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Jon Miller (Search Engine Land): "Your landing page is a key part of any successful paid search campaign, and by now, the value of testing and optimizing your landing pages has become accepted wisdom. However, many testing methodologies—especially m read more »
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Today I am going to add a few useful FireFox plugins that can also be very helpful for exploring backlinks. read more »
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At SMX yesterday Shoemoney and others talked about buying expired or established domains for SEO. But how do you know if those domains have value? Annie Smarty looks at ways to give a domain a background check to make sure it passes the mustard. read more »
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Melanie Nathan writes "This post is a follow up to my creating and managing your link campaign article.

These are not techniques for gaining natural links rather they are methods of contacting other sites about your business and getting them to l read more »
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Ann Smarty asks the question, "I for one do backlink research almost daily. Why is that so essential in SEO to know how to properly analyze backlinks?" Ann examines ways to explore the site’s backlinks using link: operator in Yahoo." read more »
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I have compiled a list of what I believe to be the top 100 domains based on estimated monthly visits. These are the companies that have found the success that most SEOs are striving for. To identify them, I downloaded lists of the most popular (US) read more »
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If you haven't read the 2007 edition, because you've been waiting for this, now is the time, and yes it's still free. If you've already read the 2007 edition, don't get too excited, because not very much has changed.

Sorry if you were expecting s read more »
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In depth guide (6 post series) on multivariate testing from Jonathan Mendez.

"If you’re just getting started with MVT hopefully this helps make sense of it all to you. If you’re already experienced hopefully this will give you some new ideas and read more »
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Adam Audette of AudetteMedia offers a characterically well-written and thorough explanation of Information Architecture in web development as it pertains to SEO. Simply put: invaluable. Read it now. read more »
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Superb, in-depth look into the value of a top Google ranking from Aaron Wall. Must read! read more »
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What does it take to rank #1 in Google for a set of competitive keywords? In this article, I’ll lay out the exact methodology you can use to dominate many niches in the search engine rankings. SEO is a billion dollar industry and many online busines read more »
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Here is an in depth look at three backlink checkers which do much more than just report on Yahoo Backlinks, they help categorize and organize backlinks based on anchor text, site age, whois info and much much more. read more »
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A landing page is any page on a website where traffic is sent specifically to prompt a certain action or result. Think of a golf course… a landing page is the putting green that you drive the ball (prospect) to. Once on the green, the goal is to get read more »
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A great checklist for beginners form SEOMoz. read more »
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Marty Weintraub chats about how to generate cash flow within the first quarter of social media engagement. read more »
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Google Analytics has quickly become one of the most popular analytics software available. Additionally there are numerous resources available which deal with configuration, implementation, analysis, and reporting. Manoj Jasra provides a list of some read more »
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This how to covers the most important factors for image optimization for all relevant media. read more »
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Search Engine Land - Brian Ussery has discovered a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which he archived on his own site.

The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy an read more »
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Once you actually get the chance to look through the actual tools that you’ll need to run an affiliate site, however, you’ll see that it’s fairly straightforward. This article has listed 75+ free online tools you’ll need to get your own affiliate si read more »
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A great step by step competitive research guide by SEO Chicklet Lauren Vaccarello:

Step 1: Who is your competitor and where have they been?
Step 2: What kind of market share and traffic do they have?
Who is linking to your competitors?
What ke read more »
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What happens when you ask some of the world's foremost link building experts to dish out one of their most guarded secrets to the world in a single collaborative effort? They respond! read more »
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Is your WordPress blog search friendly? Can your content be easily crawled and indexed, or are you sending the spiders away empty handed and confused by duplicate content and convoluted navigation?

With a little work you can make your website SEO read more »
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DazzlinDonna has collected guides for pretty much everything related to making money online. Lists of guides for: SEO, Link Building / Link Bait, PPC, Social Media Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, and Blogging. read more »
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Dev gives a list of 10 awesome keyword research tools. read more »
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WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most), is capable of being more than just a blog platform. It's capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). As someone who has both written small, custom CMSes from read more »
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