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Lyndsay looks at how the industry has grown into not only 3 or four parts, but multiple and tries to break down the niches in the industry. Want a full SEM team on board? Look for people who rock in these areas. 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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a very good post regarding what actually an authority link is and how can you actually get one Read more
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Edward Lewis (@pageoneresults): Below is a listing of all HTML 4 Elements that you as an SEO Consultant will be involved with at some point during your tenure. You should be familiar with the various HTML Elements and HTML Attributes that are available… Read more
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Brandon Buttars explains: One thing that I have learned more recently not only about commenting but about combining commenting and social networking is that you can generate quite a bit of traffic if done right by helping the blogs and sites that you… Read more
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Richard Baxter over at SEJ discusses how to diagnose website architecture issues: "So what ideas should you be looking at when you’re trying to figure out if there’s a problem with your website architecture?" Read more
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Michael Gray (@graywolf): Rule Number one of operating a web 2.0 user generated content website, if you don’t have someone involved in your development process who thinks about how to abuse the system, and put steps in place to prevent it, someone… Read more
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Chris Winfield: Last week I gave a presentation at SES NY and included a list of 35 niche social media sites that we participate in regularly. Lots of people have asked me for this list so I decided to put it here. Read more
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"It doesn’t matter what sort of web analytics suite you choose to use... If you’re not actively reviewing your log files, you’re missing out on some key data and reporting metrics. Today’s blog post is all about log files and how you… Read more
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Social media has crept into nearly every aspect of SEO to where it’s now quite difficult to imagine them disentangled from each other. Keyword research traditional to SEO is being used to advise every tag, tier, and title in brand social media… Read more
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Its been said time and again, to search engines, “content is king”, but when it really comes down to it, many companies say they don’t have the time, patience, or budget for content creation. It begs the question; why then should they be ranked… Read more
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Great post from Eric Ward on SEL about the value of Twitter as a link building tool. Read more
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Andrew Goodman calls Guy Kawasaki out on his "dubious" twitter strategies.

"If you strip away the black turtleneck (please don’t), the Silicon Valley pedigree, and the attitude, Kawasaki can be boiled down to the equivalent of the… Read more
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Slightly Shady SEO throws out some great advice on building your SEO team. Nothing shady here! Read more
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"I noticed on Monday of this week (4 days after my last post) that after over a year of blogging, naturally building quality links, providing Google with plenty of content, not using any black hat techniques (only talking about them), decent subscriber… Read more
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Wordpress is frequently underestimated in terms of it’s sheer SEO power. Here, I cover the reasons that it tends to do excellent in Google. Understanding WHY it does so well is the best way to take advantage of it’s architecture, giving your… Read more
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Okay, there’s a Star Wars week on the TV at the moment, so I thought I’d examine how those damn Jedi (and Sith) would do SEO if there was a Google a long time ago in a galaxy far away... I had a good chuckle :-) Read more
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Some sensible information from Eric Ward about five of the many ways link builders hurt themselves. Read more
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The folks at SoloSEO have come up with a new tool that allows you to measure the success of your content strategy.
"IndexRank is a new metric to summarize the indexing rate of your site. If you constantly add content to your site, big or small,… Read more
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’m reminded of a joke that talks about a blacksmith named Luigi who lived in the Welsh Valleys. Luigi was complaing about a nickname he had acquired and how his reputation had been damaged. All his long life he had worked hard as a blacksmith, fitting… Read more
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If you’ve never traversed along the road to viral content, where can you get started? What is makes good viral content? I’ve talked briefly about great lists. I’ve talked about videos. I’ve talked about pictures. Now I’m going to talk a bit… Read more
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If Google hasn’t even defined nofollow in their TOS, TOS highlights or their Guidelines, how in the world can anyone who’s not an SEO understand what in heck they did wrong or why all of a sudden their rankings dropped? Read more
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With B5 Media being one of the most prominently affected networks yeserday, what their Director of Technology decides to do about it is highly relevant.

Aaron states: "I’ve given yesterday’s Google smackdown a bit of thought over the… Read more
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Search Engine Guide Publisher Robert Clough says "Opinion or not, when someone with Jill’s stature makes incorrect negative comments that portray our site and advertisers in a poor light, it’s important to respond in order to sort opinion from… Read more
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The post I was waiting for... Read more
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