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KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
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Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool. read more »
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SERPGuard is launched in beta today. The system is built in Ruby on Rails using the new Safe Browsing API that Google has helpfully made available. We built this application as part of our in-house client suite but decided to release it publicly. Ho read more »
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While plug-ins for the WordPress blogging platform are in abundant supply, I try not to depend on too many of them due to the fact that I don't want to have to worry about them breaking every time a new version of WordPress is released. That being s 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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SEO is a relatively new industry that has taken off with growing Internet usage and the surging popularity of search engines like Google and Yahoo. Businesses are realizing the potential of online search as a means for effective lead generation, and read more »
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Three years of work and thousands of developers to produce the new browser. Many of us in the SEO/SEM/Search Marketing industry, as far as I can tell, have nothing but complaints about the browser thus far. The main issue: continually crashing. read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes "When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there's a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder how read more »
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Stoney deGeyter writes, "Many years ago I put my site through a re-design. I worked hard to make sure everything was done just right, including the images and navigation. But one thing I failed to consider was internal linking, separate from the nav read more »
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David Wallace writes "Besides just hoping that Twitter runs consistently without experiencing outages all the time, there are a few things I would love to see the micro-blogging service add that would make the Twitter even more useful than it alread read more »
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Stoney degeyter writes, "There are advantages and disadvantages to using both absolute and relative links. Here I will explore the differences between the two, outline some pros and cons and also provide some additional information on how you can cr read more »
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Brent Csutoras shows us 5 Wordpress plugins you are just stupid not to use. read more »
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As a final installment to my "back to the basics" series, this post will discuss some of the pitfalls or obstacles you may come across when developing a SEO strategy. These may include duplicate content issues, potential problems with e-commerce sit read more »
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Jaan has a poll and I want ya'll to get over and vote for your fav Web Gypsy - I shall send gifts and much Plurk Karma your way.... bwaaa ha ha ha ha.... (oh it is too early for this...) 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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People can sniff out your "marketing speak" from a mile away, and won't respond well to fluffy "we're the best" claims. Your content needs to focus on your audience's needs, answer all of the questions they could possibly ask, and tell them what you read more »
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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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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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Google has proven that they can monetize conversations with GMail and GTalk. Should we be expecting a test of AdSense on Twitter anytime soon? read more »
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Stoney deGeyter from SearchEngineGuide.com answers reader questions about website architecture. read more »
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With tongue firmly planted in cheek, Dan Thies says "As you can clearly see by searching Google for [seo book], my site is nowhere to be found on the first page…In fact, there's some guy named Aaron (probably not even his real name) ranked #1, 2, 3 read more »
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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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Yesterday I spent the day at a small conference here in Columbus put on by Ohio Web Leaders. They'd asked me to come and speak about blogging for business and blog marketing to a mix of small business, PR types and in-house marketers. Now I always t read more »
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People are saying effective participation in sites such as StumbleUpon, Facebook and del.icio.us can lead to increased traffic, more customers and a stronger online reputation for you.

But what if you don't want these things? Here are a few tips read more »
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