Psst! These Keyword Opportunities Are Sitting Right Under Your Nose
Columnist Stephan Spencer shares his advice for digging up new keyword opportunities from your existing...
Stephan Spencer
Stephan Spencer is the creator of the 3-day immersive SEO seminar Traffic Control; an author of the O’Reilly books The Art of SEO, Google Power Search, and Social eCommerce; founder of the SEO agency Netconcepts (acquired in 2010); inventor of the SEO proxy technology GravityStream; and the host of two podcast shows Get Yourself Optimized and Marketing Speak.
Relaunching Your Site? Don’t Even Think About It Without A Solid SEO Game Plan!
Relaunching your website can have serious consequences for your search engine optimization if not planned carefully. Luckily, columnist Stephan...
How To Attract Killer Links For E-Commerce Sites
Trying to create compelling, linkable content for an e-commerce site? Columnist Stephan Spencer has some great ideas to get you...
Tools, Tools Everywhere! Which SEO Tools Are Worth Your Time?
Ever wondered what tools are used by some of the best in the industry? Author and SEO expert Stephan Spencer shares his top free and premium SEO...
Link Risk Management: Are You Using This Critical SEO Tactic?
Columnist Stephan Spencer warns that if you don't regularly monitor your backlinks and proactively get rid of spammy ones, you could be risking it...
Understanding & Explaining A Realistic SEO Timeline
How long should it take to see SEO results? Columnist Stephan Spencer says there's no simple answer to this question, but explains some of the...
Do You Hate “Not Provided”? Not So Fast… It May Be a Blessing In Disguise!
Things have certainly changed since Google took away keyword referral data, but columnist Stephan Spencer argues that these changes were for the...
Industrial Strength Link Analysis With LinkResearchTools
In a competitive niche? Columnist Stephan Spencer explains how to use one tool to uncover the good, the bad and the...
Want To Hire An Insanely Great SEO? Do These 7 Things First!
If you set up your hiring and recruitment processes correctly, you won't have to waste money on a bad...
A Glimpse Into The Future Of Search With Futurist Ramez Naam
In the process of working on the upcoming third edition of The Art of SEO, I had the pleasure of discussing the Future of Search with Ramez Naam....
Scaling & Systematizing Your Link Building
I’m all about systems and processes. That’s the only way to scale. You could be the best link builder in the world, but how are you going...
Buyer Beware: 5 Tips For Spotting SEO Charlatans
I have written numerous times on the many myths that abound in SEO. But it seems that no matter how many times I try to bust these myths wide open,...
‘Tis The Season For Link Baiting
Ah, the holidays! It’s that time of year — for egg nog, carolers, sleigh rides, Yuletide cheer, roasting chestnuts, and… link bait!...
The Secret Life Of The Black Hat SEO
The black hat SEO flies under the radar. He doesn’t want to attract too much attention — he knows attention brings bad things....
25 Super Common SEO Mistakes
No, these aren’t “myths” disguised as “common mistakes.” I’ve already beaten the SEO myths theme to death with my...
Google Power User Tips: SERP URL Parameters
In Part 1, we looked at query operators for refining our searches. Now for Part 2, let’s look at parameters that we can add/modify in the URL...
Google Power User Tips: Query Operators
I love showing off my Google power searching skills when presenting or meeting or talking with a prospective client. I just know it boosts my...
SEO Checklist Part 2: Best Practices
Continued from Part 1: 29 Worst Practices & Most Common SEO Failures. Best Practices Implementing the 14 best practices below (or at least some...
29 Worst Practices & Most Common Failures: SEO Checklist Part I
Many consider search engine optimization as a sort of black box. But once the essential features of a search engine optimal website are laid out in a...
36 More SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To
The overwhelming response to my last article, 36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To, it prompted a followup feature, SEO Myths Reloaded:...