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My Face Builds Links! So Should Yours!
Avatar Story Found By: buckles 549 Days ago
News Source: http://raventools.com
Category: Link Building
Great post with 5 simple strategies to increasing your personal brand and building links simultaneously. Read more
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18 Simple SEO Items Commonly Missed in Web Development
Avatar Story Found By: scottcowley 571 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo.com
Category: SEO
I run into these things all the time with new clients, and frequently with people who claim to know SEO and best practices. Great post - you could even use it as an audit checklist. Read more
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Visualize More Links and Traffic — Ranking the Best SEO Infographics
Avatar Story Found By: buckles 594 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo.com
Category: SEO
Many great examples of SEO infographics rated based on interestiness, integrity, form and function. Great resource. Read more
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‘I Want My $2!’ — The Power of SEO with Conversion
Avatar Story Found By: vbin 599 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo.com
Category: SEO
By combining website conversion principles with SEO, we can create a better user experience and help improve a site’s bottom line. Read more
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How to Build Your Brand Working For Someone Else
Avatar Story Found By: paulaspeak 628 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bruceclay.com
Category: Social Media
My name is Lisa and I built my personal brand on someone else’s dime. And you can do it, too. Branded employees sometimes get a bad rap for being time-wasting job hoppers, but the truth is forming a strong personal brand while working for someone else… Read more
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8 Tools to Better Understand Your Target Audience
Avatar Story Found By: tkilgore 629 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo.com
Category: SEO
We read a lot in the SEO world about things like keyword research, analyzing your competitors, and other things to get traffic to your site. But I don’t see information very often about deciding who your target audience is and how to make sure your… Read more
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Checklist for Changing Your URL Structure
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 661 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo.com
Category: SEO
From the page: In SEO there are a lot of little things we can tweak to help a site rank better. This includes improving a site’s URL structure by making it more SEO friendly. The problem is, if you do this incorrectly your rankings could drop… Read more
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Google Webmaster Tools Now Showing Clickthrough Data
Avatar Story Found By: vbin 668 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo.com
Category: SEO
Google has taken some additional steps to make Webmaster Central even more awesome, now showing clickthrough data!    I very helpful tool conveniently placed on the dashboard. Read more
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Don't know where to start with CRO? Look for the bright spots
Avatar Story Found By: robertbrady 670 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ioninteractive.com
Category: Usability
Conversion rate optimization promises huge potential for your website, but often the project seems so large that you don’t know where to start. Your site has 5 different conversion types, 8 different forms, IT never does anything on time, your graphic… Read more
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Local Search Marketing using Foursquare
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 677 Days ago
News Source: http://rynoweb.com
Category: Social Media
Chuck Reynolds is always on the bleeding edge when it comes to using location based social sites, and even better in educating business how to use.  In this post he explores FourSquare and does a great job of showing why business need to start caring. Read more
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With Lawsuits Looming, Yelp Separates Reviews From Advertising
Avatar Story Found By: vbin 677 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Vertical Search
One suspects that, as long as Yelp offers a way for business owners to manipulate reviews in exchange for advertising, they’ll continue to run the risk of lawsuits — no matter if the lawsuits are justified or just the result of misunderstanding. Read more
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Top 100+ Link Building Resources
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 691 Days ago
News Source: http://www.verticalmeasures.com
Category: Link Building
Ready to immerse yourself into the world of link building? Here are over 100 links to the best resources on link building training, blogs, tools, and more. Read more
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Yelp Review Filter Explained
Avatar Story Found By: doncampbell 696 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchinfluence.com
Category: Social Media
Great writeup by Will Scott about Yelp's outreach to business owners, and how Yelp explains their "evil review filter." Read more
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71 Chrome Extensions for Blogging & SEO
Avatar Story Found By: drmalm2 698 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo.com
Category: SEO
Best list I have seen to date! Read more
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The 12 Days of Christmas: Website Disaster Style
Avatar Story Found By: DanPatterson 790 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo.com
Category: SEO
Christmas comes just once a year, but terrible websites can be found all-year long! When it comes to SEO-friendly web design, here are a few practices that will have you asking Santa Claus for a new webmaster this Christmas. Read more
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The Local Search Engine Optimization Cheat List
Avatar Story Found By: steveplunkett 790 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty with another essential list on Search Engine Journal for Local Search. Read more
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How to Use Twitter Lists To Create Reputation Management Problems
Avatar Story Found By: DanPatterson 810 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: Social Media
From the page: "I wanted show how it could be used but didn’t really want to damage someone’s reputation (no one’s high enough up on my hit list for that), so I created a dummy list with only one person who didn’t actually do what the list says… Read more
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A Nickels Worth Of Free Online Marketing Advice
Avatar Story Found By: jameszol 845 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com
Category: SEO
Killer SEO/Social marketing advice for local businesses.From the page: "As I was searching online for some information to one of my favorite Mexican food joints here in Arizona I ran across several problems with their website and wanted to share them… Read more
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3 Big Secrets To Leading The SEO Herd
Avatar Story Found By: drmalm2 874 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo.com
Category: SEO
I think the picture alone makes this a great article. But in addition to that Scott make a great point that to be succesful in SEO you want to stay ahead of the curve, not lagging behing, like the other "pond s@cking scum." (certain words aren't allowed… Read more
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21 Must-Follow Tips For Optimizing Time Spent In Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: DanPatterson 877 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: Social Media
Great list of tips from Adam Singer at TopRankBlog on how to optimize your time in social media. Read more
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All in one SEO Pack configuration step-by-step
Avatar Story Found By: JackLeblond 892 Days ago
News Source: http://www.jackleblond.com
Category: SEO
Step-by-step configuration gude for the WordPress plugin "All in one SEO pack".  Post is updated with each release, include warnings about potential misuse. Read more
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You Don't Deserve #1
Avatar Story Found By: Wiep 891 Days ago
News Source: http://www.mediapost.com
Category: SEO
Everybody seems to think that they deserve to rank at the top of Google for the products and services that they sell -- but the reality is that most often they don't. Read more
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10 Ways to be a Great Social Media User
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 894 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Social Media
I [Vince Blackham] read Matt Leonard’s post on 10 Ways to be a Great SEO a while back and thought it would be great to put a social spin on it (even if this IS 4 months late). Without further ado, here are 10 ways you can help build your social… Read more
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Link Building Evaluation Guide
Avatar Story Found By: steveplunkett 921 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
Dave Snyder of Search and Social actually writes a blog for a change, it's on link building and if that is what you do, you need to read this. Read more
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How To Rank Despite The Splash Page: The Double Homepage Technique
Avatar Story Found By: belasco99 964 Days ago
News Source: http://seoroi.com
Category: SEO
Gab Goldenberg answers another age old seo question about getting a site with a splash page to rank well! Read more
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