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Through the use of game mechanics, you can increase the amount of sites linking to yours as well as the amount of unique content that is on your website. Read more
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Working for startups and companies launching new products, features, and verticals consistently makes it very important to ensure you are getting the most bang for your buck and not make startup seo mistakes that many others make, including fortune 500… Read more
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Neil Patel covers 7 solid ways to generate backlinks to your website using infographics, quizzes, comics, and other methods. Read more
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From Jill Whalen: "A few months ago, I was quoted by Google’s Matt Cutts as saying that ’website developers keep SEOs in business.’ I honestly do believe that and have for a long time. While I don’t mean to say that ALL website… Read more
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With Twitter’s popularity, brand managers everywhere are beginning to use the service to monitor conversations related to their brand and product names. This post examines some of the ways this is taking place and explores how you can use Twitter to… Read more
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Duplicate Content issues and related penalties have been issues and topics on all search conferences, blogs, tutorials and even Google’s blog and webmaster guidelines.

However, what none of them talk about is their double standard for… Read more
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There has long been a sort of rivalry between the Reddit and Digg audiences. Each feeling that their community is more mature and all around better than the other, even though a large number of members actually use both sites. The most recent attack… Read more
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Century 21, one of the first real-estate companies to advertise on TV, is pulling all national TV advertising in 2009 and redirecting its efforts and ad dollars to the web. With the beleaguered real-estate market showing no signs of a turnaround, the… Read more
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SEO Chick Lisa Ditlefsen joins the cowboys and cowgirls as a columnist at Searchcowboys. A big asset to the team! Read more
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Well ya’ll know I am just about the SEO Geeks and bringing a better skill level to SEO.... a great post that also highlights a few of my fav peeps in Bill (Slawski) and CJ (Marie-Claire Jenkins)- give it a read and start workin on your uber… Read more
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Neil Patel writes "Over the past 6 years I founded 9 .com companies. Most of the companies failed miserably and lost me a million dollars or so, but luckily a few of them did well enough to cover my loses. The main reason I had a lot of unsuccessful… Read more
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Just for fun (and being a numbers person) I was curious how SOME of the most well-known people in our industry rank on Twitter after reading a tweet by @avinashkaushik. Not surprisingly they seem to dominate. If I left important people out I apologize.… Read more
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"We can’t track eyeballs, but there is something we can record: mouse clicks. Enter Crazyegg, an on-line service that records all mouse clicks on your website and produces pretty click-heatmaps. Of course the question is: It is useful to know where… Read more
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This is a great chance to get your brand out there and also support a GREAT CAUSE! Read more
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Viral marketing isn’t anything new and you probably have heard of it, but have you "personally" leveraged it? Here is how you can do so as a freelancer. Read more
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9 ways you can use blogging to make money. Read more
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Searching for the top blogs in the Internet marketing niche? Look no further. Winning the Web’s IM Top Blogs is the ultimate ranked list of the best Internet marketing blogs in the industry. 10 quality factors are weighted according to their… Read more
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Dustin Woodard does a guest post at the Hitwise blog which shows that the Long Tail of Search could actually be 90+ % of natural search traffic--meaning the tail could be without much of a head or body. Read more
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If you need some cash Neil Patel’s VC company is looking for startups to invest in. Read more
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For each person success means a different thing. For Neil, it was when Pamela Lund tattooed my name on her body. Read more
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It just couldn’t get worse. I mean, the top banner, all the wasted space (when I say wasted, it is really because it is, I do like clean and minimalist designs).

Well, what do you guys think about it, after having played with is a… Read more
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My latest interview is with Neil Patel. Neil talks about efficient ways to blog, trends in SEO and monetizing on your blog. Read more
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Simply put, Siloing is architectually structuring your website to get the Search Engines to recognize your site is about your targeted keywords. You want the Search Engines to consider you as the subject matter expert. Read more
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A discussion on how to make your linkbait successful without having to hit the front page of Digg, Reddit or any other social network. Read more
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The first Sphinn Avatar Birthday Card. Happy birthday Danny, from all your Sphinn friends and stalkers!!! Read more
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