Patrick Coombe
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 [...]
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 [...]
For those of you who still haven't seen Google's new AMP live in action, I grabbed a few screen shots to see what the big deal is about. For starters, the results tend to show up for in Google search results that have news scroll-able news snippets, not necessarily in the "news" section but a lot of the times [...]
Over the past few decades the SEO industry has morphed from a small niche for tech-hobbiest to an industry that truly affects billions of dollars in revenue for big business across the globe. During that time, there has been some huge upsets, from Google penalties to sheer deception. Here are some of the ones that hit home with me, [...]
Mirror, mirror, on the wall who's the highest authority website of them all? There's no doubt everyone from Poland to Poughkeepsie is looking for solid ways to attract legit backlinks, am I right? One night last week while doing some client work, I was negotiating a deal to host some industry software as a professional courtesy to one of [...]
While perusing the inner-depths of the vast interweb late one evening, I ran across a specification in a protocol that fancied my interests to a great degree. In other words, I ran across something cool. Now I'm sure most of you nerds have heard of this specification before, but for some reason I never ran across this before. Apparently [...]
This is one of those things that has always bothered me, but I never got around to doing and that is being able to view the source code of a website on Android. For the most part I don't do any actual coding on my phone, but there are many circumstances where I have to view the source code [...]
I've been amused with this story all day long since Cyrus Shepard tweeted it. Mark Hill, a journalist for Cracked.com was recently propositioned by a website called "Wingman Magazine." If you are interested, I also went on a bit of a tangent about this story on Periscope (video) so check that out. How it all went down The online [...]