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Erik-Jan discusses B2B link building and concludes that different goals are required than in B2C link building. He also explains why B2B link building is easier AND more difficult than B2C link building. read more »
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Lee Odden: With Search Engine Strategies San Jose just around the corner, I thought it timely and appropriate to share insights on how you can get the most out of marketing conferences. read more »
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Josh Gampel does a nice job of examining the effects of the Economy on job searchers and companies doing the hiring in the search marketing field. read more »
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You’ve picked a topic that your ideal readers are dying to know more about. You can write about the topic with authority. You’ve even chosen an interesting angle. In short, you’ve got a killer post that should bring your blog thousands of new reader read more »
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There are a few mistakes that people make when using social networking sites to try to get more exposure for their business. These mistakes can be minor and not amount to much, or they can be fatal and cause you to lose your business and never make read more »
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Great review of basic SEO conversion tactics. The conversion of a visitor to a client is everything. I like the quote "A site that ranks well and doesn't capture customers/visitors is like an umbrella on a sunny day." Exactly right especially if the read more »
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Traffikd puts together a list of 35 Must-Read Articles for Social Media Marketers read more »
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David from Huomah.com decides Marketer's and Reputation Managers don't work hard enough. He's come up with an anti-reputation-management company, who's singular goal is to "b*$%h slap" your competitors.

"If you’ve got a competitor (or even a fri read more »
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If you are planning on hiring a search consultant, here is a mini-glossary along with a checklist of Q&A to help you separate the wheat from the chaff; or if you prefer, the can-do’s from the no-clue’s. read more »
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Part two of Reilly O'Donnell's analysis of where to find SEO talent. Reilly acts on Rand Fishkin's suggestion and compares the results of the February 2008 SEOmoz SEO survey with the data from the SEMPO members list. read more »
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With oriango.com , you can perform searches, add and share web links, news, videos, sites, profiles, music, blogs, anything you need. Oriango is easy to use. It does not require registration, so you can advertise, search and share your contents free read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn’t been hacked." read more »
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The dragons were keen to invest in an online diamond website's potential due to its high search rankings in Google. read more »
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Traffic Marks helps you locate authority sites — sites that would make good places to acquire links. You supply a keyword and it grabs the Top 10 sites in Google for your keyword, and it crawls those sites’ first 100 +/- backlinks (I assume from Yah read more »
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Pierre has a great piece here about the people who are helping to build the street views you see in Google Maps, along with some funky pictures too! read more »
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As SEO evolves, so do the the ways one can learn it. And so I thought it might be interesting to reach out to some of the pros in the search world and see what they felt were the best ways to learn SEO. read more »
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Tamar Weinberg writes, "If you haven’t yet seen the Language Trainers Accent Game, it has won the “best viral marketing strategy of 2008″ (in my eyes). I was able to interview Dave, one of the brilliant minds behind the company and the game, and he read more »
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To ensure that search engines understand your website structure correctly you should control each page HTTP headers. Your server should handle all requests properly - by this you will both achieve better crawl rate and higher rankings. read more »
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Shimon Sandler asks, "Is it possible not to touch the code of a site and still optimize it?" The answer is yes and he explains why. read more »
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In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today's in-depth look, The Ultimate Guide to Sea read more »
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This collection of tools will give you everything you need to get started or improve how you're working with RSS. read more »
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Ann explaining on SEJ about "On-Site Geo-Targeting and Local Search Optimization" and giving some valuable tips!

1. Setting geographic target with Webmaster Tools;
2. Server location;
3. A country specific top level domain;
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After Paul did a great job explaining how search queries can help in link building, I decided to expand offering the list of such link building queries and also some tips on how to search effectively read more »
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Agencies are facing a growing number of challenges differentiating themselves from their competitors given the number of search marketing agencies in the market today. Ken Clark suggests agencies begin employing the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a way read more »
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"Social media and SEO are now inextricably linked. You couldn't separate 'em if you tried." - Ian Lurie. read more »
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