In SEO we talk a lot about ranking factors, ranking signals, and ranking in general. For a long time, we’ve known that there are three ranking factors that Google uses ... » Continue

Last Friday, Google’s John Mueller said link-building can do more bad than good and should generally be avoided. And then the internet overreacted. In response to the question “Is link-building in ... » Continue

I recently attended MozCon, and picked up some awesome insights about YouTube from SEO celeb speaker Phil Nottingham. I decided to couple his notes with my own best practices to develop ... » Continue

Creating content is hard. It takes a lot of time, and just when you think you’re done, it’s time to start all over again. According to a B2B Content Marketing ... » Continue

Yours truly was sooooo busy working on your campaigns last week that he forgot to blog about our Big Picture meeting last week, so this week enjoy a double dose ... » Continue

Before joining Anvil Media, I worked for almost three years at a local nonprofit here in Portland, Oregon.  Coming in fresh out of college meant that I was the youngest person ... » Continue

Here’s your handy guide to what we here at Anvil Media have had our eyes on in Search & Social over the past week… PPC Google AdWords to Add Tablet Device Targeting ... » Continue

Here’s your weekly run-down of the big developments in search and social that we here at Anvil Media have had our eye on… PPC Quality Score Coming to Microsoft adCenter – Last ... » Continue

PPC: Nothing earth-shattering in the PPC world this week, but a couple good reads: Is It Time for Facebook to Launch a PPC Syndication Network? – There’s a number of good ... » Continue

News has surfaced today that Google took a closer look at Overstock.com’s linking strategy and decided it was appropriate to devalue links which had previously helped the site gain great ... » Continue