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Why Did a Russian Weed Company Just Buy Ebola.com for $200,000?

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According to SEMrush , a nifty (and sometimes accurate) tool that shows you which terms a site ranks for, Ebola.com doesn’t rank at all. Suffering from poor site architecture or indexing problems, maybe? And that doesn’t even count the link they just got from our blog: How Can They Make Money from Ebola.com?

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How We Got a Link from The Huffington Post

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By David Shankbone (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 ([link] via Wikimedia Commons There are plenty of blogs that get links from HuffPo on a daily basis, but this was a first for us. It was the perfect example of that legendary “Great Content” that SEOs love to talk about, and it was going fully viral. This is how we got it.

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4 Reasons Why We Love Super Long Tail Informational Posts

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I’m talking about the kind of industries that don’t typically get a lot of media attention, aren’t particularly glamorous, and don’t naturally get a lot of blog subscribers. In a world where long form, high quality content is now a necessity , this kind of content can make a big difference.

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What Your Webmaster Can’t Do For You

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For a website, this could include the hosting account, the domain registrar, and the CMS accounts (if you have a site on WordPress, Squarespace, or another platform). While LastPass makes it easy to share account logins for one site at a time, it might not be as convenient if you need to give a group access to several accounts simultaneously.

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What We Can Learn from Walmart’s Bazillion Dollar Facebook Campaign

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Or Pinterest, Foursquare, Instagram, or any of a thousand different sites. Today, we’re going to take a look at one company that’s playing the game right, run some quick numbers on what they’re getting out of it, and see what content is making them filthy, stinking rich. Or Twitter. I’m talking about Walmart (no, really!).

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SEO in 2014: Where It’s All Headed

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The good news is that you just started reading the blog post that makes all the right predictions. Matt Cutts went on a crusade against link networks culminating in a very high profile takedown of Lyrics site Rap Genius. Great Content” Was Split Down the Middle. There were two big groups of winners in content this year.

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