Author Archives: Slingshot

6 Easy Steps to Set Up Authorship Through Your Google+ Profile

October 1st, 2012 by Steven Shattuck If you’ve followed SEO and Internet marketing news over the past year, you’ve no doubt come across the concept of AuthorRank, which AJ Kohn says “could be more disruptive than all of the Panda updates combined.” Google, who actually labels it “Agent Rank,” describes it as “the identity of […]

Align Content Marketing With Your Brand Before It’s Too Late

September 27th, 2012 by Kevin Bailey Content marketing is today’s “it” marketing strategy—as it should be. Thanks to some tweaks by Google and the rise of the social web, we believe content marketing is now the most powerful form of Internet marketing that’s ever existed. When done right, it drives unprecedented inbound traffic from search, […]

Making Rainbows Part Two: Creating Social Media Communities

September 26th, 2012 by Muhammad Yasin The practice of using social media for SEO is becoming increasingly important. In order to have your message resonate on social media, and in turn impact your business as it pertains to search engine ranking and online visibility (and eventually monetarily), there are a number of steps you must […]

Cast Your Vote: Ranking Signals in a Social Media Era

September 25th, 2012 by Bradley Smith Considering the upcoming presidential election, it seems appropriate to draw some similarities between the United States’ complicated Electoral College process and how Google chooses which sites win that No. 1 spot. If you need a brief political science refresher, presidents are elected based on an indirect vote by the […]

Ask An SEO Expert – SEO & Email Newsletters

September 24th, 2012 by Emily Burgett One of the biggest challenges in marketing is bridging the gaps between separate activities so they all become cohesive and support the same goal. The same goes with SEO. It is important for marketers and webmasters to identify those gaps and actively work to integrate all those efforts. One […]

Best Practices for Achieving Critical Mass on Your Google+ Brand Page

September 18th, 2012 by Steven Shattuck When I was hired as Community Manager for Slingshot SEO in February of 2012, I was put in charge of managing the Slingshot SEO social media accounts. One of our most underutilized networks was Google+. Though it’s often derided as the red-headed stepchild of the social media family, many […]

Ask An SEO Expert – Over-Optimization

by Emily Burgett In April, Google launched an algorithm update known as Penguin, which penalized websites that were “overly-optimized”. SEOs everywhere scrambled to figure out why sites were penalized and how those sites could find new life after Penguin. This has left many webmasters to wonder, “How do you optimize without over doing it?” Here […]

Making Rainbows: Adding Social Media to your Marketing Mix

August 30th, 2012 by Muhammad Yasin The practice of using social media for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is becoming increasingly important. In order to have your message resonate on social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.) and, in turn, impact your business as it pertains to search engine ranking and online visibility (and eventually in terms […]