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What are the habits of effective SEOs? We break down our top SEO habits to turn you into an SEO pro, and the bad SEO habits to avoid.

An SEO audit is an assessment of how your website is performing in search engine results. This guide will teach you the ins and the outs of conducting one, step by step. 

Learn about what search engines look for in web content, and how you can optimize the content you're creating to start ranking higher on Google and other search engines. 

If you're putting all this effort into your content, make sure your website is optimized for SEO so your content performs its best. Learn how to structure your website for SEO and what Google looks for in an optimized website.

Hidden inside Google is an extremely powerful, and free, keyword research tool: Google autosuggest. In this guide we'll show you how we use Google autosuggest for keyword research and SEO.

Domain authority is overrated. Not only does Google ignore it, but at best it's just an estimate based on a fraction of Google's computing power. Here are the metrics we focus on with our customers instead.

“Is ______ good or bad for SEO?” - this is a question we get all the time in many variations. With the complicated and highly nuanced nature of SEO, it can be difficult to have the answers all of the time. Here, we tackle this problem and talk about some guiding SEO principles, as well as answer the most common questions about whether X is good for bad for SEO.

Did you know you can optimize your URLs for SEO? We'll show you how to write SEO-friendly URLs that give your content a better chance at ranking and being shared.

From technical SEO to the SEO tools you absolutely must be using, we break down our must-haves in our complete SEO checklist. SEO is much more than a to-do list, but following these best practices gives you a masssive head start over your competitors.

Customer reviews help your website in numerous ways, including your site's SEO. It's important to know where you should be getting reviews, and how can you start getting more reviews from your customers today. 

SEO is a powerful way to grow your business, but in the wrong hands it can be a powerful tool used to hurt a competing website. Learn more about negative SEO, the different types of negative SEO attacks, and how to prevent/remediate them.

The 7 deadly SEO sins I see SMBs and startups commit. Half truths and poor advice lead to these common SEO mistakes you may be making. Learn what they are, and how to fix them to improve your rank.

Setting goals for your website's SEO strategy is a critical part of the SEO process that often gets overlooked. Learn what SMART SEO goals are and how to define them for your business in this post. 

Think of Penguin as the web spam update. Put simply, Penguin is a program that targets the bad and rewards the good. Penguin aims to filter out sites with links spam and/or manipulative link building practices.

SEO is a zero sum game, so understanding your competition at a deeper level is critical for your success. Instead of being threatened by competition, leverage your competitors’ websites to shorten your learning curve and build a better strategy to oust them.