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It is the chicken before the egg of the online industry.

Which comes first usability or SEO?

Designers and developers often take one stance on the issue, and SEOs another. I am not sure there is a right or wrong answer. Despite how many in our read more »
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Joost de Valk gives us his final guide to WordPress SEO. read more »
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Lisa Barone returns from SMX with a question: "But at the same time, I couldn't help but notice that this year's Advanced show seemed to lean a whole lot more to the grey/black hat side of things. I couldn't help but wonder: When did advanced search read more »
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David Wallace guest posts on Social Media Mom about getting kids to speak your social language and ways to encourage them to blog and get active making money on the internet. read more »
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Lately there’s been a hell of a lot of talk and drama about blogging smack-downs, reputation management in the event that someone wants to make you look a bit less favorable than you’d like, who’s right who’s wrong shoulda / coulda’s, and how we can read more »
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Sphinn is made up search engine marketers. Search engine marketers are search engine marketers, They know PPC, they know SEO, they know how to get links to sites. Search engine marketers, the majority of Sphinn users, are not social networking exper read more »
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Bad spelling may have gotten you a poor mark on spelling tests, but in the world of PPC it opens up a whole new realm of possibilities. Can you pass the PPC spelling test? read more »
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A case study on how you can optimize color-specific product pages, even when on-page content is 100% duplicate. Because product-color searches are long tail and convert higher, this can be a profitable strategy. read more »
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When in comes to doing SEO for Google, one thing is certain; you’d better know about backlinks. Given the fact that the core algorithm is based largely on ranking and detecting spam via links, it is certainly an area to be familiar with. read more »
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New SEO-Chicklet, Rebecca Scott writes a hilarious analogy how Google AdWords content matching is a bit like online dating. One for the ladies =) read more »
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Is your blog loading fast enough? Are your widgets useful? It's spring and time to take a good hard look at the usability of your blog. read more »
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A few weeks ago Dan Zarrella did a survey on how people share content, in this post he is starting to share the results. He would like to know what ways people would like to see the data, so stop on in and let him know your thoughts.

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This post is not intended to tell you what to put on your resume, but rather outline what he looks for in the first 60 seconds of reviewing any resume. To him, writing a good resume and implementing SEO are very similar conceptually, so if you’re a read more »
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I might be biased on this one, but with semantic SEO we have a new set of methods for on-site SEO - one that can double, triple or even increase the number of page views by 500% (during my test) among other benefits. read more »
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Problem is, there are other times where the substantial volume of direct, indirect and social proof strongly contradict your claims, undermine your credibility and, rather than bolstering your authority and appeal, make you look downright silly and read more »
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Interesting list of reasons why you need to start tracking activity on del.icio.us and how to do it. You can even see what people are saying about your site. read more »
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How much longer will we put up with Jason's blatant flamebait and promotion? How much longer are we really going to let someone pretty much irrelevant to the industry to speak about topics he not only knows little about, but dislikes?
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As an industry, let’s just put ourselves in a position to stop dealing with this type of juvenile behavior. How you ask? With one simple step. Get him off of the conference keynotes. This blog post shouldn’t even need to be written, because like read more »
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Ross Dunn over at StepForth was a participate in Webcology on WebmasterRadio.fm with Jim Hedger and Dave Davies. The discussion we had was all about what it takes to keep rankings high in search engine results after successfully attaining them. read more »
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Do you know this man?

We all know social media is powerful - But how powerful? We want to find out so we have set up a test. This test involves making a video offering $100 to a random stranger pulled from a random social media profile. The catch read more »
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Why should anyone care about being a role model?

Because people will listen when you speak. Because people will care about your opinion. Because people will talk about you and the things that you have to say. read more »
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In my opinion there is no better time, nor ever has there been a greater arena, for harnessing the consumer impulse associated with brand identity, than through the new web, the social web, the viral voice of the consumer in real time.

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Tier 2 search engines often go ignored since they hold very little of the search volume, however, they can be a boon to your business if used correctly. read more »
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"We all know that Money Expert have been buying links. They know it. You know it. Google even knows it...........Serving different content to the search engine and the customer. Naughty, naughty." read more »
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NowSourcing (guest post from Mark Seall - Until recently, I have to admit to being very skeptical of the long term value of social media. My own experience has been relatively poor in that social media has provided me with few long term readers, whi read more »
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