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Pamela Lund, who I accused of having emotional intelligence, gives three steps for avoiding and dealing successfully with unhappy clients.

Awesome presentation she gave at ScarySEO!

Its actually applies to any clients in any industry... not ju read more »
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Lisa Barone's first blog post at a new, but familiar to many, home.


If you haven't been following the plot... Lisa's over at We Build Pages now!

(...and learning the dodgy Ninja Dance too.) 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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Veteran SEO blogger Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA asks "What suggestions would you offer a beginning blogger?" and offers 10 of his own. read more »
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Find out with our social media addiction quiz! read more »
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After what seems like forever writing and blogging for Bruce Clay, Lisa Barone is moving on to pastures new...


I hope your new venture still sees you writing online somewhere. The old place just won't be the same without The Lisa. read more »
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From the post, "Let's put this to bed once and for all, folks: There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that." read more »
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Confused about when and how to link? Our panel of SEO gurus dishes the straight dirt on the best practices for inbound linking.

Seth Besmertnik, CEO, Conductor
Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOMoz
Todd D. Malicoat, founder, Stuntdubl.com
Eric Ward, pr read more »
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If the predictions that soon Google Chrome will be bigger than FireFox turn true, SEOs should seriously think about making websites as Chrome-friendly as they can. read more »
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A good post detailing 10 great search engine news blogs you really should read daily. read more »
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Rand Fishkin writes, "Here are five solid reasons that compel SEOmoz as well as the many companies we work with/recommend to stay far away from any "guarantee" of search engine rankings." read more »
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Now that Google Chrome is live, I [Danny Sullivan] spent some time looking at the search features within it, especially to see -- as I did recently with Internet Explorer 8 -- whether Google was going to try to stack the deck in its own favor. Like read more »
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There are difficult ways to get links, like link exchange for instance and there are easy ones. Check out these 30 easiest methods to gain links. read more »
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Ask ten SEOs what you have to do to get more links, and 9 will tell you to ‘build great content’. In stead of taking this answer for granted, it’s even better to ask yourself why this is true.

Wiep gives us 6 reasons... read more »
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Bill Hartzer writes, "I've put together a list of six things you can do right now to get nearly "instant links" to your web site. In many cases these six "techniques" of getting links are nearly automated, so your link will show up almost as fast as read more »
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SEO Tips from MarketingProfs... How do you actually get your Web site ranked high in search engines? The answer is quite simple, but getting there can be a bit more difficult. read more »
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As SEO evolves, so do the the ways one can learn it. And so I thought it might be interesting to reach out to some of the pros in the search world and see what they felt were the best ways to learn SEO. read more »
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or those of you who blog for the purpose of generating additional sales of your products or services (as opposed to making affiliate revenues from the traffic), and have not yet seen the benefits, there is hope. Below follow 12 of the most common mi read more »
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If you’ve been around Twitter long enough, certain patterns start to emerge. People start to develop tweeting habits, and for better or worse, those patterns tend to stay fairly stable, at least in my experience. Some people are composite creatures read more »
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Google has added a new feature to the external keyword tool, they have added approximate search volume numbers. For example, I conducted a search for SEO and the results returned showed columns for "Approx Search Volume: June" and "Approx Avg Search read more »
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Despite reading tons of blogs each day it’s actually quite rare that I bookmark posts in FireFox. But by being selective, I’ve managed to build up a nice collection of quality articles and blog posts over the last three or four years about pretty mu read more »
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Keyword research is the first thing you do when planning a website. You do it before thinking over the site architecture and creating the content. Keyword research is the what you do to estimate your competition and create a promotion strategy. read more »
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A very cool list, though there are more than 100 out there that I know of! Still, with all the "why aren't there women on SMX panels?" and women-focused questions, it's nice to know that some people are being thought about! :) read more »
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Internet marketing strategy guy and family man extraordinaire (who also really likes beer), Adam Audette, posted to twitter about 15 hours ago with a tweet that read... We're having our baby today. Heading to the hospital at 12 noon to induce. I'll read more »
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"Here are eight common mistakes companies make in selecting keywords for their campaigns." read more »
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