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Kim Krause Berg was kind enough to post a guest post on the Blizzard Blog to help our travel, tourism and hospitality clients tackle some usability issues.

The tips are good ones and I thought it was something others would find useful. read more »
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A recap of some of the best and most comical quotes by Avanish Kaushik at SES San Jose ... then a more in-depth look at their meaning and consequences.

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What are the benefits of direct response writing? And where has SEO copywriting gone wrong? read more »
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Tad Chef writes "How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer traffic have gone the way of “hits”: All these older metrics become more and more meaningless in the current web environment.

Why measure ranking when they d read more »
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Great post from Jill Whalen, looking at six common SEO issues which effect a website's performance. read more »
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Ian Lurie speculates about an SEO industry shake out:

"The industry shakes out. While many rip-off artists stick around, even more go away. Competent individuals move to agencies or continue as consultants. Corporations become smarter consumers o read more »
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Revealing post by Steve Spalding. An easy trap to fall into. Great insights, great read. read more »
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“Never assume.” - These 2 words represent the greatest advice ever given to me on the topic of website optimization. Here’s a list of 10 assumptions site owners make (myself included) that could cost you a ton of business. read more »
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Jessica Bowman shares...While SEO can be done completely in-house, not every company truly has the expertise to fly totally solo and make it to the destination without a bit of turbulence and unnecessary crashes along the way. read more »
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Informative post about basic SEO for small business. From the article: "Being a success in small business today means having to embrace a big picture mentality. Internet marketing has helped to level the playing field for many small business owner read more »
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Melanie tackles the present issue that faces SEO. Shes not the first to adress it, and possibly on the last. However she looks into aspects that are worth noting.

Note - this is on wolf-howl (Michael Gray's blog)and Mel is the first guest blogge read more »
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Don't let the title put you off - this is an outstanding article on the difficulties associated with doing SEO consultancy for small businesses. read more »
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Excellent discussion about general SEO strategy. read more »
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We’ve all heard various experts toot the horn of various elements of SEO: “Content is king!” or “It’s all about the links.” Others tout their proprietary software tools or throw out terms like latent semantic indexing. The truth is, all of these thi read more »
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The 21 techniques are ways that you can make your blog or website more sticky. They come from ProBlogger's experience of blogging over the last 5 years. As a result of basing this on personal experience he shows you quite a few examples of what he's 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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The biggest list of SEO tools. Ever. read more »
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When the opportunity arose to discuss one advanced subject with the SEO expert, who is respectfully tight-lipped on specific techniques, the next best subject was how he manages to stay relevant in a sea of noise. The self-proclaimed shameless marke read more »
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A great little guest post on SD from Mark Hayward - I noticed the words 'Hell' and $hit in my reader... knew it had to be a guest post...lol read more »
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What's more annoying than seeing it is knowing that at certain times of the night spam stands for a while and the spammers benefit from it. Here at Sphinn. read more »
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A good list of high level seo tips. I'm not sure its the ultimate list, but I do think its somewhat realistic in that it helps to portray SEO as marketing and not a magic black box.

I really liked the fact that he mentioned passion for the topic read more »
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Google breakdance anybody? read more »
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Hey Matt - The Small Business Success stories you've presented have been awesome so far! A big take-away for me is how powerful a good (I stress "good") blog can be for your small business. Keep up the good work! 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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It's been a long held concept that natural search, aka SEO, is a top internet marketing tactic for acquiring better conversions, leads, and ROI. Now, eConsultancy has collected data and documented a study in the U.K. showing that natural search is t read more »
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