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Dear Matt Cutts, What We Have is a Failure to Communicate
Avatar Story Found By: ericenge 1074 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: SEO
Michael Gray makes a good argument for how Google should handle the semantics of it’s changes to its ranking algorithms. Read more
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The Secret to Great Usability
Avatar Story Found By: mike.tekula 1111 Days ago
News Source: http://www.usereffect.com
Category: Usability
Dr. Pete drops some usability knowledge on us. He boils it down from a science to a sentence - a simple thing we all need to keep in mind when it comes to building websites. Plus it’s a funny post. Read it! Read more
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The ABC’s of Online Networking
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1119 Days ago
News Source: http://www.theonlinebeat.com
Category: Social Media
Joanna comes up with the ABC’s of online networking.... perfect for someone just getting started. Read more
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SEO is Branding
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1152 Days ago
News Source: http://on.eti.me
Category: SEO
Lately, I’ve [Ben McKay] been developing ideas around the ideas of how it would be best to ‘teach’ someone SEO. It has always occurred to me that because of the intricacies and the continual evolution of search marketing and SEO more specifically,… Read more
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Do Search Engines Use Bounce Rate As A Ranking Factor?
Avatar Story Found By: vermasaurav 1161 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Your web site’s bounce rate may be a significant factor in your search engine rankings. If the bounce rate on your site is high, you could end up with lower rankings in the search engines. Correspondingly, lower bounce rates may actually offer… Read more
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Q&A With Google On SearchWiki (Don’t Expect An Opt-Out Soon)
Avatar Story Found By: jameszol 1175 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Searching
Danny interviewed SearchWiki product pros at Google. Read more
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Google’s Over Personalization
Avatar Story Found By: dsnyder 1182 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchandsocial.com
Category: SEM
Google has been at the top of the PPC and personalization game for the past few years. Their goal has always been to produce the best results for the end user, no matter the results to the advertiser. In late September 2008, some friends on Twitter,… Read more
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A Cyclical Approach to Managing SEO Campaigns
Avatar Story Found By: DazzlinDonna 1186 Days ago
News Source: http://www.unstuckdigital.com
Category: SEO
From the post: there’s no ’one size fits all’ in SEO. Every solution will look different, have unique components and require it’s own level of time and attention. That said, the SEO workflow cycle is, in general, the same or quite similar… Read more
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A Cyclical Approach to Managing SEO Campaigns
Avatar Story Found By: mike.tekula 1196 Days ago
News Source: http://www.unstuckdigital.com
Category: SEO
In light of the unpredictable nature of SEO, it makes sense to take measured steps over time and regularly evaluate the impact of actions taken. In the interest of a simple approach to organization, I use a 4-phase cyclical workflow that informs nearly… Read more
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Future of SEO
Avatar Story Found By: dsnyder 1197 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchandsocial.com
Category: SEO
Search engines are getting smarter day by day, technologies are advancing minute by minute, and search engine optimization specialists need to get on board and prepare for the future of SEO. Read more
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Leveraging Analytics for Keyword Research
Avatar Story Found By: mike.tekula 1203 Days ago
News Source: http://www.unstuckdigital.com
Category: SEO
Your website analytics are a crucial source of data when it comes to keyword research. If you’re running analytics, start there first when you set out to identify new keyword opportunities. Read more
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New Google Analytics Segmentation Tool Rocks for Ecommerce
Avatar Story Found By: Drupal 1208 Days ago
News Source: http://www.getelastic.com
Category: Analytics
Discusses why online retailers would want to segment branded search vs. non-branded search to gauge success of landing page optimization efforts and other persuasion techniques. Read more
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Small Business SEO: It’s about Education and Empowerment
Avatar Story Found By: mike.tekula 1222 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEM
The latest great YOUmoz post from Rishi on Small Business SEM: how to combat shady / snake oil SEO competitors by educating and empowering your clients. Read more
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Is SEO a Service?
Avatar Story Found By: KateMorris 1230 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEM
Fantastic look at what SEO means (since we use like 800 variations of the three letter acronym) and how we sell it. Read more
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SEO Mastermind Aaron Wall Brings Bad News
Avatar Story Found By: BrentCsutoras 1251 Days ago
News Source: http://seoworld.entrepreneur.com
Category: SEM
(Disclaimer: There is good news here too - but only if you take immediate action. Warning: Some of this is considered ‘advanced SEO’). Read more
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Snake Oil In Disguise: Useless Information Passing As Good Advice
Avatar Story Found By: ciaran 1255 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEM
Jane thinks that there is a lot of hot-air which passes for insight in the search industry. I think she should just get on with creating good content....

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Brand the Company or the Players?
Avatar Story Found By: remarkablogger 1258 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bruceclay.com
Category: SEO
SEO is bursting with personal brands. Brands that have been so ingrained into the industry that we don’t always even realize there’s a company behind these folks. Obviously this goes on in other industries as well, but I really think we SEOs… Read more
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The Trouble with Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1272 Days ago
News Source: http://www.businessweek.com
Category: Social Media
Don’t be surprised to see advertising on Twitter soon. It’s about the only way the service can generate revenue. But will it be enough? Insightful article by Ben Kunz at BusinessWeek. Read more
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Small Business SEO: Content Strategies
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1271 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
One of the problems with working on Small Business SEM is content development. So far we know what keywords we are targeting, who our link market is, and how to gain those links. But in order to target a large range of the long tail keywords, we do have… Read more
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6 Lessons I Wish I Knew When I Started Online Freelancing
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Moderator Story Found By: graywolf 1285 Days ago
News Source: http://webworkerdaily.com
Category: Vertical Search
It’s okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there… Read more
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Internet Marketing Zodiac: Building the Perfect Team
Avatar Story Found By: mike.tekula 1286 Days ago
News Source: http://www.conversationmarketing.com
Category: SEM
Ian says, "I have a great team. You can build a great internet marketing team, too. Not by saying "I need a developer" and "I need an SEO expert". That’ll get you something resembling an Edsel, only less functional. Instead, make sure you have a… Read more
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Things That Are, And Things That Are Not, Linkbait
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1311 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo-chicks.com
Category: SEM
Jane Copland takes a look at things which could, and definitely could not, be linkbait. Read more
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An Olympic ’Sport’ for SMM? 24 Hours of Twitter 08-08-08
Avatar Story Found By: davidmihm 1314 Days ago
News Source: http://www.usereffect.com
Category: Social Media
Dr. Pete Meyers, a well-known usability expert and Twitter addict, has decided to ring in 08-08-08 by celebrating "Twitter and [his] international friends by spending 24 straight hours on Twitter."

So no matter what time zone you’re… Read more
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Best Advice for a Start-up Blogger
Avatar Story Found By: mike.tekula 1328 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seosmarty.com
Category: Social Media
Ann Smarty says: Ok, it’s been more than 6 months since I started blogging. This was something completely new and overwhelming for me...And now after some time passed, I can look back to define best tactics that helped me a bunch. Read more
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Takeaway, Myths and Questions left after JuneTune
Avatar Story Found By: ankitrawat 1332 Days ago
News Source: http://ankitrawat.com
Category: SEO
However i was not able to attend Google webmaster chat last night … seems like m lazy now a days … but here are some of the takeaways, myths and questions left after JuneTune … Read more
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