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Bruce Clay on the SEO Silo - Video
Avatar Story Found By: peterdaly 1161 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bitworm.com
Category: SEO
The SEO Silo is a powerful tactic to strengthen and focus the relevance of sections of your site on specific topic niches. In this video series, Ralph Wilson and Bruce Clay discuss the strategy. Read more
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If Content Is Google’s King – Then Valid Code Must Be Its Prince!
Avatar Story Found By: SeoBandy 1256 Days ago
News Source: http://seobandy.wordpress.com
Category: SEO
Google SEO guru Matt Cutts said something interesting yesterday, but so far it seems pretty quiet on the blog front, so maybe it went unnoticed or maybe no one cares. However, for me it spoke to something I have always secretly suspected (and drawn odd… Read more
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Why Reputable SEO Firms Don’t Promise Guaranteed Search Engine Rankings
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1257 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEM
Rand Fishkin writes, "Here are five solid reasons that compel SEOmoz as well as the many companies we work with/recommend to stay far away from any "guarantee" of search engine rankings." Read more
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Why Snake Oil SEO Still Sells
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1259 Days ago
News Source: http://www.davidmihm.com
Category: SEO
The Yellow Page industry is incredibly easy-to-understand - you pay more, you get a bigger ad, you get more calls. Search engine optimization, even for the rare small business owner who has heard of it, is much more complicated and is inherently… Read more
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Traffic trends for Digg vs. nine other social news sites
Avatar Story Found By: onreact 1260 Days ago
News Source: http://royal.pingdom.com
Category: Social Media
Social news traffic: Mixx is the fastest growing, Digg still the biggest, Sphinn is not bad at all for a niche community with targeted traffic. Read more
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6 Ways to Build Links with Your Graphic Design Skills
Avatar Story Found By: Wiep 1258 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
Are you good at photography, “photoshopping” or graphic design? Then why don’t you use these skills to build backlinks? Read more
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From Cowgirl to Muscle Cars to Paid Search . Brandy Eddings Interview
Avatar Story Found By: DanaLookadoo 1259 Days ago
News Source: http://www.yourseomentor.com
Category: SEM
Interview by SEOMentor brings Brandy Eddings to life! Learn about this Texas cowgirl’s roots and her passion for paid search, including some insights about her favorite social media interests and friends, including her favorite socnet.
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The real story of Chrome - it’s not attacking Microsoft.
Avatar Story Found By: peterdaly 1258 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bitworm.com
Category: SEM
This issue is larger than Microsoft, and frankly, it’s more interesting. Google may be able to shake up the browser market much the same way they have revolutionized search, and for the same reasons. The existing search products sucked and were… Read more
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How Do You Measure Your SEO Campaign Success?
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1273 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "Keyword position should not be the ultimate goal of SEO campaign and hence it shouldn’t be an SEO process success metric. That’s the point I’d like to further discuss here. I’ve outlined the pros and cons of most popular SEO… Read more
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New Search Engine Cuil Launches But Something is Amiss
Avatar Story Found By: gyutae 1294 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchrank.com
Category: SEO
Menlo Park based Cuil has officially launched with quite a sizable index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably a comprehensive search engine on the web. Cuil not only claims that they have found a way to massively reduce the costs involved in… Read more
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Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google?
Avatar Story Found By: gyutae 1295 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
Can any start-up search engine "be the next Google?" Many have wondered this, and today’s launch of Cuil (pronounced "cool’) may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what… Read more
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Source Ordered Content: SEO Benefits (and Drawbacks?)
Avatar Story Found By: MarcoVittigni 1298 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Sometimes it’s very useful to return to basics and refine good old SEO techniques you might forget. SOC (”source ordered content” or “front-loading”) is one such technique that basically incorporates placing content as close to the beginning… Read more
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C’mon Microsoft -- Say You’re In Search Because You Love It, Not Want To Earn From It
Avatar Story Found By: Chris1 1297 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Searching
Danny Sullivan:

"Sigh. Reading Stephen Ballmer’s latest "rally the troops" memo over yet another Microsoft reorganization, I just want to scream at the man and the company in general that they’ll never win at search if they… Read more
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Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank
Avatar Story Found By: soulfood 1297 Days ago
News Source: http://news.cnet.com
Category: SEO
A great article about Microsoft Browserank, a pagerank alternative from Microsoft.

Although I am not in alignment that Google doesn’t use any user behavior data as the article implies. Read more
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The Baseball Analogy for Existing Site Optimization
Avatar Story Found By: peterdaly 1297 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bitworm.com
Category: SEO
Analogies are a simple tool that we can use to explain technical SEO concepts to our clients. Here are a few that I’ve found myself using recently with a baseball analogy that have been well received and gotten the point across. Read more
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Mine your Keywords Report - Take Immediate Action
Avatar Story Found By: peterdaly 1367 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bitworm.com
Category: SEO
Here is one simple way you can use your web analytics keywords report to gain information you can immediately use to improve your site and generate more traffic from search engines. Read more
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5 Reasons Why American Express is Losing Money on SEO
Avatar Story Found By: Glendz 1427 Days ago
News Source: http://www.businessol.com
Category: SEO
Amex was saying SEO is a waste, well it reflects on how they make websites themselves. Their whole website is a waste. *LOL* Read more
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The Two Key Factors for Ranking Well in SERPs
Avatar Story Found By: peterdaly 1461 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bitworm.com
Category: SEO
It’s been said that Google takes over 100 different considerations into account when figuring out where to return your page in a search result. Even though that sounds like a lot, all those 100+ factors can be boiled down into two core concepts. To… Read more
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PageRank Is The Primary Google Search Ranking Factor
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1468 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: SEO
If your pages aren’t in Google’s index, they can’t rank for anything, even long tail queries. To be in Google’s index, pages really have to have a certain undefined amount of juice, no matter what other factors you gain merit for.… Read more
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Don’t Waste Money On a So-Called SEO Specialist, says AMEX ’Expert’
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 1469 Days ago
News Source: http://searchenginewatch.com
Category: SEO
Nice rant on SEW about an American Express publication called, "A Practical Guide for Business Growth", which includes "expert" advice as follows: "Don’t waste money on a so-called Search Engine Optimization (S.E.O.) Specialist." Read more
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Sculpting Your PageRank For Maximum SEO Impact
Avatar Story Found By: tonyp 1515 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Excellent article about internal site links and "sculpting pagerank". Read more
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To Niche or not to niche: Top bloggers tell all
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1516 Days ago
News Source: http://jonathanfields.com
Category: Social Media
“If you are drawn to write on a broad variety of topics (3-5) even if there is a remotely common thread, are you better off doing it on a single blog or creating several niche blogs for each one?” I recently posed the this question to a round-table… Read more
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Yes, Mom, Search Marketing IS A Valid Career Choice
Avatar Story Found By: sphinndr 1516 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
It appears the blog posts "A Career in SEO? Bad Move" and "A Career in SEO? Good Move" have spawned a revolution. This is why I love the world of Internet Marketing. As you never know what a blog post will cause. This is a great article on how to better… Read more
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Top 5 Marketing Mistakes to Avoid when Optimizing a Website
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1516 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: SEO
Most people think of SEO as a technical role. While CSS, PHP and other programming skills are invaluable to SEO, Jenn Osborne tends to think of SEO more as Marketing with technical requirements. More often than not, the marketing part of an SEO’s job… Read more
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10 questions you should ask before doing SEO in house (from an ex-in house SEO)
Avatar Story Found By: wilreynolds 1516 Days ago
News Source: http://www.thinkseer.com
Category: SEM
A checklist of things to look into before doing in-house SEO. Read more
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