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The Marketing Graveyard: 6 Victims of Inbound Marketing

Tomorrow People

As Google mutates, our search consultants’ moods have become unpredictable as they fight against extinction (true story: ‘Crazy Pete Winter’ was once a balanced individual with a keen eye for a keyword). Fortunately for them, SEO will never die - no matter how much linkbait declares it so (guilty!). RIP TELEMARKETING.

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Best of 2007: Blog Posts on Social Media Marketing

WebMarketCentral

Forget UGC, Discover User-Generated-Linkbait by Distilled Blogger Tom Critchlow lays out an interesting strategy for building rich website content by leveraging user-generated content on discussion forums.

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Best of 2008: SEO Link Building

WebMarketCentral

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. His deck actually covers the organic search marketinging basics—keywords, content and links.

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Back to Basics: 9 Lessons in Writing Tabloid-Worthy Headlines

ClearVoice

This is one of the primary reasons users will derogatorily label a piece “linkbait.”. Make sure you’ve included your primary targeted keywords and that it reads like it was written for a human being, not a computer. If that’s the case, keep the humor, lose the keywords. Of course, there are always exceptions.

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Top 5 Inbound Marketing Articles to Start the Week: Linkbait Techniques

Hubspot

Linkbaiting often gets a bad rap, yet creating great content that generates inbound links is hardly a questionable technique. Our top inbound marketing article of the past week challenges the stereotype that linkbaiting is controversial and offers several great tips for creating link-worthy content. The last click caused conversion.

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - Social Media Optimization, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

9 tricks to get the most SEO benefit from your social media linkbaiting campaign by SEO Scoop DazzlinDonna writes a lot of great stuff on her blog, but here she turns the reins over to social media marketer Dan Zarrella , who offers his tips for maximizing social media including how to best use keywords, comments and links.

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9 Invaluable Lessons From Failed Link Building Campaigns

seo.co

Around 2008, “linkbait” became a popular concept and people began publishing anything they could – whether truthful or not – just to attract links and attention. Instead, it’s all about natural anchor text that includes your target keyword for the page being linked to. Entrepreneurship = how to start a business.