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Why Social Media Really Matters

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is the latest stage in this evolution. The final, related factoid is that social media have grown from virtually nothing to nearly 20% of online time over the past few years. Thus, social media present a major threat to search advertising revenues. social marketing.

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 4

WebMarketCentral

In this post, Brandon Falls briefly explains the purpose and content of the guide. Among the myths flayed here: duplicate content isn't that big of a deal, although webmasters should "make it easy for us (Google) to find the preferred version;" XML sitemaps harm your rankings (quite the opposite!);

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 3

WebMarketCentral

The 3 Cornerstones of SEO by SEOmoz Duncan Morris recommends explaining SEO to prospective clients using a simple triangular diagram to show the three core areas of SEO: content (on-page factors), technical issues and trust (links and ratings).

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Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

SEOpen: The SEO Firefox Extension SEOpen is a Firefox extension that combines several helpful SEO functions into one tool, including Google / Yahoo /MSN backlinks, Pagerank check, Alexa overview, DMOZ inclusion, keyword density and an HTML validator.

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Best of 2008: SEO Link Building

WebMarketCentral

The blog posts cited here, some of the best of 2008 on the topic of link building, provide guidance on how and where to obtain valuable external links. His deck actually covers the organic search marketinging basics—keywords, content and links. They also offer advice on ineffective tactics and "bad neighborhoods" to avoid. Jeff Quipp.

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Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

Industrial Marketing Today

You have full control over this SEO technique since you can add, edit code and content at anytime. Here’s a screenshot of my setting: Changing permalinks after your blog has been live for a while can cause you to lose pagerank in search engines and generate “404 page not found” errors. What is On Site SEO?

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Yours in Marketing Episode 2 – ft. Cyrus Shepard

Directive Agency

I quit the restaurant business, I was building websites, I was building some affiliate sites as people did back in 2008, 2009, and I needed to figure out how to market them. Social media is such a weird place that it can amplify anybody. I have no brains or any of that, it was all luck for me. I had no clue how to market them.