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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Google
If this report is true and isn't a glitch in the Google system, then the SEO world, particularly keyword research will need to start educating clients who don't know they will rank differently for uppercase and lowercase keyword phrases. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
This month's SEO comic focuses on the touchy subject of overseas outsourcing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Link Building
Wikipedia still has uses for the SEO community. Don't believe me, then read this post by Will Paoletto. I especially like the idea of citation. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Contextual Ads
Contextual Advertising goes berserk! Is the example shown a prediction or an exception to the future of commercial blogging? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Social Media
Squidoo shows nofollow links and calls it a bug...or is it the future? Does anyone care about Squidoo? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Social Media
Selling our contacts has been taken to a new height with an ebay auction for a twitter account. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Web Analytics
SEO companies are at the front lines when it comes to educating customers and potential customers about what is important when looking at web statistics. I guess I’ve hit my breaking point when asked about Alexa rankings. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 157 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I love the label black hat and white hat. It reminds me of those dusty old serial cowboy movies where the villain always wore a black hat. Of course very few of us in the SEO business are only white or black hat and I believe most SEOs are wearing a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 175 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
A humorous distraction, this article details some of the backlink logic or illogic of Yahoo Search. An interesting Google search result is also shown. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: SEO
Putting forth some time towards local search can reap big benefits. Read a real-life case study and get advice from a Seattle chiropractor on how he has achieved his excellent local rankings. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Link Building
Many were surprised last week when Flickr added nofollow tags to comments and picture captions. I do think this was a long tie coming, but that doesn't mean Flickr can't be part of your SEO Toolbox still. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Other Searching
I haven't read much about Powerset until a colleague wrote this blog post. Challenging Google seems ludicrous at first glance, but someone has to do it, why not Powerset. Some of the features seem to be ahead of Google and competition is always a go read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 204 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Link Building
Is all linkbaiting good? I think choosing your linkbait with long-term ideas will help your rankings and please your visitors for months and hopefully years to come. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
This comic is devoted to the trials and tribulations of Ranked Hard, a make-believe, SEO Company. This is a redo of a comic we did using SIMS characters. Well, we decided to get serious and hire a excellent artist and try gain. Hopefully this has mo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
This is our second attempt at creating an SEO Comic for the imaginary staff at Ranked Hard. We think we have set the bar fairly high with this comic. Fantastic art and creative writing. This month's comic explores the arcane methods that many SEO co read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
SEO can mean meaning things, take a look at these examples. Provide your own humorous take as well. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Will Flickr follow the spameriffic trail that MySpace has blazed? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: SEO
Keyword domain names seems to be making a comeback, hyphens and all. Are they worth it? Or is branding still important? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 234 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Jobs Offered
We need a full-time on-site copywriter. This position comes with health benefits and 401k plan. We are a small, but growing SEO company located in Richmond, Va. View more about us at http://www.bigoakinc.com read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 238 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEO companies are often seen as a necessary evil and I believe that is due to many reasons, but lack of accountability and a resistance to disclose methods are two of the biggest reasons. Can the SEO industry ever achieve full respectability? I thin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Water Cooler
SEO Humor in the form of an online comic strip. This comic will be about the trials and tribulations of the mythical staff of Ranked Hard, a growing SEO company. There will certainly be parallels to the real SEO company we run, Big Oak, but we won’t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: SEO
Creating a directory is old news, but creating a directory that is actually useful and niche-based is good news. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 260 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Usability
Using nofollow in conjunction with links that read "click here" can be helpful when you want your SEO efforts to work in harmony with your site usability and conversion efforts. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Link Building
Link building isn't always about finding new links, sometimes recycling your old links can make a big difference. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bigoak 267 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Blogging
I'm tired of seeing "Nice Post" and "Great Post" comments on my blog and other blogs. I've decided to start commenting with purpose and making sure my comments adds value. I hope other bloggers will commit to the same. read more »
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