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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2009 - 4:55 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: SEO
Michael Gray shares a live example and writes about his experience with launching a site, with NO LINKS, and having it indexed quickly after developing an XML Sitemaps strategy. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2009 - 5:10 am
Posted By: theGypsy 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
SNIP - Use your content to your advantage. Pick out specific high-priority keywords and link to the appropriate pages. If your number one keyword phrase is “link architecture” and you have a page on your website that carries a PageRank of three, use read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 29, 2009 - 11:48 am
Posted By: theGypsy 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
Todd Mintz dropped by the Trail with a great guest post on dealing with your sales pitch - a must read for account execs and freelancers alike!! read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2009 - 8:47 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
A must read post from Rand about the skills which have served him best in his SEO career. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2009 - 1:25 am
Posted By: theGypsy 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
via Small Business SEM - SNIP - But what about the cost of small business SEO? What should a small business expect to pay when hiring an SEO consultant? Here are five points that I hope will help small business owners understand more about SEO, pric read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2009 - 10:19 pm
Posted By: Lyndon 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://labs.wordtracker.com)
Category: SEO
Wordtracker has just launched a free, Firefox plugin. The new tool allows you to edit and perform keyword research whilst you write. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2009 - 3:00 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brysonmeunier.com)
Category: SEO
Having specialized in mobile SEO for about as long as people have been talking about it, I have seen many experts say many things about the practice of making content accessible to and optimized for mobile users. Not all of these things make sense. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2009 - 12:42 pm
Posted By: belasco99 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: SEO
Gab Goldenberg answers another age old seo question about getting a site with a splash page to rank well! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2009 - 11:55 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
There is quite a lot of confusion over information retrieval sometimes, usually due to the fact that some concepts are used and investigated without their basis being known in the first place.

It's a little tricky to get acquainted with all of th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2009 - 7:09 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Useful tips for using social media to control your online reputation in Google. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 22, 2009 - 8:31 am
Posted By: Rob 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
SEOMoz have tested a bunch of SEO factors, from H1 tags to Search Wiki, and the results are not exactly what you'd expect. It's worth a read, or worth passing to someone who wants to know the current state of SEO thinking. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2009 - 9:51 am
Posted By: annie7 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
A good list explaining why your site may have high bounce rates. "Bounce Rate can be simply defined as the percentage of website visitors that leave the website directly from the page they enter without clicking through to any other page of the webs read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2009 - 1:34 am
Posted By: robwatts 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://econsultancy.com)
Category: SEO
Running PPC and SEO campaigns in isolation from each other often means many learnings and advanced SEM tactics and techniques are being missed. This post looks at some of the ways your PPC campaign can inform your SEO strategy and vice-versa. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2009 - 6:00 am
Posted By: vangogh 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
About 2 weeks ago Danny Sullivan highlighted that Google follows Javascript links, and that sculpting PageRank using rel=nofollow no longer works. Matt Cutts shared that second bit to the shock and awe of the SEO industry at the recent SMX conferenc read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2009 - 9:52 am
Posted By: SEOTipADay 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seotipaday.com)
Category: SEO
No, we don’t have it out for Walmart just like to shop there online! So of course, keeping up with SEO I just happened to stumble across something today. I was looking at deals on the iPod Touch and found some interesting stuff. Checkout these scree read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2009 - 8:09 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Earlier this month, Google’s Matt Cutts sent a shockwave through the advanced SEO community by saying that site owners could no longer perform “PageRank sculpting” using the nofollow tag in the way they’d previously thought. Now Matt’s posted more e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2009 - 8:16 am
Posted By: Lyndon 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: SEO
Obviously Internet Liberalisation is important to how SEO is implemented, but what do the experts think? I have asked a number of industry experts and professionals to give their opinion. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2009 - 9:28 am
Posted By: vangogh 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEO
The SEO community is buzzing about how Matt Cutts sat up and openly stated that "Google profiles SEOs like common criminals." Even though what Matt actually said was rather mild and nothing we haven't heard before, there's a couple good lessons here read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2009 - 7:30 am
Posted By: AlanBleiweiss 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Good question about the best approach when it comes to page title implementation read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2009 - 7:27 am
Posted By: annie7 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Rachel Anderson over at SEJ on why Google Webmaster Tools are so useful and how they should be improved. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2009 - 1:45 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEO
There is no single definition of advanced SEO. There are a few of attempts to describe what it might mean or consist of and what not but there is no entity or authority that could define such a broad term like advanced SEO. I can’t define advanced S read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2009 - 1:41 am
Posted By: vangogh 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
The structure of a Web site’s URLs can have a dramatic impact on crawlability, SEO, and user-friendliness. This article shares a list of best practices for choosing URLs and explain why they matter. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2009 - 2:43 pm
Posted By: JollyLizard 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Learning SEO can be a daunting experience. To make this process a little easier, I have broken down my method for learning SEO into bite sized chunks that can be completed in 30 minutes or less. I have also tried to create a mechanism to make it eas read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2009 - 5:16 am
Posted By: eristoddle 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Is is alright to say I have ran smack into most of these reasons? read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2009 - 11:06 am
Posted By: jeremymartin 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
The Internet is a war zone. You build a site, do all the work you can on it and start promoting it. And as long as you are doing more than your competition, you will win, for a while.

But only for a while. When you are on top, you are THE company read more »
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