I was tracking keywords with Ahrefs and had a few phrases in the top 100. They weren't very close to the top 10, near the 50-100 range. I started building guest post backlinks to them (all random/begin anchors with no m...
I have a merchant account at Coinbase for Bitcoin. It is wonderful! Coinbase just added support for Litecoin but I see no option to allow users to pay in LTC from the Coinbase checkout, API or developer documentation. I ...
Several sites are reporting lost rankings due to the Google Fred update. I haven't noticed any decrease in rank though. What was this update targeting? Some users on forums thought it was a link targeting update but we a...
Many website owners and bloggers have used the guest posting strategy to get massive traffic and improve their blog quality. Regardless the big changes on Google search engine algorithm, guest posting still works and is ...
Guest blogging is a win-win situation; providing the blog owner fresh content in exchange for a free backlink and author bio for the contributor. Finding quality writers to post might be the dream but it won't be as ...
I have heatmaps on my analytics and I can see where everyone clicks. I'm unsure how to use this data to improve my website design though. What should I look for and what should I improve based on the data provided?
I notice that a lot of sites have sitelinks in Google search. Those are the sublinks under the main link in the Google search results. Most of the results I see with sitelinks are forums and all relate to a similar topic...
As it is Memorial Day weekend, my website traffic has decreased (starting yesterday). I've recorded the traffic for every major holiday for four years now and the same thing happens: traffic decreases. It isn't concernin...
Forum signature links use to be a great source for backlink building. I had a lot of forums I posted on and adding my signature in those links would increase a site's ranking considerably. Is that something that still wo...
Do you freelance online and make enough to support your life/family or do you also have a job that you go to every day? I freelance as a secondary source of income. I've actually made more freelancing that my actual job ...
LinkedIn sent me a free $50 coupon, so I used it to create some basic ads. The ads were purely brand building ads with the logo of our company as the image. We used something similar in Facebook and it worked fairly well...
In a recent interview with John Muller of Google, he stated "links aren't the most important thing on the web" and when asked if they would stop using links as a ranking factor he said "I don't know, maybe we will". He ...
I'd like to lower my Alexa rank to make my website appear more trustworthy. adf.ly traffic is cheap but can it be used to lower Alexa rank? If I consistently buy it and use it over time?
I created a Tumblr page and added some content over a period of time (2 months). The page doesn't show up in Google search though, even when I search for the exact URL of the tumblr blog. What would cause a Tumblr blog t...
I've heard that Facebook ads generally have a lower CTR than most other ad platforms. I'm curious what your CTR is and what the general average is for FB ads? I'm getting about 0.08% to 0.138% for my ads. They were hig...
I've been watching my website traffic stats and I've noticed that about 4:00PM my website traffic decreases significantly. It really drops and doesn't pick back up until about 11:00PM. Even at 11:00PM it doesn't come bac...
I'm guessing the answer is Google but I'm curious to know which search engine do Australians use most? I know some countries have their own search engine like Russia (Yandex) and China (Badu). Is there an Australian sear...
Does your website traffic decrease during Christmas, or any holiday? Mine does. My traffic is mostly US based and my traffic has gone way down. I saw the same thing last year so I know it is holiday based and will return...
I run ads and I use the URL builder to generate the ending params. My analytics then captures this data and can report campaigns to me. I'm a bit confused on how to name it all though for the best affect/use. UTM_SOURC...
If you have a small site and you are competing with a big brand (IE: Wikipedia, Amazon, etc), can you ever out rank them or get search results? Is it worth the time? Google says "no, you can't" so does that mean we shou...
Do you freelance full-time online or do you have another job? I'm a freelancer part-time with a stable job the rest. I'd like to make the move into freelancing full-time though.
I purchased this software which scrapes UIDs from Facebook groups. I intended on getting a lot of targeted users and creating a custom audience with them. I thought they would convert extremely well. So I scraped a lot...
I've been reading a lot of people are using Yahoo Answers for free traffic. Basically, you reply to a topic related to your niche and put your link as the source. It ranks fairly easy because of the YA authority and then...
I don't use Bing Webmaster tools. I rank in Bing but I get no traffic from it so I never signed up for their WMT program. I have all of my sites on Google Webmasters Tools though. Just curious, if you use BWT and whet...
Ok, I see a list of countries that are support by PayPal but does anyone have a list of countries that are banned/blocked by PayPal? I know some countries like Nigeria are.
I have a couple of new sites that were recently updated with a PR0. None of the sites really have any back links aside from links from my own network of sites. All of the sites are indexed in Google and if you search for...
I like Payoneer but their fees are very high. Are there any alternatives to Payoneer? One that is similar, which gives you a credit card that can be used in many countries?
Can someone explain to me why I would choose optimized CPM on Facebook ads vs. CPM? Optimized CPM just seems a lot more expensive when you don't control it and I get good results from CPM.
I received a report from Facebook about my page and I had 1 check-in. I don't have a store and the page is for a website. I'm not sure how a person could check-in with me. I don't know what a Facebook check-in is. Wha...
I do a lot of advertisement on Facebook using their ads. They show a lot of conversions and I have multiple pixels setup for multiple items (registration and order). I track both conversions in each ad I create. Somet...
What methods do you use to do SEO for your Facebook Fan Page? I already have it linked from my website and it shows up in the SERPs. I'd like for it to show up higher though (currently #10). I thought about building l...
I've been reading a lot about Penguin 2.1 and there seems to be a lot of mixed or incorrect information. Some sites claim it was a rewrite while others claim it is just a refresh. You have others that say it is a partial...
I have a huge amount of files I am transferring using rsync. I use it as a backup to transfer from my primary system to an NFS file system that is mounted. This is a great solution, however, it is very slow. It takes hou...
What did the recent update, Penguin 2.1, do or change in the ranking factors? Is there some type of backlink that I should not be building now that 2.1 is out? How does Google Penguin 2.1 relate to hummingbird? I've ...
I see there is a new category on SEOClerks called Solo Ads (link). I have never heard of them before though and have no idea what they are. Can someone tell me what Solo Ads are and why I would use them? I did a brief...
Matt Cutts confirms, via Twitter, that there will be no Page Rank update before 2014. https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/386910092563447808
I really like what OnlyWire does but I think they gouge people with their prices. For example, having you pay to sold captchas at like 10x the standard rate is ridiculous. Having to run the software on my computer but pa...
If I've just created a new site (as in yesterday), how many backlinks do you think I can build to the new site without causing the wrath of Google or other search engines to destroy me? I don't plan on blasting out anyth...
Supposedly there is a list of questions that Google released for sites that were affected by Panda/Penguin. What are they?
I'm having 502 Gateway errors on my website from php-fpm. I look in the log at /var/etc/php-fpm.log and see this: server reached pm.max_children setting (150), consider raising it What does that mean? What should I d...
