These past couple of years we've seen a hard crackdown by Google on bad link building (SEO) practices, and that really should come as no surprise to anyone. Here at Luxury Branded we don't do any link building but instead do content marketing that attracts natural links....

Not all luxury brands worry about reputation management, but we recently had a "fun" time with an ecommerce client of ours vs the ever-so-hated Ripoff Report. For those that don't know much about the site, let me run down a basic overview that explains why...

... contest and giveaway links. The past two years have been a wild ride for businesses playing the Google game requires the acquisition of links. Those who compete for serious search terms in the organic listings know that links still play a major role in the...

I'm not sure how many of you noticed the other day but there was a bit of advertising on Google's homepage the other day for the second Hobbit movie. I don't have much to go on other than I wonder what that kind of advertising...

We had a new hotel client come to us this past summer after receiving a manual notice about unnatural links. It wasn't around the time of a Google Penguin update, although they certainly were cruising for a bruising. We thought some of you in the same...

We do a lot of press release work with our clients and coming from a SEO background we know what NOT to do. Most companies waste everyone's time promoting news that isn't news, and this is something we will never do. Finally Google has come...