JeffMHoward

bookworm seo propeses open sourcing a link reporting tool. read more »
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The natural results in Google drive more than 70% of search traffic, though only account for 12.5% of online spend.
Why is this? Take your pick.... read more »
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Best SEOs (most profitable) will be the ones with the most creative approach to leveraging their skills. read more »
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Lately we’ve received a spate of client inquiries about Wikipedia.
“Can we create our own entry? Can we edit our entry? How do you find the line between promotion and fact? Why is Wikipedia so important in the first place?” read more »
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The question that I asked was: Would one pop-up offering you a newsletter subscription be enough to make you stop visiting a website? read more »
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A recurring question I get from Twitter users shortly after I follow them back is, “How can you follow xx,000 people?” (the number on November 11th is 16,928, with 19528 following me.)

It’s not easy. read more »
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Couple handy links from the who is now and who is who of social media. read more »
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# 60% of Americans regularly interact with companies on a social media site
# 43% of consumers say that companies should use social networks to solve the consumers' problems..... read more »
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Got to love the creative approach to PR with the Social Media news release. Here is an informal case study.

...“more press interviews than I’ve done in the past two years."..."Results (of the SMR) were spectacular. In the community of bloggers a read more »
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If you are totally new to this, the best way to get started is to create your own lens. It is ultra easy to start making a Squidoo lens but before you begin, here are the best 20 tips for beginners. read more »
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- Similpedia.org is an awesome keyword and association research tool.
- Wikipedia article traffic statistics...estimate how much traffic an article can generate
- Deletionpedia tracks deleted or highly questionable articles of Wikipedia. read more »
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There are “good” robots, and “bad” robots. read more »
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Favorite tip is "Celebrate Minor Victories." Important, because when you do 80 different things a week and still see incremental results from your part-time blog its makes all the difference to stick with it. read more »
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In the 2008 survey, search engines (e.g., Google) have pulled ahead of print yellow pages.... read more »
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And, as veteran marketers know, any economic downturn means lower advertising expenditures. And so, Google announced a huge gain (what?!) read more »
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Exactly two weeks ago, SEOmoz launched Linkscape, their new link analysis tool. There has been much accusation, feedback and discussion over the inner workings of the product itself which this post does not cover. Instead I’d like to take a look at read more »
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This moron is going around leaving spammy comments on all kinds of stories — that’s how s/he has those 390 points. read more »
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Many of the links that you could easily "build" have effectively disappeared from the web, through the use of nofollow and Google editing the PageRank of many (perhaps most) web directories. read more »
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Often on forums I hear people asking where to get a good backlink checker, search engine results placement checker, etc. Here’s the list of tools that I typically use once a week for my websites: read more »
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Search engine visitors are probably more coveted by bloggers than any other type of traffic. Sure, social media gets plenty of attention (including in my own articles) but most website owners and bloggers would strongly prefer search engine traffic read more »
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How to deal with the challenge of making content behind a registration, or content that is paid members only search engine friendly. read more »
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Organic Search Marketing (with exceptions) usually will pay off better in the long run. This illustration takes a look at how time and cost play into the decision of PPC vs. Organic. read more »
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