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How to Track Calls from Mobile Pages using Event Tracking
Avatar Story Found By: jameszol 82 Days ago
News Source: http://www.maplenorth.com
Category: Analytics
Good tip to capture mobile landing page click-to-call events in Google Analytics. A quick aside: One could also use the "tel:" microformat in an anchor to accomplish a similar goal. Read more
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Can Article Marketing Work For B2B SEO?
Avatar Story Found By: jameszol 473 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Article marketing is always a controversial topic...but...it can drive traffic and it is one way to build more links. Can it work in the B2B space though? Read more
Milk The Research Cow & Carve Up The White Paper Carcass
Avatar Story Found By: jameszol 535 Days ago
News Source: http://www.andykomack.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
An excellent blog post by Andy Komack on using White Papers & Research to spearhead online B2B marketing campaigns. Read more
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New Emphasis: Voting Patterns and Unexceptional Content
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 536 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.sphinn.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Please read the latest post on our Sphinn blog about a new emphasis on enforcing existing guidelines, and asking Sphinn users to be more careful about the content that gets submitted, shared, and voted up. I'll try to keep an eye on comments during the… Read more
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Mess With Your Friends Using Facebook Places
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 538 Days ago
News Source: http://samirbalwani.com
Category: Social Media
Funny stuff from Samir - SNIP - What many people don’t know about Facebook Places is that instead of just letting me check-in to a place, I can also tag my friends. Where we are, shows up on both our Facebook wall and life stream. So, why not spoof my… Read more
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Does Google Analytics Affect SEO?
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 541 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dotcult.com
Category: SEO
Raise your hand if you believe that using Google Analytics can affect your site’s SEO rankings. Now raise your other hand if you believe Google Adwords also affects your SEO. If you’ve got both hands in the air keep them that way, as having your… Read more
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Why 'Spam' is Everywhere & Why That Means Nothing!
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 541 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Category: SEO
Aaron's reply to Rand's Webspam post: The big issue with search today is not the existence of spam, but how it is dealt with. For a long period of time Google spent much of their resources fighting spam manually. That worked when spammers were sorta… Read more
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7 Social Bookmarking Tools You Should Know About
Avatar Story Found By: markthompson 539 Days ago
News Source: http://www.stayonsearch.com
Category: Social Media
7 must have social bookmarking tools that are not very well known, for people who spend a lot of time on places like Digg and StumbleUpon. Read more
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Search Engine Traffic Drops: How to Diagnose and Fix the Problem
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 543 Days ago
News Source: http://www.link-assistant.com
Category: SEO
This checklist will help you quickly identify and fix the problem, restore your organic traffic and save a bunch of nerve cells on the way. Read more
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If Google Places usage is to be extended, then Google Places needs fixing
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 542 Days ago
News Source: http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk
Category: SEO
SNIP -  There have been some very interesting developments with regards to the expanded use of Google Places over the last couple of months, with Google not only increasing the usage of Google Places within their mainstream SERPs but also increasing… Read more
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Local Search War Gets Hot: Facebook Joins Game
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Moderator Story Found By: toddmintz 541 Days ago
News Source: http://www.davidmihm.com
Category: SEM
David Mihm analyzes Facebook Places from a local search perspective and places it in the "world ecosystem" of its competitors, offering excellent in-depth analysis of each. Read more
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Win With Web Metrics: Ensure A Clear Line Of Sight To Net Income!
Avatar Story Found By: buckles 540 Days ago
News Source: http://www.kaushik.net
Category: Analytics
This is an incredible post on monitoring web metrics and how to segment your data to understand where to create initiatives that will increase your bottom line. Read more
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24 Tips On Hiring A Search Marketing (or Any) Apprentice
Avatar Story Found By: jameszol 541 Days ago
News Source: http://searchmarketingwisdom.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
I know a lot of you could use a search marketing apprentice (or an Intern) right now...and even if you don't right now, you will in the future right?! Check out these 24 hiring tips from Alan Bleiweiss. Read more
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Clean URLs are Good for SEO
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 544 Days ago
News Source: http://rynoweb.com
Category: SEO
It may seem like a basic enough concept and post, but believe it or not, everyday I see so many people doing it wrong.  Good job to Chuck for posting this great information about having clean URLs and their benefit to SEO. Read more
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The Seven-Step Process for Writing Enticing Product Descriptions
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 545 Days ago
News Source: http://www.marketingwords.com
Category: SEO
If you've ever wondered how you can write unique, enticing and SEO'd descriptions for the same old products everyone else sells, you'll want to read this article by copywriting expert Karon Thackston. Read more
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How To Rescue Poorly Converting Web Sites
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 548 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Usability
Kim gives some pretty spot on amazing advice for helping your site convert better.  Take the time to read this if you own a site that needs a little work on conversion. Read more
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“Hot On Sphinn” Now Appearing On Search Engine Land
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 559 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.sphinn.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
This blog post announces the start of a new, weekly article that will appear on Search Engine Land: "Hot On Sphinn." We hope to increase awareness of the popular content on Sphinn and reward the users/authors who are sharing content on Sphinn. Read more
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Google Confirms That SEOs Are Smarter Than It Is
Avatar Story Found By: buckles 562 Days ago
News Source: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com
Category: SEO
A Googler confirmed. This isn't surprising to experienced SEOs who have found a way to make their pages compete in the mighty Google but it's a great quote that will be shared for years. Read more
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#1 Guest Blogging Incentive: Backlinks (Guidelines and Ethics)
Avatar Story Found By: clickfire 563 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
This post is about the most popular (yet, NOT the most important) benefit of guest blogging: linking: best practices and ethics of linking back to your guest bloggers (as well as allowing them to). Ann looks at stuff like where and how many and what… Read more
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Blog on Trending Topics to Get Noticed and Get Ranked!
Avatar Story Found By: username1 removed by request 562 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seosmarty.com
Category: SEO
Your blogging style is up to you. I for one usually shy away from newly hot and trending topics for various reasons: firstly, I am not based in the USA and thus I am slow in learning what everyone says, secondly, seeing great coverage, I usually have… Read more
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Why SEOs are Hated
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 563 Days ago
News Source: http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk
Category: SEO
GREAT rant from Paul Carpenter on Dave Naylor's blog: "We’re hated because people need a bogeyman to blame for their failure to have a problem business plan or to hide their own corner-cutting. Much easier on the soul to blame your SEO then take a… Read more
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Opportunity clicks. Why PPC is the right move in a bad economy.
Avatar Story Found By: jameszol 564 Days ago
News Source: http://raventools.com
Category: PPC
Want to ruin the mood at a party? Mention the economy. It might not win you host of the year award, but a down economy is the perfect time to talk about why increasing the complexity, scale, and spend of most advertisers’ PPC campaigns makes more… Read more
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The Clueless, but “Whitehat”, SEO
Avatar Story Found By: Bakis 564 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sugarrae.com
Category: SEO
Excellent post-"interview" from sugarrae exposing one of the so called white hat seo experts. This guy is really hilarious. He doesn't even know who Matt Cutts is!!!!! Read more
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The 12-Step Landing Page Rehab Program [Infographic]
Avatar Story Found By: Bakis 567 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: Usability
This is a great article on Seomoz explaining how to optimize your marketing funnel for more conversions... Read more
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Site Navigation is integral to Information Architecture
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 565 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
In my [Alan Bleiweiss] latest Search Engine Journal article, Information Architecture – Rocket Science Simplified, I break down the concepts of site navigation as it relates to SEO for the purpose of strengthening sectional and page level focus. But… Read more
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