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Great, easy to read, bullet form column from George Michie- who was a great speaker at SMX Advanced.

George writes:
"The Rimm-Kaufman Group manages paid search for a great many retailers across just about every vertical and the October pain was read more »
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Laura Callow delivers awesome insights backed up by research and data, on why User Generated Content and SEO are a great match for each other. If you haven't thought implementing UGC onpage and through citation sources yet, this is a read makes a gr read more »
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We're doing a series of super quick 10 question surveys over the next few months, and publishing the results (of course). The goal is to give the community real insights into who’s doing what, for how much, working from where, and what their real th read more »
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Laura callow writes "It can be infinitely frustrating dealing with clients who only want consultative SEO. In other words, they want a full site audit, with all the trappings, as well as a comprehensive list of recommendations based on ease of imple read more »
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How *not* to do an online campaign. Shows a great current example of an online campaign that put no thought into SEO and gets incredibly poor search rankings as a result (as in, none at all). read more »
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Every website or blog has a purpose, be it a sale, a subscription or simply conveying the message, whatever it is. Achieving this goal is called conversion. The worst enemy of the conversion is the bounce rate. Tad gives us 7 ways to reduce this and read more »
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Brian Carter writes on the funniest things that happened at the ScarySEO Mini-con.... like Rhea showing up in her She-Ra costume to speak at her ORM session....

Sounds like I missed an awesome conference. read more »
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A look at how to attract targeted search engine traffic to travel websites from potential customers. read more »
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Sorry to self-submit, but I just have to share with you this letter I got from an amazing 70 year old guy in Australia. It's a great example of how viral marketing takes on a life of it's own - off line! read more »
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Once you're ranking well, you'll want to boost the CTR of your organic listings. Here's how. read more »
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sebastian weighs in on what is Crawling vs what is Indexing. Very apropos discussion at the moment :) read more »
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I know this may cause some of us in the Search Industry (well, okay only Martin Bowling) to consider thoughts of suicide. We need to rally together around our fellow SEO, Martin Bowling, by Sphinning this story to the top. read more »
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"Xenu is a highly valuable tool (that’s another great exception from the rule: it is both free and awesome). Let’s see how we can use it for SEO purposes" read more »
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Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and founder of Breadpig, recently appeared on Revision3’s Internet Superstar show, hosted by Martin Sargent. read more »
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Google Analytics provides some great information about what is happening on your website. But what if you want to take it to the next level? Thanks to the many smart people who have created these wonderful hacks and plugins to get you some powerful read more »
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Google's community edit feature has become the playground for blackhat local marketers. Any business that has not been claimed and validated is susceptible to hijacking, and the affiliate spammers have hijacked some of the best known national brands read more »
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If you've spent hours laboring over your latest work you want to make sure it can withstand the surges of traffic it's bound to receive. Here's 5 tips to protect your site from common problems associated with large traffic spikes read more »
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Months of research and cases studies to illustrate how Google handles Flash since the update in July. read more »
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Quick hit list of tips for travel industry specific PPC campaigns. read more »
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When I enter into a discussion with my customers on the sort of topic they want to base a web business on, nine times out of ten the answer is something along the lines of "I don’t care, whatever makes the most money".

This is completely the wron read more »
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Methods to correct Canonical URL and duplicate content SEO issues for both Microsoft Windows IIS 6 and IIS 7 webservers running ASP.NET. read more »
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Straight talk from Loren Feldman of 1938 on why personal branding is a made up term and a complete waste of your time. read more »
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How can you make sure that your blog or website will stand out of the crowd and attract visitors?

In one word: branding. read more »
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Naoise Osborne takes a look at the US and Canadian election campaigns and their use (or lack thereof) of Adwords marketing, trashes the Valleywag post from the other week, and does his own mini-analysis, the results of which are surprising. read more »
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In an earlier post, I [Greg Sterling] solicited questions for Google about local search. My intention had been to present them at the What’s New in Local Search panel at SMX East this morning. But I didn’t get my act together to distribute them at t read more »
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