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3 interesting tools to help you further improve your SEO efforts. read more »
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SEO Tips from MarketingProfs... How do you actually get your Web site ranked high in search engines? The answer is quite simple, but getting there can be a bit more difficult. read more »
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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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This morning I was handing off a project to a developer and found myself ranting about the common mistakes developers make when coding HTML. These boneheaded mistakes can cause search engines to choke when it comes to indexing your websites. And its read more »
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Although the tool is still in Alpha it appears to be a valuable tool for helping individuals optimize a press release.

HubSpot's Press Release Grader evaluates your press release and provides a marketing effectiveness score. This score is based u read more »
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Great illustration of the interaction and interdependence (is that a word?) between the various factions of search marketing, with a touch of humor thrown in as well. Would be great for getting corporate honchos to understand the necessity of each read more »
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Ready or not, the landing page load time is coming to the AdWords quality score in June. I have screen shots of the new report Google is displaying so you can be prepared. Good luck! read more »
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Most search marketers focus on Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. But B2B search marketers also have a growing number of vertical search options. Clicks and leads from these vertical search sites may not yield the same traffic as general search engines, read more »
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Three classic techniques can get you to better ad copy more quickly, without brute force testing of many variations. By "better," I mean higher CTR. We'll need to make Google happy in the early going to build up quality signals that will give you an read more »
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Earlier this morning a colleague of mine was conducting a search and called me over to show me something interesting. Immediately below each of the sponsored search results (AdWords) were three separate variable names and values. The numbers that ha read more »
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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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This is the third article in the four-part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress". We are taking a look at 77+ quality and usefull WordPress Plug-ins, which have been very handy and saves us lots of time and effort to run our blog the way read more »
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Analyzing Your Competitor’s Backlinking Strategies read more »
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Matt lets us play fly on the wall and even play along with a recent topic of interest amongst some Google-ites. So, how literal do you like YOUR 'noindex' commands?

Matt Cutts Blog - Okay, this post will be colossally boring to some people. But I read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "It amazes me that link popularity, which is one of the most fundamentally important concepts to understanding search engines and online marketing is on a page talking about "Link doping" and "Incestuous linking". Everyone (in read more »
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And we should keep in mind whom did the SEO; DoubleClick - http://sphinn.com/story/28503 .... (I am all about the Smack Down today)

Once more the concept of search engines doing SEO comes to light. If Google is buying a company that itself break read more »
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A marketer has his add rejected because he was targeting spanish speaking people in a US geographic location. read more »
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Seach Engine Land - Web Browsing, Search, And Online Ads Grow More Risky, Google Says from InformationWeek reports on a recent Google Study named All Your iFRAMEs Point to Us that shows 1.3% of incoming Google searches returned at least one maliciou read more »
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Overuse of whitehat techniques is a red flag. SEO itself is a red flag. Can’t we have some different colors or something? Having a website is a red flag dammit. Hey you…are you reading this? That’s a red flag, you’re out for the season. read more »
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Google Befriends Nokia; Yahoo Snags T-Mobile Europe...
Major partnerships coming out of the Mobile World Congress. read more »
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From Sméagol to Gandalf the Grey, which LORT character are YOU???
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Following the hilarity of the Adwords "Ringtone Bandit",
Google is changing the display URL policy for Adwords on April 1st. This is most likely in response to the recent gaming of adsense by a few individuals who are able to completely dominate t read more »
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This is great functionality. Most useful when you'd like to know how long something has been around. read more »
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This is one of the more funny things I have seen in a while and had to share it with everyone - already ended photoshop contest for "truthful" banner ads read more »
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"What makes you so special that you charge 5 times more than XYZ SEM Agency?" read more »
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