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Avatar Posted By: Maing 47 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Keyword cannibalization (no matter how awfully terrifying it may sound) is a widely-spread website internal information structure problem that occurs when multiple subpages are (heavily) targeting one and the same key term. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: martynb 1 hour 44 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.designed2perform.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Now this might come as a surprise. When people go looking for an SEO Company they often think all they need to do is increase the traffic to the website. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: susiehood 2 hours 8 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsult.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Good article along the lines of good SEO being a long term, sustainable strategy, despite the "results now!" culture that exists in marketing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mattsteel007 5 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsult.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Essentially what all users and search engines are looking for in a website is useful, informative content. When searching, users want to be given relevant sites in the displayed results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mattsteel007 5 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsult.co.uk)
Category: SEO
A word of warning though, don’t participate in link schemes which are designed to increase your rankings. Links like web spammers or those that come from bad neighbourhoods may have an adverse affect on your rankings. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: cnsquinon 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://moneyseo.cnsqweb.com)
Category: SEO
Here’s a nice video tutorial on how to optimize your Wordpress site for the search engines using these 5 Key SEO Areas. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: christine 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Excellent article by Jill Whalen on Why Usability and SEO Go Hand-in-Hand. Usability can make or break a web site. With hard economic times upon us, improving a site's usability makes more sense than ever before. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: peterryan 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.arteworks.biz)
Category: SEO
This is hilarious! Matt Foster writes, "I typed in the search query "ebay" this morning. I was quite surprised when the news results... yielded a scantily clad young woman appearing to be using a Wii with the caption "I Really Should Study"." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: karaleema 18 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clickconsult.com)
Category: SEO
It is well known fact that the most direct way to contact people via the internet is still via email........ read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ChristopherHart 19 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mediapost.com)
Category: SEO
Traffic will become the true measurement of an SEO project--rather than search engine rankings--as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo continue to roll out behavioral search features. So says SEO guru Bruce Clay in an interview with Online Media Daily. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Lisadit 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.baseonesearch.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Rebecca Scott discusses (albeit with herself) what is more important, content or links. Is content not more important for conversions and a good user experience? And the principle that great content can organically generate links to your site, or? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JeffMHoward 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
About a month ago I was chatting with Rand via email. He explained that he thought that the perception that SEO is manipulative was harming the industry... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: samtilston 23 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ntteuropeonline.com)
Category: SEO
Managed Hosting specialists, NTT Europe Online today revealed the findings of the ‘Host Close’ report which details how managed hosting services can help boost a brand’s natural exposure on Google by 30%, clarifying for the first time the importance read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seodubai 1 day 3 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seodubai.org)
Category: SEO
Have you think optimizing your website to target local business companies?Let say for example if you are a customer and you are looking for a SEO company in Abu Dhabi. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: UtahSEOpro 1 day 13 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
We have been doing some research into how to rank in Google mobile web search. Google is the dominant player in mobile search in the US (source: Nielsen Mobile) - our test site hasn't yet been indexed in the other search engines so I'll have to repo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: EPORIA 1 day 18 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://eporiablog.wordpress.com)
Category: SEO
Consider the following 11 SEO strategies the next time you plan to sit down and take a good look at your SEO efforts. Keep in mind that SEO is both an art and a science and you want to keep a careful balance in the implementation process. In other w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: hepcj 1 day 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seothegame.com)
Category: SEO
When you optimise your site for very competitive keywords it can take a long time and a lot of work before you start to get listings for these keywords. One of the ways in which the process can be eased is by using related keywords which are less co read more »
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Avatar Posted By: victoria916 1 day 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bostoninteractiveblog.com)
Category: SEO
In the race to keep relevant websites in a top position and traffic-generating role, the bounce rate has become a tool that search engines use to measure how well your keywords match your landing pages. Before we discuss how to improve your bounce r read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Avinio 1 day 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
let’s look into elements that should / can be included in a page title depending on your website/ business/ this given page purposes. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: yetanotherben 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
Part of planning a SEO campaign, especially for anyone involved in B2C retail, is to optimize with holiday events in mind. Obviously, gift giving is a tradition that no retailer can miss out on, so SEO campaigns for the holiday season are often plan read more »
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Avatar Posted By: verma.saurav 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: SEO
While the world is experiencing an economic financial crisis, the SEO industry is experiencing a surprising increase in demand. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrianChappell 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: SEO
"You may think that you only need a great product catalog and a good advertising campaign, but you’re missing out on opportunities if you’re not also offering informational articles to your users.

Why adding content works for your store:" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.polepositionmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
Stoney deGeyter writes, "I just got a call today from MainStreetHost.com telling me I don’t know the first thing about SEO. After 11 years in the industry, this was news to me. Of course I was just one of many cold-calls they made and I’m sure they read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingwords.com)
Category: SEO
Karon Thackston says: "If you’re going to go to the trouble to produce articles, make sure you do them right. The most successful articles are well written, are not self-promotional and actually allow the reader to walk away with useful information. read more »
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