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My fiver on the sidewalk of search engine marketing was NUMBERS. Yes, Google showed me numbers, glorious numbers. Not just the "1 through 4" types either. Big ones and little ones. Odd ones and even ones. It was neat. It wasn't Bob Barker calling my read more »
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Lisa explains the what is happening with A-List blogs and the fragmentation of traffic. Excellent and valid points. read more »
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I want to share 6 tips that can help you to establish a stronghold on your personal brand. Your account name accounts for more than you think. read more »
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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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Great first installment of what promises to be a most informative series about PPC by the guru himself, David Szetela. David covers persuasive techniques and more.... read more »
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Pretty impressive way to look at how a brand, in this case individual NFL franchises, perform online. Looks at everything from KeywordDiscovery and Google Traffic Stats, to Technorati Google BlogSearch and individual Web 2.0 communities. Pretty comp read more »
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David Wallace's excellent post where he argues that only that being an active participant in online communities (the right way) gives you the right and privilege to submit your own stuff to them. People who only join communities for self-promotion read more »
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Enter the SEO sharpshooter specialist, focused on attaining organic prominence as quickly as possible under pressure. The objective is to push the nasty content as far down the SERPs as possible and, if necessary, debunk the credibility of the damni read more »
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Some interesting forward thinking from the folks at Yahoo as translated by the one and only Bill Slawski

SEO by the Sea - With an increase in recent years of social sites that contain lists of sites or songs or videos, search engines may be cons read more »
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Where we set forth the Internet's "Power 15" for brand influence. If your brand rocks on these 15 sites, your sales should rock as well. By contrast, bad news on these sites can really hurt your business. read more »
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It ALMOST seems like a standard in the industry…the mysterious link builder…hiding behind closed doors…where do they get all those quality links? How can I get some of those much sought after links for my client? The answer to this old-age question read more »
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Search Engine Optimization is all about optimizing your blog to position it higher in the Search Engine Results and thus increase overall visibility. It’s one of the most, if not the most, important aspect of blogging.

Here's 15 of the most under read more »
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From Copyblogger: Your copy might focus on benefits instead of features, have the right balance of emotion to logic, and maybe you’ve even snagged the reader’s attention with an arresting headline. But after your reader clicks through, does your cop read more »
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Google breakdance anybody? read more »
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Dr. Pete Meyers, a well-known usability expert and Twitter addict, has decided to ring in 08-08-08 by celebrating "Twitter and [his] international friends by spending 24 straight hours on Twitter."

So no matter what time zone you're in, help @dr_ read more »
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Does your content creation and management plan consist of merely a fire-and-forget-it perspective? Then you may be missing out on ways to not only strengthen existing rankings but bolstering new ones. You may be making costly mistakes without even k read more »
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Matt Foster puts in his two cents about Jason Gambert's Wikipedia hoax. read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "Sometimes you don’t know what exactly you are looking for. That’s when wildcard search may come in handy. Wildcard search can be used as placeholder for any sequence of characters or words. It is a seldom discussed search operato read more »
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Stoney D Writes "When making changes to my website I always take the time to view them live on the web before closing up my editing software and patting myself on the back in self-satisfaction of a job well done. Even with minor changes, I like to v read more »
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Often there are simple reasons why a site drops out of the index. Anything from duplicate content to your server being inaccessible can cause problems... learn how to find it and fix it. read more »
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What skill do you need to become a successful social media expert? Tamar asks several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteris read more »
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Unfortunately, when you’re delivering recommendations to stakeholders at medium to large companies, virtually every decision you make is met with antagonism of some sort. Worse still, at the Fortune 500 level, you’re facing a literal labyrinth of ma read more »
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Google has added a new feature to the external keyword tool, they have added approximate search volume numbers. For example, I conducted a search for SEO and the results returned showed columns for "Approx Search Volume: June" and "Approx Avg Search read more »
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Sometimes the issue with your site is right there but you can’t find it. You check code, backlinks and website architecture but can’t find the answer. What most webmasters fail to do is to try visiting the page with the user-agent being Googlebot. read more »
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