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Optimizing the Page Search Results Snippet: On-Page Tactics
Avatar Story Found By: tynansanger 923 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Page title is the most visible but not the only element which can make your page listing stand out in SERPs. Your page search listing description is another one and it should never be underestimated. Read more
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In Memoriam: Leif Nissen 1980-2008
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1180 Days ago
News Source: http://www.imbroadcast.com
Category: SEM
In memory of our friend and one of the founders of IMBroadcast.com Leif Nissen, who has left us, but at the same time will always be with us. Read more
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Blog Carnivals and Group Writing Projects for Link Building and Networking
Avatar Story Found By: dailymoolah 1185 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty writes about using Blog Carnivals to build links and engage your community. Often forgotten as a link building tactic, especially for clients, carvnivals can build niche connections, links, and establish authority in one’s industry. Read more
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Search Engine People Purchases SEO-Scoop.com
Avatar Story Found By: JohnCarcutt 1187 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: SEM
Jeff Quipp and Search Engine People announced this morning the purchase of the well know Search Marketing Blog/Resource SEO-Scoop.com. Never fear, Donna is still there and sounds like they have big plans. Read more
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Check if a Site Serves Malware Before Linking for SEO
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1189 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Do you check to see if a site has been flagged for distributing malware? In an effort to not only protect your site from linking out to bad neighborhoods, but also to protect bad neighborhoods from linking to you, I suggest that before you link out or… Read more
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Google’s Chrome Browser: What You Need to Know
Avatar Story Found By: EricLander 1259 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Searching
There’s a beta release coming out tomorrow morning in more than 100 countries, so I’ve tried to collect as much information as possible tonight to help us all prepare for what will clearly be a busy week in the search industry. Read more
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Epic Video Tour of Google Dance 2008
Avatar Story Found By: JohnCarcutt 1266 Days ago
News Source: http://news.stepforth.com
Category: Vertical Search
If you did not get to this years Google Dance, Ross Dunn has the whole thing on Video. Take a look to see what you missed! I don’t think he left out anything at all. Everything from the Huge Rock Band Stage to the T-Rex. Oh... and watch to the end… Read more
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The SEO Economy: A Search Marketing Recruiter’s Perspective
Avatar Story Found By: JohnCarcutt 1276 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
Josh Gampel does a nice job of examining the effects of the Economy on job searchers and companies doing the hiring in the search marketing field. Read more
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Reasons Why Google Likes Spam : Google & Spam’s Love Hate Relationship
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1280 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
Google likes spam. Sounds surprising? Well, actually it does! Of all the spam that is generated, Google seems quite comfortable with 5% of the lot Read more
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WordPress site search sucks ... no longer
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 1287 Days ago
News Source: http://yoast.com
Category: Searching
Here is Joost’s guide ’how to provide usable WP-SERPs’, titled
"Make WordPress’ search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. Read more
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Social Media is Better in Person
Avatar Story Found By: DarrellLong 1286 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
For those of you who are buried under piles of work and don’t spend as much time as you like reading about what is happening in the industry, Mashable.com is on tour this summer. I was lucky enough to have the time to attend the SummerSmash Miami… Read more
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Shall We Prop Up Propeller.com?
Avatar Story Found By: dsnyder 1287 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Social Media
"I have been using Propeller for quite some time now, and have always felt propeller to be a great source for quality traffic and weighted link from a search engine optimization stand point. I did however always feel there was a lot of functionality… Read more
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Online SEO Tools - the Ultimate Collection
Avatar Story Found By: patrickaltoft 1305 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
The biggest list of SEO tools. Ever. Read more
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Trickle Down Link-O-Nomics : Reaching the Messenger
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1315 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
In link building, sometimes marketers lose their focus or get over aggressive, and spend too much time contacting every single site within their niche, hoping to get a link or a buzz generating blog post about their product or service. Sometimes it’s… Read more
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How to Land an SEO Dream Job Via LinkedIn
Avatar Story Found By: gyutae 1328 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? Read more
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Carcutt Wins $10,000 SEJ Contest, Donates Prizes to Orphanage
Avatar Story Found By: EricLander 1327 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Social Media
John Carcutt wins the Search Engine Journal blogging contest, and donates $10,00 in prizes... "One of my best friends growing up recently moved to a remote area of Mexico to build and operate an orphanage. I plan on donating a majority of the prizes to… Read more
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10 Ways to Increase Your Site Crawl Rate
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1328 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Regular and frequent visits by the crawler is the first sign that your site appeals to Google. Thus the most efficient way to get frequent and deep crawls is to develop a website that search engines see as important and valuable. Read more
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The Art of Google PageRank Sculpting & Five Sculpting Tips
Avatar Story Found By: EricLander 1334 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
This article focuses on an underlying message from Michael Gray’s SMX Advanced presentation -- Is sculpting Google PageRank worth it? This post then goes on to introduce five safe and simple tips to get started with PageRank sculpting. Read more
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3 Best Desktop Backlink Checking Tools
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1343 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
I’ve been sitting the whole day downloading, installing, testing and uninstalling applications and in the end narrowed my list to only 3 tools I found really useful (most of the tools I came across either didn’t work or focused on rather outdated… Read more
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Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn to top 600
Avatar Story Found By: johnandrews 1649 Days ago
News Source: http://www.johnon.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn members to prove their mettle as marketers, by pushing Sphinn over 600 for the first time. If you’re new to Sphinn, welcome! and why not throw your first Sphinn onto this historical post?
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Are SEO Forums Still Needed?
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1349 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
John Carcutt - "Real SEOs used to go to forums all the time. As a matter of fact, I bet most Real SEOs learned the craft on those very forums. Now, Real SEOs post all of that hard earned knowledge on their own sites or friends blogs. Why give away the… Read more
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Don’t Sour Your Link Juice By Forgetting Basic SEO
Avatar Story Found By: martinbowling 1354 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
Loren Baker Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite years of building relevant and valuable links, and wanted some tips on building better links. Read more
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Advanced Link: Operator to Explore Your Competitor’s Backlinks
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1356 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty asks the question, "I for one do backlink research almost daily. Why is that so essential in SEO to know how to properly analyze backlinks?" Ann examines ways to explore the site’s backlinks using link: operator in Yahoo." Read more
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Up, Up, and Away... A Look at SEO Job Growth
Avatar Story Found By: kenclark 1362 Days ago
News Source: http://www.onwardsearch.com
Category: SEO
Reilly O’Donnell walks through data that shows SEO jobs have had explosive growth over the last four months despite the current state of the economy and also discusses SEO job trends over the last several years. Read more
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