9 Experts and a Summary – What makes an ideal SEO employee? + MORE

Posted by aaj_14
In 2012, the SEO industry in the UK was worth over £500 million annually, growing 18% from 2011 figures. The US SEO industry is even bigger, topping $16 billion in 2010 . In a time of general malaise about the economy, this industry is growing rapidly, and the good times look set to continue…

There’s an in-depth discussion going on in the members area about how to sell an SEO business. There will surely be readers of the blog interested in the topic, too, so I thought I’d look at the more general issues of selling a business – SEO, or otherwise. Specifically, how to structure a business so it can be sold…

Posted by AndrewDumont
I hate the term growth hacker, but I love the concept. The idea that you can grow a business from 0 to thousands of customers without much of a marketing budget is a beautiful thing, and very much the result of growth hacks — free marketing tactics that grow traffic, brand, links, and eventually, a customer base…

Whatever your current level of collaboration with content teams, consider ways in which you can work more closely with them. The data suggests that doing so will only help your organization’s content perform better in the search results.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Logo Marks The 407th Birthday Of Rembrandt van Rijn Google has dedicated today’s homepage to Rembrandt van Rijn, marking the Dutch painter and…

Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…

Last week at Mozcon, I was asked a question in the live QA. The question went a little like this:
“Can you tell me why some of my internal pages don’t have PageRank, even though they rank well in the search results?”
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve spent years finding myself fascinated by detailed little questions like this…

When I first started my career in on-line marketing, I was essentially managing a large number of web properties and mainly dealt with site structure, usability and content. Fast forward several years and I am now a full time SEO marketer. Content is still a very important part of my life, but in a completely different way…