BrianChappell

I’m (Laura Callow) going to use this post to illustrate how keyword research can help you to effectively develop your website information architecture (IA).

* Yes, branding is important.
* Yes, your users are more important, and the usability read more »
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"The Google Suggest feature, long a part of Google labs has behavior that will feel familiar to most readers of my blog. But for the remaining millions of casual users, we may see some changes in search behavior. Now, a rumor once again has emerged read more »
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This collection of tools will give you everything you need to get started or improve how you're working with RSS. read more »
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The main question I have with regards to Knol is the effect it will have on SERP domination . How well will these articles rank? Only time will tell. read more »
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Great post by Gab explaining a real trick to competing in hyper competitive markets such as the Real Estate sector. read more »
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"In the world of business, lots of figures are thrown around. There’s a whole school of thought in the world of investing that only looks at a company’s financial statements and decides whether or not to buy their stock based on those numbers. The m read more »
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"I am pretty sure if any of these guys wrote a “Top Six SEOs I Wouldn’t Want to Be Stuck in an Elevator With” post, I would be at the top." read more »
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Brian Carter interviews Jordan Kasteler. Here are some of the things he talks about:

* How to pronounce his last name
* How he became a boy genius
* How he gained his SEO superpowers
* SEO for Flash Sites, SWFAddress
* Regular Expressions for read more »
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Brian Carter discusses some great tactics for rescuing your SEM campaign from failure. read more »
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"To many Internet Marketers,Twitter has become important. Some people may not yet understand, but this may just be part of their journey through the social media learning curve. As with any social media application, site influencers got to where the read more »
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"Before we dive into user testing, I want to stress the importance of it. Every website has an objective. Whether it is an e-commerce website or an educational hub, there is always a goal (or conversion) that you are hoping to achieve. And who do we read more »
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"Google uses inbound links to assess the value of content, but it wants those links created naturally. Don't get me wrong. Naturally doesn't necessarily preclude a marketing effort, but it does mean that the person that created the link was free to read more »
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"Mixx as a site is technologically ahead of the game, its owners are well known and are in touch with their user base and their accountants. The question remains: is a business model based on poaching users a successful one? Can Mixx gain the tracti read more »
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Kind of a brilliant concept Raven SEO has come up with here.

They built a Blog Member Directory that lists all of the MyBlogLog users that are members of the The Raven SEO Blog on MyBlogLog. Similar to the widget, it lists the members in order o read more »
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Anyone who has been blogging for more than 90 days or so has likely seen their work sucked up and re-appropriated on a spam blog. (In fact, I’m pretty sure this article will end up on one or more, ironically.) I noticed on Twitter the other day some read more »
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"I noticed on Monday of this week (4 days after my last post) that after over a year of blogging, naturally building quality links, providing Google with plenty of content, not using any black hat techniques (only talking about them), decent subscri read more »
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