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There are lots of different people out there calling themselves SEOs. Some of them are actually really good. But, for today, let’s take a look at 11 sure fire signs that your dealing with a bad one: read more »
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My name is Loren Baker and I’m a link builder. I admit it, I’m a link building SEO and I’ve been building links for clients for 10 years. I’m also the owner and editor of Search Engine Journal and I’ve decided to be a bit more transparent about my l read more »
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Today, we’ll talk about the use of “nofollow” tags to control the amount of link juice flowing within a site and its internal pages. To better explain this I came up with an illustration that should help the “not so technical” crowd understand this read more »
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Flickr, once a popular source of dofollow links for SEOs has recently turned its links to nofollow automatically! Whereas you could link to your site(s) before and pass juice, now external links are nofollowed. This raises important issues:

1) Is read more »
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Not too long ago Lee Odden queried a number of online marketing and public relations peers ranging from Aaron Wall, Matt McGee and Neil Patel to Todd Defren, Triss Hussey and Peter Himler about sharing a few of their social media marketing tips. Out read more »
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Everyone has experienced that terrible moment when a site take a sudden dive in the rankings. This guide is designed to make sure you have the best chance at recovering those rankings, and don't make it worse. read more »
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Taking down the PR indicator on the toolbar would make it interesting for those in the text link biz for sure but wouldn't kill it (the text link biz). I also think that it would allow black hat seo'ers to operate covertly within the serps if the "a read more »
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One of the most recent Google theories floating through the forums is the "position six penalty." The signs of being hit by a "position six penalty" is when you see your number one or two rankings shift downwards to position number six in Google. Ma read more »
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I just had to rant a little bit here about how unbelievable it is to me that so many major colleges and universities do not offer courses in Internet marketing (or even cover search marketing at all). Rant with me, won't you? I'd love to hear your e read more »
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