SEO University

At my last SEO for Africa I introduced a new initiative called SEO Buffet. The concept is simple: I’ll give you free advice for your website and profile you on my blog if you bring me food from your cultural background!
The first person to respond was John Carr. John is a Toronto based real estate [...]

(Photo Credit: Jeff McNeill) This is a special edition of SEO University where I have a guest post by Elisa Gabbert. Elisa was introduced to me by Byron Gordon, a great guy who I’ve worked with for a couple of years at the Search Engine Strategies conferences here in Toronto. When Byron asks me to [...]

It’s time for Part 2 in my series on Link Building Tactics. As I mentioned before, links are an important part of Google’s algorithm – if you don’t have links to your site, you won’t rank well for your keywords. Last month I wrote about how you can check the real number of links coming [...]

As a part of my ongoing SEO University posts I’m going to begin a series on Link Building Tactics. From its inception Google has weighed links very heavily when deciding where to rank a website in its index. Links count as votes and the more links and higher quality links you have from authority websites, [...]

In my last SEO University (SES Toronto – Day 2 – SEO University) post I promised that I would provide you with a comprehensive list of the top free / cheap tools for building your business online. The recommendations come from Ken Jurina, a founder of Epiar and one of the panelists at Search Engine [...]

Today was the first day of the Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference here in Toronto. I was invited to come as a guest blogger as part of the media. I did the same thing last year and it was a great experience. They have three streams of sessions going on at the same time so [...]

For those of you who follow search engine news you’ll know that the biggest events that cover the industry are the Search Engine Strategies conferences. Being based in Toronto I was able to attend SES Toronto last year and am pleased to be able to attend again this year. It’s one of those must-attend events [...]