SEO

With the search engine optimization landscape getting more complex and more competitive every day, there’s a lot for business owners, marketers and even SEOs to stay up-to-date on. This corner of the Outspoken Media blog is designed to help you do just that. Whether it’s what’s happening in the way of personalization, Universal and blended search, technical SEO best practices, link development or another facet of this growing disciple, we’re here to keep you covered. Use this section as your compass as we delve into high-level and advanced SEO tutorials, guides, theories and more to help give back to the SEO community and educate a new breed of SEOs.

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How to Choose an SEO Company: Ignore Top SEO Lists

February 22, 2012

Finding a SEO company can be hard work! The process of hiring a SEO vendor or consultant in a sea of spam and fake merits has to be exhausting and who has money to gamble with? The SEO industry as a whole doesn’t make it any easier by perpetuating a very real reputation management problem [...]

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The 6-minute Link Prospect Power Audit [Download]

February 21, 2012

Advanced link builders aren’t super-humans, but that doesn’t mean some in the SEO industry don’t look upon them as if they are. What separates a good link builder from the rest of us is the ability to properly audit a link prospect, and, even better, the ability to do it quickly. If you’re an SEO [...]

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SEO Audits That Get Results

February 14, 2012
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12 Women We’d Love To See Speaking (or speaking more)

February 10, 2012

There aren’t enough women speaking in our industry. There I said it. It’s what I believe even though the Twitter masses have angrily and repeatedly told me that I’m wrong, that there are “enough” women represented, and that what conferences are really missing are more SEOs with beards (thanks for that, BTW). However, I think [...]

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After the SEO Audit: When SEO Gets Strangled

January 10, 2012

The SEO audit is a beautiful phase in any relationship. Someone has their hands all up in your site as they diagnose what issues exists, what’s lacking and then gets to work creating a plan for how you can build the most kickass site the Internet has ever seen. But then the audit phase ends [...]

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Build SEO Momentum in 2012, Not Resolutions

January 3, 2012

While catching up with my RSS feeds this morning I caught this post from Jeremiah Andrick. In it, he politely (well, sort of politely) asks those New Year’s Resolution People to just stop. Admit right now that you’re a flake and won’t keep up with that workout routine. He doesn’t want you crowding his gym [...]

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11 Pipers Piping: An Introduction to Regular Expressions and Pipes

December 22, 2011

Well, we’re up to the 11th day of Christmas – the ole ‘11 Pipers Piping’. So, no better time than now to talk about the pipe when used as a Regular Expression and how to use it to your Google Analytics advantage. What are Regular Expressions? Regular Expressions are text patterns that can contain combinations [...]

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Ladies (and Gents), Get Your Google Dance On

December 20, 2011

juice bomb dance jagger sandbox panda What do these words have in common? If you answered “Google” you’ve gotten into the spirit of the 12 Days of SEO! And, when you feel the spirit coming on, there’s nothing to do but DANCE. So, on the 9th day of SEO, this lady is dancing to Christmas [...]

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Getting More From Your SEO Agency: Eight Maids a’Milking

December 19, 2011

Hiring a search engine optimization (SEO) agency is sort of like hiring a mechanic. Most of us don’t have the knowledge to work on our car and keep it running on our own. We simply put gas in the car and it goes, and when it doesn’t go, we take it to someone who can [...]

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5 Golden Links for Link Building and Beyond

December 14, 2011

We’re almost halfway through our 12 Days of Christmas—er, SEO—and I want use my day to talk about five golden link finds that can help your link development efforts. I know, I know, we do a link-up post each month, but this a different kind of list. Golden Link #1 http://mentionmapp.com Mentionmapp is a simple [...]

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