Link reclamation is not an entirely new thing, but the tools that have enabled us to find mentions of the things we own online have only recently begun to proliferate. Fresh Web Explorer, Image Raider, simply searching on Google by date, trackbacks in Google Analytics – these are all valuable tools to see where the [...]
Posts By: Ross Hudgens
Content Marketing Strategies for 2013 – Presentation Video & Slides
At the end of April, I was lucky enough to be invited to Leeds, England to present at ionSearch. While there, I presented on “Rapid Fire Content Marketing Strategies”. Last week, I tweaked the presentation slightly and offered it again to an audience in Boston at SearchLove. This was the first time I’ve duplicated a [...]
Matt Cutts Video Transcript: What Google SEO Changes Are Coming Next?
Matt Cutts released a video today on “What should we expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google?”. It is a necessary video for webmasters to watch, but what stood out when watching wasn’t that part, but rather that there wasn’t a transcript of the video. If you’re like me, you [...]
How to Curate
A good rule of thumb for amazing curation is not just sharing a great link, it’s sharing a great link nobody else has seen. That’s where many go wrong – people try and auto-feed articles into their social accounts, blogs or email newsletters, thinking that by simply sharing SEOmoz or Distilled or whatever, that will [...]
How to Create More Sustainable & Marketable Infographic Embed Codes
Infographics have fallen out of style a bit recently – much to do with Google saying they might devalue the tactic in months past. This has definitely led to a little less demand for the images, and a little more fear – will these infographics pass value in the future? Are they even passing value [...]
E-Commerce Content Marketing for Search: SearchFest 2013
This is my presentation from SearchFest in Portland that I gave today. I get into building digital experiences, content marketing for ecommerce, brand monitoring, and more. The resources I mention in this post can all be found on my personal blog.
TextExpander: A Necessary Tool for Marketing Outreach
When I originally read John Doherty’s post on the ideal Gmail productivity setup for link builders, I was quite impressed. There stands probably the seminal piece on what you need as a link builder to get things done and get people to link to you online. From templates to tools, tactics to theory, John did [...]
Improved Content Marketing With Facebook Graph Search
Facebook recently debuted their Graph Search functionality, and I was lucky enough to get it rolled out to me yesterday morning. Upon getting to play with the new search bar, I found myself impressed – it’s clearly a better interface, and while perhaps not a “game changer”, it definitely improves upon the ability to search [...]
Blog Post Repurposing: An Underused But Powerful Tactic
Earlier this week, a new post from 37Signals went hot on Hacker News’ homepage. The post is short, succinct and written with clear language and punch. But what makes it worth remarking on is the fact that the content was originally in a blog post in 2005, which was then piece of a book they made [...]
Link Building Strategies: 2013 Edition
I was lucky enough to invited to speak at BlueglassX, an SEO conference from the Blueglass team in Tampa, Florida. These are my slides from the “Link Building Strategies That Actually Work” session that happened yesterday. The main goal of the presentation was to provide as many rapid-fire tips for the audience to implement as [...]

