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Best of 2009 (So Far): SEO Guidance, Part 3

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Among his conclusions: more content helps. My only quibble would be with his advice to use the nofollow attribute for PageRank sculpting; the nofollow tag is insidious and the value questionable. It's very difficult for small websites to outrank large ones, particularly for highly competitive phrases. Blogging helps.

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 4

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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 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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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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Google and the Parable of the Turkey

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On some small company websites, between organic search and AdWords, Google can drive 70% or more of total traffic. If they are running an AdWords campaign, Google knows which keywords the company thinks are important and how highly the company values each term (through its bids) as well as which keywords are really effective.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): SEO Guidance, Part 4

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Domain Name Forwarding and Search Engines by Best Domain Names Dan LeFree explains how properly set up forwarding for multiple domain names to a single website without being penalized by the search engines for duplicate content. sites including "kayaks" or "kayaking" will show up on a search for "kayak").

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