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KeywordSpy.com, a provider of competitive keyword data, has been caught spamming many blogs across the internet. read more »
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A while ago I discussed how you could manually evaluate your competition by comparing the key phrase inachor: and intitle: results. Today I’ll add a few online tools that can also be very helpful in measuring your SERPs competition. read more »
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When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
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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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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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Yes, there's more to free analytics than Google Analytics. :-) "Believe it or not, you don't actually have to have a big budget to do great web analytics work. Most people know about the wonders of free Google Analytics, but thought I would take the 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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Every blogger at some point has to wrestle with his or her own philosophy on blog comments and moderation. Each blog has different goals and a unique target audience so there is no "one size fits all" answer. The particular solutions will have to be read more »
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Just a quick reminder that websites should check for XSS holes on their site, especially freeform text input such as search boxes. Even big sites can have these issues with XSS and escaping user input. read more »
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I got a chance to sit down and speak with Matt about White Hat link building tactics. Very illuminating. read more »
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Scott Allen writes,"One of the elements of site development and SEO that often gets overlooked is internal linking. When done right, you can kill two birds with one stone, and improve both search rankings and usability." read more »
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Patrick Altoft writes "What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about Linkbait

Lyndon Antcliff has become one of the most notorious linkbait experts after a recent high profile project involving a hoax story was publicly “outed”.

The fallout fr read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "More and more webmasters become victims of hackers who put hidden links at their blogs. At Google Webmaster Groups I read daily approximately every tenth blogger complains that his site has been hacked. A few red flags that might read more »
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Scott Allen reminds us that with all the hot topics in SEO these days, it's easy for newcomers to miss out on the basics, or for those more experienced to forget about them. As long as there is a need for search engine optimization, the core element 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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Ann Smarty looks at four free tools for tracking the anchor text used in your backlinks, and the inbound links to your competition. read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes "I've read a lot of posts lately tearing down the public relations industry for what a poor job they do when pitching bloggers. I've also read (and written) quite a few posts about what a terrible job companies do relating to read more »
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Hate negative results on SERPs? This piece is loaded with online reputation management (ORM) insights for your client or business website. It covers vital steps, expectations, useful tips and sites to target. read more »
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Web Analytics Optimization is important too! Web Analytics are very valuable but it’s so easy for them to become useless if your not tracking what you want. Maybe your a small company and you get all excited that you have 100 visits in a day, but r read more »
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Loren Baker Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite years of building relevant and valuable links, and wanted some tips on building better links. read more »
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After scouring the web for Web 2.0 sites both new and old, we developed a "short list" of over three-hundred sites in forty-one categories. From there, we had some of the web's best bloggers, entrepreneurs and business people vote on winners, narrow read more »
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Well, well, well. The Australian media have really taken up the story with the long running show 'Media Watch' making the Lyndoman linkbait story and how it duped the Daily Telegraph their lead feature!

There is a full online transcript plus ther read more »
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Mahalo pages must be just packed full of useful information, because such a flamboyant crusader for the anti-spam cause would ever allow his own masterpiece to look like a crappy MFA site which would be improved by a $2 article about GTA4 cheats out read more »
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E-commerce solutions come in all shapes and sizes, from single “Buy Now” links from PayPal or Amazon to large e-commerce content management system (CMS) software. Their methods of handling search engine optimization can vary just as much. Some are a read more »
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