Entries by Michael David

How to Promote an Infographic

Infographics have emerged as a sound, white-hat way to generate high-quality natural backlinks. Even a moderately successful infographic can go viral and bring a few dozen high-quality backlinks. But creating an infographic—as much work as that is—only gets you halfway there. If you cleverly promote your infographic, you can greatly increase your chances of going […]

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Pictures From Pubcon Paradise 2012

I thought this was appropriate as an introduction, from the opening evening networking event sponsored by TastyPlacement: Day One of Regular Pubcon Sessions: Evening Networking Party Sponsored by the Social Media Club of Hawaii: Day Two of Pubcon Regular Sessions: Wrap-up Party at Jimmy Buffet’s

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Video Tutorial: How to Clean Up Your WordPress Head

By default, WordPress prints a lot of extra code to the “head” section of webpages that it generates. For example, it prints a “generator” meta tag that identifies the site as a WordPress site–that can serve as a flag to hackers that specifically target WordPress sites. In this video tutorial we’ll learn a quick and […]

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Siri Search Optimization

You may have heard that the iPhone’s new voice-command and personal/search assistant “Siri” will be “the end of SEO as we know it.” Undoubtedly a shift is coming, but I for one doubt it will be as disruptive as the apocolyptos might have you believe. After all, we’re not all going to use only our […]

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Free Local Listings for SEO

Local listings are an increasingly large part of search. Google places results now pop up at the top of search results automatically. This is good news for local businesses. If you have a physical location, you better take full advantage of the opportunity!

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