Search, Social, Gaming, and the Internet

My Favorite WordPress Plugins

Posted by Dan on April 29, 2012 in Development | 6 comments

WordPress is a great open source CMS with 1000s of plugins and themes available. The hardest part about using WordPress is knowing which plugins are the best for your needs. Today I’m going to list a few plugins that end up making it into 9 out of 10 WordPress sites that I develop for myself, or clients. This list consists of 7, excellent WordPress plugins that should be included in most, if not all, self-hosted WordPress sites. Yoast’s WordPress SEO What’s Good: Before using Yoast’s plugin, I use to use...

Scrapebox’s Hidden Treasures for SEO

Posted by Dan on April 11, 2012 in Guides | 21 comments

Scrapebox has been getting a good buzz lately from some of the traditional, “white hat” SEO blogs that I follow. I’ve been using Scrapebox for 2 or 3 years now and have picked up on a lot of advanced tactics which people seem to either forget about, or haven’t quite figured out. This post will let you know why Scrapebox should be in your SEO toolkit… 6 months ago! Scrapebox is really an SEO switchblade, packing more than 10 different tools within. Attention! At the end of this blog post, I’ll...

Chase the Footprint

Posted by Dan on March 31, 2012 in SEO | 3 comments

Over the last few weeks I’ve been slowly hacking away during my free time (which barely exists as many of you might already know) at a new link building tool, nay, a link discovery tool! To be honest, I spent the last week purely trying to develop a name for the tool and adding to the list of features for version 2.0. Yesterday I was finally able to name and launch my creation. It’s called Chase the Footprint and there’s a few reasons as to why I’ve named it this. More on it’s name and what it does after the...

Less Than Professional

Posted by Dan on March 11, 2012 in Everything Else | 2 comments

We’ve all done some crazy stuff in our days. For some of us, it’s an every day thing. Others have left that misbehaving entity behind for good, only resurfacing when a video or photo album gets posted to Facebook as a reminder of things you’ve done in the past. Here’s a brief history for those who don’t really know me. In college, a group of friends calling themselves “Hooligan Heroes” using alias names such as Mateo, Rabbit, Grinds, Junior Mints, and Spicy Lips (all featured below) would get together...

Where I Work

Posted by Dan on March 6, 2012 in Everything Else | Comments Off

Another post about me, myself, and I. Yes I regularly cover SEO and other Internet topics, but today you’ll be forced to read about where I work. As you may know, I’m a freelance Web Developer, SEO, or “Internet Strategist” as I’ve been calling it the past few years. I’ve been using Internet Strategist to define what I do on the web because I feel it accurately describes every step of my workflow for clients, as well as my own websites. More information on this logic and pictures after the jump! I take...