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Debra Mastaler says that YouTube is not the best place to build links, and could in fact detract from your overall SEO program.  Unless, of course, you want to send links and traffic to YouTube rather than to your site? Read more
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Wordpress by default “nofollows” all links within blog comments. While there are measures that can be taken to remove the rel=”nofollow” from links in Wordpress blog comments, it has typically been “all or nothing.”

Not any… Read more
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Debra Mastaler writes... If you’ve been doing business online for any length of time chances are you have a database of opt-in email addresses from customers, vendors, newsletter signups etc. Here’s a way to use those email addresses to increase… Read more
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And they say crime doesn’t pay.........does being a good boy/girl with the Search Engines really reward anyone at all?
Did you know that some of the biggest spammers are also Goggle’s largest customers. Google never bites the hand that… Read more
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Creating a successful e-commerce operation is no easy task. Take the grueling process of creating a successful company offline and add to it a multitude of complexities from online marketing challenges to technical issues and you have an e-commerce… Read more
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Not content with acting as most people’s default browser, Google actually now wants to be people’s browser. It makes you wonder why they keep pumping so much cash into Mozilla (although for those guys I guess ’so much cash’ is a… Read more
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The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR). The IR community has studied search for almost 50 years. It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages. (See… Read more
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Another great post from SEOHack offering definitive SEO Standards. I think they should be adopted and we can put this issue to bed. Read more
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Sometimes it’s so difficult to explain SEO to a client, you know how important it can be for a website, you got all these facts and figures and even case studies to prove what it has achieved. But when you only have a few hours to pitch, to… Read more
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John Andrews call for Sphinns in return for a link -- while jokingly done -- still raised a serious issue. Should a post get pulled if Sphinns are bartered or pulled? Can search marketers figure out the right way to treat the issue, which in turn might… Read more
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Behind the scenes, we’ve been working on some new features to reduce spam and encourage quality posts. Here’s a rundown on what’s coming. Read more
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Huge congrats Rhea! Her new name... Mrs. Brad Cornelius. Huge congrats!!! Read more
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Michel takes a look at pricing models, that work not just with copywriting, but also other services such as SEO, SMM etc Read more
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Linkbait is the New Viral Marketing. Same principle, new buzzword. More goal oriented. The one major objective, as the name implies, is gathering a slew of editorially given backlinks for your site. There are still persistent myths going around and this… Read more
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