dot COM report » SEO http://dotcomreport.com Online Success Secrets & Strategies Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:58:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Inside My Link Building Account http://dotcomreport.com/seo/inside-my-link-building-account/ http://dotcomreport.com/seo/inside-my-link-building-account/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:27:12 +0000 dotCOMreport http://dotcomreport.com/?p=5974  

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]]> http://dotcomreport.com/seo/inside-my-link-building-account/feed/ 9 SEO Strategies That Will Drive Organic Traffic To Your Site http://dotcomreport.com/seo/seo-strategies-that-will-drive-organic-traffic-to-your-site/ http://dotcomreport.com/seo/seo-strategies-that-will-drive-organic-traffic-to-your-site/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:45:26 +0000 dotCOMreport http://dotcomreport.com/?p=5946
You know the saying: those that can’t do… hire. Well, maybe that’s not really the way it goes, but it works. If you don’t know much about SEO and /or don’t have the time or inclination to learn, you can hire a company to do the work for you.

There are a lot of companies that specialize in this and many of them are quite reasonable in their pricing structure.

If you can’t afford to hire a company at this stage in the game, don’t worry, with a little knowledge and a few simple tweaks you can easily benefit from some basic SEO and at least get your foot in the door.

Once you are making more money online you can invest in the knowledge, or hire someone, to take your SEO efforts to the next level. For now, though, you can start here:

1. It all starts with your keyword list. Choosing the right keywords for your onsite SEO has to be the first step, everything revolves around these keywords.

Make sure that you choose words, or phrases, that get at least one thousand searches a month and less than 20,000 competitors. They must also be closely targeted and highly relevant to the content of your website.

Search engines will either reward or penalize you on the relevance of your keywords, you don’t want to be penalized.

Once you’ve got your keywords focus on placing them in your meta tags, your headers and footers to start. This will grab the attention of the search engine spiders and they will move your site to the top of the rankings if they think it is highly relevant.

2. You can use a similar method to drive traffic to your website by writing and submitting quality, keyword focused articles. Now, this is the point when a lot of people make a mistake; they don’t write a quality informative article, instead they try to stuff as many keywords as possible into it until is is virtually all gibberish.

You won’t be rewarded for that, the search engines are too smart. Write your article around a keyword, but don’t write for the search engines, write for people.

If you supply your readers with genuinely helpful information, and optimize it with keywords, your article can get a top rating in the search engines and subsequently drive a lot of traffic to your website.

Don’t drive yourself into the poor house when you’re just starting out online by hiring an SEO company that you can’t really afford. First, start making some money and then you can outsource much of your daily work. In the meantime, use these tips and utilize these seo strategies to keep the traffic flowing and the cash register (virtual, of course) ringing.

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Do not let anyone tell you that you can only get quality traffic if you pay for it, you can get quality traffic to your website with the only cost being a few minutes of your time.

And remember, it’s not just about the amount of traffic that you get but the quality of that traffic as well. What do I mean by quality? Quality traffic consists of website visitors who are actually interested in your product or service.

If you are selling golf balls you don’t want a bunch of website traffic that consists of people who are looking for tennis balls. You want your traffic to be highly qualified and interested in what you have to offer.

Stick with these free driving online traffic sources:
1. Article marketing. This is by far the best way to generate a ton of quality traffic for your website, if you learn how to do it right. It is totally free to do and only requires some of your time. The premise is simple, you give the search engines what they want, new, quality content and in exchange you get traffic to your website.

The first thing you need to do is get a list of keywords that are closely related to the product or service you are offering. Search for keywords that have a minimum of 1,500 searches a month and competition around 20,000. These are usually good parameters to go by when searching for keywords.

Once you have your keyword list you need to write a helpful, informative article using those keywords in your article. The article should be no less than 250 words in length but no more than around 500 words. Once your article is written you just have to sign up to several online article directories such as EzineArticles.com or GoArticles.com and submit your article. You can sign up and submit your articles for free.

2. Forum posting. To do this you just have to identify a few forums in your niche market and sign up for them. Once you sign up you can fill out a profile and include a signature file. This is simply a brief blurb about your website or product along with a link to your site.

When you participate in the forum and offer valuable information to others you will be seen as an expert in your niche. When people read your replies and click on your link they will be taken to your website. This is a very powerful way to get free traffic.

3. Start your own blog. To do this right you should stay away from the free blogs and instead buy a domain name and get a hosting account. You can and should still use a WordPress blog  but if you do it the way I suggest you will actually own something and will have more control over your blog.

Make frequent and helpful blog posts. These posts should also include keywords associated with your niche, you can even use the same keyword list you made in step one for your article marketing.

These simple and free methods for driving online traffic are the best way to get started.

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Today I bring you an update on all things SEO.

If you look below you’ll see a number of good topics. Today’s is more “How To” and a little less “News”. I hope you enjoy!

What’s In Your SEO Toolbox?

What's In Your SEO Toolbox?
The SEO tool space is a pretty crowded one (and growing one!). Tools are helpful, there is no doubt about that. However, tools are generally only as good as the person using them. We’d love to know what tools you use and why, so please let us know in the comments after the post :)
I am not “house” handy by any means, I can barely hang a picture frame straight…

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Local S.E.O Marketing – Unknown Methods

Many home business owners and internet marketers don’t realize that search engine optimization doesn’t have to be general. Local S.E.O marketing options are available and better in several cases. There are lots of reasons that you could wish to market your website domestically instead of globally…

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Think You Have To Outsource SEO To An Expensive Firm? 5 Things You Can Do In House

Once upon a time, I had a lot of faith in SEO firms. I sought out top companies in the industry and paid thousands of dollars. What I got in return were minimal results, and what turned out to be minimal effort. If you’re an e-commerce manager, you might be surprised to find out how [...]

Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…

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5 Simple Tips for Successful SEO Copywriting

5 Simple Tips for Successful SEO Copywriting
Copywriting in the SEO business involves writing articles about a particular business, its functions, products and services for a webpage or website. An SEO copywriter has to write original content that incorporates information about the nature of the brand, making effective use of keywords so that it can easily be found by users on search engines…

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Understanding search engine marketing: Give your site that SEM Boost

A lot of people know the tern SEO, or search engine optimization. This is a more focused kind of service that is done for each website or web page. Some of us must have heard of the term Search engine marketing or SEM but they rarely use the term. This is because most of us associate SEO with SEM and we do not recognize the unique features of the latter one…

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SEO & Social Media Success Online Seminar From An SMS Partner

SEO & Social Media Success Online Seminar From An SMS PartnerSearch Marketing Standard is a partner of the PPC Summit/Internet Marketing Institute, which is hosting the SEO and Social Media Success Online Seminar, scheduled for July 19 through 28. The following is information about the seminar:

Are you struggling to monetize your Social Media and SEO efforts?
The SEO & Social Media Success Online Seminar expert instructors are hosting a unique online training event shared by hundreds of marketers who want to learn how to align their SEO and Social Media to improve their search marketing results…

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Facebook vs. YouTube – Which Is Better For Video SEO?

We know there are thousands of online videos viewed daily, and we know there are millions of users on Facebook. As a small business owner, it’s clear that both YouTube and Facebook are valuable marketing tools to build and grow a business through sharing content, providing valuable information, boosting SEO and search engine ranking, and networking, to name a few of the benefits…

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Content, Social & SEO Lead Customers to Great Experiences

Content, Social & SEO Lead Customers to Great ExperiencesMy friend Bob Knorpp has a good piece on AdAge this week:”Why Marketers Should Break Free of the Digital Content Trap” about the fallacy of content. He makes some good points about companies going through the motions of creating and promoting content on social channels with motivations of retweets, likes, shares and links over real engagement…

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Take a peek and let me know what you think about today’s topics.

SES Toronto: Competitive SEO AnalysisReally, truly understanding the competitive landscape can help pave the way for a successful search engine marketing program.
Chris Boggs led a panel discussion at SES Toronto on Competitive Analysis – What tips and tools can get you the vital competitive information that every SEO needs. According to Boggs, “Competitive analysis is one of the most exciting and important tactics (SEOs) can do…

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3 Ways to Optimize Your Press Release for SEOWhenever you publish a piece of content online, you have to be thinking about SEO in the back of your mind before you send it out. Each piece of content is a potential source of valuable, inbound links and could potentially drive targeted traffic to your site. Have you optimized it for SEO to do just that? While it’s easy to incorporate anchor text and keywords in the “About the Author” section of an article or internally link among blog posts, many companies are still failing to fully capitalize on the SEO potential of an online press release…

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Blog Posts to Read for June 23, 2011Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do!

How to get employees involved in social media: focus on ideas
Many marketers involved in social media management struggle to get their subject matter experts engaged in social media…

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New Google Products Will Impact SEO
Google recently completed their Inside Search event where a number of new products were announced and presented for demonstration. This recap discusses some of the products that may impact the future of SEO.
Search by Image

 

Perhaps the most exciting and interesting development from Inside Search was the announcement of Search by Image…

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SEO For The Oft-Neglected Blog Home PageThe blog home page is one of the least-optimized pages on a website. It doesn’t get nearly the same level of love as an individual post page when it comes to keyword research, SEO, and internal linking. I don’t think it’s intentional.
I think it’s just easy to forget how authoritative blog home pages can be and how much traffic they can garner on their own…

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It Ain't Easy Being SEO Copy
At first glance, SEO copywriting can seem cold. Most people tend to view keywords as sterile phrases to be popped in here and there throughout content. In fact, SEO copy can have a bad reputation.
In the past few months, I’ve seen numerous articles pop up about SEO and how it destroys creativity, ruins the user experience, and just generally makes the whole internet suck…

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This mornings Dilbert comic is on the topic of “black hat” SEO. It reads: “I want you to use “black hat” methods to raise our website’s ranking on search engines.” “What do you like best about that ideas – the fact that it’s unethical or…

Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…

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The True Value Of Links
Do you know anyone who got their rankings back after Update Panda trashed their site?
There may be some, and there may be some people who get their rankings back eventually, but the problem is a fundamental one:
If the Google dragon flicks her tail in your direction, and all you rely on is rankings, you’re screwed
That’s life in SEO…

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What’s your best SEO tip? Have you had success with SEO or are you still trying to figure out the SEO monster?

Online PR is no substitute for offline PR, but it is an important part of online marketing and SEO. Your company has plenty of newsworthy topics that can make great press releases. Online press releases are also a great place for targeting various keywords as anchor text and creating inbound links to different pages of your site…

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So here we are: the first session of the A4uexpo 2011 in Munich. Sepita Ansari of Catbird Seat. Moderator Alexander Holl introduces Sepita as “a very famous German SEO”. His topic “Google onsite optimization” could be very boring, but as I know Sepita as a good entertainer it will be fun! SEO is a black box…

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The Buzz on Long Tail Keywords [Infographic]Today I am going to look at a process in nature that occurs all around us and compare it with an SEO process that is often overlooked. To truly appreciate both of these processes it requires looking at them from a broader perspective.
Bees are marvelous insects. The first thing that most people think of when talking about bees is honey, which is perfectly normal since bees make honey, hence the name “honey bee”…

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In my previous article, Google PageRank: SEO Treasure or Fool’s Gold? What the Experts S…I argued strongly against the importance of PageRank and believing in it as a reliable metric. Among the many compelling expert opinions that I presented to bolster my argument, this statement by Google itself made the most sense to me:
“Don’t bother thinking about it [PageRank]…

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Almost 6 years ago, SEO by the Sea was born in a thought inspired by the sight of sails bobbing up and down on waves where the Susquehanna River meets the Chesapeake Bay, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.The town is a sleepy historic place, which comes alive during weekends, when many visit [...]

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3 Phases of Social Media SEO – Where Are You At?As Google puts the squeeze on traditional ranking signals and subsequently, Search Engine Optimization tactics, the growing emphasis on social signals has many SEO practitioners getting more serious about social engagement.
While search marketing has been a key part of our consulting practice since 2001, our Online Marketing agency’s work with Public Relations and blogging since 2003 has helped us develop an appreciation of the influence and engagement outcomes possible with social media pretty quickly, vs…

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Google +1 Your Website to Make it StandoutIt‘s official. Today, Google launches the +1 button for websites. This is potentially a big game changer for SEO firms as it may change the way Google ranks websites. According to Google, the button will allow website visitors to give a “+1” rating to content they find useful. This rating system will allow website visitors to influence what content appears in the search results…

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You need to look over today’s collection of SEO Tips and highlights. I really like the Local SEO and Marketing topics. There is always something about Local SEO that can help any online only based business.

I really enjoyed the topic “New Update Means Businesses Must Tweak Google Places” from SEO.com.

Can I get your help? Leave a comment and say either “Local” or “Online Only”. I’m curious how many readers are offline or local based business.

How To Thrive In Crowded SERPs Google is favoring big brands. If Google’s comments and actions of late, are anything to go by, the chances of the little guy, armed only with SEO chops, being able to compete with deep-pocketed corporates are becoming less and less likely. Google algorithms tend to reward the big players – the people everyone talks about, and links to…
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Using Semantic Markup To Strengthen Your Local SEO Efforts As more and more broad queries deliver localized results, local search optimization has become an integral part of small business SEO. Previously I outlined how to find websites to fuel your local SEO efforts, but this month I want to outline how your own website can fuel your local SEO with the help of semantic markup…
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Heat mapping has been available for years, but now it’s easier than ever to implement, use, and leverage it in your website. For merely the cost of a dinner each month, you can implement heat mapping software throughout your website. And the insights you can glean from heat maps are nothin’ short of smokin’ hot! Heat map analysis can be conducted more quickly than you might imagine…
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Last week, the Volusion team presented a 60 minute “Ecommerce Boot Camp” at the latest session of the Austin Internet Marketing Meetup – SEO/SEM/SMO/PPC. Continue reading for a recap and to download the slides. “Let’s get physical, physical…” Believe it or not, this Olivia Newton John classic was the anthem for the latest session of the Austin […
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The constant testing in the Google SERPS is hardly news anymore. We saw many of them already and last week showed some tests that hadn’t made it. Today we can again show you two tests in the SERPS. First we see the black navigation bar, second Google seems to be testing with urls above the […..
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Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed this morning that Google has lifted J.C. Penney’s SEO penalty, that the Panda update will continue to rollout internationally and offered numerous SEO- and search-related tips in a live webchat on the Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel. More than a… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…
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Websites Need Content Before You Can Optimize!At Brick Marketing, we consider the first phase of SEO to be on-site optimization. Some other SEO professionals may disagree, but I believe you have to have a well optimized site before you even bother to start on link building. But the debate over which is more important—on-site SEO or link building—is for another day…
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Local online marketing leader Yodle has announced its acquisition of ProfitFuel, creating the largest independent provider of local search marketing in the United States. Yodle, which has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online, is the fastest-growing provider of local search engine optimization (SEO) services to small businesses across the United States…
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New Update Means Businesses Must Tweak Google PlacesWhen I search for something local, such as dog care for my awesome cocker spaniel, I hop on Google Maps to see what is close to me. In 2009,there were 27.5 million small businesses in the United States, according to Office of Advocacy estimates. As I was conversing yesterday on Twitter about all things SEO, on #SEOchat it was pointed out by Thos003 that there is a small but very significant change to how Google Maps returns results…
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So You Want To Start A Big SEO Blog?Many SEOs have dreams of hitting it big in the SEO blogosphere. So where do you start? Is it better to be unique or better to be consistent with trends? Is it better to start the conversation or write about what people are already talking about? Without thinking too much into it, my split-second brain says that both are important…
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Cover the basics, rank higher in search You’ve got a great business, and a great new website. You keep checking Google every day – okay, multiple times per day – to see where you rank. But you’re still on page 3 or 4 – or maybe not even ranking that high…
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Take note of the video below from Matt from Google on how a Non-Optimized site can outrank and site that has had countless hours and dollars spent to optimize it to rank well. How can that happen? Well, now you know!

What SEO efforts have you seen work the best? Drop me a comment and let me know.

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Making a splash in your local search results might look easy, but it takes careful planning and work to get you to the top. The trouble is, with so many different things you have to do, what should you do first? What are the fastest ways to improve your SEO? Well, if you’re pressed for time and money, but want to start going on it, here are 5 things you can do to get ahead in the local search results:  Claim Your Listings Google Places and Bing Business Portal should be at the top of your list…
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Okay so you do a pretty good job at SEO.  Your clients /employer seem to be happy with your work.  Overall, you’re happy with the results you get.  Yet maybe you’ve asked yourself from time to time – “How can I go even further?” or “What are some possibly easy things I could be doing to go even further?” Or maybe you just figure it’s time to go from “good enough” to “great”…
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WordPress SEO Plugin Integrates LinkdexWordPress SEO plugin is now augmented with Linkdex‘s page optimization technology. Yes! As of May 9, 2011, you can have seamless “SEO power” and insights at your fingertips when publishing from within WordPress. Let’s define the power behind this integration:  WordPress is the leading content management system (CMS) and blog software that’s free…
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In my complete guide to WordPress SEO an important setting is of permalinks and you can opt for many different permalinks options in WordPress very easily. Let me discuss what permalinks options we have in WordPress for SEO and which one is voted as the most SEO friendly. You can see some of the default options in the permalinks settings…
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One of the secrets to increased direct response website profits is increasing website traffic, simply because your profits are a function of your conversion rate, how many visitors you have, and your profit margin. Increasing any one of these must needs increase your profits, too. 1. Blog more often…
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New: How to Track Page Load Speed in Google AnalyticsI’m excited about the new Google Analytics interface, and not just because it is faster and looks shiny. The latest significant feature to be announced is the Site Speed Report (officially announced Wednesday), which gives us the ability to track page load time for every page on a website, and then analyze load speed in great detail…
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Best Practice Tips for Press Release SEOWriting and distributing online press releases should be included in your monthly link building activities for several reasons: 1. They are a great source of publicity for your company 2. They can rank in the search engines, increasing your brand visibility and recognition 3.They provide quality, one way links to your site 4…
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Don’t forget to leave me a comment on what SEO tip you have seen work the best.]]> http://dotcomreport.com/roundup/seo-updates-may-12th-non-optimized-site-outranks/feed/ 0 Latest SEO Updates Apr 28th http://dotcomreport.com/roundup/latest-seo-updates-apr-28th/ http://dotcomreport.com/roundup/latest-seo-updates-apr-28th/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:32:52 +0000 Dotcom Editor http://dotcomreport.com/?post_type=roundup&p=5514
Look at this 1st item below from Matt at Google. Or maybe the section about "History of Search" Very interesting read.

Another section is a little further down the page where you'll find "The Top 5 SEO Tips". I know you'll find something in the list below that you can use in your business.

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Look at this 1st item below from Matt at Google. Or maybe the section about “History of Search” Very interesting read.

Another section is a little further down the page where you’ll find “The Top 5 SEO Tips”. I know you’ll find something in the list below that you can use in your business.

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WordQuakes and Collaboration to Get The Most of SEOThe impact of content online is huge. As digital marketers, we are constantly looking for ways to capitalize on opportunities and ride the viral train. I just finished reading an interesting article: The blogosphere as an excitable social medium: Richter’s and Omori’s Law in media coverage, It takes us through the effect blog content instigates online…
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As one of the most important focuses of search engine optimization and a determining factor in ranking position and traffic levels, the temptation to take short cuts when link building is immense. There are lots of way to try and beat the system but few actually work. One of the most persistent shortcuts on the path to inbound link acquisition is purchasing paid links…
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Here’s a cool tool for businesses to track their local search engine ranking. The Local Search Rank Checker is developed by BrightLocal.com. Using this web-based tool, you can check and track your local search engines ranking, for instance, on Google Places or Yahoo! Local and also your main,…..
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It’s Time to Get Your SEO LocalAs you know, link building is an important part of search engine optimization. It increases your company’s brand and visibility online and establishes trust with the search engines. The more relevant inbound links that your website has, the greater the chance that your website will rank well. There are many ways to build your links…
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The History of Search [infographic]From the beginning man has constantly been searching for something, whether it was cavemen searching for food and shelter, philosophers searching for the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything (The answer is 42 by the way) or teenagers searching for their friends and favorite music…
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Bas and Roy were amongst each other in this show. They discussed a TV show in Holland which ‘outted’ Facebook tracking non-users and other privacy issues came by with Google Profiles showing addresses in the SERPS. The shownotes are below. Listen to the show here or subscribe in iTunes Links and topics discussed in the […
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Without a solid search engine optimization (SEO) plan your website is just floating around not doing much. These 5 SEO tips will get you moving in the right direction to improve your search engine rankings and increase traffic to your website. 1. Extensive Keyword Research SEO starts with a solid keyword research and sorting…
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Update: The address shown in the SERPS is probably shown within your social circle (see below). Original title: Google puts your address in the SERPS, quick edit your profile and more autocomplete It is becoming more than a day job to keep track of all the changes Google makes to their SERPS. We therefore sometimes […
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SEO Consultants: Stop Comparing SEO and PPCMany in the SEO community contend that pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is a waste of money. Since PPC is about buying clicks from the search engine, and since SEO is about earning clicks from the search engines, many SEO consultants argue that PPC is just throwing money at a problem instead of working toward a solution…
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Web Manager's Guide To SEO Strategy When your boss/client asks you why your web site can’t be found in Google, what are you going to say? You should prepare, because, eventually, that question will be asked. Should you cross that bridge when you come to it? Employ an SEO specialist to “do some stuff”, after launch, in order to get the site ranked? Isn’t SEO just another marketing function, like buying advertising? In this article, I’ll outline why it’s a bad idea to treat SEO as an add-on…
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Make sure you check out the video from Google's Matt Cutts. Why? Because he talks for almost 3 minutes and tells you nothing. I thought I would learn what he titled his video "How does Google treat sites where all external links are no-follow?". Instead he tells us how Follow and No-Follow work.

I think Matt offers some really good tips in his videos and I will sit through almost any of them...this was was a little weak....sorry Matt. Give us some good stuff.

Yes, there are some real SEO tips in this post. .....
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Make sure you check out the video from Google’s Matt Cutts. Why? Because he talks for almost 3 minutes and tells you nothing. I thought I would learn what he titled his video “How does Google treat sites where all external links are no-follow?”. Instead he tells us how Follow and No-Follow work.

I think Matt offers some really good tips in his videos and I will sit through almost any of them…this was was a little weak….sorry Matt. Give us some good stuff.

Yes, there are some real SEO tips in this post. Make sure you look at the 1st one I listed below..

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International SEO: Targeted by language or by country?
Although English is widely acknowledged as the ‘lingua franca’ of the internet, it’s easy to forget that most people who use the net are not native English speakers – in fact, more than half of all internet searches are done in a language other than English…

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Rebecca’s article on “Reporting Spam to Google” provides guidelines for making a report concerning another website’s spammy activities, but what do you do when the spam is showing up directly at or on your site?
For example, one of the best ways to get free content for your site, which may also help your site move up the SERPs, is user-generated content such as reviews of your products or services or comments made by visitors and posted to various pages or sections of your site…

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Most companies are often faced with the dilemma of determining how to maximize limited online marketing budgets. Are you looking for high performance, but need to be conscious of costs? So what tactics should be used, PPC or SEO? The answer is both. PPC and SEO are often viewed as two very different online marketing strategies, with each side having their own supporters as to why their respective online marketing effort is the most effective…

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Is Content Really King?There are a number ways to get your website more visibility: higher search engine rankings, interesting content, pay per click, affiliate marketing and social media. These are all great ways of increasing traffic and most large organizations touch on every mentioned online marketing method. The method I’ve been thinking of lately is having fantastic content; what effect it has on my other online marketing channels and if a site can succeed solely on content to earn it the title of, “Content is King”…

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SEO needs to die. Like, now.
While at a party, I had three different people ask me about SEO. Not only did the questions kill my buzz, they made me angry.
This is what I endured while I watched the ice melt in my margarita:

 

“Can you help me be found on Google?”
“What do I do for Google [...]

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3 Essential Social Media SEO Tips for Advertisers – ad:tech San FranciscoToday I’ll be speaking at ad:tech San Francisco with one of my favorite people in the Search Marketing industry, Melanie Mitchell, who is a Senior VP of Search Strategy at Digitas. She’s tasked a panel including Simon Heseltine, Rob Snell and myself to talk about “Modern Search Engine Optimization”…

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The introduction of Google’s recent Panda update changed its search engine algorithm with a view to diminishing a site’s ranking that provide “low-quality content”. The “Panda” update, as Google refers to it after a Google engineer, or the “Farmer” update, as Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land has been calling it because its apparent target is content farms, has been received very cautiously by the SEO community…

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Dirty Lies and Strategic Keyword Research Since becoming addicted to online marketing, I have found a large amount of information that is either out of date, irrelevant, incorrect, or communicated in about the worst way imaginable. It seems to be especially easy to find bad advice about strategic keyword selection and optimization. This post will look at three myths related to keyword relevance and competition…

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What Does An SEO Mindset Look Like?Search engine optimization is one of those things that a person really needs to embrace if they want to accept everything that comes along with it. Things like process, time, and patience that are needed to get the job done are all part of having an SEO mindset. Since search engine optimization is not a one-time step and does vary from website to website, a serious mindset needs to be taken when you approach an SEO process to any website…

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How To Get Social With SEO (because you have to)Between Facebook’s expanded deal with Bing and the recent launch of Google’s +1 button, it’s clear that search is becoming more social. So while Facebook isn’t about to take over search and become the next Google (per se), one thing is clear: if you want to rank, you’re going to have to get social with your SEO strategy…

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There’s an easy way to remember the difference between gray, white, and black hat SEO techniques. In traditional westerns, the bad guys always wore black hats—the good guys, white. Guys with gray hats are not quite good, not quite bad. Here are some of the specifics that outline the differences in less simplistic terms…

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Leveraging Current Events When Link BaitingBuilding a legitimate, natural looking backlink portfolio is one of the hardest parts of SEO. It is especially hard when the website you are link building to lacks linkable content. When your site lacks linkable content, you have to force the backlinks coming into your site, which 9/10 times never looks natural…

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