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From the page: "Just because a word or phrase was popular when you first optimized your site doesn't mean it is now and regular keyword research can help you spot "holes" in the search results that you can fill by creating new content." read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "As a sitewide element, footers used to be a widely used way to both interlink your own pages and add external sitewide links. It was then so much used and abused that it turned into a some kind of "red flag" for search engines (e read more »
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Earlier today I reached some sort of boiling point and I started up a rant about Google and the topic of reputation management online. This blog post is targeted at Google and may feature some debatable stances. Ultimately though, I hope it's worth read more »
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Uncle Peppers talks about how Sphinn has taken the fun out of being an SEO blogger. From regurgitated headlines to pointless topics, the SEO space has become completely clogged. This isn't the fault of Sphinn, but it just shows the severity of it al read more »
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Adwords advertisers can now control where their placement-targeted ads show up, by adding keywords. read more »
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Ann Smarty writes: "After my recent huge post on SEO tools was published, I promised to add the section for free online internal analytics services; but before that I decided to discuss different aspects of the topic starting with effective tracking read more »
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Today I wanted to take a break from that series to discuss, over the next two weeks, the seven building blocks of a Destination Website. read more »
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From Jill Whalen: "Blogs. They're the best thing since sliced bread. Everyone with a website needs one. Or do they?" read more »
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Very useful list of FireFox SEO plugins from Ann Smarty on SEJ. read more »
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Eric Enge writes "I always like to see what types of link building things that people talk about and/or present. Based on some basic tips provided by Roger Montti in the "Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques" session at SMX Advanced, this post wi read more »
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Barry Schwartz is seeing quantitative data in the Google keyword tool. read more »
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Content-phobia is very real among Google advertisers. In spite of the many improvements in the platform and years of online advertising experience among clients, many a prospective client still comes to me with the casual comment that "we shut the n read more »
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Mahalo is getting to the point where link-spam is rampant. Aaron Wall comments on this and the likely consequence. read more »
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A post about the constant spamming of social bookmarking sites like Sphinn and the poor implications it has for SEO. read more »
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Google has updated their "What's an SEO page", adding services SEOs provide and questions to ask a potential SEO firm. read more »
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As anyone who has seen the Terminator or Matrix movies can attest, if machines rule the world humans are in deep trouble. Similarly, if you allow machines to control the PPC keyword creation process you are guaranteed to both leave opportunity on th read more »
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What is wrong about discussing the real effectiveness of the traditional SEO techniques is that we often forget about time factor. With most of these techniques the minor effect they might have fades compared to the amount of time you have to spend read more »
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Ya fer sure, Yahoo Sponsored Search throws Tad Miller a curve ball eh. Read his realization here, ok: With apologies to Bob and Doug McKenzie, sometimes the most obvious things are right under your own nose and you don’t even realize it. To my amaze read more »
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These are 5 excellent niche social media sites (networking, bookmarking, and videos) that every business should utilize. read more »
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Tips for small bloggers to help them compete against bigger blogs in terms of attention from social media. read more »
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From the "Now you tell me" department: here are some additional Adwords keyword insertion tags you may or may not know about. Google isn't exactly forthcoming with information like this, are they? read more »
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Good article by Carfax SEM manager Andrea Harris on how to gain extra value out of a search marketing conference. read more »
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How negative keywords can save you money, as well as the best ways to find negative keywords. read more »
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A private neighborhood in Minnesota is accusing Google of trespassing when they photographed their neighborhood for Streetview. read more »
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