Back in 2021, I got sick of the Bay Area’s high cost of living (and a not-so-great living situation), so I decided to make a drastic change. At the time, I had only been through Sacramento once or twice, but it seemed like a nice enough area to check out. So I found a real [...]
On October 28th, eccentric Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to complain that it was hard to find Tesla solar links on Google due to “tons of ads & SEO.” Unfortunately, it’s hard to google Tesla solar links due to tons of ads & SEO. Go to https://t.co/UvQa8JOE7v to add solar to [...]
When I started learning SEO back in 2011, one of the first sites I turned to was Moz (formerly SEOmoz.) Between their exceptional Beginner’s Guide to SEO and their consistently high-quality blog, I was immediately hooked. I’m not here to talk about their beginner’s guide or their blog, though. I’m here to talk about the [...]
In 2018, Squarespace and WordPress are still two of the biggest platforms for building a website, and for good reason. If you give a bunch of regular users one day to build their first website on any platform, Squarespace’s sites will win by a mile. Godaddy’s site builder, Wix, Drupal, Joomla, and even Wordpress can’t [...]
SEO is, well, complicated. To the uninitiated, SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a subset of digital marketing that is used to drive traffic from search engines to websites, without paying for ads. Here’s a quick rundown of how it works. That might not sound like a lot of fun on its own, but the [...]
It's been a hot, busy month. Here's just a few of the places I've been around the web: Promoting Contractor Calls Our newest brand, Contractor Calls, is off to a strong start. I've just begun pumping articles out for it, including How SEO Works (The Plain English Version), and have been busy building and promoting sites [...]
Building legit links to your website is not a lot of fun. There are a ton of ways to do it and a ton of tools that can help, but most of them come with some pretty big drawbacks. It's easy to spend days building resources and reaching out to bloggers just to come away empty handed. Fortunately, [...]