It’s probably not necessary to link this post again, but I’m going to do it anyway. Way back in the days of yore, the fabled and far-off misty age of 2014, a man named Matt Cutts was the head of Google’s webspam team. In addition to his duties internally, he was the public face of […]

The world of web marketing is a fantastically complicated place, with thousands of companies all offering similar services and vying for your attention. They are, after all, marketing companies. They’re going to be all in your face trying to get your business, and they have a million different strategies to do it. Strategies they can […]

If you’ve spent any time at all browsing different blogs while looking for tips and tools relating to outreach and guest posting, one tool you’ll see come up time and time again is Pitchbox. So what is it, and is it worth all the hype it gets, or is it just another over-hyped product for […]

Submitshop is a web marketing company. In their own words, in fact, they are “a search engine optimization submission, web promotion, internet marketing and ranking placement company.” Are they any good? Let’s find out. Who and What is SubmitShop? Submitshop is a generalized web marketing company with a lot of buzzwords in their profile. They […]

Now and then someone comes to me talking about guest posting, and they’re usually bemoaning how hard it is these days. Years ago, it was so easy to get a guest post published, even on high quality sites. These days, it seems so much harder. Is it, though? The Guest Post Apocalypse There have been […]

Guest posting is a complex task with long-term benefits, but it often requires a lot of up-front effort. It feels bad to spend hours or days on something only to barely see tangible results. You want a shortcut, and I don’t blame you. That’s why I made this site in the first place! One of […]

Engadget is a former member of the Gizmodo network of various identical niche blogs. It was founded in 2004, and became part of the AOL-owned network of blogs in 2005. Their editor in chief left in 2011, and they had a lot of ups and downs since then. Today they have moved away from the […]

In the world of paid link building, there are a lot of ways you can go about accomplishing your goals. You can reach out and pay for sponsored posts. You can pay to hire a consultant with connections, capable of getting you positions writing for top blogs. You can hire a third party service to […]

Some people write for pleasure. Some write for marketing and sales. Some write because they’re told to by their bosses. And some write solely for money. Guest posting is ostensibly meant to be an organic means of trading influence for content. You write a guest post for me, it’s because you want the link and […]

Once upon a time, there were only a relative handful of domain extensions. You have your .com, your .org, your .gov and .net. You have the country codes, the .co.uk, the .de, and so on. Nowadays, there are so many domain extensions that you can practically open a dictionary and pick a random word with […]