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Whom did you wake up with this morning?
Avatar Story Found By: BasvdBeld 956 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchcowboys.com
Category: Link Building
Linkbuilding on its highest level. Christoph Cemper talks about co-citation. An absolute must read for every SEO. Read more
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PageRank Sculpting Is Dead! Long Live PageRank Sculpting!
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 971 Days ago
News Source: 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… Read more
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9 Reasons Your Website Can Have a High Bounce Rate
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 968 Days ago
News Source: 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 website." Read more
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How Much Weight Do Keywords in the Domain Name Still Have (Poll)?
Avatar Story Found By: kandi111777 975 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Domaining
Great article on whether or not keyword-rich domain names work in your favor. My opinion - YES! Read more
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How will Google’s new features impact SEO?
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1003 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bestrank.com
Category: SEO
Google released a number of new features yesterday to make your search experience that much better. With the recent explosion of Twitter (a micro-blogging platform), much criticism has been addressed regarding the relevancy of Google search results.… Read more
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Best Travel Social Media Networks : Traveling 2.0
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1003 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
Summer is fast approaching and I already can’t wait to have some rest. Of course, the social media geek inside me made me get prepared for my upcoming vacation the web 2.0 way: by looking through available travel social media networks and seeing what… Read more
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SEO Q&A : What’s the Recommended Page Size?
Avatar Story Found By: mercylivi 1004 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
SEL Ann Smarty explains about "Myths and Realities" on Page load time and Search Engine crawl and index. Read more
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7 golden rules of link building in 2009
Avatar Story Found By: basnoordermeer 1004 Days ago
News Source: http://eduardblacquiere.com
Category: Link Building
What does matter in link building these days? It comes down to 2 key elements: relevance and trust. To explain this, here are 7 golden rules of link building in 2009, based on an excellent presentation by Christoph Cemper. Read more
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Develop an Avatar Strategy for Social Media & Blogs
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1032 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
Another great post by Ann Smarty...

"A lot has been said about avatar strategy already. However there is still something new to add. Choosing the right avatar is so crucial for a number of the very important reason it creates first… Read more
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Demystifying Google Quality Score & the Click Thru Rate Factor
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1031 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: PPC
I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about Quality Score (for search networks) lately. I usually don’t think much about quality score (QS) and over time, I got fed up with people who were obsessed with it. I suspected it was just people’s… Read more
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How to download your website using WGET for Windows
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1103 Days ago
News Source: http://seogadget.co.uk
Category: Social Media
Windows guide on using WGET, the free network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP Read more
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Goal Conversions are The Bottom Line
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1103 Days ago
News Source: http://www.edwardbeckett.com
Category: SEO
Recently there seems to be a big shift in focus in the SEO industry regarding the importance of conversions over search engine rankings ... If our rankings didn’t turn into conversions for our clients ... We didn’t complete our goals ... We… Read more
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Superbowl Commercials - The Ultimate Stage for Viral Advertising
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Moderator Story Found By: graywolf 1111 Days ago
News Source: http://www.viralconversations.com
Category: SEM
There are a number of qualities that are common to all viral video advertising, not the least of which is a basic connection on a very fundamental level. Whether the concept plays on a common fear, humor or an attempt to provoke, these 11 videos are… Read more
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The Perfect Link Request
Avatar Story Found By: Rob 1119 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
Dev Basu says that crafting that perfect link-request involves keeping just two factors in mind, and the rest is all in the semantics of what not to do, and how to to tailor the request to the particular industry or vertical you’re targeting. Read more
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Are W3C Errors Relevant to SEO?
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1108 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
A very well compiled thread at WebproWorld discusses what W3C is and why it is so important to conform to its standards.

W3C refers to the World Wide Web Consortium working to develop open standards for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW… Read more
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41 Internet Marketing Tactics - Take the Poll
Avatar Story Found By: losangelesinternetmarketing 1244 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: SEM
Lee Odden’s Poll of his readers on what methods of online marketing they are going to be focusing on in the next 6 months. Not surprisingly, so far the top 3 are... Read more
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Google wtf 2: Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs
Avatar Story Found By: DanielMcskelly 1236 Days ago
News Source: http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk
Category: Vertical Search
Response to the utterly bizzare post on webmaster central asking us not to use static-seeming URLs. Read more
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Interview with Shana Albert
Avatar Story Found By: vandelay 1249 Days ago
News Source: http://traffikd.com
Category: Social Media
An insightful interview with social media expert Shana Albert. Read more
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The Origins of Man…or 8 Awesome Search Bloggers
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1249 Days ago
News Source: http://www.komarketingassociates.com
Category: SEM
8 Search, Marketing, SEO and Social Media Bloggers were asked why they got "into" what they do.... here they give their answers.

Bloggers include Brent Csutoras, TheMadHat, Tad Chef, UtahSEOPro, Dazzlin’ Donna, Derek Edmond, Jill Whalen… Read more
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Googlebot Blamed for the Plummet of UAL Stock
Avatar Story Found By: FLSEO 1249 Days ago
News Source: http://online.wsj.com
Category: SEM
An old article about UAL’s 2002 bankruptcy-court filing resurfaced Monday as an apparently fresh report on Google’s news service. Stock in the parent company of United Airlines quickly dropped to $3 a share from nearly $12.50 before the Nasdaq… Read more
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Why Rankings Are Worthless
Avatar Story Found By: delrond 1250 Days ago
News Source: http://yoast.com
Category: SEO
Last month Google gave us another reason to discuss the value of rankings, while blocking the automated rank checking software tool Web Position from retrieving search engine listings from Google. Read more
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Lisa Barone » Effective Brand Management with Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: FLSEO 1249 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bruceclay.com
Category: SEM
"Twitter’s a great brand management tool because it doesn’t just alert you to mentions of your brand name or your keywords, it picks out conversations. And it gives you a way to easily step into that conversation to try and answer questions… Read more
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FireFox SEO Extensions - the Ultimate Collection
Avatar Story Found By: MarcoVittigni 1257 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Vertical Search
FireFox is the most customizable browser I am aware of and hence it is my favorite one. A while ago posting a huge overview of SEO tools I promised to compile a similar list of available FireFox SEO extensions; and so here I am. Read more
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Empathy & Social Media - A Business Secret Weapon
Avatar Story Found By: lorisa 1250 Days ago
News Source: http://collective-thoughts.com
Category: SEM
Shana Albert writes a fantastic post about why online businesses need to use empathy to convert customers. I appreciated the suggestions and real-life examples. Read more
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SEO Mastermind Aaron Wall Brings Bad News
Avatar Story Found By: BrentCsutoras 1250 Days ago
News Source: http://seoworld.entrepreneur.com
Category: SEM
(Disclaimer: There is good news here too - but only if you take immediate action. Warning: Some of this is considered ‘advanced SEO’). Read more
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