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Think Beyond The Link: How Exposure Building Trumps Link Building
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1418 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com
Category: Link Building
Link building sucks. There I said it. Of course it’s been said before and most people who have even the slightest bit of experience with it can tell you the same. It’s tedious. It’s monotonous. It’s mundane. True link building is… Read more
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25 Paths to an Insanely Popular Blog
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1419 Days ago
News Source: http://www.skelliewag.org
Category: Social Media
Some bloggers spend more time with a whiteboard or notepad than they do actually writing content, and dedicate more words to outline a growth strategy than they do to actually writing content! Some of the world’s most popular blogs are the result of… Read more
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Link Attraction Factors: Getting Dugg and Going Viral
Avatar Story Found By: danzarrella 1453 Days ago
News Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com
Category: Social Media
Plenty of research has been done via Digg’s API to study how stories make the homepage. We know the best time to submit to Digg, and we know the best categories and types of stories (e.g. top lists, how-tos and stories about Digg), but what has… Read more
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Keyword Research for Bloggers: A Comprehensive Guide
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1453 Days ago
News Source: http://www.copyblogger.com
Category: Social Media
Keyword research is a fundamental part of online marketing of all kinds, and that definitely includes blogging. Blogs are famous for ranking well in search engines thanks to their structure and frequently-updated content, but if you don’t use the… Read more
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A Girl’s Guide to getting ready for conference season
Avatar Story Found By: 0thelisa 1453 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sugarrae.com
Category: SEM
Bruce Clay’s Susan Esparza steps in for Guestwhore week and explains her strategy for looking trim in conference photos.

"First things first, stop eating junk food. Soda is right out. All that chocolate from Valentine’s Day?… Read more
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58 Reasons Why Sugarrae Is Paying For My Rehab
Avatar Story Found By: jeffquipp 1454 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sugarrae.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
A really comical post by Aaron (Mad Hat) about preparing a post for Sugarrae. Be sure to check out the video too ... Aaron I want to party with you! Read more
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The $350/hour SEO expert
Avatar Story Found By: khalid 1474 Days ago
News Source: http://www.invesp.com
Category: SEO
Just had a meeting with a client who is paying $350 an hour for their SEO consultant for 2000 hours a year. Yep, that is close to 700k per year.

And what an SEO consultant, a truly forward thinking kind of consultant! Read more
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Interview With The Editor of Sphinn - Rob Kerry (EvilGreenMonkey)
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1474 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Jeff Quipp does a very rare interview on the SEP blog... Rob Kerry (aka EvilGreenMonkey) is the Editor of Sphinn, and one of Danny Sullivan’s right hand people! Read more
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Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move
Avatar Story Found By: NewSkill21 1476 Days ago
News Source: http://www.techcrunch.com
Category: Social Media
Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website.

The client library allows users to make Facebook API calls from any web site and create Ajax Facebook applications on… Read more
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Determining the Right Keywords - Keyword Analysis and Measurement
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1476 Days ago
News Source: http://www.shimonsandler.com
Category: SEO
Shimon Sandler posts the detailed criteria needed to determine the right Keywords to optimize for the most cost-effective SEO campaign vs bidding on them in a PPC campaign. Read more
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A Step Inside Of Google’s Mind: Understanding their Red Flags
Avatar Story Found By: SlightlyShadySEO 1478 Days ago
News Source: http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com
Category: SEO
When link building, it’s important to not only know WHAT is/isn’t allowed, but it’s important to know WHY, and how to avoid them. This is a guide to the common penalizations within Google, how they’re detected, and how to make sure… Read more
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24 million links & Google looks the other way
Avatar Story Found By: patrickaltoft 1477 Days ago
News Source: http://googlespam.blogspot.com
Category: SEO
How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for "loans", "credit cards" and "mortgages" 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it? Read more
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A 6-Step Approach To Writing Scannable Content
Avatar Story Found By: jeffquipp 1478 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dailyblogtips.com
Category: Social Media
If its true that only 16% of people actually read blog postings, and the other 84% only scan ... then writing blog posts in a scannable format is CRUCIAL!

This post highlights 6 of the most important elements to consider! Read more
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SearchGuild.com Sells for only $8,655 at SEDO : 30 Cents per Link!
Avatar Story Found By: jstein 1476 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Aaron Wall noticed that SearchGuild.com, which was one of the first major search marketing portals, news sites and forums which just kind of died off over the past 2 years after endless hacking and bad hosting, just sold on SEDO for the low low price of… Read more
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8 Types of Reputation Management Issues
Avatar Story Found By: Wiep 1476 Days ago
News Source: http://www.viperchill.com
Category: SEM
Reputation Management is a serious online service that needs timely attention, although not enough people do it justice and simply monitor feeds online for mentions of said brand / product / service. There’s many forms of ‘negative reputation’… Read more
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26 Reasons Why I Love Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: aglobalwarming 1479 Days ago
News Source: http://www.socialdesire.com
Category: SEM
Shana describes why she loves Twitter. Read more
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Protect Yourself and Your Customers with this Professional SEO Contract
Avatar Story Found By: seanmag 1480 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
The SEO industry has its fair share of detractors claiming a majority of SEO’s are everything from “snakeoil salesmen” to downright “slimy”. The best way to overcome this perception, use it to your advantage and position yourself as a… Read more
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Prisoners of War in the Battle for Paid Links
Avatar Story Found By: scottclark 1479 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: SEM
Michael’s call to arms digs into the issue of how Google’s influence and policies affect the future of monetized web properties in a "top-down, dictatorial manner." Is Google scaring people into a particular way of doing business that benefits… Read more
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Internal Link Percent
Avatar Story Found By: mattstoddart 1481 Days ago
News Source: http://www.shimonsandler.com
Category: SEO
Shimon demonstrates how to calculate the internal link percentage to make individual pages "resource-rich" Read more
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Are You Hiding on Your Blog?
Avatar Story Found By: jstein 1480 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com
Category: Social Media
Whether you are a consultant, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, a blog can be a great tool to promote yourself. But the mistake that many blogs make is placing too much emphasis on promoting what they offer, and not enough focus on the people… Read more
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Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson Address Digg User Concerns
Avatar Story Found By: tamar 1480 Days ago
News Source: http://www.techipedia.com
Category: Social Media
In an emergency podcast tonight, Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson spoke live to the Digg community about some changes and developments on the site. Here’s the lowdown (in a not-so-liveblogged format). Read more
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Interview with Social Media Hotshot, ViperChill
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1480 Days ago
News Source: http://nowsourcing.com
Category: SEM
Brian of NowSourcing interviews Glen Allsopp of ViperChill. Great Interview, Men!! Read more
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Think You’re Successfully Flying Under Google’s Radar? Think Again.
Avatar Story Found By: SiteMost 1480 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Have you been trying to "fly under the radar," engaging in activities outside of Google’s guidelines but subtly so as not to get caught?... Well, think again! Read more
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Blogging as a Social Media Method Drives Product Awareness
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1481 Days ago
News Source: http://www.techipedia.com
Category: SEM
There is a lot more to Social Media than just social news sites for people who want to sell their product using social media.... how about the Blog. Read more
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Enlarge Your PageRank!!!
Avatar Story Found By: tonyp 1481 Days ago
News Source: http://seo2.0.onreact.com
Category: SEO
Very funny article about the importance of PageRank size. Read more
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