Get em’ All – How to Grab All the Keywords for All the Results

Building a comprehensive keyword set can be daunting some times. There are so many potential keywords out there and trying to find every variation can be a nightmare. Well, hopefully the nightmares are gone with this new bookmarklet that comes with SERPScape. The process is simple. Install bookmarklet Search for your keyword Press bookmarklet Get CSV of every keyword that the URLs on the page rank for Tags: bookmarklet, google, keywords, PageRank, Search engine optimization, seo,...

2015: The Year of Broken Link Building

Every year begins with a flood of questions to seo experts about their predictions or recommendations for the upcoming year. I am normally careful not to get involved into too many of these forays because they seem speculative or risky given Google’s penchant to change courses so quickly. When your target is moving so fast, so frequently, and seemingly erratically, it is hard to make predictions and recommendations. So, how should we proceed? One of the common responses is to give very generic, holistic tips like “build your brand”, or “users first”. While I think these are absolutely true, they don’t offer much in the way of actionable advice. Some of the lengthier responses by good SEOs do go into detail on these issues, and...

Dark Patterns and the Demise of Google Authorship

I won’t waste your time with yet-another-recap of the rise and fall of Google Authorship when it has already been done so nicely by the good folks at Stone Temple Consulting. Moreover, in a promise I made to myself, I will try and remain civil and polite in my brief analysis. I will begin with an open question to John Mueller, Matt Cutts and Google in general. Why should we believe this was a failed experiment and not planned obsolescence? Early in my career as an seo during the days of reciprocal link schemes, the black-hat thing to do was pretty simple. The formula is below: Create a link directory on your site Attract users of link directory, require reciprocal links Wait a few months Hide your outbound links from Google (Nofollowing “contribute...