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An Introduction
As this is my first post on WordPress, I guess I should introduce myself. My name is John. This is my website. < — This is me. I am a 26 year old SEO, working for a marketing firm currently. I enjoy...
View ArticleWhy I Should Be An Entrepreneur Again
Today at work I began to have an epiphany. Does that sentence even make sense? I’m not really sure. Anyways, a coworker and I were talking about our projects going on outside of our “normal” SEO jobs....
View ArticleTop 5 Tips for Beginner SEOs – Part 1
Every day, new people enter the world of SEO. These may be former web developers, graphic designers, PR professionals, or former software support technicians. The unfortunate reality of beginning SEO...
View ArticleTop SEO Tips For Beginners – Part Two
Attention: This post is Part 2 of a two-part blog. If you have not read Part 1, please read it here: Top SEO Tips For Beginners – Part 1. Tip 6: Use tools that are available to you. Some SEO firms have...
View ArticleConversion Rates Are Dropping
Well, today was an interesting day in my SEO world. After an eye appointment this morning (unrelated to SEO, obviously, though it did make seeing my screen a bit harder), I went into work and started...
View ArticleTroubleShooting TweetDeck: Scheduling Updates
“You cannot schedule updates for accounts that are not yours” Today I tried to start scheduling updates on Tweetdeck. I quickly ran into the issue of not being able to set automatic updates. I would...
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SEOs are Growth Hackers
Growth hacking has become a buzzterm in the past 6 months, ever since this post written back in April by Andrew Chen. There’s even a growth hacking agency in New York City (linked at the bottom of the...
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Do The Work
SEO is not about quick wins. I get asked all the time to “give us something that we can do now that will have a noticeable effect”. People, everyone, wants to get the most bang for their buck, and this...
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Do The Work, or Quit Blogging
You just read a click-bait title. I apologize for that. Before you run away, dear valued reader (see what I did there?), here’s my thesis: A person should not blog or publish on the Internet (not all...
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Start With The First Link
Reminder from today – don’t always ask “How can we get x links to this page?” Start with asking “How can I get 1 link to this page?” — John Doherty (@dohertyjf) December 7, 2012 I work on a lot of...
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Find Balance
Before you read this post (which is publishing as I am on the plane to Costa Rica), let me suggest that you read two other posts: Rand’s post – http://moz.com/rand/there-is-no-worklife-balance/ Jerry...
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How’s The Ebook Coming?
TL;dr – As many of you know, I announced a few months ago that I am working on an ebook about blog marketing. If you didn’t know, you should sign up to hear about when it launches after you’ve finished...
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The Future of Cross Platform Publishing
I recently read a post about cross-platform publishing that absolutely blew my mind and changed my paradigm about how I am thinking about content and publishing moving forward. It’s called Adapting...
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Becoming A Better Writer
A lot of talk has happened about content, content marketing, and blogging in 2012. We can thank Google, Tom Critchlow, and people like CopyBlogger for this, and I truly do. I love content and writing,...
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SEO Reporting for 2013 and Beyond
SEO is getting harder. When I started in the industry a few years ago, it was possible to throw a bunch of exact match anchor text at a page and it would rank fairly quickly. You could spin content all...
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Talking Marketing with Leo Widrich of Buffer
On January 15th I had the great pleasure to get to do a video hangout with Leo Widrich, one of the main guys behind the well-loved social media tool Buffer. I reached out to Leo because I’ve been...
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The Internet’s Content Problem
The Internet has a content problem. Every day more and more content is being pushed out into the nether regions (ok, that’s inappropriate) of the Internet and most of it is terrible. And worse than...
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Should I Create An App or Use A Mobile Site?
This past Sunday evening I sent out a tweet that garnered a large number of replies, so I thought I’d write a full post on it and try to flesh out my thoughts about apps vs a mobile website. Here is...
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What The Shift From RSS to Social Media Means for Marketers
A fundamental shift has occurred over the past two years in the way people consume content on the Internet. Not quite six years ago, Google bought the RSS service Feedburner for $100M and integrated it...
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Talking Entrepreneurship and Product Marketing with Dan Martell
Entrepreneurship is a hot topic these days, and one that you may know I am quite passionate about if you are a return reader here. After I interviewed Leo Widrich of BufferApp a couple of weeks ago, I...
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