MindValley Labs Internet Marketing Blog

I was just doing a lit­tle bit of SEO work for two of our web sites. 
One is a new Span­ish speak­ing web site that we launched recently and we wanted to get it to the top of Google for the key­word “metodo silva” and we were able to get to the top of the page […]

Brace your­selves for an excel­lent inter­view brought to you exclu­sively by Mind­Val­ley Labs with the one and only Rand Fishkin, CEO of the highly suc­cess­ful SEO­moz, by far one of the undis­puted lead­ers in the SEO indus­try.
In this inter­view Rand gen­er­ously pro­vides great tips and ideas that we have found ben­e­fi­cial. More­over, they clar­ify a […]

There has been a flurry of signups (Thank you!) since releas­ing Traf­fic Marks into the wild, so we decided to record a short walk-through to help every­one max­i­mize their results.
In a few extremely riv­et­ing min­utes you’ll learn:

Why scor­ing back links from “Traf­fic Mark” sites is vital to your dreams of 1st page rel­e­vance
How to successfully […]

A few days ago I talked about our new SEO web-app, Traf­fic Marks, which hones in and pin­points rel­e­vant author­ity sites so you know exactly where to focus your link build­ing efforts. It is the quick­est, eas­i­est way to find the best author­ity sites to get links from.
Thing is, once you’ve mer­ci­lessly found the rel­e­vant authority […]

Ask any real SEO junkie about time-tested effec­tive meth­ods for get­ting to Google’s 1st page quickly and chances are pretty good that they’ll men­tion get­ting incom­ing links from author­ity sites in your field (which is deter­mined by the key­word you want to rank well for).
Pre­vi­ously, doing this was quite a pain, and over here at MindValleyLabs […]

Google just launched Knol and the whole world is won­der­ing whether every SEO expert and affil­i­ate mar­keter out there is going to start writ­ing Knol’s instead of Wikipedia arti­cles.
Why?* For SEO Juice * For mak­ing money
Well, my first analy­sis indi­cates that this might be indeed hap­pen.  Here 5 Knols that were fea­tured on Knol’s home page […]

Rand from www.SEOmoz.com, just wrote an excel­lent blog post on opti­miz­ing your blog posts for SEO.  You can read the post here:
Heads­mack­ing Tip #3: Run Your Blog Post Titles Through Key­word Research Before You Hit Pub­lish
I have to agree with Rand that this is very impor­tant and I was just doing exactly what Rand was writing […]

I’ve spent some sig­nif­i­cant time this last week study­ing mate­r­ial on SEO from Stom­per­Net and Jeff John­son. Bril­liant guys, with very dif­fer­ent styles. Now, let me share with you some quick thoughts about my expe­ri­ence going through what both of them offered.
Stom­per­Net SEO Course
When I first sub­scribed to StomperNet’s newslet­ter (after they were pro­moted to […]

I’d like to intro­duce you to Amir Ahmad, the lat­est addi­tion to our Mind­Val­ley Labs blog.
Hav­ing been invited for con­fer­ences co-organized by Har­vard Uni­ver­sity and attended inter­na­tional ones, Amir is a blo­ga­holic and a pas­sion­ate observer of the blo­gos­phere. He has also built and grown a num­ber of suc­cess­ful blogs.
Amir will be blog­ging about blog­ging itself, SEO […]

I was Googling to find the com­pany “AIESEC Michi­gan”, a recruit­ing firm in Ann Arbor.
Their offi­cial site is AiesecMichigan.com
But here is what Google shows:

Take a look at the last link on that page. Yup that’s the site they want to draw traffic to.

SKIP?
Not only is their flash web­site killing their search engine rank­ings (How is Google […]