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Images are an important way to add that extra kick to your blog posts. They are often the first thing that attracts visitors to read further. But where do you find good image? read more »
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Kieran Hawe writes... Is there a day that goes by where some new micro-blogging “Twitter Killer” isn’t launched? Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, FriendFeed…the list goes on and on. Each comes out the gate promising to be the next big thing and outside of a fe read more »
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"I am pretty sure if any of these guys wrote a “Top Six SEOs I Wouldn’t Want to Be Stuck in an Elevator With” post, I would be at the top." read more »
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The Sphinn team are happy to announce the launch of our very own blog! The blog will be used for announcements and discussions regarding Sphinn, keeping the frontpage clean from clutter. We'll also be launching a Sphinn Weekly post, giving a round-u read more »
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An often overlooked content optimization opportunity concerns customer service related information. So much effort is put into optimizing content to “make the sale” or “capture the lead”, but not on making content that is useful to existing customer read more »
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The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, k read more »
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Digg has been rolling out the changes over the last week or two and today a few lucky users, including myself, got access to the beta recommendation feature. read more »
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Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
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David Mihm looks why InfoUSA, SuperPages, Acxiom, Localeze, Yelp and InsiderPages are so important in local search. read more »
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The latest analysis from Nielsen’s focuses on “bounce rates”. unique visitors are a bad way to measure traffic, traffic from loyal users and search engine traffic are the kind of traffic you’re aiming for, etc. The problem here is that he doesn’t un read more »
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Andrew Shotland's fabulous post detailing an immensely scalable way to evaluate your best keywords based on analytics data. A must-read for Keyword Researchers. read more »
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Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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Simply put, Siloing is architectually structuring your website to get the Search Engines to recognize your site is about your targeted keywords. You want the Search Engines to consider you as the subject matter expert. read more »
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Across virtually every social network site, users scramble to be the first to break a news story. Inevitably, this leads to hundreds of duplicate story submissions and ends with one winner amongst hundreds of losers. But even if you weren’t the Wood read more »
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Here is a checklist of valuable questions and details to look for in a web analytics package related to your search engine marketing efforts, regardless of website size or company budget. read more »
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Certainly, achieving visibility in Google's search rankings can be a mystery. To help solve the riddle, USA TODAY sat down with Google's Matt Cutts, an engineer and active blogger, who has five easy tips on how to "optimize" your site so Google (GOO read more »
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Michael Gray writes "Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their o read more »
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Google Trends now tracks and shows data on individual web sites, and can compare groups of web sites together. 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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Everett Sizemore the Tony Soprano of link building describes the concept of laundering your link juice read more »
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Great example of about every single social media rule on Digg completely broken..

I believe everyone should get into social media and become a Digg and Reddit user... Right after you read a few articles from the Social Media column on SEL.

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Some quick ideas on why you might want to optimize your site for phone number searches. read more »
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Brent discusses why people need to be careful about what trade secrets they reveal on blogs and during conferences as it can have a profound effect on their own reputation and the reputation of the industry as a whole. read more »
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Creating an effective linkbait piece requires some decent researching skills. There is a ridiculous amount of information online just waiting for you, but some of that information may be just that…ridiculous. The task then becomes figuring out which read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco, has a story online that follows a theme I’ve written about before: the Internet as a small business’s enemy. In the story, we learn that some small businesses in the town of San Anselmo read more »
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