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Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
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The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, k read more »
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Creating great content for your social network starts with preparation. Get to know the community and the types of content they like before spending your time and energy on content development. Once you know the people and what content plays well, y read more »
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"I do not like doing much traditional SEO client work, and see the business model as having limited longterm value for most SEO consultants. The best consultants could usually make more promoting their own sites and brands than they would working fo read more »
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SEO’s, SEM’s and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -what read more »
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Jeff of Search Engine People about himself, prophecy, social media, search conferences, early computers in the eighties etc. read more »
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A sphinn plugin that actually aligns with your text and appears on both the homepage and your actual posts page. read more »
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~40 photo examples of how ICanHasCheezburger and ecommerce are related - including photos and links to additional articles on each topic. Hilarious. read more »
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What skill do you need to become a successful social media expert? Tamar asks several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteris read more »
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An often overlooked content optimization opportunity concerns customer service related information. So much effort is put into optimizing content to “make the sale” or “capture the lead”, but not on making content that is useful to existing customer read more »
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Where I make a sociological-based argument theorizing that Doug's typical course of blog commenting is actually good marketing and branding for his business. read more »
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Ray "Catfish" Comstock just released footage of his presentation given at the Online Marketing Summit last February in San Diego. The presentation covers subjects ranging from Google Webmaster Tools, Site Links, Robots.txt, Canonicalization to capit read more »
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"I am pretty sure if any of these guys wrote a “Top Six SEOs I Wouldn’t Want to Be Stuck in an Elevator With” post, I would be at the top." read more »
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Despite reading tons of blogs each day it’s actually quite rare that I bookmark posts in FireFox. But by being selective, I’ve managed to build up a nice collection of quality articles and blog posts over the last three or four years about pretty mu read more »
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Google keyword tool reporting numbers, not blue bars. It has changed back but have screenshots - is this a Google blunder or a sign of things to come? read more »
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A computer-implemented method for displaying advertisements to members of a network comprises identifying one or more communities of members, identifying one or more influencers in the one or more communities, and placing one or more advertisements read more »
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Gyutae Park writes "I want to give a little background information on my various SEO experiences and then outline what I think is an ideal career path for aspiring newbies to become SEO rockstars." read more »
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Scott Hendison offers his opinion as to whether the SMX Advanced "Give It Up" speakers strayed into black hat territory. Excellent review of the session. read more »
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Reciprocal linking is one of the most disputable SEO questions. The problem is that it is two-fold in nature. First, reciprocal links are natural being the essence of the Internet like linking overall. (So undoubtedly, we can’t do without them.) Sec read more »
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An unfortunately simple way of poisoning link networks may be on its way to Google Webmaster Tools. read more »
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David Wallace's excellent post where he argues that only that being an active participant in online communities (the right way) gives you the right and privilege to submit your own stuff to them. People who only join communities for self-promotion read more »
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Google has added a new feature to the external keyword tool, they have added approximate search volume numbers. For example, I conducted a search for SEO and the results returned showed columns for "Approx Search Volume: June" and "Approx Avg Search read more »
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Stoney deGeyter asks the question, "When I only have about 65 characters to work with in a title tag (that which is visible on the search engine results pages), should I use any of that valuable real estate to display my company name?" read more »
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The Sphinn team are happy to announce the launch of our very own blog! The blog will be used for announcements and discussions regarding Sphinn, keeping the frontpage clean from clutter. We'll also be launching a Sphinn Weekly post, giving a round-u read more »
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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
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