In the age of online privacy concerns it was only natural for a certain app and social network to be born, one that offers anonymity. Just like duckduckgo is a great anonymous alternative to Google, Candid is quic...
Ok. I've gotten to a point when I have a lot on my plate. I have a day job and I have a very busy freelance schedule, a schedule that's becoming harder and harder to maintain because I'm working a multiple "fronts". M...
In the past the biggest problem I had with twitter was that adding pictures, gifs or videos would take a big portion of my very precious 140 characters. At the moment, these limits are no more! Twitter has starte...
It's official: AMP results are now live in Google Search even though Google haven't previously announced a certain date for when this will happen. AMP (accelerated mobile pages) will appear strictly for mobile se...
First, let me explain how I get content ideas. Apart from original ideas that all of sudden are popping into my head and I have to write them down immediately, for future development, I usually need a little help choosin...
We all know and understand the direct aspects of promoting content in video format. It's highly interactive and the potential user will understand the message better compared with reading the content. Search Engines ...
Notice this last week just before I started my vacation, I was trying to research some certain keywords from my personal Google account and I notice Keyword Planner stopped showing me the estimated number of average mont...
Do you think online services are recession proof, would your services that you offer as a freelancer survive a 2008 type market crash? Sometimes I wonder about this stuff and the answer I find myself concluding sc...
This post is part of the series: Social media marketing "advices" that simply don't work As the titles say, having the same piece of content posted on all of your social media platforms at once is not a good idea. ...
We've all heard them and seen them all over the place, social media marketing "tips" that are regurgitated time after time on blogs and in tutorials. So I'm going to share a list of "tricks" that actually DON'T work, ...
Rather important new in the SEO world. The most popular and from my point of view, the most important SEO plugin for Wordpress has updated to version 3.5. The new Yoast updated consists of: XML sitemap changes ...
One year ago I had no idea what Magento was because I haven't got any clients that used such a platform. So I was pretty alien when it came to implementing SEO to Magento type websites. Magento is a free open sour...
I'm going to share 5 tips and tricks on how to make your Wordpress Blog or Website to load faster and therefore get a better score from Google increasing its ranking potential. As we all already know, website's speed is ...
I was wondering, what is the best PC configuration for freelancers that offer SEO services. Of course, blackhat software is excluded, we won't be counting those requirements. I own decent Samsung i3 laptop, recen...
Everyone that doesn't offer any kind of freelance services always tell that being a freelancer should mean you have loads of free time. But that wasn't my experience at all, I used to have less free time than peo...
Google Local Guides is a community that review places all over the world and helps to improve Google Maps. So I decided to become a contributor or a Local Guide because there are some nice benefits in becoming a guide. ...
Friday (02.09.2016) I've noticed some really big changes in ranks for most of my clients. Two clients lost some good positions but the vast majority of my clients actually reached new tops in terms of ranking. I have see...
Hey, guys I have a few tips on how to get more people to actually read what you are writing on your website or blogs. Most people apparently "scan" information and don't actually read it, this doesn't mean you need t...
I always wonder, do the people that work at Google count and review your backlinks manually or does a special algorithm and software does it automatically? What if you build a bunch of spammy backlinks? How can a softwar...
Ok, when it comes to Wordpress you always going to need an SEO plugin. Back in the old days, for a few good number of years my main SEO plugin for Wordpress was All in One SEO Pack. Until Yoast SEO came along and star...
Google have just updated their local reviews guidelines for markup, Mike Blumenthal announced on its Twitter 3 days ago. What are the reviews markups? They look like these and they can be placed with schema.org: ...
We all know the benefits of having a website that doesn't have any 404 errors. I always crawl my clients websites on a regular basis to check for 404 error and when I do find some, I usually clean the code by removin...
What are you top five websites for SEO news and SEO related articles and updates? It doesn't really have to be a top, I'm just curious what you people are reading on a daily basis when it comes to SEO and maybe some mo...
I remember most SEO articles 5 years ago repeated the same thing over and over when discussing about SEO link building methods, social bookmarking was on the list! Every time! Even today, some bloggers and "SEO ...
When it comes to selling stuff online, reputation matters a lot, no matter if you sell real products or just digital services, your reputation is really important! When it comes to big companies, they need to worry a...
Ok so after I noticed more and more people are using Voice Search I defiantly needed to check everything out myself. As you know Google uses...well "Ok Google" and IOS are using Siri. Both "virtual assistants" are real...
I want to gather as much information as possible from one specific website. I'm not going to share the actual website because, well, it doesn't matter and I don't want to promote unnecessary stuff here. So, my main g...
I'm having big problems with one of my client's Google business card search results. Here are the details: Client changed its business name and business location as well as everything in between. When Google search...
Ok, so since everybody is writing success stories, I thought, why the hell not, I should write my own! Even though I'm sure it may not help anybody as I'm not much of a personal writer, here it goes: My actual pas...
They may be young and they may just have a couple of experience but in about 10 years Millennials will become the majority of the workforce. Any long term thinking online marketer must develop a plan and a strategy for w...
This is the change (in percentages) of total shares by social media platforms from 2014 to 2016: As you can clearly notice in the above statistic, Google+'s shares are down -93% in the last two years. This is a to...
Apparently, Google is having problems with Google Search Console, more exactly the Index Status section. Have you noticed this issue? I've definitely noticed, don't know for how long the problem exists and how much o...
I really love the new look of my profile. I have only but one issue with it. This more exactly: I'm both Phone verified and Address Verified but that isn't too clear from the normal user. Because I see two col...
Giving the fact that we had previous discussions about making people here on SEOclerks take some test to show their current level of knowledge of SEO, I was thinking of a better way. Not to add the test like a feature...
So get this: Google wants to re-invent the video call. Kinda late to the party right? Well, probably no, it's Google we're talking about here after all. If any company can innovate and develop better technologies a...
Outside Paypal, do you people trust and use internet banking? I personally love my online banking features I have available with the bank I'm with. First of all its very important for my as a freelancer to keep a...
Big Projects. They need to be carefully managed and ordered if you ever plan to finish them in time and in a correct manner on which you and the client agreed on. So you need something to help you do all of this, a m...
How important is spying on your competitor's websites? I spend a lot of time looking at what my competitors are doing and what the overall trends are for a certain niche or website I'm promoting or doing SEO for. S...
As we all already know, website speed is highly important for any modern SEO. Google takes into consideration how much times your website takes to fully load for the average user and makes all this a ranking factor for...
A heat map representation can give a website administrator a better understanding on how users are actually using the website. It usually uses colors to indicate the area of the website where people are clicking stuff. R...
