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Getting the traffic is half the battle, making it stick is where the real marketing starts. So, before you start thinking about how many keywords you want to rank for, make sure the pages are appealing enough to serve the purpose of optimization. Be read more »
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Getting the best ROI for your advertising dollars is the ultimate goal for small businesses engaged in internet marketing. But with SEO and SEM pricing models all across the board, for mosts companies seeking services, it's like trying to eat at a f read more »
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Search behavior ranges for each individual and the level of commitment and resolve a person exhibits when they embark on a search using a search engine is unique to each.

While some may be willing to sift through several pages to find the perfect read more »
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Kind of a brilliant concept Raven SEO has come up with here.

They built a Blog Member Directory that lists all of the MyBlogLog users that are members of the The Raven SEO Blog on MyBlogLog. Similar to the widget, it lists the members in order o read more »
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Bare with me now, just want to try something here, Since some people like to skim and others like to read more thoroughly I have two versions of this post one is a condensed quick read (this one)and the other more elaborate (see link below) in comme read more »
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I deliberately refrained from displaying the feed count in order to determine how many people will subscribe even though there is a lack of input from other information consumers. I didn’t guest post, advertise or provide incentives because I wanted read more »
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Are you looking in the right places for important keyword phrases that deliver relevant traffic to your pages? Are the keywords you target overly competitive and worth the effort or moderately competitive? What is your goal, a few high ranking posit read more »
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Marios Alexandrou has a great post revealing some interesting patterns about Sphinn. A whole lotta work went into this post ... and it shows, hots by day of week, hour of day, how many sphinns necessary historically, and so much more.

What a grea read more »
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Ok it is a cute play on words I admit... I couldn't resist. And of course Sebs post has all the makings of a GB.

Sebastian's Pamphlets - Dealing with spamming content thieves / plagiarists -- Hey, outing content thieves is way more fun than filin read more »
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Just read a well written post from Scott Fish bright and early this morning pertaining to the value of reaching 'influencers' through social media marketing campaigns. I'm confident his insight will be a valuable read for you too. read more »
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Skellie launches a new series of posts about the 5 Barriers to Blogging Success. The first post is about Lack of Significance ... meaning your posts need to invoke a strong reaction in your readers.

Another fantastic post by Skellie! read more »
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I think The Guru ultimately wants us to increase the bonus Matt Cutts gets each Christmas so that ours are bigger too.

I wonder if he has read Shoe's latest... read more »
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If you’ve ever been to search engine conference and attended a site review session chances are you’ve heard panelists mention duplicate content penalties and filters. For “normal” people these problems are real, however with Google a double standard read more »
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Neil Patel talks about paying it forward when it comes to taking care of the tab for others. And who knows? That $30 dinner could land you a huge contract. read more »
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DoshDosh was asked, "How can you Measure the Success of your Blog?". There are many ways Bloggers to choose to measure success.... Find out what way Maki measures his blogging success. read more »
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Have you propagated sufficient exposure using RSS feeds and directories? Don't overlook a nearly natural phenomenon of building links and reaching industry leaders or influential bloggers as a result of clever content and RSS. read more »
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Shoemoney has promoted offers even he calls a "scam" (repeatedly), copied linkbait from others, and much more.
And yet he calls SEOs slimy.
I don't normally give into flamebait, and don't normally like to call people out on such things, but I made read more »
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Tad gives us 12 reasons why Webmasters shouldn't put all dozen of their eggs in Google's basket..... instead look out for some alternatives? He says, "People, let’s unite for a more social and democratic media. Don’t trust robots, trust humans." read more »
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Sometimes the best way to respond to being told you suck is to Sphinn the post read more »
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A little SEO Humor: This is for 'stihs and giggles' only read more »
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Dallas is home to some of the world’s leading search engine optimization experts, and on Monday, you have the chance to come and here their opinions on what factors are the most important as far as natural search engine optimization is concerned. read more »
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I’ve lost count of the number of times people say to me that SEO is going to die out in 5 years time and that people won’t need SEO services in the future. Of course all good SEO’s know that this notion is rubbish, here’s why. read more »
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"We are surrounded by other species that are equally as social as we are. What makes these ants so interesting is that they are an example of this social construct on the most basic level...So how do they talk to each other? How do they spread the w read more »
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Healthy debate = good

Personal attacks on one another in the public domain = bad read more »
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The FeedBurner numbers we and others get have gone wonky. To blame? FeedBlitz seems to be putting out BAD STATS read more »
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