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Yet again, Debra Mastaler gives us more usable info than we can shake a stick at! read more »
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Very good (and detailed) post from Danny Sullivan about how online newspapers are complaining about the tons of traffic generated from Google! read more »
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Great post from Rand, some nice tips about getting the linkerati to link and tweet your posts. read more »
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Linkbait can be a very effective tool for search engine optimization. Social media is important for marketing your small or large business in 2009. The sky is blue. Women have secrets. Thanks for nothing, Dave. read more »
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The greater your company's online visibility, the more links your site will get. Here's an article from Justilien Gaspard on how building brand awareness will net your site more links and online exposure. read more »
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The fact of the matter is that you can effectively leverage popular news and events to improve your Internet business and increase traffic to your sites. How? In this article I’ll describe the strategies you can use to take advantage of hot topics f read more »
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Another home run from Wiep... "Instead of trying to save time by using templates that lower your success rate significantly, there are several other ways you can save time during a link marketing campaign..." read more »
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So, you promoted your image to a social bookmarking site, it hits the homepage, it sends a large amount of traffic, and you might even get a few links back to your site.

Well what about all those people that now use your image in their blog posts read more »
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Over the past two years I collected quite a few PDF and other downloads about social media in general, blogging, social media marketing and SEO. While blogs offer quick tips and overviews ebooks and white papers have the necessary depth to cover mor read more »
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Its been said time and again, to search engines, “content is king”, but when it really comes down to it, many companies say they don’t have the time, patience, or budget for content creation. It begs the question; why then should they be ranked high read more »
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Good presentation skills are essential in the SEO industry. As well as the multitude of conferences that feature so prominently in our industry, we are also often called on to present SEO clearly (and favourably!) to potential clients and skeptical read more »
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Should link builders pursue nofollow links? We say yes, absolutely, but with two qualifications: the nofollowed links must have contextual relevance to your URL and measurable marketing value. read more »
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According to Lisa Barone, you can get more than just links from social media. You can also get really great content. And one of the best places to find free content is on Flickr. read more »
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"Here’s a quick run-down of the nonsense and bad advice you’ll get from your friendly neighborhood SEO debunkers (and there is more than one guilty party so let’s not worry about who got nailed this time)." read more »
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Every website has a bunch of web pages which get more search traffic than others. These pages are constantly visited daily by new visitors, people who have never seen the site in question before. I call these ‘money pages’ because they are a reliabl read more »
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A nice test about the value of alt tags on image links.. read more »
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According to Barry Welford, there are several places where punctuation and SEO are related, from URLs to title tags. A very good, detailed post. read more »
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An awesome resource for webmasters and SEO's operating in the UK from Eduard Blacquière..."Hitwise analyzed the top 1,500 terms searched for in the 12 weeks ending 3rd January 2009 (the last quarter of 2008) across the top 5 UK search engines, being read more »
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"When you think of geo-targeting for SEO, what springs to mind? If you said country and language go body slam something, you’re the next lucky contestant on ‘Guess that Algo’. If you said type in co-ordinates and send the intercontinental up their a read more »
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Not meant to be controversial, just what I've observed. read more »
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Rand recently asked if URL shorteners passed link juice - after testing it for about a month, it's safe to say that TinyURL doesn't. But, why not? read more »
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Aaron Wall had a really interesting post about how it seems as if Google has started shifting its algorithm to favor big brands in search results. That started quite a Twitter storm today between @mattcutts and @stuntdubl, in particular. I found the read more »
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Julie Joyce provides practical solutions to the SEO who asks: "What if you have a client who wants SEO but simply does not want you to do any link building even though you’ve told this sweet client that link building is a key component of doing wel read more »
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The January 18th Google algorithm has placed more emphasis on brands raking for relevant keywords. A great article from Aaron Wall on what impact this has had. read more »
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Revealed for the first time, king of keywords Wordtracker, publishes Screen Grabs of new cutting edge tool read more »
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