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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

SEO success comes from using established best practices, drawing relevant traffic to a site, and maximizing conversion through either online sales or qualified leads. Can use ethical or unethical practices to get results. Tags: SEO Practice. This leads to the final similiarity, which is that both sales professionals and SEOs.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Dirty SEO tricks you should avoid by iMedia Connection Rich Cherecwich delves into the details of two "gray hat" SEO practices that are best avoided: link buying and domain buying. Tags: SEO Practice. the meta keywords tag, duplicate links, and graphics—except for the alt tag assigned to them). Why do SEOs forget about REAL marketing?

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MAY 11, 2009

For new websites, how can you incorporate SEO best practices into the design from the beginning? Tags: SEO Practice. How can you effectively explain SEO (and avoid unrealistic expectations) to prospective clients? What tactics are most effective at driving increased search traffic? How can PR and SEO work together more productively?

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JULY 28, 2008

There have been so many excellent blog posts and articles written already in 2008 that it's just not practical to wait until January of next year to recognize them. I may have to start doing these monthly or something, but for now, here are some of the best pieces written about the art and science of SEO so far in 2008.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Sloppy Code: Search engine bots are lazy, so the best practice is to produce clean, minimalist code, for example by relying more on CSS and less on HTML tables. Tags: SEO Practice. Another common error is to load pages up with lots of Javascript.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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. Tags: SEO Practice. What key trends in search should you be aware of, and how can you adapt to them?

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JULY 6, 2009

Find all of this and more here in another group of the best articles and blog posts from the last year on the practice of SEO. They not only provided practical, helpful information for SEO's trying to optimize for dominant search engine but legitimized the entire practice as well. Tags: SEO Practice.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Respectable SEO practices are pretty well-known; if a potential SEO vendor starts talking about their secret sauce or doesn't want to share the "how" of what they do, don't walk—run away. A reputable firm will outline their process and indicate what automated tools they use to check the quality of their work. Have realistic expectations.

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MARCH 6, 2009

What are the current best practices in website design? Though targeted at small businesses, the best practices outline in this post apply to websites of virtually any size. What common design mistakes should you avoid? Where can you find creative new design ideas?

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MARCH 2, 2009

For situations where that is not a practical option, Peter provides several other ideas. The suggestions vary in their practicality and applicability (e.g. Tags: SEO Practice. Instead, think of link building as relationship-building, and start by creating a site that others will want to link to. That works sometimes.).

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JUNE 5, 2008

I'll be starting off my presentation at the Blogging for Business Conference tomorrow with this statement: The practice of PR has changed more in the last five years than it did in the previous fifty. Social media has shifted the practice to interactive PR , or, if you prefer, social PR or conversational PR. What do you think?

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

SEO Quality Indicators & The Heap Paradox by Search Engine Journal Ryan Caldwell ventures from the philosopical to the practical in this post, providing 10 key indicators of website SEO quality, from "lean code and meaty content" along with proper tag usage to listing a physical address and toll-free phone number.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

2: Google AdWords Average CTR and Best Practices , September 20, 2007 Various estimates for average click-through rates (CT) from Google AdWords along with 14 best practices to make search engine marketing programs more successful. #1:

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

Search Marketing or other SEM program, start with best practices in search engine marketing. magazine, Turning Browsers into Buyers: How to Improve Conversion Rates that provides some practical guidance. To optimize the results of a Google AdWords, Yahoo! Dan Briody recently wrote a helpful article for Inc.

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MAY 15, 2008

Email Marketing Best Practices offers five tips to maintain high deliverability rates and avoid being perceived as a spammer. Selecting an Email Service Provider (ESP) provides a list of the top 10 criteria to consider when choosing a hosted email marketing platform for your organization. Price makes the list—at number 10.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just released Blind Date to White Wedding: Best Practices for Lead Nurturing that creates B2B relationships, builds trust and increases sales , a white paper on B2B lead nurturing.

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JANUARY 2, 2008

The CMO Council recently released a major study entitled Profitability from Customer Affinity , on the difficulty faced by vendors in establishing customer-centric business practices. However, their people have consistently handled every issue, from billing disputes to technical problems, with courtesy and professionalism.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Review: Google Insights Can Help Merchants Optimize PPC/SEO Campaigns by Practical eCommerce Armando Roggio reviews another relatively new tool from Google, Google Insights, a free research tool which "provides detailed search data that can help online retailers improve their pay-per-click advertising and search engine optimization."

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tags: SEO Practice.

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MAY 4, 2009

What are the best (and worst) practices in interactive PR? tools, technology that has made the practice of PR more effective and transparent. What are some of the best tools for implementing PR 2.0? How do PR, SEO and social media work together to build name recognition and credibility for a company? Thankful For PR 2.0

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JUNE 25, 2008

Google AdWords Average CTR and Best Practices , September 20, 2007—the difficulty of obtaining benchmarking data for CTR and other AdWords measurements, and 14 steps to optimize your results, regardless of what the average values actually are in your industry. . ** technorati tags: best blog posts on social media marketing, Web 2.0,

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Given all the concern over Google banning sites for engaging in this practice , it's best to avoid this. Tags: SEO Practice Book Reviews. For example, WeOpenYouClose.com ranks #1 on Google for both "call center M&A" and call center mergers acquisitions despite having almost no external links pointing to the site.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

It's been obvious for some time that social media has an increasing role in b2b marketing , and that b2b companies will increasingly invest marketing dollars there as social media marketing practices become more standardized.

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JANUARY 24, 2008

The last post here presented some of the best articles and blog posts on general search engine marketing practices. Google Campaign Optimizer No Substitute for Experience by StraightUpSearch A prescient blog post on the importance of trusting experience and established best practices in SEM over Google's optimization tool.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Social : Arranging live meetings is another practical, common and perfectly acceptable use of Twitter. A fine practice, though it should be used in moderation. Part 2 will cover best practices for using Twitter, Twitter tools, and the future outlook for this platform. ** technorati tags: Web 2.0 That would be.Twitterbation?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

While Manticore relies on its resellers to provide expertise with client-specific issues, the company is also creating a "success framework" that will guide users through the basic steps in lead nurturing.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Here's an example analysis: Did the same thing, the same way, utilized established best practices in SEO, and—got only marginal improvement. These sites have numerous external relevant links, keyword density right in the sweet spot, and optimized meta tags. What's a person to do?

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MARCH 1, 2007

The result is not only philosophically interesting, but a practical guide for marketers in trying to make their messages stick in an increasingly over-promoted marketplace. The review from the Practice of Leadership blog explains these six principles of stickiness in greater detail. That's right, SUCCESs."

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APRIL 27, 2009

Assure you're utilizing blogging best practices? End with related posts" is one example, and a practice that's always been used with this "Best Of" series.) Learn all of that in more in some of the best posts from the last year on blogging for business.

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JULY 20, 2009

Of course it isn't only big businesses that make mistakes, so to be fair Sonia details in another excellent post dumb things small businesses do , advising entrepreneurs to avoid the number "one," as in over-reliance on one customer, one vendor or one partner.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Tags: SEO Practice.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

Tags: SEO Practice Need to Know.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2006

He provides practical and highly readable observations and advice on topics such as drop-shipping, low-cost but high-impact marketing techniques, blogging, affiliate marketing, and free or low-cost business tools. Chris shares his knowledge and thoughts on email-related topics such as database marketing, list building, and *spam*.

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JUNE 24, 2009

5 Ways To Optimize Your Blog and Capture More Repeat Visitors by ProBlogger Rich Page recommends practices like tracking your internal search results (to help determine what topics are most important to your readers), surveying your readers, and building an online community into your site in order to increase repeat visits.

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APRIL 29, 2008

Including sidebar content from ad networks and/or affiliate programs is a common and accepted practice. If exposed, this practice destroys a blog's credibility. Failing to acknowledge the existence of other bloggers: This sin often goes hand-in-hand with Pride above, but is its own worst practice.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

Only specialists can keep on top of the constant change and assure that current best practices are being utilized. First you should get linked in as many online directories as possible, then you needn't bother. A tactic that is white hat one day becomes gray hat, or even black hat, the next. There will be more to come on this soon.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Tags: SEO Practice.

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