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Lee Odden writes, "The “two is better than one” philosophy might work when it comes to getting a second opinion from a doctor or a mechanic but with SEO, the last thing a company needs is two agencies stepping on each other to make on-page optimizat read more »
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Want to take your blog to the next level? DoshDosh (Maki) gives great advice ... fancy yourself of the Editor-in-Chief, and not just as a writer.

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Simply put, Siloing is architectually structuring your website to get the Search Engines to recognize your site is about your targeted keywords. You want the Search Engines to consider you as the subject matter expert. read more »
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Sometimes the fault lies not with the SEO, but with the fact that nobody followed their guidance. read more »
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I’ve mentioned that, while I provide them, I am not a huge fan of ranking reports for SEO programs. So, I decided to come up with a pro and con list... read more »
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Across virtually every social network site, users scramble to be the first to break a news story. Inevitably, this leads to hundreds of duplicate story submissions and ends with one winner amongst hundreds of losers. But even if you weren’t the Wood read more »
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Not staying on top of what’s working and what’s not can result in unexpected outcomes. Bad and outdated information can be very costly. While I don’t think all company web site owners need to retain a full time in-house SEO consultant or agency in a read more »
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Danny says, "About two seconds after Google Trends For Websites came out, people started noticing that one company's websites oddly had no data available -- Google's own. Google will tell you all about the traffic to competitors like Yahoo and Micro read more »
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Incoming links are considered to be a major factor that forms Google’s opinion about your site. Naturally, country specific links are also very important to make sure Google understands your geographic targeting efforts read more »
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Guest post from James Duthie - at TheVanBlog this time out - seems he's becomming quite a Gypsy himself!

SNIP - Riddle me this… If I asked you to imagine a picture of a stereotypical SEO what would they look like…? Glasses, buck teeth, bald, badl read more »
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A great article here from Michael Gray (GrayWolf) on the borderline hypocrisy that Google practices when dealing with paid linking and search. Worth a read as it contains some solid examples as well. read more »
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As Danny puts it, Yahoo's leadership has done a piss-poor job making people believe there's hope, he's stepped up and given it a swing. As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, Danny gives us the counter view on the company's future. read more »
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When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
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eVisibility, an Internet marketing agency based in Carlsbad, has price of gas capped at $2.25/gallon for Southern California staff. read more »
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There's a right and wrong way to include SEO in your internet marketing mix. Throwing it in as an afterthought after your shiny new site launches is the wrong way. Here's the perfect SEO workflow. read more »
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"I invited 20 experts active in the Local Search Marketing community to participate in this study, with the goal of identifying the factors that would be most helpful for ranking well in the Google and Yahoo Local Search algorithms, as well as techn read more »
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After attending only a few SEO events and conferences, it becomes apparent that search marketers like two things just about as much as they like links. Those two things are caffeine and alcohol, something you'll typically find in great abundance at read more »
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Sometimes as global audiences we get inundated with "causes" that we ignore those "Donate" buttons because we see them over and over again. Unfortunately for Non-Profits, the offline blindness they have to overcome has now really become the same is read more »
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Previously I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be read more »
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Find someone in your organization who isn’t part of the web development process, people in accounting, bookkeeping or HR usually make excellent test subjects. Put them down at a computer on your website, and ask them to purchase your most popular it read more »
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Is this guy crazy!? Jason Gambert has delighted us with another literary and legal masterpiece in his misguided effort to trademark "SEO." read more »
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Jennifer Laycock and Search Engine Guide announce the next "Small Business Marketing Unleashed" conference later this year in Columbus, Ohio. Expanded content, limited attendance, and a strong lineup of speakers (myself notwithstanding). read more »
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After scouring the web for Web 2.0 sites both new and old, we developed a "short list" of over three-hundred sites in forty-one categories. From there, we had some of the web's best bloggers, entrepreneurs and business people vote on winners, narrow read more »
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Perhaps the most useful of entries on SEL to date. Brad Geddes writes on several PPC billing options for advertisers and agencies. Great Write Up Brad. read more »
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Like any good marketing strategy, SEO needs to have a solid foundation and that foundation is keyword research. If one is going to optimize the pages of their web sites to improve visibility for certain keyword phrases, they have to have a good unde read more »
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Search Marketing Expo

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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008