A while back we did a post on how to post photos to Instagram from a Windows 10 PC. It was a really technical post that involved setting up a Virtual PC inside your computer and installing the desktop version of Android. Not exactly the best method. This new method is super easy, and will truly revolutionize the way [...]
I get a lot of emails, tweets, etc asking me what are the "default" settings I use on WordPress websites, so thought I'd put a post together. Here are my SEO 'settings' for most WordPress websites: Tags For new sites, I do not use tags of any kind. Older sites, like this one I never had a policy [...]
Looking to just download social network icons? Keep scrolling! This is the first "design" project that I encountered thinking that I might actually use the finished product on a regular basis. As an internet marketer, I deal with a lot of different websites. One of the biggest pieces to internet marketing is trying to get websites to interact with [...]
October of 2017 Update: I needed to update this post to add 1 extra step because Google added an additional piece of verification to this process. Most likely because of me showing tens of thousands of people how to delete all of their junk mail. I also got a bunch of comments below saying this "doesn't work" but rest [...]
Today we need to revisit an important lesson in SEO history: social bookmarking. That is, for those of us joining the SEO industry in the last decade or so. I normally don't do posts like these, but after a Reddit thread that struck a nerve with me, and a conversation with a colleague from Process Street via email, I [...]
Believe it or not, I get asked this question at least 3-4 times per month: "How can I enable Gmail templates so I don't have to type out the same email all the time." This is a feature that I've been using for at least 5 years and take advantage of on a daily basis. The thing I love [...]
I've been shopping around lately for a new social media scheduling tool for my "personal brand" (man, I swore I'd never say that) and came across Marketing Labs. The fine people of Marketing Labs were kind enough to give me a free trial, so over the course of the last week I've been giving it a shot. Here is [...]
2025 editors note - crazy in 2025 almost everything in this blog post still stands almost 10 years later (published originally in 2016) If you are an SEO, internet marketer, content marketer, journalist or anything in between then you probably already know that having a Wikipedia page can really accelerate your brand in more ways than one. A Wikipedia [...]
Update: April 28 2016 - turns out it was just a bug that lasted 2 weeks. It is back in all of its glory, and I confirmed with a representative from Google that it was indeed a bug. Well I've held my tongue for long enough about this issue. It seems as though Google has killed off their in-depth [...]
As of today, Facebook has opened access Facebook Instant Articles to the masses. I still haven't fully grasped what this means, and am still trying to wrap my brains around it. In the mean time, I've signed up for it and managed to get it going for our company blog. Here are the steps to take if you are [...]