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  • How To Find 404 Errors In Google Search Console (2024)

    It’s so hard to find a simple guide these days… Admittedly, we’ve not been staying on top of our 404 errors here on Sycosure. When went to look for our 404 errors on our Google Search Console account, we saw how much everything had massively changed. So, of course, we took to Google to find […]...

  • The Only Way White Hat Link Building Services Can Exist

    In the world of SEO, many try to tout their link building service as being “white hat”. The problem with this claim is that these sellers are building backlinks on their private blog networks (PBNs), doing outreach for backlinks, or they’re spamming blogs with comments. These types of services all fall under what’s defined a...

  • Do Blog Comments Help SEO?

    If you don’t know what blog comments are, they’re just comments from readers on posts on your blog. Some search engine optimisers believe that blog comments give a small SEO boost. Of course, when SEOs talk about blog comments, they’re actually referring to 3 different types of things: blog comments on your own blog, blog [&hellip...

  • How To Find Unread Emails in Gmail (And Clear Them!)

    Isn’t it annoying when you have that number next to your inbox telling you how many unread messages you have, but it could be anywhere in the thousands of pages of emails that you have? We encounter this problem quite often. What’s worse is that when we try to find a guide on how to […]...

  • Marketing on Agar.io Revisited

    Back in 2015, we wrote an article on the marketing potential of Agar.io. Today, we got bored enough to revisit Agar and get to the top of the leaderboard with the nickname “Sycosure.com” again to see if anyone visited the website. As you can tell based on the featured image of this thread, nobody visited […]...

  • What Is Black Hat SEO & Is It Illegal?

    There are many misconceptions about black hat SEO. Over the decade we’ve been in business, we’ve found that many SEO websites either don’t understand black hat SEO or they avoid the topic entirely. Whether this is out of fear of a penalty from Google or because they see it as “morally corrupt” we cannot say. […]...

  • Is Black Hat SEO Unethical?

    Black hat SEO is sometimes referred to as “unethical SEO”, although we’ve always found this term to be a tad silly. There is no morality in following Google’s Search Essentials (formerly known as the Google Webmaster Guidelines) nor is there a morality in finding loopholes in them. The problem with answering this question ou...

  • Keyword Research In 2024: Tips & Tricks

    Keyword research in 2024 is a lot different than it was 10 years ago. When we first set up Sycosure, keyword search was a tedious task that involved using a bunch of different tools to estimate volume and competition. The main trick to keyword research back then was to use the Keyword Planner in Google […]...

  • Are SMM Panels Safe? The Risks of Using One

    Over the years, we’ve tested and used hundreds of social media marketing panels, also known as SMM panels. We can say, without a doubt, that nothing in internet marketing is safe to use as something can always go wrong, especially if you’re boosting stats artificially and violating the terms of service of a platform. But […]...

  • 9 Home Office Essentials For Any Home Office

    Since the start of our company, we’ve successfully maintained a home office for the last 11 years. What’s the secret to our success? It’s simple: we got the right home office essentials as soon as we could. With more people than ever working from home since the pandemic, we thought it was important to share […]...