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If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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DazzlinDonna writes "This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next cou read more »
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Using your keyword research when crafting link profiles is extremely important for both internal and external tagging. Crafting link profiles is all about related diversity. What I mean by that is we want to have a diversified link text collection t read more »
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When the opportunity arose to discuss one advanced subject with the SEO expert, who is respectfully tight-lipped on specific techniques, the next best subject was how he manages to stay relevant in a sea of noise. The self-proclaimed shameless marke read more »
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Seems like many advertisers were hit with a major spike in minimum bids due to the AdWords landing page quality score update. This seems to have happened last night. read more »
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Pundits have been touting the promise of local and mobile search for years, but it seems like hype often outweighed substance—until now. This year, we're seeing the convergence of a number of key factors that resoundingly demonstrate that the local read more »
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Gab Goldenberg releases a brilliant Wordpress Plugin to maximize the effect of your internal anchor text.

"So: You can rank like Wikipedia, without being Wikipedia. Ok, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration, but the tool should help you improve your read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "... don't be so quick to let go of the traditional search engine optimization techniques in favor of the big Web 2.0 buzzwords. White hat SEO is evolving and is all the advanced SEO you need to rank well in the search engines an 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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Joost de Valk gives us his final guide to WordPress SEO. read more »
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This is a pretty funny image of Matt Cutts. I think the first diagram is actually funnier. Pick one ball and follow it for a while.

**Note: This is a humorous post and does not contain any real SEO value other than giving Matt Cutts a hard t read more »
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I'm continually amazed at how people go barreling into social media sites like a bull in a china shop and then wonder why they aren't well received. They hear social media is changing the way people do business and they make the mistake of thinking read more »
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When usability reviews are presented from the perspective of marketing, it becomes easier to understand the importance of user experience design. read more »
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Voices of Search kicks-off with Michael Gray, Will Critchlow, Steve Rubel & Ian Lurie answering the question,

"During the last year or so Social Media Marketing (SMM) joined the forefront of Internet marketing and search marketing in particular. read more »
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Released as beta a version to testers, Google Analytics can now tag certain events that happen on a page that are normally not tracked by default on many other analytics platforms. read more »
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How deep into the SEO recommendation(s) do you think SEO consultants should get?

Do you think a company should actually implement recommendations delivered (or be prepared to provide this service)

- or provide a project plan for implementa read more »
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There’s lots of hand wringing among publishers about duplicate content, and how other people who are authorized to syndicate, and scrapers who aren’t often outrank the original source, when Google gets it wrong. Here’s an example in action. read more »
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Great post by Jennifer over at Search Engine People on how large companies are going to have to get into SEO in the future due to the lack of mass training available. read more »
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I normally don't sphinn my own stuff but I thought everyone would think is funny :) read more »
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I didn't intend to submit my 20 minute blog post that I wrote yesterday to Sphinn until I read some of the positive comments readers left me. People seemed to like the post...therefore, perhaps I should share it with y'all.

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Recently in the post I did called an “Open Letter to Google” a lot of debating went on. One thing to come out of this is that many SEOs consider the link based algorithms used by Google and other Search Engines to be so flawed that they should be do read more »
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A little SEO April Fools Day joke on the sales person. Who else is better to play pranks on than the sales team?? LOL. read more »
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Google adds short snippets to entries in a keyword query search engine report to help searchers find what they want. If you apply SEO to the Web page Description, then you can increase the chances that the Description becomes the snippet that Googl read more »
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A little song I wrote and recorded called "The SEO Blues". I think everyone here can relate :) read more »
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The 4 most common methods to optimize FLASH for search engines . read more »
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