Speaking at Link Love Boston, April 2nd, 2012

February 7, 2012 Marketing

Distilled hosts some of the best SEO conferences out there in Link Love. I was lucky enough to get invited to speak at this year’s Boston iteration, on April 2nd. The speaker list is quite impressive, and one I am honored to be included on. The names include – Tom Critchlow, Distilled Wil Reynolds, SEER [...]

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Second Tier Link Building: How to Utilize it For Massive ROI

January 31, 2012 Marketing

An “advanced” link building tactic frequently discussed is the concept of second tier link building – that is, building links to pages that link to you. These concepts are generally used in spammier instances – such as “link wheels” or other less than favorable examples where links can easily be pushed at authoritative domains – [...]

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Managing Oneself

January 9, 2012 Miscellaneous Strategies

From the Harvard Business Review, Peter Drucker describes a methodology for improving oneself – or otherwise, improving by choosing where to best use our efforts at education for the aim of getting better. Comparing your expectations with your results also indicates what not to do. We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent [...]

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The Greatest SEO Services Call To Action I’ve Ever Seen

December 13, 2011 Marketing

I work in lead generation, so one of the things that frequently catches my eye is the conversion rate optimization (CRO) efficiencies of a page. It’s natural. Getting users to convert while maintaining SEO best practices is something that is a vital part of my job, so when I run into great examples of CRO [...]

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Improve Content Creation with Linkable Asset Classes

December 13, 2011 Linkable Asset Creation

“Great content” is palpable. Easy to understand, identifiable instantly by the trained eye, and communicatable with a refreshing consistency when engaging with clients and upper management alike. But the idea is not congruent, necessarily, with obtaining links, and often times the intersection of “great” and “link magnet” is not nearly as harmonious as we might [...]

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Improving Corrective Value-Adds in Link Request E-mails

November 15, 2011 Miscellaneous Strategies

Broken link building is a bit of a recent fad – you correct broken links, add value to the webmaster by doing so, and therefore increase the likelihood you get a link back to your website. That’s true, but what is lost in this transaction is not that you are truly aiming to solely solve broken links, [...]

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We Are The 35%

November 4, 2011 SEO Theory

Yesterday Google rolled out an algorithm shift that impacts 35% of searches. SEOs have posited various opinions, as far as to say it doesn’t feel like a “major update”. But what does that mean? What makes something a “major update”? Doesn’t 35% of searches signify a large update? I’d say yes – but I’d also [...]

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Steve

October 10, 2011 Marketing

What’s BMW’s market share of the auto market?  Does anyone know?  Well, it’s less than 2%, but no one cares.  Why?  Because either you drive a BMW or you stare at the new one driving by.  If we do our job, we’ll make products that people lust after, and no one will care about our [...]

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We Need A “Big Red Button” For Tweet Schedulers

October 6, 2011 Marketing

For anyone who was witness to the outpouring of deserved admiration for Steve Jobs in the Twitter stream last night, one of the most jarring sub-plots of the event were the unfortunate barrage of scheduled tweets from those who couldn’t have possibly accounted for such an occurrence. In many instances this simply made the parties [...]

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The Paradox of Abnormally-High-Pageview Ad Environments

October 6, 2011 Marketing

Steve Jobs died last night. With his passing came what may have been one of the biggest swarms of visitors to tech news websites in the history of the web, as the inhabitants of the internet that Jobs structured his devices around gathered to learn and read of his passing. If the event had occurred earlier [...]

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RossHudgens.com Link Roundup – September Edition

October 3, 2011 Marketing

Exciting stuff coming for the blog soon – namely more content. Had a great time at Blueglass TPA and naturally, what comes from a great conference is a new fire and enough ideas to change the world – or at least the pixels on this blog that I own. Anyways, I know most people mostly [...]

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Creating A Link Building Machine

September 27, 2011 Marketing

The above presentation is from the Link Building Post-Panda session at the amazing Blueglass TPA conference. My favorite part of this presentation is characteristic number six, which I believe to be completely original in terms of link building theory. I may extrapolate that and more details of this presentation in a future blog post. Use [...]

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