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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 1:47 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Whenever I take part in a Site Review session at some conference, one of my fellow panelists will inevitably tell a webmaster something like, "You don’t have an XML sitemap. Create one and submit it to the search engines as soon as you can." But I b read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 15, 2008 - 8:41 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google Other
Google offers a wide variety of products aimed at small business owners, and many of them are free — or very low-cost. But does that make these products and services a good idea? I’ve written before about Google products a small business should use. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 11:31 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Social Media
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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Avatar Went Hot: June 1, 2008 - 1:25 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.northsouthmedia.co.uk)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Paul does it once again equating certain industry figures to action heros ... who would each be? Michael Gray, Dan Thies, Hamlet Batista, Joost de Valk, Lee Odden, and more.

Very comical! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEMDude 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Google AdWords
An excellent article about Dynamic Keyword Insertion... now rather than trying to explain to someone what DKI is and why they should use it, just forward them the link :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: SEO
In this "back to the basics" style of post, I look at what is actually included in the process of developing a SEO strategy. Contents include mapping web pages to keywords, optimizing title tags, meta description tags, image alt attributes, content read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 3:05 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Social Media
I love Twitter. I have become quite accustomed to having TwitterFox beeping out sounds of updated tweets (what us Twitter users call posts) as I click on its icon to see what they are. It has been useful in so many ways. But as of late, Twitter has read more »
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Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: SEO
When it comes to issues of duplicate content, one of the most frequent offenders is the "printer friendly" page. Just about any kind of site can benefit from creating printer friendly versions of their pages, but improper implementation of these pag read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vandelay 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
With so much focus on social media and fostering conversation these days, companies both big and small are trying to figure out the best way to grow communities. Looking around at the number of blogs dedicated to the topic, you'd think there was som read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 10:10 am
Posted By: Rachel 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Social Media
David Wallace provides an impressive and informative look at what is appropriate when submitting articles to social media sites. He explains proper title, description and category selection etiquette, giving clear examples and elucidating on why th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WebGeek 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hybrid6.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Marketing is about communicating with your target audience — it's not about trying to push your products/services on consumers until they give in and and make a purchase. I still am blown away by how many companies and marketing teams just don't get read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 1:29 pm
Posted By: gyutae 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
We recently had a great turn out at our quarterly lunch meeting of the Virginia SEO MeetUp. The afternoon flew by as the group talked and shared ideas on everything connected to SEO. There were lots of questions on things like which conference shoul read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 8:41 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
Debra Mastaler writes, "ow many times have you read an article or blog post where someone says "don't worry about PageRank, if the link will drive traffic it's worth pursuing." I'm betting you read that a lot and if you're like me, catch yourself sc read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 7:13 am
Posted By: theGypsy 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Rhea Drysdale - Search Engine Journal - We’ll let “Jason’s” actions speak for themselves and we ask that you draw your own conclusions based on the evidence before us. If Jason Gambert has such noble aspirations for the search community, why then is read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 12:11 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
What is the hardest part of link building? Is it the massive amount of time involved in competitive research or massive time involved in negotiating space or even developing new and creative content that continually attracts links? None of these.
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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 3:47 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Danny Sullivan writes, "At our SMX Social Media Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo, Jimmy Wales of Wikia Search, and Steven Marder of Eurekster all took part. Jason h read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 7:48 pm
Posted By: willscott 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Great writeup by Matt on Small Business Marketing Unleashed. It was a great show and his post captures nicely some of the intangibles. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 24, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Posted By: thejenn 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com)
Category: Blogging
Matt Bailey offers up some thoughts on how the rampant twittering of conference sessions may force speakers to evaluate the way they give their presentations. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: martinbowling 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Performing a complete website review is rarely easy. I've found that you can start a site analysis intending to spend just a few minutes looking over it only to find that it quickly spirals into a multi-hour marathon of research. Complete website re read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MoreVis 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.morevisibility.com)
Category: Paid Search
The competition for business continues to grow as more sellers join the online community. With this agglomeration of new advertisers, the cost of paid advertising is soaring and these pricing increases are severely affecting the cost of each convers read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 12:51 pm
Posted By: planetc1 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Wallace writes... The days of flipping through a big fat yellow book to find a local business are quickly coming to a close. After all, why settle for a simple phone number when an online search can also net you menus, pricing, hours and consu read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 12:13 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Link Building
Need links? Of course you do! In order to rank well and successfully promote your online business, you need an effective link building program as part of your over-all SEO strategy. Link guru Debra O'Neil Mastaler walks attendees through the world o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emarketingperformance.com)
Category: SEO
Stoney deGeyter writes, "Registering multiple domain names is, and should be, common practice for businesses wishing to protect their brands. I discussed buying alternative domain names earlier this week, but I wanted to address it again, this time read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 11:21 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Did you know there's only 261 shopping days left before Christmas? That might seem like a crazy thing to worry about in April but you know what they say, the early bird gets the link. Using the holidays to attract links is fun, good for trend watchi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 4, 2008 - 9:53 pm
Posted By: Wingnut 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://10kthings.com)
Category: Paid Search
While PPC is a great way to bring traffic to your sites it won't be worth the money if your design and SEO aren't up to snuff. read more »
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