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From the Page: [Dave Wallace] As time rolls on, it is becoming more evident everyday that we are living in a Google world. What began as a search engine in January 1996 has quickly evolved into many additional things. Read more
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The boys from Ontolo have done it again with another awesome tool for link builders. Read more
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If you’re a web designer who thinks that “good CSS = SEO”, a writer who thinks that “good content = SEO” or a developer who just thinks “SEO = bullshit” then here are a few pitfalls to bear in mind if you’re considering using SEO as a… Read more
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How can we create a better name for ourselves. Read more
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Google Analytics and Server-Side Analytics programs tend to update daily, leaving you behind the curve on social media promotions that can fizz out in the first few hours of launch without close attention. Here are 3 examples of solutions using free… Read more
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While 2009 is fresh in our minds, here are our thoughts, observations and recommendations for link building success in 2010 from your four Link Week writers Read more
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I've got a fairly long "decade of SEO in review" article for you today. I thought about splitting it into 2 parts, but decided it would lose a lot by doing so. I hope you'll make it all the way through because I tried to make it as interesting and… Read more
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Very well said, loved the examples of directories she gave and the points to look for to qualify a directory as "good."  She also makes a very good point at the end explaining "directory submission tactics as a business model." Read more
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I guess most search engine marketers use Gmail in some way or another: either as a primary email service or to register online accounts or anything else. The reasons why Gmail is so popular are quite clear: it is free and belongs to Google which does a… Read more
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Naoise Osborne at Acquisio writes: Much of humanity’s knowledge is in the process of being digitized, and a new set of rules are currently in draft-mode concerning how this wealth of knowledge may (or may not) be made available to the public. If… Read more
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Good article by Julie Joyce detailing how using long-tail keywords can "jazz up your link building" efforts with new links and targeted traffic. Read more
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There is no single definition of advanced SEO. There are a few of attempts to describe what it might mean or consist of and what not but there is no entity or authority that could define such a broad term like advanced SEO. I can’t define advanced SEO… Read more
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John Andrews writes... I just read Google’s self-published “Top Ten Myths About Google Analytics” and I have to say, I thought Google had more integrity than this. Oh sure, everyone knows that marketing departments aren’t always 100% truthful… Read more
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Debra Mastaler writes... If you’ve been doing business online for any length of time chances are you have a database of opt-in email addresses from customers, vendors, newsletter signups etc. Here’s a way to use those email addresses to increase… 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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Richard Baxter discusses link building by guest osting on well-scraped blogs. Could these scraper sites really pass any value and can the process of guest blogging on well scraped sites be levered to work in your favour? 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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DazzlinDonna has released a new tool called MonitorHackdFiles, which acts as a sentry for your site. It watches your site, and when it detects a file has changed (or been added), it notifies you via email and tells you which file(s) was changed. Read more
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Do you just waste time on Twitter, or are you taking advantage of it? Matt Siltala shares a humorous and insightful look at how he uses Twitter to monitor his online reputation. Read more
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Every so often a site comes along that, in the amount of hype it generates, blows away everything that has come before it. Not so long ago it was Second Life, then Facebook came along and now Twitter is scattering all before it in a blizzard of… Read more
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Dr. Aric Sigman, a respected biologist from the UK, has suggested in his latest article for The Biologist, a peer review magazine, that the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace could be linked to a decline in our immune systems… Read more
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Twitter is seeing remarkable growth but all is behind ’nofollow’ tags. Google must resolve whether it wishes to catalogue all information and if so how. Read more
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Donna Fontent writes: What if you could associate your site, your niche, or your product with a hot new trend? What if the search results showed your site for that popular new gizmo or movie? What if I told you that you can create a subliminal… Read more
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Unbelievable post on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog telling us to NOT use URL rewriting as it has no advantage and is too dangerous. Uh, hello?! The post itself uses URL rewriting. Read more
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Deb Mastaler questions the value of "fast, easy" links, and offers a playbook for article marketers: "Perhaps a better approach would be to add new, low-cost angles to old ways of linking. Find a method you’ve used in the past and expand on the… Read more
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