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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

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and PageRank is everything (no, Google uses this, but it's only one of more than 200 factors that determine where your pages will show up in searches for specific search terms). Bookmark this page and keep it near the top of your list. In many communications, it's best to avoid jargon or at least define it.

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Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 2

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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 Guidance, Part 3

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TrustRank—Google and Yahoo versions), and underappreciated concepts related to modern search (for example, Yahoo Personalized PageRank and HarmonicRank) capable of inducing a deer-in-the-headlights stare from many if not most SEO practitioners.

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Best of 2008: SEO Link Building

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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. First off is submitting the link to niche social media sites, and to help the author provides links to lists of quality social media sites, social media sites with Pagerank, and niche sites.

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - SEO Guidance, Part 3

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He doesn't share any deep, dark secrets in this post, but does reveal some interesting information, such as the reduced importance of Pagerank and the sheer volume of changes Google makes to its algorithm each year (more than 450 in 2007; no wonder search positions for individual sites are so volatile).

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

Industrial Marketing Today

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. I prefer just the postname since I optimize it with keywords and phrases. To overcome this problem, install the Redirection Plugin. All Rights Reserved.