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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What two simple words answer almost every SEO question? What common SEO mistakes should you watch out for? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on the practice of SEO so far this year. The Answer To All Your SEO Questions! How do you create a 301 redirect?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

If you've been in the business world for any length of time, you've probably seen the following somewhere—in a building lobby, on a website, or on a nicely framed poster in an office: The Definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing, the same way, and expecting different results. I coded, I tested, I read articles and blogs.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

What key aspects of SEO should you consider when doing a site redesign? Which SEO tactics should you avoid? What can SEO professionals learn from traditional marketers? Find the answers to these questions and others here in the first set of the best blog posts and articles on search engine optimization (SEO) from 2009 (so far).

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The problem is that any business area or profession that experiences unusual growth (think ad-supported "free" online services in 1999, or real estate from 2002-2008) inevitably attracts, along with some very bright people committed to their new craft, a less savory crowd of opportunistic, incompetent or even unscrupulous entrants as well.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Looking for an easy-to-use backlink checking tool (or two) for SEO? How about tools for checking search engine rank, grading the SEO efforts on a website, developing an optimized keyword list, and link building? Find these and more in this list of some of the best SEO tools and related reviews of 2008.

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MAY 11, 2009

How can you effectively explain SEO (and avoid unrealistic expectations) to prospective clients? For new websites, how can you incorporate SEO best practices into the design from the beginning? What emerging topics and techniques should SEO specialists investigate? How can PR and SEO work together more productively?

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

How can you help SEO clients, whether internal or external, understand what SEO (and isn't) and set proper expectations for an SEO project? What are the key signals of SEO quality on a website? How does the increasing use of social media affect SEO efforts? Among his conclusions: more content helps. Blogging helps.

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MARCH 23, 2009

Here are some tools, tips and guidance for crafting more effective and compelling web copy, from among the best articles and blog posts on web and SEO copywriting from last year. Writing for the web involves requires as much art as any other form, plus another level of science.

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OCTOBER 16, 2008

In an ideal world, SEO would be taken into consideration from the earliest stages of a new website design process, and "baked in" to the site from the start. In addition to URLs, perform other on-page SEO work to optimize each page for its corresponding set of target key phrases by optimizing title tags , on-page headings (h1, h2 etc.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Find the answers to these questions and others here in WebMarketCentral's final list of the best posts on business blogging from the last year. 15 Rules for Business Bloggers by Conversation Marketing The brilliant and often very funny Ian Lurie offers up his list of "rules" for writing a successful business blog, such as "Take the B.S.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

Welcome to the first post in the official Best of 2008 series, which will summarize and link to some of the best blog posts and online articles about SEO, social media, online marketing strategy and more. Matt Cutts Translated: 8 SEO Tips I Heard Him Tell Eric Enge by SEOmoz SEO expert Brent D.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The posts below, some of the best of 2008 on the topic of keyword research for SEO, provide guidance and reviews of efficacious tools to help throughout the process of generating a comprehensive keyword list; analyzing the competition; and prioritizing keywords to generate maximum ROI from SEO efforts.

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AUGUST 19, 2009

Over the years, unscrupulous black hat SEO scammers have used a variety of tricks—keyword stuffing, link farms, white text and others—to try to manipulate search results, and the algorithms used by Google, Yahoo and the other search engines have evolved to identify and squelch the effectiveness of such nefarious tactics.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

And most importantly, use a company blog to drive real business results? Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on business blogging so far this year. operations for Econsultancy, about SEO, link building and RSS tactics for business websites and blogs.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Everyone who writes a business blog ultimately wants the same thing—more traffic. A more broadly helpful post from this blog is 7 Steps to Better Business Blogging guest contributor Ann Handley of MarketingProfs. All good ideas, though you'll need fairly substantial traffic to begin with for these techniques to be practical.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

How can you optimize SEO benefits from internal link building? What key weapon in the SEO arsenal do many companies overlook? Read on for all of this and much else in some (more) of the best articles and blog posts written about SEO to date this year. Cheap SEO: it's about quality, not price by Internet Business U.K.-based

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APRIL 27, 2009

Learn all of that in more in some of the best posts from the last year on blogging for business. Acknowledge other bloggers you admire? Find ideas for helpful blog posts? Assure you're utilizing blogging best practices?

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

"SEO is dead." As I noted in my comment to comment Michah's post on Learn to Duck, articles like this have been appearing since at least 2003, so if SEO is dying, it's an awfully slow death. But again, none of this means that SEO is dead, only that it is changing (as it constantly does). The changes may help local businesses.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Building Links with Big Brand Websites, Part 2 by Find Resolution Search marketer Dave McAnally explains five link-building tactics useful for big brand websites, though some of these—integrating SEO with PR efforts and leveraging all of your digital assets, for example—are smart moves for any size company.

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AUGUST 1, 2008

Again, there have been so many excellent blog posts and articles written on SEO already this year that I'm trying to get a jump on 2009. So here are several more of the best SEO-related pieces from 2008 thus far. Learning SEO and SEM - Where to Start? SEO is sort of like tweaking your resume.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Blogs are becoming a hugely popular, almost mainstream tool for indirect business promotion. A business blog can be written solely by the the chief executive, or managed as a group blog, where anyone in the company with unique knowledge, and a bit of writing skill, can contribute.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

What SEO tactics are crucial to incorporate on your blog? Learn all of this and more in the articles and posts highlighted below, some of this year's best so far on business blogging. How can you get the most out of your RSS feed(s)? How can you more effectively convert blog readership into revenue? Aune del.icio.us Aune del.icio.us

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JANUARY 30, 2008

Following up on my last post, there were just too many excellent newsletter articles and blog posts on SEO last year to fit them all into one post, so here are more of the best bits of SEO guidance from 2007. video, audio files and PDFs) and encouraging mashups. video, audio files and PDFs) and encouraging mashups.

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APRIL 3, 2008

Their article, The SEO Industry Survey Results , by SEOmoz staff members Nick Gerner , Rebecca Kelley , Jeff Pollard and Rand Fishkin , provides an excellent summary of the results, so I won't rehash all of that here, but rather offer just a few observations on some of the more surprising findings. A website that can't be found is even worse.

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JANUARY 28, 2008

SEO is dead? Judging by the number of high-quality articles and blog posts still devoted to the topic (so many I had to split this category into two posts), SEO remains a critical component of online marketing success. A trained SEO should be able to spot what your keyword phrases are, but it shouldn't be glaringly obvious."

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

I was recently invited to give a presentation on the "do's and don'ts" of creating a successful business blog. The most important technique for blog promotion is the same as for any website— SEO. What about being positive —isn't that an important attribute for a successful business blog?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2006

There's an excellent post about using blogging for PR here from the Top Rank SEO blog, though the marketing vs. PR angle seems a bit confused. However, Online-PR.com (which has a very nice list of blog directories and aggregators, by the way) lists about three times as many blogs devoted to PR as focused on marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

There are widgets (seemingly everywhere) and there are business intelligence tools , but web-based BI tools vendor LogiXML recently introduced the first BI widget, Widge nie. Once the kinks are worked out, Widgenie will give non-technical users a much more interesting way to display and share business intelligence data.

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JUNE 24, 2006

Mike Schultz , a principal at the Wellesley Hills Group , and his team of professional services marketing experts at RainToday.com have released a follow-up report to The Business Impact of Writing a Book , published earlier this year. Their new report, The Ultimate Guide to Publishing and Marketing a Business Book , lives up its name.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Signs that you need a break from SEO. naming conventions SEO copywriting mistakes search engine rap Christopher Richards sloppy copy Steven Wright Copyblogger Brian Clark Small Business Search Marketing Matt McGee Searchles Don McMillan The Chronicles of George del.icio.us Poking fun at Web 2.0 naming conventions. tags: Web 2.0

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JULY 20, 2009

Resources for starting a new business, ideas for naming that business, mistakes to avoid, lead generation strategies to embrace, how to apply some of Warren Buffet's wisdom to online marketing efforts.find all of that and more here in this final collection of the best posts on strategy and branding from the past year. What's in A Name?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

How can online video help with SEO and online reputation management ? Domains for SEO and Reputation Management by Search Engine Journal Loren Baker describes how to use a.tv If you are planning to use these for SEO, check for do-follow status first. More customers = More business. Take Advantage of.TV

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Video SEO Tip: How to Create Your Own YouTube “click-to-buy” Link – for FREE by ReelSEO Grant Crowell describes a clever trick for integrating a free call to action with any video you place on YouTube, and even a way to do A/B testing for video and landing page variations. Facebook, LinkedIn), publishing (WordPress, YouTube.Twitter?)

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

There are tens of thousands of small businesses with no presence on Wikipedia, yet Oracle (the database company) is listed, as are The Oracle (the shopping mall near London), as well as PeopleSoft , SAP , IBM , and many other corporate giants.

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APRIL 6, 2009

How does social media relate to SEO? Online Reputation Management with Video SEO by Search Marketing Standard Grant Crowell explains why video is a powerful component of reputation management (e.g., How can you maximize your results through social bookmarking sites like Digg?

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JUNE 3, 2009

What are the real reasons many seemingly-promising business ideas fail? The 6 Untold Reasons Why Businesses Fail by Growthink Dave Lavinsky elaborates on six common but often unrecognized causes of business failure, such as confusing ego with a business opportunity, trusting "white lie" feedback and failing to make a 100% commitment.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Seven Things That Reality Could Borrow From The Internet by SEOmoz Jane Copland lists several ways she'd like the offline world to be more like the online, such as automatic redirection of phone numbers, a mechanism to simplify street addresses, and "Unplugging and re-plugging-in anything that doesn't work properly should immediately result in it working (..)

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