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Michael Gray makes a good argument for how Google should handle the semantics of it’s changes to its ranking algorithms. Read more
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Don’t just get listed, add everything else to your listing. Category, Images, Video, Office Hours. Read more
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You might have heard about local search as a buzz word, and wondered what it meant exactly or how it differs from traditional SEO in developing an online marketing strategy or an SEO implementation process. Read more
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Video is a highly effective way to promote your website or product. It is more viral than text content as it is shared and distributed more willingly and readily. Read more
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Quick facts, tips and tricks picked up during SES London last week. Read more
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You can increase your chances of linking success by remembering one simple rule : the best links come from real human beings. Here are ways to appeal to those real human emotions in linkbaiting. Read more
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Hot on the heels of the announcement by Google and Live of a new tag attribute for links, Joost De Valk creates plugins to support this for Wordpress, Magento and Drupal. Read more
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Good post on the negative aspects of using URL shorteners. I personally feel differently, but this post has some interesting insight. Read more
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Here are a few ways and places you’ll find high value non-nofollowed inbound links for your site.... Read more
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A great post by Jane and Robot! There may be instances when you want to track the source of a request, and a common way of doing so is by using tracking parameters in URLs. Unfortunately, implementing referrer tracking in this way can result in… Read more
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DazzlinDonna writes "This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple… Read more
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Using your keyword research when crafting link profiles is extremely important for both internal and external tagging. Crafting link profiles is all about related diversity. What I mean by that is we want to have a diversified link text collection that… Read more
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Seems like many advertisers were hit with a major spike in minimum bids due to the AdWords landing page quality score update. This seems to have happened last night. Read more
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Gab Goldenberg releases a brilliant Wordpress Plugin to maximize the effect of your internal anchor text.

"So: You can rank like Wikipedia, without being Wikipedia. Ok, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration, but the tool should help you… Read more
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Lisa Barone writes, "... don’t be so quick to let go of the traditional search engine optimization techniques in favor of the big Web 2.0 buzzwords. White hat SEO is evolving and is all the advanced SEO you need to rank well in the search engines… Read more
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When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I’ve got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites… Read more
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Joost de Valk gives us his final guide to WordPress SEO. Read more
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This is a pretty funny image of Matt Cutts. I think the first diagram is actually funnier. Pick one ball and follow it for a while.

**Note: This is a humorous post and does not contain any real SEO value other than giving Matt Cutts a hard… Read more
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I’m continually amazed at how people go barreling into social media sites like a bull in a china shop and then wonder why they aren’t well received. They hear social media is changing the way people do business and they make the mistake of… Read more
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When usability reviews are presented from the perspective of marketing, it becomes easier to understand the importance of user experience design. Read more
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Voices of Search kicks-off with Michael Gray, Will Critchlow, Steve Rubel & Ian Lurie answering the question,

"During the last year or so Social Media Marketing (SMM) joined the forefront of Internet marketing and search marketing in… Read more
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Released as beta a version to testers, Google Analytics can now tag certain events that happen on a page that are normally not tracked by default on many other analytics platforms. Read more
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How deep into the SEO recommendation(s) do you think SEO consultants should get?

Do you think a company should actually implement recommendations delivered (or be prepared to provide this service)

- or provide a project plan… Read more
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There’s lots of hand wringing among publishers about duplicate content, and how other people who are authorized to syndicate, and scrapers who aren’t often outrank the original source, when Google gets it wrong. Here’s an example in action. Read more
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Great post by Jennifer over at Search Engine People on how large companies are going to have to get into SEO in the future due to the lack of mass training available. Read more
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