebook has over 1.1 billion users, therefore …
Matt Cutts, the head of the Webspam team at Google, declared guest blogging dead. There was much hand wringing and brow furrowing as the blogosphere went wild. At least that part of the blogosphere that concerns itself with matters like SEO and blogging was a little miffed. For example, there …
Long Tail Pro is a keyword research tool that allows you to easily see which words, terms or phrases people are searching the internet for. Being able to know which keywords are being searched, and in what volume, allows you to ensure there is an audience for your content before …
For many years, this website used the popular WordPress theme Genesis by StudioPress. It remains one of my favourite WordPress frameworks, but in early 2020 I wanted to try something different and opted for the lightweight WordPress design GeneratePress. I can’t speak highly enough about GeneratePress. It’s one of the …
Maintaining a successful blog is a lot like driving a steam train. It takes a lot of energy to get it going, but even when you’re on the right track, you need to keep adding fuel to the fire or it will eventually grind to a halt. Failure to follow …
I signed up to my first affiliate program in 1999 (Commission Junction). I still recall my awe at the sheer volume of companies that would pay you to send them traffic. Although I don’t know the exact number, my guess is that I have signed up to thousands of affiliate …