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Image links can be just as valuable as text links for link building. As Julie Joyce points out, you do get some keyword relevance through the alt attribute and they're often more attractive to people leading to traffic which is the point after all. Read more
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Ruud interviews Julie Joyce of Linkfish Media. Find out about the Linkfish approach, why Julie thinks linkbuilding is more art than science, and more about the lady herself. Read more
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Purple prose is a lovely name given to the style of writing that tends to be so extravagantly worded that you really have very little idea of what’s actually being said. I, myself, am very, very guilty of writing in this manner. I have The Smiths,… Read more
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Julie Joyce gives great practical advice on how to find the perfect link building targets Read more
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An interesting look at the goings on of Jane Copland's life in London, post SEOmoz. :) Read more
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Is it worth taking time to run down all your weak links and work to get them changed?  Should you devote hours to chasing down links pointing to your home page and ask they be rechanneled to interior pages?  Julie Joyce does a good job answering and… Read more
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Loren Baker gives us tons of actionable tips for how to analyze, and learn from, your competition. Read more
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I’ve [Julie Joyce] noticed something interesting on Twitter: the #followfriday craze has spawned loads of users saying “that’s great, but tell me WHY I should follow this person.” Read more
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The importance of keeping your balance when building links. Read more
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Myself and Sam Murray have on numerous occassions debated whether bold and italic tags has any impact at all anymore on the search engines. Sam argues that even if it doens’t you SHOULD make use of these tags...and I must agree (damn I actually… Read more
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Ciaran Norris waxes rhapsodic about the recent Twitter trends...misinformation and hoaxes. Read more
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A link spike is exactly what it sounds like it would be: a point in time when backlinks go up sharply, backlinks go back down sharply. Read on ... Read more
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Good article by Julie Joyce detailing how using long-tail keywords can "jazz up your link building" efforts with new links and targeted traffic. Read more
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Julie Joyce explain how to use long tail keyword in linking campaign. Read more
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Anyone reading this post is likely to be someone who spends some, if not all, of his or her time at work trying to make use of social media to market products & brands. We spend hours trying to maximize the benefit for our employers or clients from… Read more
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Julie Joyce writes: "if you do use social media for branding purposes... you really should keep a close eye on your own brand and others who attempt to represent it so that any links gained will be yours." Good article by Julie on how brand identities… Read more
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Fantastic and informative piece about the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP). Read more
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Microsoft appears to be having a spot of bother with robots.txt files. That is, it’s messing them up completely. Dean Chew writes about how MSNbot 2.0b’s been in ur server, crawling ur files. Read more
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Andrew Shotland (Local SEO) VERY-polity rips the CRAP out of YouTube’s SEO wireframe. This is a fun read (’cause it’s always fun to dis’ Google?) :) Read more
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When I started my career in SEO, I had to do it all, from fixing code issues to running PPC campaigns, all while building links, writing content, and using analytics. I’m like a grumpy senior citizen who had to walk to school uphill both ways in the… Read more
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Nice article by Julie Joyce at SearchEngineLand about ways to avoid a possible link vacuum scenario when building links using social media. Nice post, nice tips, sphunn. Read more
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Do you just waste time on Twitter, or are you taking advantage of it? Matt Siltala shares a humorous and insightful look at how he uses Twitter to monitor his online reputation. Read more
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But any suggestions on what to change their name too? Something with a low competition or perhaps with good domain name availability! Read more
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Julie Joyce provides practical solutions to the SEO who asks: "What if you have a client who wants SEO but simply does not want you to do any link building even though you’ve told this sweet client that link building is a key component of doing well… Read more
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Melanie Nathan gives a great post on starting life as a link builder, in her aptly title Learing to Crawl Before You Walk she examines the fundamental skills a linkbuilder is going to need.

Great post! Read more
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