I’m delving into my own inbox to talk about link building again.  Maintaining a personal blog with its own modest following apart from the work I do at Cactus means that I get a literal ton of requests for links, promotion and publicity, and the majority of them are just like the one I called [...]

I know that we’re kind of fun and laid back (comparatively speaking) here on SC’s SEO Blog, but let’s put on our Common Sense Hats for a second.
We all know the value of repetition, right?  When I taught writing, I’d use repetition in my notes and PowerPoint presentations to increase my students’ retention. From repeating [...]

Think SEO is too long term a strategy to help boost your traffic and revenue before the holidays? Not so! Although the idea of suddenly ranking high for general terms probably won’t happen by the time Santa comes down your chimney, adding holiday themed SEO content to your site within the next two weeks can [...]

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Once you’ve written relevant content, where does it all go? Consider your content to be a freshly baked pie sitting on a window, sending delicious aromas out into the web, attracting friends like search engine crawlers or internet shoppers.
When your content is good (i.e.- clear, concise, interesting, appropriate keyword density, [...]

Keyword research is one of the most important and valuable parts of your SEO campaign. Here are some the key steps you’ll need to undergo in finding the right keywords for your site.
1.Brainstorm
Keywords are the bread crumbs you leave to help search engine spiders find your site. Before you start inserting keywords into your content, [...]

I posted a few weeks ago about big brands making the fatal mistake of feeling they simply don’t need SEO. eMarketer.com recently conducted a survery that analyzed the percentage of consumers who researched prices for big ticket items like electronics and computers online, before they then went to their local big box store to purchase [...]

The Solid Cactus SEO Team has come quite a long way since I first started at Solid Cactus as an intern two years ago. The SEO Team grew from being a team of just one (me!) to its current size of five very talented SEO Specialists over the last few months. SEO as an industry [...]

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Being a good communicator is key for any kind of success. Even if you’re not a writer, it’s important for you to have the ability to convey your thoughts in a clear, correct, and concise manner. Here’s a quick review on three of the most commonly made grammatical errors and ways to fix them, so [...]

  Is my blue your blue? What does pretty ‘mean’? If the world is a house, perception is the foundation. We can ask until infinity what others actually see, think and feel, but we have no real proof that my blue is your blue, that pretty is a universal, or any of a million trillion other [...]

“Blogging” is a really buzzworthy term right now, just like “iPhone” or “Wii.” Another thing blogging has in common with those in-demand gadgets is that a lot of the masses clamoring for them don’t have a realistic set of expectations regarding what they’ll do with the advice or how they’ll do it.

There are a lot [...]