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Learn how to increase your calls on Yahoo! Local in about 15 minuets. read more »
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Really great interview and glimpse into the mind of one of THE best social media marketers in the game today. read more »
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We hear about horror stories from time to time, where Affiliate Marketers have been stung on their commissions after they have already provided services. If you are just getting started in Affiliate Marketing, then be sure you have a contract and be read more »
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Google is now showing "search customization" messages to inform searchers when their search results have been modified from "normal" due to a searcher's geographic location, previous query or web surfing and search history. read more »
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Sometimes duplicate content problems are not at all easy to find and here’s a classic example. A group of recruitment websites leaking their staging server URLs into Google’s, Yahoo’s and Live’s index. In live’s case, the problem is quite severe wit read more »
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Is it within my rights as a citizen of the Internet to complain about someone I take issue with, for whatever issue I believe they violated? read more »
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Carrie Hill, who has written about post-click marketing on Search Engine Watch and will speak on the subject at SES San Jose, gives her perspective on 4 key questions about post-click marketing, including: why it's taking off now, and what's the MOS read more »
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This is a method of getting free links. The links:

1. Have Google PageRank (PR)

2. Allow you to use your keywords as the anchor text

Enjoy! read more »
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Most bloggers recognise the importance of search engine rankings. Search engines deliver the highest quality/most qualified traffic on the web. And best of all… it’s free. Thus, establishing visibility within search engines for relevant keywords & p read more »
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"I do not like doing much traditional SEO client work, and see the business model as having limited longterm value for most SEO consultants. The best consultants could usually make more promoting their own sites and brands than they would working fo read more »
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Ann Smarty has put together a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. 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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View case study. Brian Carter shows how to use Google AdWords to prioritize local search marketing efforts. Article covers four ways to get a good number of geotargeted clicks from local AdWords campaigns:

1. Geotargeting at the Campaign Level
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Scott Hendison writes about 10 important SEO factors that an intermediate level SEO needs to understand in order to do optimum work on his/her site. read more »
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I am sure you all can think of multiple occasions just within the last couple days where you were disappointed, overwhelmed, disillusioned and frustrated at results you got when surfing the net. read more »
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Search Engine Land - So what am I trying to accomplish with this article? Honestly, I would really like the search industry to re-evaluate what they consider to be advanced SEO skills. I do not believe that advanced SEO skills are necessarily "black read more »
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Stoney deGeyter writes, "Moving your site to a new domain is remarkably similar to moving to a new physical address. One of the primary areas of concern is making sure the search engines not only continue to deliver traffic to your new location, but 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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Everett Sizemore the Tony Soprano of link building describes the concept of laundering your link juice read more »
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SEO practitioner David Mihm conducted a survey of local search marketing professionals about which variables they believe most heavily influence local rankings and results. It's a great resource for those interested in local SEO and related issues. 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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An in depth post about how to improve your rankings in Google Local/Maps quickly and efficiently. read more »
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This year there’s been some people really making it shake that I’d love to give my allegiance to and thank them for their efforts and contributions in the search engine marketing arena. While it was hard to choose just three top SEOs and Internet ma read more »
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Ann Smarty asks what should the image search look like? The image search giants (Google images, Yahoo images and even Flickr) represent rather a poor example of image search usability (to my mind). Luckily we have a number of good examples (still no read more »
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As with any business, customer retention is far more valuable than customer acquisition. Companies that succeed in the long run are the ones that invest heavily in keeping their customers satisfied, rather than only spending money to acquire new one read more »
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