ChrisSandberg

Google keyword tool reporting numbers, not blue bars. It has changed back but have screenshots - is this a Google blunder or a sign of things to come? read more »
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In link building, sometimes marketers lose their focus or get over aggressive, and spend too much time contacting every single site within their niche, hoping to get a link or a buzz generating blog post about their product or service. Sometimes it’ read more »
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Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. read more »
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Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. read more »
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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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Is it a crime against the "bloggers code" to submit blog post to a social media site for yourself or a client? Apparently, some think so. If Social Media is about "conversations" is submitting your client's blog post to a social media site just "s read more »
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Janet Miller, CEO of Search Mojo, discusses the more often than not controversy on who has the line on ethics in blogging: I’ve been hearing a lot of talk these days about the ethics of blogging, and I find it very interesting that traditional socia read more »
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First, there are some trends about email as a medium that work to lower open rates in general. Second, changes in technology are making it more and more difficult to get reliable open rate data. 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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Many bloggers would see a post like linking to them and feel happy about it - but leave it at that. But what I decided to do was to promote it heavily via my own social media networks. I immediately dugg it (it had already had a few diggs), voted fo read more »
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No company should have this much information on it's customers. This is a comprehensive list on what the Big G is collecting on you... Most of this stuff you already know they are tracking, but it is amazing to see the amount of data that Google is read more »
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Tips for small bloggers to help them compete against bigger blogs in terms of attention from social media. read more »
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What if you didn’t move the page and simply deleted it and don’t have a page that carries the same information as the old one? Or what if the page never existed in the first place and the broken link was simply to result of someone else’s error duri read more »
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There are many examples of genuine disdain being expressed for SEO on LinkedIn. Why? Interesting read through (right now) 21 responses on why there is distrust or people have commentary on SEO practices via LinkedIn Answers. What do you think? read more »
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Whether it’s part of a local blog network or just a guy in Seattle writing about his neighborhood, hyperlocal blogs have arrived and proven they can attract and grow an audience of interested readers. As blogging continues to spread out to a mainstr read more »
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"I used to hear this question from prospective clients around 3 years ago whilst heading up the SEO department at a London based marketing agency. The question was usually asked by SMEs, in the belief that either Google recommended the agencies in t read more »
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Excellent rebuttal by John Reese on a recent misleading Mashable post that qualifies him (and other online marketers) as attacking (and killing) Web 2.0. read more »
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Too bad that I already graduated before I heard of Google Book Search. Blame me for being not so ‘Google-products savvy’ during my college years. That time (2003-2007), I was just typing keywords on Google’s search box, and never really knew what ot read more »
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On occasion, I do a few vanity searches on keywords I want to rank for. I was searching “Social Media Consulting” on Google today, and noticed something odd with my result. Google gave me an indented result… from a different site. read more »
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It looks like del,icio.us is making some very welcome changes/updates. "Del.icio.us has just previewed a completely overhauled site design at a gathering earlier this week, flaunting an even cleaner layout and simplified format...." read more »
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There are many reasons why SEO consultants recommend that their clients create a blog for search engine rankings. However, if you are one of those clients (or have read this recommendation online) and are only blogging because of the potential SEO b read more »
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JoeAnt drops to a PageRank 3 as even the good directories seem to be dying out. read more »
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A Gmail interface made up of what?

162 meters of gray tape, 45 lego pieces, 12 cans of spray paint, 2 kilograms of millet porridge, 1 mop, 1 saw...

Are you kidding me? read more »
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A very comprehensive list! Google just announced their new search feature, and this article includes 70 websites where the site search boxes appear in Google search results. Use the site search box to find relevant articles from just one site. read more »
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One of Google’s search features that you might not be aware is that you can ask Google 9 facts—unless you already asked one of them. So, what are the 9 type of questions you can ask Google? read more »
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