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Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
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A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
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KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
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There are all sorts of metaphors and analogies you can use to illustrate various aspects of link theory, from the buckets full of link juice used to explain PR flow and sculpting, through to examples where Links=Votes.

Ken has devised a new analo read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes "When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there's a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder how read more »
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Alternate SEO candidate emerges for President read more »
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At SMX yesterday Shoemoney and others talked about buying expired or established domains for SEO. But how do you know if those domains have value? Annie Smarty looks at ways to give a domain a background check to make sure it passes the mustard. read more »
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This year there’s been some people really making it shake that I’d love to give my allegiance to and thank them for their efforts and contributions in the search engine marketing arena. While it was hard to choose just three top SEOs and Internet ma read more »
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Fantastic (as usual) roundup of all the best SEO and SEM blog posts for the month of May by Steven Bradley of VanSEO fame.

Makes for a great Sunday morning read. read more »
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Melanie Nathan writes "This post is a follow up to my creating and managing your link campaign article.

These are not techniques for gaining natural links rather they are methods of contacting other sites about your business and getting them to l read more »
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Huge site? No problem! Avenue A | Razorfish VP William Flaiz explains how to tackle SEO for the big boys. read more »
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When use of the phrase "linkbait" first started to achieve critical mass, some dismissed it as nothing more than a fad that would be dead in a year. Some truly understood linkbait and tried to explain it while some of those who grasped it ran with i read more »
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While I don’t expect either of our viewpoints will change, I have to say I find the disclosure that Google will now be taking steps against hoax marketing an amusing bit of hypocrisy. What we have is another in long list of double standards and sele read more »
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The search giant plans to expand its travel offering, which currently seems to be confined to one-off videos and ads from tourism boards. In the future, the site will have marketer-sponsored pages where would-be vacationers can learn tons about a de read more »
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Jeffrey Smith looks at who you link to and why it matters. he writes "Who you link to matters! A great deal can be said about your site by observing the company you keep. Linking by affinity can augment or impede search engine positioning.
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Boykin argues that the Achilles heel of a free and natural link profile is the lack of focused anchor text pointing at specific sub-pages...and I have to agree. read more »
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Matt Cutts is a Google engineer who focuses on web spam, and he's their main spokesperson when it comes to SEO and spam. According to Matt, web spam happens when website break the rules "so that their website shows up higher than it deserves to show read more »
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If you haven't read the 2007 edition, because you've been waiting for this, now is the time, and yes it's still free. If you've already read the 2007 edition, don't get too excited, because not very much has changed.

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Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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One of the best things about our industry, is how nice the people can be. This is a great example of just that, with a great lesson: instead of paying money for links, send gifts! read more »
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The first part of this series was a selection of tips on how to use your surroundings to come up with interesting ideas that can lead to great amounts of traffic, attention and links. After you’ve carefully selected the idea of your choice, it’s tim read more »
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Good local perspective. read more »
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Search Marketing for the dummies delivered in a mad hip-hop style ! A must see. read more »
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Aaron Wall on preemptive spam penalties and Google's relationship with SEO companies.

"What is worse about this game of passing arbitrary judgement is that many of the best known SEOs praise each other in public only to snitch on one another in p read more »
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There’s no doubt that creating a valuable piece of content is a great way -and maybe even the best way- to attract links. However, when I mention link baiting (or link targeted content), I often get reactions like ‘it sounds nice, but link baiting p read more »
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