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Book Review: Website Optimization

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There are still some specialized skills required—it certainly helps to have some background in online marketing, web analytics and HTML coding—though King's clear and concise prose removes a lot of the mystery. A link from one of these high Pagerank sites drives a lot of traffic and is worth hundreds of links from lesser sites."

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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 (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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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). In many communications, it's best to avoid jargon or at least define it.

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - Cool Web Tools, Part 1

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The list includes direct links to register for each service, login and submit a new item, as well as each site's Pagerank and Alexa rank. The folks at Pandia explain here how you can now use the same technology to spider and search your own site or blog—for free. This is social posting for the lazy (or extremely busy).

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Best of 2008: SEO Link Building

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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. The next idea is.read the post!