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If you are looking for high quality links there is no better way to get them than to say something nice about someone who may not deserve it... read more »
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According to Google Insights the interest in SEO has been growing at a steep rate, particularly compared to the average business-related search. read more »
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97th floor just launched BLVD Status, their SEO/SMO web analytics tool. It's got some nice features and definitely worth taking it for a spin. read more »
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Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool. read more »
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An interesting look at what your blog can expect from going hot at Sphinn. read more »
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Some quick ideas on why you might want to optimize your site for phone number searches. read more »
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How to get the businesses with multiple locations in the same city (e.g. two Starbucks on opposite corners) to rank for the same local search query, or something to that effect. read more »
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Joost provides some nice examples on how this new tag can be used. read more »
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I just checked out Sphinn's homepage and saw the SEO for President post that went hot. In true wisdom of the crowds fashion I had put up a post with a similar title this morning on my blog showing how, if Google's algo works, you should be able to read more »
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Hard to believe no one is advertising against this term right now. Check it out. read more »
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Make it a very special Xmas this year by putting up some keyword rich links on your site to your charity of choice. read more »
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A national brand sends a cease & desist letter to one of its local retailers for using the brand name in a URL. Can you believe it? read more »
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Here's some data from a very small experiment using Google Trends data to generate referrals to my blog. read more »
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Liveblogging the local links panel from the Kelsey Interactive Local Media conference. Pardon the typos! read more »
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The whole in-house SEO group servicing outside clients thing seems like it could create conflicts. Or maybe not? read more »
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A blow by blow analysis of how SEOMoz updated Yelp's SEO tactics. read more »
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I thought everyone might be interested in a discussion on how to develop a truly search engine friendly content management system. Here are my thoughts. read more »
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A brief case study on how the magical power of backlinks can overcome just about anything. Watch in disbelief as Google ranks an application error #1 for a highly valuable term. read more »
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Making sure your business’ location and services data is up to date across the Web is perhaps the most important thing you can do to help potential customers find you. Here's the list of pages where you can do it for free. read more »
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I can't stand it when a web designer plants his name right in the middle of the home page of a client's site. Oh the humanity... read more »
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You know those birds that sit on the backs of hippos waiting for some chow to drop out of the animal's mouth? See how one SEO company is sitting on the back of a Yellow Pages' SEO platform waiting for the SEO crumbs to drop out of page one of Googl read more »
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Last week my pre-blog was outed by Andy Beard on StumbleUpon and I got a torrent of traffic. Here's how I worked this event to get to the top of Sphinn, complete with a bullet-pointed how to list. read more »
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A look at what happens when a local search blog that's still in development gets outed by Andy Beard on StumbleUpon. read more »
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