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Ryan Jones is an SEO from Detroit. By day he works as a manager of SEO & Analytics at SapientNitro where his team performs SEO for Fortune500 clients. By night he's either playing hockey or attempting to take over the world with his own websites - which he would have already succeeded in doing had it not been for those meddling kids and their dog. The views expressed here have not been paid for and belong only to Ryan, not any of his employers or clients. Follow Ryan on Twitter at: @RyanJones, add him on Google+ or visit his personal website: www.RyanMJones.com

Top Ad Networks – Best Adsense Alternatives

Are there ad networks better than Adsense? (Updated April 2019) When you’re starting a website it can be simple to just throw some Google adsense on there and forget about it. But sometimes Google’s Adsense isn’t the best option to monetize your website. If you have a different type of traffic, or heaven forbid you’ve […]

Is Google Testing Less Ads?

When I was looking through some of my brands traffic I noticed a huge spike in SEO over the last few days for all brands. As I was still looking into it, @sugarrae tweeted the following: That fits with what I’m seeing on some major brands. When I started doing some searches, I noticed an […]

Why I Can’t Wait For Self Driving Cars

There’s a lot of hate out there for self driving cars, and while I can understand some of the reasons I think the good out weights the bad. Personally, I can’t wait to get a self driving car when the technology is ready. I think self driving cars will change a lot about our daily […]

Introducing Owdy

Capitalizing on the popularity of Ello, renowned SEO blog wtfseo has just announced that they’re launching their own social network. It’s called Owdy. Owdy is a game changing new social media paradigm shift that’s sure to be the next Ello killer. Unlike other networks, Owdy isn’t cluttered up with ads, apps, widgets, groups, events, or […]

Matt Cutts Photoshops

If you’ve ever seen me speak at a marketing conference, you’ve probably noticed a trend – I can’t resist photoshopping Matt Cutts, Duane Forrester, or just any other marketer I happen to be on a panel with. I’ve seen many of my photoshops on blog posts, so I decided to put up an authoritative post […]

How To Change Your Ebay Password

How Do I Change My Ebay Password? By now you’ve probably heard the news that due to a security breach eBay wants you to change your password. If you’re like me, you haven’t changed your eBay password in at least 10 years. My twitter feed was filling up with people asking how to change their […]

It’s Time To Change Credit Card Processing

In the past week I’ve gotten two notices that my credit card data might have been obtained in a retail site hack. That’s two too many and it got me thinking about how we process credit cards and how credit card processing fees are handled for business, credit card processing fees are charges incurred by […]

Keyword Not Provided Clarifications

Two Mondays ago I was validating some analytics tagging on a client site and happened to be one of the first to stumble upon the fact that Google had ramped up the percentage of “keyword not provided.” Since then, there’s been a lot of mis-information about the change being shared on social media, blogs, and […]

You Can’t Reverse Engineer The Google Algorithm

As most SEOs are aware, Google just launched the latest penguin algorithm. Amid the mass panic that follows all algorithm updates, several SEOs started discussing the Google algorithm and their theories. Don’t worry, I’m not going to tell you how to recover from it or anything like that. Instead, I want to focus on some […]

Rant: SEO Tests, Cutts Statements, & The Algorithm

I’m going to channel my inner @alanbleiweiss and rant for a minute about some things I saw over the last few days in the SEO world. I also want to apologize for any spelling mistakes from the start, as my right arm is in a cast and I’m typing this entirely left-handed until I can […]