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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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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 8, 2009

Here are seven characteristics to help avoid hiring one of those types for your next SEO project. Given the still relative newness of SEO as a profession, any SEO practitioner over the age of 30 probably did something else before SEO. There's simply no relationship between Twitter following and SEO prowess.

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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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APRIL 14, 2009

Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and sites for SEO tools. 5+ SEO Text Analyzers for SEO Diagnostics & Copywriting by Search Engine Journal The always brilliant and resourceful Ann Smarty here reviews several different for analyzing keyword usage and prominence (a.g.,

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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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MARCH 30, 2009

Is content really king for SEO? What SEO common mistakes do even experienced consultants sometimes make? Which resources are best for accelerating your SEO learning curve? Get the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles about SEO from the last year.

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MARCH 2, 2009

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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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

This holds true across many if not most areas of business and life in general: manufacturing, research, software development, teaching, cooking.but not SEO. Before I began doing SEO work for clients, I'd done it for a number of other websites: my own, friends', and corporate employers. 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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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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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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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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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 27, 2008

In The Disconnect in PPC vs. SEO Spending , Rand Fishkin demonstrates that "SEO drives 75%+ of all search traffic, yet garners less than 15% of marketing budgets for SEM campaigns. With SEO, you can spend a lot of money to try to rank well for these terms yet still end up with disappointing results.

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JUNE 23, 2008

It can also be a useful exercise for existing sites from time to time; content changes, search patterns change, and a minor content and SEO face lift may be just the thing to reinvigorate traffic growth. Start by jotting down a list of the obvious search phrases for the site.

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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). But it's still nonsense.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

SEO consultant. SEO consultants have a similar challenge. SEOs need to combine creative skills like writing, design, and persuasiveness (when asking for links) with technical knowledge of HTML, Javascript and CSS coding. Most people probably have two very different mental images of those professions. Higher sales. Not so fast.

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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Search engine optimization (SEO) is about as close to a no-brainer as any marketing investment gets: you've made a significant investment in designing and building an attractive, easy-to-navigate, content-rich website, so why not invest just a bit more to make sure it's easy to find? So, case made, how do you select an SEO partner?

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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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JULY 28, 2008

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. Writing for People (and Search Engines): How to improve click-through rates for organic listings by Hamlet Batista SEO is fundamentally about driving website traffic.

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JANUARY 9, 2008

To start off, here is a list of the best tools for analyzing and optimizing SEO efforts. Free SEO Tools Search Engine Spider Simulator from the Webconfs SEO Toolset Spiders and people don't see things the same way. Website Grader from HubSpot This free SEO tool measures the marketing effectiveness of any website.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

I had the honor of having a guest post on how to avoid bad SEO consultants published on YOUmoz last week. Based on my own experience, and citing the work of lots of smart SEO experts, the post provides advice on how to spot SEO spammers and scammers, as well as how to find an effective, reputable firm to provide SEO services.

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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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MAY 12, 2008

A company blog can also be used to give a (small) SEO boost to the corporate site. tags: search optimize, on-site optimization, generate search traffic, SEO boost, marketing events calendar, social bookmarking sites, Digg, Del.icio.us Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcom.

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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. It's all fundamentals, but that's often what SEO comes down to. video, audio files and PDFs) and encouraging mashups.

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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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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

One area clearly is organic search engine optimization (SEO). According to eMarketer, SEO tops the list of effective web lead generation methods, as " Forty-eight percent of marketers (in a 2009 study by Forbes) said that SEO was the best method for generating conversions online." Where else should scarce dollars be allocated?

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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. Which social bookmarking sites have the most clout? Take Advantage of.TV

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Use Facebook fan pages to help with SEO? tags: social media marketing Facebook fan pages SEO? How can you make a big splash in social media without a huge budget? Attract lots of targeted Twitter followers in a short time? Turn your social media contacts into leads, and ultimately customers?

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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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JANUARY 23, 2009

While much of the material here is well-covered in blogs and other books, even experienced SEOs are likely to find a few new ideas here. Here are several more key SEO insights provided by King: Wordtracker's fee-based tool goes beyond free keyword tools by tracking what it calls a keyword effectiveness index.

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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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MAY 4, 2009

How do PR, SEO and social media work together to build name recognition and credibility for a company? PR Firms: Spend your Money on SEO by Orange Soda A helpful, if perhaps somewhat controversial, post about what's dead in PR (e.g., blogging and SEO). SEO social media interactive PR? SEO social media interactive PR?

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JUNE 30, 2009

Galen reviews a number of sites that can provide both direct traffic as well as being valuable for B2B SEO links, such as Jayde , Zibb and Alibaba. For example, copywriting ( Copyblogger , Michael Fortin ), search engine marketing ( Gordon Choi , PPCBlog ), SEO ( SEOmoz , SEO Book ) and social media ( Chris Brogan , ProBlogger ).

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AUGUST 31, 2009

It's a provocative piece to be sure, but while I hesitate to attack statistical evidence with the anecdotal, my experience has been that when one accounts for the reasons PPC will always cost more than SEO , the actual labor costs of the two activities (when done right) are pretty darn close.

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