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Best of 2008: SEO Link Building

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Unless you are optimizing only for some extremely niche keywords, off-page optimization—building links from other websites to yours—is a critical and significant factor for SEO success. 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.

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Using ALL the Tools of Social Media Optimization

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For example, in an SEO forum, telling everyone how great your agency is at SEO is suicide; but displaying your knowledge by offering expert tips on title meta tag creation or non-spammy link building is brilliant. Wikis A wiki is another place to share your knowledge of a particular topic with a community or the world.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 1

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How can you maximize your results through social bookmarking sites like Digg? How to Level the Playing-field With Digg by Skelliewag How to game Digg to get your content onto the front page, by building and utilizing a grassroots network and selectively targeting power users. How does social media relate to SEO?

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Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 1

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by Blogsessive Alex Cristache provides an outstanding list of ways to show appreciation to your favorite bloggers (many of which can benefit you as well) like commenting, linking back, and blogrolling.

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 5

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StumbleUpon and Digg) is "spiky" and doesn't convert well, but supports SEO through the links generated. These include duplicate content, lack of keyword research, ignoring link building, and.read her post ! Among his findings: organic search is the source of both the highest volume and best quality of traffic.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

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Google Social Bookmarking and Blog Recommendation Engine by Key Web Data The inimitable Chris Lang explains social features added to Google Reader (such as bookmarking capability and a friends list), why they were added, and how Google will likely use this information (to create a Digg-like system that can't be gamed).

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 6

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Unfortunately, several of the largest sites including Digg, delicious, Reddit, Mixx and Mister Wong now partially or completely use insidious no follow links. Top 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites by Anything Goes Blog A great list of the top social bookmarking sites, with visitor statistics, as of late last year.