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You’re doing SEO wrong: it’s all about authority

Biznology

Google doesn’t rank anything based solely on how well the semantics of the piece relate to the query. Your content can be indexed by Google for the keywords it contains. But it is not likely to rank for competitive terms unless your site demonstrates authority on the topic. Other things have gotten more difficult.

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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet

Biznology

The last 20 years have witnessed many success stories over the net: sites such as Yahoo!, Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Pinterest all had their days of glory. Photo credit: Wikipedia. Why does that happen?

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Glossary: 24 SEO Terms Marketers Should Know

Hubspot

Jargon alone should not stop you from making your site the powerful marketing tool it can be. ALT text/tag or attribute - A description of an image in your site's HTML. Social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us Having links to your site in del.icio.us Inbound Link - A link from one site into another.

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40 Essential SEO Terms Marketers Should Know [Glossary]

Hubspot

Jargon alone shouldn't stop you from making your site the powerful marketing tool it can be. ALT Text/Tag or Attribute - A description of an image in your site's HTML. Social bookmarking sites (example: Delicious.com) let users share websites they like with each other. Inbound Link - A link from one site into another.

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Best of 2008 - SEO Tools, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

Link Counter shows you which links on a site are live, broken, 301 redirected, HTML or JavaScript-based. THE Best Link Analyzer Tool by Search Marketing Blog Online Jon Clark raves about the Link Diagnosis tool, which provides detailed data on any site's backlinks including Pagerank, anchor text and nofollow information.

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

WebMarketCentral

She emphasizes that SEO is a long-term project, that getting on page one of Google isn't always realistic (at least in the short term), and that ultimately, traffic and conversions are what matters—not just rankings. It's very difficult for small websites to outrank large ones, particularly for highly competitive phrases.

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8 Ways to Use External Links to Improve Your SEO

Single Grain

Undeservedly hated and commonly despised, external links have long lived in the shadow of their internal brethren. Most bloggers feel they must add those links and that it's a sacrifice they have to make in order to appease the oh-so-cruel Google God. Linking out externally helps show Google that you’re different and better.

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