jennosborne

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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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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Tony Adam writes... When I started learning about SEO and the role it can play for any business, whether small or large, there was one quote that put it all into perspective. It was a business meeting that I was having with the owner of our company 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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streko "i hate your seo writes:" "So much debate over blackhat crap again post SMX “give it up” session. I just figured I would help everyone out and make some ways to tell if you should consider yourself a “blackhat seo”. read more »
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From the Page: It would be interesting to know just how many people in Internet marketing actually had professional sales experience before marketing on the web. Having had a bit of experience in several sales sectors, I had my share of small payche read more »
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By building in a required workflow, you can also build automated tracking systems to document any change made to the web site or link building activities, so that you can report back in time on those changes. Most development environments have somet 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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Jeff of Search Engine People about himself, prophecy, social media, search conferences, early computers in the eighties etc. read more »
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~40 photo examples of how ICanHasCheezburger and ecommerce are related - including photos and links to additional articles on each topic. Hilarious. read more »
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A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
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Ann Smarty has put together a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. read more »
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Jenn Osborne defines the key elements that make a site, a community. Starting with this definition and principles, it should be easier to build a community for clients or yourself as a result. read more »
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Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Michael Gray writes, "Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!" He goes on to write, "... read more »
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TheNanny612 didn’t think the duty of choosing an avatar would be a difficult one. After all, what is the big deal, really? An avatar simply is a picture to help members of Online Communities know who you are…. is that really such a big deal? read more »
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OK, I’ve had it with link building; I’m done. Tossing in the towel. Waiving the white flag, no fight left in this link ninja. Google, you win! read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
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"On Tuesday instead of working I went to SES Hamburg (a leading search engine conference, sidenote for the uninitiated) for some fun" Now was it more than that?
[Take note, this is a revised version of my submission.] read more »
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Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. read more »
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John Carcutt wins the Search Engine Journal blogging contest, and donates $10,00 in prizes... "One of my best friends growing up recently moved to a remote area of Mexico to build and operate an orphanage. I plan on donating a majority of the prizes 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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What to consider when building your Website Transition Plan?

If you’re making changes to your site and you don’t want to risk losing your search engine positioning then there are some critical steps that must be taken. read more »
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Many bloggers would see a post like linking to them and feel happy about it - but leave it at that. But what I decided to do was to promote it heavily via my own social media networks. I immediately dugg it (it had already had a few diggs), voted fo read more »
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Brian Carter interviews Jordan Kasteler. Here are some of the things he talks about:

* How to pronounce his last name
* How he became a boy genius
* How he gained his SEO superpowers
* SEO for Flash Sites, SWFAddress
* Regular Expressions for read more »
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Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008