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Avatar Posted By: todd 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogstats.hubspot.com)
Category: SEO
The time has come for every marketing professional to understand the basics of search engine optimization (SEO). You just can't trust SEO to the webmaster anymore. SEO is one of the core responsibilities of marketing, and there are a number of rea read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: SEO
Dear Blog Commenters,

There's good links. And there's great links. Then, there are links that just don't do anything for your search engine optimization.

Guess what kind of links don't help you rank higher for your keywords even when the ancho read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 10:35 am
Posted By: todd 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: Online Marketing
1. Send 17 Million Pieces of Direct Mail.
2. Place 50 Million Cold Calls.
3. Create a mascot and make it world famous.
4. Buy 1 Billion Pop-up Ads. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Paid Search
Really Facebook?! Worst. Fit. Ever. My parents are her parents and I am pretty sure they don't have nice buns. Serving me an ad for pick up lines while viewing my little sister's profile is a complete waste of advertisers money. Facebook was apparen read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: Online Marketing
It's just my luck. I plan to go on vacation for a couple of days and major breaking news happens. If you have not already heard, Alexa.com (a free service that tracks traffic rankings for millions of websites) announced a major update to their ranki read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: News Sites
While it is probably too late now to be much more than a blip at one of the established sites like digg, Mixx offers a unique opportunity: You can still become a power user at Mixx, it's not too late. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 113 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: SEO
Are you looking to improve the search rankings for your website? Want to get more traffic from Google? Then, you really need to look into getting some magical SEO pixie dust. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: SEO
Over the past couple of years, I've been telling many small business marketing people (basically anyone that would listen) that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has one big advantage over PPC (Pay-Per-Click). SEO is strategically better because if read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: SEO
For some reason, I have a fascination with the classic "light bulb joke". Since I'm in the internet marketing business these days, thought I'd take a shot at light bulb jokes for internet marketers.

1. How many SEO consultants does it take to cha read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Just like Las Vegas, many piece of Internet data are based on popularity. More people visiting your website is better, more people linking to your website is better, more people bookmarking your website is better. And the Patriots dominate all of th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 14, 2007 - 2:30 pm
Posted By: todd 222 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: Search Marketing
It's late at night and I'm finishing a presentation for tomorrow, and my email tells me I just got 7 new emails. Four of them are leads from our website (cool!), one is from Brian, one from Dharmesh (we work late at HubSpot [grin]) and one from som read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: SEO
If you think you should be using Black Hat SEO or you are missing out, I have only three words of advice: DON'T DO IT!

For those that are feeling unsatisfied with the brevity of this advice, and need more words, let me expand a bit more: BLACKHAT read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 238 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
I don't generally like to pick on Google, or anyone else in particular for that matter, but since the search giant is hitting on all cylinders, I think they can probably take a little nudge or two. I'm going to keep this short, sweet and to the poin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 300 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
We've rolled out some changes to our index with fresh web data and updates to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the last few days. We expect the update will be completed very soon. Throughout this process you may see some changes in read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 315 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesshub.com)
Category: Networking
Step 1: Learn from Google PageRank and introduce ProfessionalRank™

Step 2: Learn More from Google, Distribute ProfessionalRank Across Connections

Step 3: Learn Yet More from Google, Provide Professional Search read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 317 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Web Analytics
Way back in November of last year, I suggested a linkbait idea to the wide community on a comparison of the major analytics vendors. Despite an incredible amount of work and effort required to put it together, Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting pr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2007 - 12:46 pm
Posted By: todd 331 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: SEO
A BUSINESS strategy of The New York Times to get its articles to pop up first in Internet searches is creating a perplexing problem: long-buried information about people that is wrong, outdated or incomplete is getting unwelcome new life.

People read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 336 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesshub.com)
Category: SEO
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is all the rage. But, successful internet marketing is not just about SEO. In this article, I'd like to introduce the concept of TAO -- Target Audience Optimization. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results—a bust. It's déjà vu all over again.... I can assure yo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 350 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEO
While doing a website evaluation for a client who hosts his website on Microsoft IIS, Ogletree noticed that Google was indexing a bunch of URLs that did not seem legitimate. These URLs were in the form of adding parenthesis between two slashes, like read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
It looks like our ten questions post was a hit. To follow up, our own, intrepid point man, Scott Willoughby, will be crafting an advanced test/quiz on many different SEO topics - some fun, some serious - and should have it launched in the next 3-4 w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jimboykin.com)
Category: Google Searching
A method to find if a page is in Google’s New Secret Supplemental Results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 358 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joostdevalk.nl)
Category: Google SEO
Some debate on XML sitemap's. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: todd 363 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesshub.com)
Category: Google SEO
have written a number of articles about the importance of being found in Google, especially for B2B marketing. Though Google AdWords is a great way for businesses to start getting immediate results for search engine marketing -- in the longer term, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 26, 2007 - 12:53 am
Posted By: todd 364 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Nice post on some techniques to cut down on duplicate content for wordpress users. read more »
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