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XML Sitemap is a file that lists all the URLs of your blog / website with some extra details which helps search engines to know better about your website / blog. Big G first introduced this in 2005 and soon after some time, Yahoo and Microsoft joine read more »
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Most of link building / linkbaiting techniques are used so often that they lost their effectiveness long ago. Unfortunately, hosting a contest is one such technique: that has become a common fashion to create a contest for the sake of creating a con read more »
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A comprehensive Blogging checklist given in a much simpler way. Read before you press the PUBLISH BUTTON. read more »
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SEO is the much debated topic on the net and the important do's and don'ts in SEO discussed here. read more »
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Using link TITLE attributes has become more popular since the rise of such widely used scripts as WordPress which by default duplicates the post title link in its TITLE attribute. Still, despite being the common behavior, this method of using TITLE read more »
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Social Media Marketing (SMM) is an upfront trend in SEO, SEM industry. But what does it mean for SEO guys? What are the great advantages this new marketing method has? read more »
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A complete guide on robots.txt tips and tricks. Everything you need to know about rorbots.txt file has been compiled here. Enjoying reading! read more »
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Link Building Basics by Loren Baker SEJ read more »
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Does Google Changes Rules On Nofollow? Does nofollow still pases anchor text link juice and PR? Read here for full details. read more »
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A site can’t be created in a minute; even if you prepare content beforehand, you need time to carefully upload it, settle all technical issues, make sure everything is working fine, etc. The best way to handle this properly and avoid screwing up thi read more »
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New data from Hitwise showed that Google is still leading the major search engine pack gaining 2% increase in July’s share of US searches from previous month. Comparing the current data with that of last year, Google has posted a 10% in share of US read more »
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SEJ explaining When, Why and How to Use Noarchive read more »
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Google has launched a free music downloading service in China which lets users download licensed songs, which will be supplied by music companies in exchange for advertising revenue. read more »
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Loren Becker saying, A collegue and Search Engine Journal reader emailed me over the weekend, to let me know that the Yahoo Paid Inclusion (Yahoo Search Submit) feed for his business, and that of his competitors have been experiencing problems, and read more »
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To ensure that search engines understand your website structure correctly you should control each page HTTP headers. Your server should handle all requests properly - by this you will both achieve better crawl rate and higher rankings. read more »
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Here comes another challenger who wants to take on Google search and the way it indexes and organizes the web. From some ex-Googlers come, Cuil - being touted as an innovative search engine that brags of indexing 120 billion pages. That’s three time read more »
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Ann explaining on SEJ about "On-Site Geo-Targeting and Local Search Optimization" and giving some valuable tips!

1. Setting geographic target with Webmaster Tools;
2. Server location;
3. A country specific top level domain;
4. + Ba read more »
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Ann Smarty explains in SEJ to explore competitors back links through 2 alternative search engines other than yahoo site explorer. Neither of them is any better than Yahoo, but what’s important they are different providing you with other data you mig read more »
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Sometimes the issue with your site is right there but you can’t find it. You check code, backlinks and website architecture but can’t find the answer. What most webmasters fail to do is to try visiting the page with the user-agent being Googlebot. read more »
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Reciprocal linking is one of the most disputable SEO questions. The problem is that it is two-fold in nature. First, reciprocal links are natural being the essence of the Internet like linking overall. (So undoubtedly, we can’t do without them.) Sec read more »
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Google Street View, which photographs the streets and lanes within cities and other destinations via a continuous panoramic camera placed on the top of cars, has now gone live for France. read more »
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LinkedIn is putting together a smarter way to monetize itself with the launch of LinkedIn DirectAds (currently under limited testing), which lets advertisers target ads by several demographic metrics such as age, gender, region, education or major, read more »
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Twellow is a new Twitter Directory which has been launched by the folks at iEntry/WebProNews and looks like it will be quite a piece of work. Taking elements from Twitter, web directories, search engines and the Yellow Pages, Twellow.com lets Twitte read more »
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Google has started to open up their demographic tracking system to advertisers with Google Ad Planner and Google Trends users, but here is a look at two other established ways to find demographic info on almost any website. read more »
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In preparation for a presentation this week on the importance of link building and steps to an efficient and effective link building strategy, I am putting together blog posts this week which reflect my philosophy on link building, and what I have l read more »
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