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Is having a high exit rate bad? In pursuit determining whether Google is using analytics data to ranks SERPS, many ...
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Google has long been an advocate of "build great content"; however, in reality, it's turning into "build great content ...
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Evergreen Content is a subject I talk about quite frequently on this blog, but it's not something I've ever devoted ...
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Whenever you are involved in an ORM (Online Reputation Management) campaign, your goal is to displace negative results in the ...
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If there's one aspect of social media that mainstream press seems to love, it's Facebook. For this post we're going ...
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When you run a corporate blog sometimes it's difficult to come up with interesting topics on a regular basis. In ...
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If you are an run an online ecommerce program, it's very likely that you have come up against the coupon ...
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Generally speaking, Using Microsites is a bad idea. However, Using Microsites is a good idea is when you are conducting ...
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Social Media still scares many businesses both large and small. But hiding from social media isn't the answer. The real ...
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At the SMX Advanced Conference in June of 2014, Danny Sullivan had a Question and Answer session with Matt Cutts ...
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Many of the poorly ranking websites that I am asked to fix share a common problem - they do not ...
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Earlier this year it was discovered that Google was having a problem crawling Apple's website and, as a result, direct links ...
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Is having a high bounce rate bad? It depends. In this post, we will be looking at bounce rate in ...
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As someone who has been involved in the search industry for over a decade, one of the things that really ...
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A lot has been said and written about Pinterest in the past few weeks and months, from how marketers can ...
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It took Leo Tolstoy six years to craft the 460,000-word War and Peace. A cheap copywriting service could churn out ...
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If there is one thing Google is good at, it's framing themselves and their actions as being "good for the ...
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One of the more powerful tools an SEO can use when setting up or fixing an existing website is siloing ...
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At SMX one of the more contentious subjects was the debate over Google's Android Phone giveaway, and demonstration that they ...
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With the launch of Google+, the inevitable tech fan boys preaching the downfall of Facebook--because a new shiny cat toy ...
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One of the recurring themes I've been seeing in the past few months, comes from web publishers trying to confirm ...
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Tips on how to build a successful niche website, that is easy to run and doesn't require much maintenance ...
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This post is part of a series on How to Silo Your Website. The other parts in the series are: ...
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The following is part of a series on image optimization. In this post, we’re going to be talking about images ...
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While Facebook may be a hot marketing tool right now, there is danger in putting too much effort into making ...
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Recently, I received an email question wanting to know about keyword density, asking questions like how do I deal with ...
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"out of the box" wordpress is neither SEO friendly, or configured for performance...Right now, wordpress is running on over 10 ...
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About Us pages are one of the essential elements of a trusted website (see How to Make Your Website Seem ...
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The following is part of the series How To Silo Your Website. Be sure you have read parts one and ...
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A question that I get asked fairly regularly is "how many websites should I run? Am I better with one ...
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In this post we're going to be looking at blog categories, why they matter, and how to use them most ...
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Whenever you're at a conference and you speak to a Google Engineer about link building, they will almost always default ...
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In yesterday's post, we spoke about why you would want to change your content based on traffic intent. In today's ...
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Recently Google announced the release of their own URL shortening service, Goo.gl. If we put aside the data gathering aspects ...
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Ever since the early days of SEO, the ideal title length has been the subject of much debate. Back then, ...
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While I'm well known for being critical of many of the things Google does, I'm also a power user of ...
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One of the questions I get asked by clients who are developing a social media strategy is should I cross ...
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While there aren't many marketers who still feel you need to blog everyday, most will agree that you should blog ...
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While I do have some issues with Wordpress, it is one of my favorite CMS tools, because it's easy to ...
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Once you have gotten past the hurdle of getting followers on Twitter, chances are good that you will want to ...
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Recently Slots.com sold for 5.5 million dollars, when the general public looks at a domain sale of six to seven ...
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In old days newspapers and magazine figured out there where optimal times for publishing certain types of stories, example Tuesday ...
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This post is a short response to a question I received via email last week. The question was how to ...
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In over a decade of working on websites I've see a lot of affiliate websites. Some were good but a ...
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If you've spent any time visiting blogs lately chances are you've seen those small little photo's accompained by a title ...
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As of July 2012 I no longer recommend using this tactic, as it creates too many low quality links to ...
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Today's topic is one that gets asked about pretty regularly, should I cloak my affiliate links to search engines, why ...
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If you work on any aspect of SEO, Internet marketing, PPC, or social media, chances are good that you've come ...
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Last week Google launched real time SERP's, which included the possibility for twitter and facebook updates to appear in searches ...
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One of the topics that emerged from Pubcon was "Should SEO's Focus on Where Google is Heading", and I'm going ...
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If you frequent any of the AdSense forums chances are you've come across the phrase 'AdSense Arbitrage', while it's been ...
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Is having a high exit rate bad? In pursuit determining whether Google is using analytics data to ranks SERPS, many ...
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So one of the more interesting panels at Pubcon was the organic site review with panelists, Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, ...
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At the SMX Advanced Conference in June of 2014, Danny Sullivan had a Question and Answer session with Matt Cutts ...
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Last week there was a bit of a brouhaha over Google news incorrectly giving the wrong date for a news ...
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The following post is a response to Matt Cutts blog and the Official Google Blog, please stop being a bunch ...
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I know Werty showed something similar to this at pubcon, but this is as bad as I've ever seen it ...
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So What the heck is feedproxy.google.com why is it out there, what's it being used for, why is google letting ...
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Lately there's been quite a bit of brouhaha over a fairly popular bit of hoax marketing involving a teenager, stolen ...
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C'mon Matt you either do things because they are the right thing to do or don't do them at all, ...
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Is having a high bounce rate bad? It depends. In this post, we will be looking at bounce rate in ...
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As someone who has been involved in the search industry for over a decade, one of the things that really ...
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Google added a new section to webmaster central today entitled "report paid links". How anyone other than me or quite ...
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Google recently announced they were updating the Adwords Quality Score, however it appears that there is a bug that raises ...
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Last week Danny Sullivan twittered he was looking for a creative commons image to use. Christine Churchill poked a little ...
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If there is one thing Google is good at, it's framing themselves and their actions as being "good for the ...
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Over the years chances are you've seen stories about Google Maps or similar services sending people off course, sometimes by ...
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At SMX one of the more contentious subjects was the debate over Google's Android Phone giveaway, and demonstration that they ...
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There's a famous saying that if you put enough chimpanzees in front of enough typewriters eventually you'll end up with ...
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In a non logged in account in IE Google is not afraid to get big and ugly to get you ...
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Had to redact the terms (sorry) but here's a new advertising format I cam across while doing image searchs ...
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Eric Schmidt of Google famously remarked last year that "The internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives" ...
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Even though I work in the search engine space I have a lot of the same bad search habits that ...
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Recently I was doing a bit of research on personalized search for two different projects (I love a bit of ...
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Yesterday I came across a post from Dazzlin Donna entitled Matt Cutts, Why Am I Still Being Punished, there are ...
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Boy it sure is a good thing we have wikipedia around so Google can use it to provide relevant results ...
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As a company, Google tends to favor automation, whether it's in Adwords, organic algorithm updates, or dealing with the public ...
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Not really sure what's the best/most efficient way to get this info to the right person so I'm totally going ...
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C'mon Google WTF how can you possibly say that Wikipedia deserves to above Delicious for the search term [delicious] screen ...
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Go ahead search for [mosquito ringtone] which do you think is better CLOAKED New York Times Article or a the ...
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The following is purely hypothetical and should not be taken as advice or a suggestion ...
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While I'm well known for being critical of many of the things Google does, I'm also a power user of ...
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So coming back from SMX (more on that later) I see a trackback from SEL about GWB ranking for [who ...
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With all this talk about Google Crawling CSS files I thought it might be nice to get an idea what's ...
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So I was looking at something last week and I was getting onebox results with a map and three listings ...
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If you don't believe that using that button from Google Checkout gives you a higher CTR and an advantage over ...
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Last week Google launched real time SERP's, which included the possibility for twitter and facebook updates to appear in searches ...
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One of the topics that emerged from Pubcon was "Should SEO's Focus on Where Google is Heading", and I'm going ...
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In recent years due to developers misguided attempts to make the web a more interesting place with things like JavaScript ...
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Holy Cow Adwords you really have gone off the deep end with this one check it out Today, we'd like ...
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You know it would really be nifty if Google, Gmail, Google Apps, and Gmail for domains were able to merge/sync ...
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Here are two suggestions for Google's GMail. If there are multiple emails do you have to keep adding the signature ...
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Really I wasn't going to post this but since Matt Cutt's asked people to snitch on paid links again I ...
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So when I was at the Google Dance a few weeks ago I met and talked with some of the ...
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I was looking for something on Google Video today, and looking at the most recommended videos I see some personalization ...
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Chances are you've seen me complain about Google local suggest throwing local results in for queries that shouldn't be local ...
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I like the new Google trends feature but does anybody really believe [esoteric] is a "hot search term" for May ...
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Recently Google announced how their flu tracking system worked using data from Google trends. While I appluad Google for thier ...
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I've spoken in the past about my concerns with Google's personalized search. Last week I came across an article in ...
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Not sure what's causing it but I've never seen site links formatting go funny like that ...
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Google has long been an advocate of "build great content"; however, in reality, it's turning into "build great content ...
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Evergreen Content is a subject I talk about quite frequently on this blog, but it's not something I've ever devoted ...
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I've often chided google for trusting wikipedia so much when Wikipedia says we don't care about accuracy or truth, just ...
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When you run a corporate blog sometimes it's difficult to come up with interesting topics on a regular basis. In ...
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Generally speaking, Using Microsites is a bad idea. However, Using Microsites is a good idea is when you are conducting ...
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Recently Google had an update and some webmasters were significantly impacted. Google has had many big updates and will have ...
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So one of the more interesting panels at Pubcon was the organic site review with panelists, Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, ...
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Reviews are an extremely powerful asset for many websites. They can provide a continual stream of fresh, new, and unique ...
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While I was off doing some work Jill and Lisa engaged in a debate over whether or not we need ...
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Many of the poorly ranking websites that I am asked to fix share a common problem - they do not ...
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This post will be my brain dump for all things pubcon ...
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Earlier this year it was discovered that Google was having a problem crawling Apple's website and, as a result, direct links ...
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As someone who has been involved in the search industry for over a decade, one of the things that really ...
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It took Leo Tolstoy six years to craft the 460,000-word War and Peace. A cheap copywriting service could churn out ...
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Link begging is the practice of identifying link prospects, usually through competitor backlink analysis, and then contacting each one of ...
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Recently, I was talking with Graywolf about rank checking, a topic that we disagree on. Personally, I really enjoy debating ...
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One of the more powerful tools an SEO can use when setting up or fixing an existing website is siloing ...
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I picked this up from Rustybrick who got it from SearchEngineWatch. Looks interesting the whole thing is here. [0077] The ...
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The following is part of a series on image optimization. In this post we're going to be looking at sources ...
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One of the recurring themes I've been seeing in the past few months, comes from web publishers trying to confirm ...
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Tips on how to build a successful niche website, that is easy to run and doesn't require much maintenance ...
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As you know I'm a big fan of the Wordpress platform. Although it's not the most optimal platform, there's no ...
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This post is part of a series on How to Silo Your Website. The other parts in the series are: ...
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The following is part of a series on image optimization. In this post, we’re going to be talking about images ...
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The following is a Guest Post from Joe Hall. The internet is changing the real estate industry on a daily ...
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Recently, I received an email question wanting to know about keyword density, asking questions like how do I deal with ...
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About Us pages are one of the essential elements of a trusted website (see How to Make Your Website Seem ...
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This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test ...
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Over at HighRankings.com there is a forum thread about much copy there should be on your homepage and whether there ...
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I use the term internal link hub and link nexus here with some frequency, but I haven't actually done a ...
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While linkbait posts aren't as popular as they once were, top 10 lists have been popular ever since Moses came ...
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The following is part of the series How To Silo Your Website. Be sure you have read parts one and ...
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A question that I get asked fairly regularly is "how many websites should I run? Am I better with one ...
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What Bestselling Authors Know About Writing Titles They vary by genre, but the majority of bestselling authors and editors return ...
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When you're looking for new websites to develop or to expand existing websites into new and profitable niches, the news ...
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The question for today's post comes from Meg Geddes aka NetMeg. She wants to know more about setting up caching ...
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So I've decided to enter the V7N SEO contest, not because I think I'm great, but because I'd really like ...
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In yesterday's post, we spoke about why you would want to change your content based on traffic intent. In today's ...
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The following is a Guest Post from Michael Martin. When performing SEO its best to first implement the KISS strategy, ...
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Go ahead search for [mosquito ringtone] which do you think is better CLOAKED New York Times Article or a the ...
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Recently Google announced the release of their own URL shortening service, Goo.gl. If we put aside the data gathering aspects ...
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I've lost track of what's the current feeling on this issue. Last I remember YPN didn't like it Adsense wanted ...
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One of the first questions that I like to talk with new clients about are their keywords: what are the ...
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With all this talk about Google Crawling CSS files I thought it might be nice to get an idea what's ...
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Because Google’s Panda filter has so dramatically impacted many websites, there is a lot of speculation about which specific triggers ...
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Are you tired of wearing the some old dud's to Search Engine Conferences? Does that tired matching Ken & Barbie ...
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This post is a short response to a question I received via email last week. The question was how to ...
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There have been many debates about the value social media plays in having content rank. While nothing has been definitively ...
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Whenever Ajax enter the conversation for an SEO or internet marketer, chances are good there will always be a deep ...
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One of the mistakes I feel many people make is that they write articles or posts chasing very broad topics ...
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