Today, Sean Donahoe is making available a free report called The Backlink QuickStrike Report to promote his new product  Backlink Commando, which he releases later today. It’s a substantial 37-page report that will give you a lot of tips for beneficial backlinking. And it’s free here: The Backlink QuickStrike Report. Once you have read that report, you will have a clearer picture of what’s at stake with backlinking, and how to do it. Do it wrong and you damage your site; do it right and your site’s importance grows. The time may come when you will want to automate... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “7 Common (and Dangerous) Misconceptions About SEO”. Meghan Keaney Anderson says, “With regular algorithm updates and new factors influencing search all the time, search engine optimization is a bit of a moving target these days. Add in the level of nuance that tends to surround search rank and you’ve created a perfect storm for misunderstanding and misattribution. Does factor X directly affect rank or merely influence it? What are the differences among Google+, Google’s +1s, and Google Authorship when it comes to... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Nine of the best examples of content marketing from 2013”. Graham Charlton says, “While there has been a slight backlash around content marketing, I think mainly due to the hype, brands in general have upped their game this year, and there are some great examples around.  i’ve asked agency and client side marketers, as well as the Econsultancy editorial team for their favourite examples of content campaigns and strategy from the past 12 months”. Nine of the best examples of content marketing from 2013 ‘Econsultancy’... [...]

This is our last chance to tell you about eMarketer’s webinar featuring Noah Elkin on Thursday, December 12 at 1.00 pm EST. The topic of the webinar is “Key Digital Trends for 2014”. eMarketer team says, “To get you ready for the upcoming year, eMarketer’s Noah Elkin will cover a variety of topics including the challenges of marketing to the always-on, increasingly mobile-centric consumer. The webinar will address these key questions: What is the role of mobile devices within today’s multiscreen, multiplatform landscape? How do social media and video content bridge... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “2014: the mobile SEO timebomb”. Chris Liversidge says, “Over the last four months, Google has been ramping up its publicity of a more aggressive target for mobile site performance: sub one second page load times. Enforcement of this aspiration comes from Google’s usual source: algorithmic rewards for sites achieving this goal. You just need to look at how industry commentary has exploded around site speed issues over the last couple of years to see the impact this strategy has had”. 2014: the mobile SEO... [...]

The latest article on Mark Ling’s ‘Affilorama’ blog is titled “5 Negative SEO Techniques That Could Hurt Your Website”. Radhika says, “If you have been in Internet marketing long enough, you know you need to understand the magic of SEO. You should at least have a working knowledge of how “doing SEO” brings traffic to your site and helps it move up in the world of rankings and relevance. With this in mind, you have probably mapped out an SEO strategy for your site (if you haven’t you really should!). You’ve planned and executed and planned some more and then one day …... [...]

This is our last chance to tell you about Third Door Media’s  webinar on Tuesday, December 10 at 1.00 pm EST. The topic of the webinar is “SEO for Hispanic Markets: Optimize for Opportunity in 2014”. The Third Door Media team says, “Link building works! It fuels your SEO and gives rankings. But what are you going to do to get your links? In this webcast, Page One Power CEO and VP of Business Development, Jon Ball will hand over 25 of his favorite (and most effective) link building strategies. This is a no-holds barred, fast-moving webcast that gives you the tools you need... [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “How to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO: an Easy-Peasy Guide”. Jasmine Henry says, “Great SEO isn’t really a standalone practice anymore. In fact, it’s really difficult to seperate search engine optimization from social media and content marketing, because these three factors form the pillar of a modern inbound marketing strategy. Keyword research and optimization can improve the performance of your SEO blog posts in search, while social media shares send a clear message to Google that your content is quality. You... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “What are ‘nofollow’ tags and when should they be used in SEO?”. David Moth says, “‘Nofollow’ tags are an HTML attribute that tells search engines not to pay any attention to links that appear on a webpage. It was created in 2005 by the major search engines as a way of combatting link spam and dodgy SEO practices, though its impact in helping to win that fight is debatable. Recently I’ve had a few conversations around the use of nofollow tags so thought it would be helpful to give an overview of why they’re... [...]

Simon Crabb has been researching what it takes to get information indexed by Google. That’s important because if Google doesn’t index it, the number of readers drops dramatically. As a systematic experiment, he chose a phrase (“slick and rigorous”) that had not been targeted on any site previously, and went to work trying to target it. He tried many techniques to get his webpage indexed, most of which failed. He documents his process and how he succeeded in his Slick and Rigorous Case Study. He found that conventional wisdom is mistaken about what it takes. And he found... [...]