Content Marketing and Guest Posting

Is Guest Posting Considered Blackhat or Whitehat SEO?

Posted by James Parsons on November 8th, 2018

Guest posting is one of a wide variety of marketing techniques used by business owners throughout the world. It rapidly gained prominence years ago as a way to earn authoritative links from high quality sites without needing a specific endorsement from that site. It took a hit with the famous Matt Cutts blog post decrying […]

Huge List of Blogs That Will Pay You For a Guest Post

Posted by James Parsons on November 1st, 2018

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 […]

List of Domain Extensions to Avoid When Building Backlinks

Posted by James Parsons on October 25th, 2018

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 […]

Do Image Alt and Title Tags Really Matter for SEO?

Posted by James Parsons on October 18th, 2018

Let’s try a little experiment. Visit any webpage, it doesn’t matter what it is. In your browser, find the web developer section, or wherever the option is hidden, and view the source code for the page. What do you see? A bunch of HTML, right? Probably some CSS, maybe some JavaScript. It might be nicely […]

What Kind of Links Should You Build to Avoid Google Penalties?

Posted by James Parsons on October 12th, 2018

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Google has a lot of different rules surrounding links, specifically the kinds of links you can build pointing at your site. If you build the right kind of links, you can skyrocket yourself to the top of the search rankings. If you build the wrong kind of links, you can find your ranking tanking, or […]

5 PBN Case Studies on Overall Safety and Effectiveness

Posted by James Parsons on October 5th, 2018

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The use of Private Blog Networks, or PBNs, is a contentious issue amongst marketers. Some will insist that they’re perfectly safe and effective. Others will admit that, while they are effective, they carry with them an element of risk. Others will tell you that they don’t work, they’re too risky to even attempt, and the […]

What Types of Backlinks Are The Most Powerful for SEO?

Posted by James Parsons on September 26th, 2018

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All links are not created equal. There are a wide range of factors that influence the value of a link, some positively, some negatively. If you want to make your link building campaigns pull the greatest weight, you need to strive to get the best links possible. The question is, what are those links? Like […]

Is It Bad to Link to a Site More Than Once in a Guest Post?

Posted by James Parsons on September 20th, 2018

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When you’re writing and submitting guest posts, one of the thoughts in the forefront of your mind is going to be your links. What links do you add? Where do you add them? How often can you squeeze in a link? The answer to all of this and more, as usual, depends on a variety […]

Huge List of The Best Link Building Tools and Software

Posted by James Parsons on September 8th, 2018

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SEO has been around as an industry as long as Google has existed, and possibly even before. As long as there have been, and as long as there will be search engines, there will be people looking to conform to whatever algorithm they use to rank content. Some will pursue every legitimate technique under the […]

Do Press Release Backlinks Help With Your SEO?

Posted by James Parsons on September 3rd, 2018

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Press releases are fairly similar to guest posts, with a few key differences. I’ve covered those differences before – see that link – but one aspect I haven’t covered is the links. With guest posting, a lot of the value you get from a post is a link, either in a bio or in the […]