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Inspired by the Google AdWords customer in India who threatened to kill himself if Google didn’t respond to his Google AdWords Help thread, Ian Howie gives his top 5 AdWords grievances and offers some solutions. Read more
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Search specialists know a lot of link building and keyword research but how many of them are experts in the industries where they work? Read more
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We all know that everyone is a product of their environment. Circumstantial life events, influences, and surroundings can further change our behavior. Social media already highly influences our shopping, relationships, and education. But how large of a… Read more
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There are a lot of factors that make an affiliate marketer successful. We have provided some commandments for affiliate marketing that will your keep your online business in line for success. Read more
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by Dave SnyderThe Beginning When we started Second Step Search, the goal was to create an SEO system that Small Businesses could utilize to get actual results. We were getting leads every day from small business owners that had been taken advantage of… Read more
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Judith Lewis discusses the need to establish standards in the Search Engine Optimization industry if it is to be taken seriously as a profession, and how that might be achieved. Sphinn seems like the right place for this piece. Read more
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If you’re engaging in any sort of link building or online advertising campaign, these are important questions to ask and get clear answers to. Read more
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Brian Chappell on SEJ sharing a new social media tool that helps you find and connect with other people in your industry. Read more
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Gyutae Park lays out how to avoid getting tagged in the great game of "hide and go SEO." Read more
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I don’t know whether you ever get this thought when touring the web, but there are some sites that I think ‘I wish I could get my hands on it!’…where you can see that SEO hasn’t even been given a second thought, but where great gains could be… Read more
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Top search engine rankings could potentially result in a large amount of exposure and traffic. But now it’s coming to a point where large amounts of exposure and traffic result in high search engine rankings. Do you see what I’m getting at here?… 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 oft-discussed Seven Deadly Sins apply to Social Media as well and are worth exploring. Here’s a quick lesson to keep you from the sure perils of committing these deadly sins and making sure you get the most out of your social media campaign. Read more
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This post looks at some things bloggers can do when they are unexpectedly receiving traffic for a particular search phrases. The modifications covered here are simple, but they can help to optimize the page for that phrase. Read more
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What can you do if Google flags your site as malware Read more
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With each passing day, the Internet is getting more and more competitive as online businesses attempt to gain market share and claim their piece of the pie. In fact, you might remember that I wrote about how the window of opportunity for independent… Read more
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To me, it’s been a real joy to have two employees who are trained in SEO and PPC and expert enough to start suggestion improvements and innovations to our processes. There’s nothing like another set of eyes, and no matter how much of an expert I am,… Read more
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"What does it take to be an SEO? What do you need to know and be good at? Last week, Edward Lewis aka pageoneresults wrote an article called HTML 4 SEO that listed out 50 or so HTML elements related to SEO. Does one actually need to know how to use all… Read more
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...this is the first time that I’ve decided to share my way to do keyword analysis for a well established resource. Read more
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Superb post from Chris Garrett on the real route to better Google rankings Read more
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Ann smarty does an amazing job, as usual, writing on how to combine google search with twitter search.

"No one says Twitter search is better than Google; instead, it is different. You can’t compare them but you can combine them. This post… Read more
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I’m going to show you a case study from my own personal experiences of how I leveraged Twitter to send boatloads of viral traffic to my site - 35,967 pageviews in 2 weeks to be exact. I’ll include real evidence straight from my analytics that… Read more
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The average SEO is like an average chess player, seeing things only on the surface (links & keywords). The best SEOs think like advanced chess players, looking ahead, and making decisions that don’t have immediate effect. Having a good design is… Read more
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A look at trends in web development that will greatly impact SEO in the future, including HTML 5, microformats, and more. Read more
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