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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an ongoing process of multiple steps which must be revisited often — a fact overlooked by many and where many fail. It is by reviewing these steps that we are able to gain familiarity with the challenges and oppor read more »
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Website Magazine asked several of the top Internet marketing and SEO experts what their focus would be for 2009. Share your thoughts by commenting below! read more »
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7 Billion People, a company that provides insight and behavioral analysis for websites, announced results from a linguistic analysis of the websites of Senators Obama and McCain. read more »
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If you're running Pligg (a Digg clone) a new tool has emerged that might just ruin the experience of your genuine users and it goes by the name of AutoPligg. read more »
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This one's for the reputation conscious and those that relentlessly track specific keyword mentions in the blogosphere, forum-sphere or traditional media. read more »
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More reinforcement on why you shouldn’t use an all flash site if you are trying to rank on the Search Engines. read more »
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Dr. Charles Kreitzberg discusses the E3T model of social computing. read more »
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Comparison shopping engines (CSEs) are search engines for products. In recent years, they have sprung up because they offer a form of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising that traditional sites, like Yahoo! Search Marketing and Google AdWords cannot. read more »
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Being in second place means you have to work harder (and smarter). Yahoo! has been on a roll of late, this week introducing location-based FireEagle, but don't think for a minute that pure-search is not top of mind with the Sunnyvale-based company. read more »
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If you are starting a PageRank sculpting process for your website (read part one of PageRank Sculpting for SEO Profit), proceed with caution. read more »
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Google announced several enhancements (courtesy of its integration with DoubleClick) to its content network which will be made available in the coming months. These improvements include frequency capping and reporting, view through conversions and o read more »
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Think what you will about the value that social network advertising can bring in terms of Web traffic or out and out sales, what is interesting is not the demographic targeting that is available through these outlets, but rather the incredible amoun read more »
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Pricing decisions are an important part of Web success. Many marketers however focus more on product development or promotion, as pricing is quite often left for the suits to decide. read more »
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How do you secure top rankings on the search engines? Inbound, high quality links - and that fact is not going to change in the foreseeable future. But how and where do you find these excellent sources of links? read more »
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As local search and local advertising continue to pick up steam, you may want to ensure your website can be found for geographic searches. That's where geo-tagging (or geo-coding) comes in handy. read more »
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A look at some of the most helpful Greasemonkey scripts and what they can do for your productivity and success! read more »
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Media Trust's Creative Director Christopher Smith's guide to leveraging Event-Based Social Media to generate Web site traffic and brand awareness. read more »
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Perhaps the most frequently asked question by "newbies" of the "experts" at forums for Web professionals is "how do I get more traffic?" As you can imagine, the standard replies of "SEO", "Google" and the random spammy link drop make their way into read more »
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Yahoo recently announced that it will begin formally supporting microformats and other semantic Web standards. Site owners can markup pages with microformats like hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN to the HTML code on a page, or create structu read more »
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Where do you find affiliates? We've developed a list of eight top affiliate program directories below with some important statistics on their place in the affiliate industry, how well each of these affiliate directories is performing and what you ca read more »
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From where I sit, the economy is chugging along nicely. Business owners are investing time and money in their websites even in the face of mass media's assault on the everyman (or woman) with what I call "woe is me" recession talk. Whether you belie read more »
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1&1 announced today they have registered 10 million domains. In less than 3 years, 1&1 has doubled the number of domains it has registered with a 50/50 consumer and business user base while increasing their registered domains in the U.S. by 46 perc read more »
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I love the Internet! But, at times it can be tough love, not because of the Internet itself, but because of human roadblocks and obstacles that are placed in the way, preventing smooth navigation of the Information Superhighway. read more »
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Creating a searchable database available on the Web sounds simple enough, right? Not really, depending on budgets and expectations for the finished product, there are a variety of possible solutions. Here are a few that I recommend. read more »
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For advertisers, fans are left with brief memories of ads humorous and perhaps intriguing. So what happens when fans take those memories to their favorite search engine? read more »
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