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I'll bet this is one of the best SEO reads you'll see for a long time. Some real great information and ideas on things like algorithm changes, penalties/filters, Google sitelinks and so much more. Read more
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Whether you’re ready to embrace it or not, social media is changing the way we communicate and make decisions. Today’s technology has impacted our daily lives and routines in a big way. If you don’t wake up to Facebook, you probably know someone… Read more
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Great tips to help get the best out of your LinkedIn profile. Read more
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The Elements of Social Content Success - While linkbait does bring tremendous SEO benefits from links and traffic, visitors also benefit from the quality content. As long as it’s relevant to your audience and delivers on its promises, linkbait is… Read more
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I’m so sick of the universal answer to all SEO questions. Each and every search engine rep keeps telling me that “creating a great and useful site with compelling content will gain me all the rankings I deserve”. Read more
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Are inbound links becoming an endangered species? It's Twitter's fault according to James Duthie. Read more
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Almost everyone has heard of writer’s block, but what about linking block? Almost every linkbuilder has been there. After 6 months of acquiring links for a client you find yourself hitting a wall. Read more
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Last week I was doing some research into citations for my own business (importantly: Google seems to be obfuscating them even more than usual these days, but that is a more serious post for a different day).  Probably like most of you would do, I… Read more
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A really solid analysis of Vince ranking theories (based on actual test data) from iCrossing's Liz Ayers and David Peris. Great read. Read more
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Lisa barone writes, "Wow. I’d personally like to welcome Seth Godin to the world of brandjacking and hostage taking. I didn’t know you had it in you." Read more
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If you do one thing at Pubcon, even over actually going to the conference, this is it. If you want to rub elbows with the top SEO’s, internet marketers, website owners, and social media experts, this is the place. It is the relationships you develop… Read more
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Great post from Tad Chef: "Did you know that there is a whole mobile SEO and mobile Analytics industry on top or underneath the SEO and web analytics offerings we already got used to? I didn’t until this week." Read more
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I spent the first couple years of my SEO career in the B2C arena and everybody wanted and needed SEO to establish their presence online. Individuals really understood that they needed SEO to make an impression on the internet. A few years later, I moved… Read more
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The last LiveBlog effort of day 1 of SMX Advanced from Lisa Barone. It’s LiveBlogtastic! "Yes, yes, it’s time for the YOU&A with Matt. Where I am sure everyone will ask him very polite questions and no one will attempt to give him a hard time.… Read more
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Great post from Andrew Goodman: "Long term, search fails when site owners try to "tell" search engines which pages are important, short of burying the unimportant ones in their architecture so they’re literally invisible. Importance shouldn’t… Read more
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A little tidbit on paid search that I figured out and I’m sharing with y’all. Read more
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"You couldn’t pay your mortgage and your house was foreclosed on? Don’t worry, it wasn’t you, it was the recession. You lost your job and now you’re stuck at home cruising Twitter ’looking for a new one’ all day? Don’t… Read more
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When your site has been live for a significant amount of time your analytics offer a wealth of useful information. For an SEO campaign (or any other marketing campaign, for that matter), the best adjustments you can make will be those based on user data. Read more
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Check out Guy’s Twitter stream for an example of how the master leverages Twitter. Then listen to the webcast. You’ll be trained the art of Twitter weaponry in no time. Read more
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Lisa Barone: This is my life. And if you’ve ever been in the position of having to write content, it’s probably something you’ve experienced as well. It’s hard, that whole ‘getting it out’ thing. The ideas are there, your mind is racing, but… Read more
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Lisa Barone: The whole personal branding thing has created a bit of a mess in the SEO industry. It’s all people are concerned with. We don’t care about doing SEO and testing things. We care about attaching our names to concepts people like. We read… 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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Jason "SEO is dead" Calacanas, founder of Mahalo, used "SEO is dead" as a publicity stunt to help launch his made for AdSense scraper website. In the past we have noted how he was caught ranking pages without any original content - in clear violation of… Read more
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Michael Gray once again show the double standards of Google. They really need to work on this. It makes them look totally stupid. Read more
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Three full days (15 sessions covered in extreme detail) of Liveblogging coverage from SMX West written by none other than Super-Liveblogger Lisa Barone. Read more
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