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To ask everyone to read an 8 page white paper is like expecting everyone to read the hard cover, unabridged version of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Key advantages of publishing your content in multiple formats. Read more
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The old saying "there’s no such thing as a free lunch" rolls right off our tongues. Anything that is free is suspect...especially on the internet.Free SEO Advice fron onbound online marketing consultant

Well, I’m here to tell you… Read more
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It seems the "elite" mods and company have finally taken Sphinn away from the community. I saw it coming last fall when select articles were removed despite genuine community support, recently when unfavorable comments were deleted by mods with no… Read more
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Aaron looks at Microsoft’s efforts in the Contextual Marketing arena. Great tools; but broken ads :( Read more
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Sr. Product Manager of Microsoft, Skip Chilcott openly endorsed that webmasters should participate in Link Exchange schemes as it helps to boost the rankings in search engines. Read more
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Matt responds to one of his readers, who responded to an old post with a few questions.

"Do you think that ‘baiting’ gives the term ‘linkbaiting’ a bad precedence? It seems that some people think that ‘linkbaiting’ automatically… Read more
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The whole in-house SEO group servicing outside clients thing seems like it could create conflicts. Or maybe not? Read more
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Says David Mihm: "It’s time for companies to start thinking about Local Search more like PPC than traditional SEO." He shares four factors/reasons to support this idea, and there’s a good discussion underway in the comments, too. Read more
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Social media websites like Digg, Netscape and del.icio.us are bridges which connect your website with a large audience beyond your site’s normal reach. Social websites are reliable sources of defensible traffic and should be cultivated as a means to… Read more
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Lisa Barone takes a look at automation and how it can have a very negative impact on your site. Read more
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Yesterday I added one of my blog posts to the StumbleUpon network. Tagged it with ‘marketing, seo, sem, search engine optimization, and search engine marketing. I went over to my traffic stats Wordpress dashboard as I do daily and noticed that my… Read more
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Capture a lot of "Long Tail" search traffic with these scalable SEO strategies for your URLs, templates, internal linking, content, etc. Tips include leveraging UGC, tag clouds, MTurk, GravityStream,... Includes 1 new great tip from Matt Cutts! Read more
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Google’s SEO toy provides numbered search results from 1 to 1,000 for any search term, awesome fast and uncluttered. It has a clean Web interface, and it’s easy to add options like language, safe search settings, results per page or unfiltered… Read more
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Dear Dan Crow @ Google, you didn’t convince me. I doubt you can convince anyone at our side of the fence. I can’t support your initiative because there is no incentive. Kindest regards - Sebastian Read more
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When SEOs talk about getting links from Wikipedia, the main benefit that’s often mentioned is “it’s still a great source of traffic even if you don’t get the link juice.”

That’s true, but we’re overlooking one Big Fact:… Read more
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Duplicate content is one of those topics that are almost impossible to explain to non-SEO-savvy people. The best way to that is to visualize. So here’s my collection of SEO infographics related to duplicate content issue: each section contains the… Read more
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Rand pits Cuil against today’s leading search engines to determine which, overall, is the best. The results weren’t as predictable as he’d thought they would be. Read more
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This post analyzes all the high points Obama reaches for economy related searches and why John McCain needs to hire a SEO company. Featuring such downfalls as no robots.txt and staging sites making it to the top of natural results. Read more
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As an SEO, I’ve always been a little perturbed to know that the American oriented Google index has, as its home, the aggrandized Google.com domain. Read more
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In the past few years many companies and individuals are starting to get their feet wet in social media marketing. It can be difficult to manage and keep up with the all the tweets, diggs, posts, updates and shouts. Read more
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For the love of your followers, please take these pet peeves to heart and save the rest of us from the annoyances of certain social media habits. Read more
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Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) basic… Read more
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Sweet Lisa, with her influence! Read more
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In almost any line of business, it is customary to do some sort of background check on a person or company you may be doing business with before embarking down the relationship building and partnership route. The more you know about your future… Read more
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This is a simple trick with regards to using a search engine to collect the email ids of the person who displayed it to the public in their profile page. Read more
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