Recent content by Jason Kamara

Thanks, Linda! I'm looking forward to taking the Pepsi challenge with some of those web-based crawlers. I use Screaming Frog for quick audits and love it's simplicity. But for large sites and other sites that have gone through several builds, I use Microsoft's free SEO Toolkit. You can drill...

I caught that post last week and actually read it a couple times. It certainly jives with what you and Mike B have pointed out previously.

Google really seems to tread a thin line when it comes to anti-trust compliance issues in different countries. Working in Canada, I spend most of my time on Google.ca. There is a marked difference between Adwords styling on Google.com and Google.ca and I suspect that organic CTR rates...

I'm experimenting more and more with video SEO as it's provided great results thus far. IChris provided a lot of actionable tips in his post. One I would like to add is that you can also link videos together using annotations. For example, you could funnel link equity from a stronger but...

I'm currently playing around with YouTube and have had reasonable success thus far. In less competitive markets, it's quite easy to get the video ranked which really stands out against plain-text SERP results. A few tips to add to the excellent ones already given: 1) Put your URL near or at...

I have been looking around for this exact type of study for the past few months to no avail. Too bad there isn't more information on the methodology used. It's hard to put any stock in the results without answers to some of the concerns raised by Dave. I realize this is just a small exploratory...

A few good posts I've come across on the subject: How to make your content local 5 Ridiculously Sneaky Citations Most Small Business Never Think to Get! I was thinking of creating geotargeted Pinterest boards and sharing the pins with social to create some high DA (nofollowed) links to inner...

It looks like a sweet little tool. I got the same "Domain is not found" message as David for an older domain with 100+ indexed pages and fairly high Domain Authority. SEMrush has a robust SEO/PPC keyword research tool that does something similar and also adds search volume and CPC (though the...

Keyword-stuffing internal anchor text (especially sitewides) is an obvious tactic to manipulate the algo and Google isn't easily fooled by this. The minor rankings benefit you could gain would be outweighed greatly by the potential rankings drop you would likely be hit with at some point in time...

Thanks so much, Linda! You saved me a lot of problems down the road! And thanks for the late night reply. Your tireless work is much appreciated.

Actually I was trying to create a G+L page. But it does just seem to be a G+ Business page. I should have noticed since there is a video tab on the page. The client's business is less than a year old so he didn't have a Places listing. Are you saying I should create a Places listing? Is this...

Thanks for the replies, Colan and Linda. I set it up as a Local page. I even screen shot the setup process in the event that something like this happened (I've attached 2 of them below). I setup a local business with no previous Places listing or G+ business page. There was no listing for this...

Hi everyone, I had to resend a verification postcard for a G+L page since my client fears he may have thrown his out. The address information that is automatically entered onto the postcard is incomplete. It doesn't include the postal code (Canadian version of zip code) or the country. No...

I know what you mean. The simplicity of Wordpress made me less vigilant when doing technical SEO. Now I don't even think about link-building until the site is getting indexed properly. Glad I could help! Thanks for sharing that great tool, Linda! I know how expensive custom scribing is, so I...

Great tips already! Let's keep them coming. Here are a few I came up with on the commute home from work. They haven't been tested in isolation so I can't say definitively which ones, if any, are effective on their own. Nevertheless, here they are: 1) Check your robots.txt and sitemap.xml...