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Ask a SEO what their least favorite task is and they’ll most likely tell you it’s link building. That’s because link building can be tedious, time consuming and mind numbingly hard. What does that say about the following people, who have… Read more
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The Elements of Social Content Success - While linkbait does bring tremendous SEO benefits from links and traffic, visitors also benefit from the quality content. As long as it’s relevant to your audience and delivers on its promises, linkbait is… Read more
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One of those tactics that keep working for me is creating viral pieces (like long lists full of cool images) that attracts thousands of visitors and dozens of links. People seem to never grow tired of “20+ Weird Something” (I myself am guilty of… Read more
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Great list of tips from Adam Singer at TopRankBlog on how to optimize your time in social media. Read more
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Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic Wordpress SEO plugins) basic… Read more
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Gyutae Park lays out how to avoid getting tagged in the great game of "hide and go SEO." Read more
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Josh Gampel does a nice job of examining the effects of the Economy on job searchers and companies doing the hiring in the search marketing field. Read more
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From Aaron Wall: "What is the difference between an unremarkable no value add thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age." Read more
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DoshDosh: Viral marketing is the process of using peer-to-peer communications in order to rapidly spread information about a brand or message. The term ‘viral’ stems from the concept of a ‘virus’, a self-perpetuating phenomenon which infects… Read more
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Part two of Reilly O’Donnell’s analysis of where to find SEO talent. Reilly acts on Rand Fishkin’s suggestion and compares the results of the February 2008 SEOmoz SEO survey with the data from the SEMPO members list. Read more
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Agencies are facing a growing number of challenges differentiating themselves from their competitors given the number of search marketing agencies in the market today. Ken Clark suggests agencies begin employing the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a way to… Read more
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Knowing that the search marketing industry is currently talent constrained, I wanted to take a look at where the search marketing talent was located. To get a feel for this I chose to use SEMPO’s member roster as a baseline to assess where search… Read more
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Video and Post from Li Evans on 5 Easy SEO tips to optimize a website, great quick reference for beginners. Read more
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It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged about design & usability topics, but I think we’re overdue for a revisit. Luckily, in my recent web browsing, I stumbled across some remarkably innovative, uncommon design elements that made me… Read more
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"Cease and desist with the 3 way links and arrest the development of your satellite sites" Read more
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A good list of high level seo tips. I’m not sure its the ultimate list, but I do think its somewhat realistic in that it helps to portray SEO as marketing and not a magic black box.

I really liked the fact that he mentioned passion for… Read more
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As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? Read more
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This series is aimed at beginner to intermediate SEO’s or in house marketers working to design a search engine friendly website able to attract new candidates or potential clients. Read more
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Karon Thackston shares the story of a client who begged for content rewrites when their rankings slipped and then makes a good case for why the client needed to leave the content alone. Read more
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John Carcutt - "Real SEOs used to go to forums all the time. As a matter of fact, I bet most Real SEOs learned the craft on those very forums. Now, Real SEOs post all of that hard earned knowledge on their own sites or friends blogs. Why give away the… Read more
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Basic rookie mistakes of publishing press releases these days. Plus new free tool www.PressReleaseGrader.com takes a look at your press releases to see if you’re making these mistakes. Read more
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Jessica Bowman writes... When you outsource SEO, you don’t outsource responsibility and accountability for getting the job done and driving more traffic. Even though you may outsource SEO completely, you really should invest the time understand SEO… Read more
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Melanie Nathan writes "This post is a follow up to my creating and managing your link campaign article.

These are not techniques for gaining natural links rather they are methods of contacting other sites about your business and getting… Read more
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