WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 17, 2009

Which social media sites are most helpful for SEO? StumbleUpon and Digg) is "spiky" and doesn't convert well, but supports SEO through the links generated. Fleischner, author of SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World's Largest Search Engine to share their best tips and tricks for SEO newbies.

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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

JULY 6, 2009

Where can you find the best SEO tools and resources (I mean, other than here)? What are some of the best tools and techniques for competitive SEO research? What information should you include in a killer SEO proposal—and what language should you avoid? Looking for a concise explanation of the different types of redirects?

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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

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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SEO Best Practices PR PageRank 20

WebMarketCentral

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.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

If you've been in the business world for any length of time, you've probably seen the following somewhere—in a building lobby, on a website, or on a nicely framed poster in an office: The Definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing, the same way, and expecting different results. I coded, I tested, I read articles and blogs.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 10, 2009

If your company is thinking about hiring an outside firm for search engine optimization (SEO), please read this post. If you work for one of the many reputable SEO agencies in the market, please have your prospective clients read this post. Search optimizing your website has become an essential part of doing business.

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WebMarketCentral

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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SEO Best Practices Tagging Internet Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 17, 2008

What are the most important factors to consider when designing (or redesigning) a website? It's heartening that he refers to SEO as "probably THE most essential element of Web design." Is your website ready for a handheld world? Where should you start? Which tools can help make your efforts more productive and effective?

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Before embarking on a serious search engine marketing (SEM) program, it's critical that your website is designed to take full advantage of the increased traffic. Intuitive navigation, relevant visitor-focused content, and SEO all need to be built-in to your site from the outset.

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Design Marketing Websites SEM Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

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. It's not unusual to turn up several important 2-4 word key phrases that don't even appear on the website! But I digress.) But I digress.)

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WebMarketCentral

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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SEO Microsite Best Practices SEM 20

WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

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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SEO Best Practices Copywriting Internet Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

SEO consultant. SEO consultants have a similar challenge. They must first "sell" a website to the search engines—using onsite techniques like title tags, headings and proper keyword density in the copy plus external link building—in order to get the site ranked within the first few search results. Higher sales. Not so fast.

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WebMarketCentral

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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SEO Forrester Best Practices Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Why do some websites fail to achieve objectives? How can you whip an underperforming website into shape? Which elements are the most critical when initiating a website redesign project? Learn the answers to these questions and more in some of the best blog posts and articles on website design published so far in 2008.

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Design Marketing Websites CMS Development Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 23, 2008

It's critical, when starting work on a new website, to develop a list of the most productive keywords and phrases to work into the content and structure of the site. The list doesn't need to be long; 15-25 phrases is sufficient unless you are working with a very large website. —rather than your internal company jargon.

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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 9, 2008

Welcome to the first in a series of posts on the best blog posts, articles and websites from 2007 covering various marketing topics. To start off, here is a list of the best tools for analyzing and optimizing SEO efforts. Website Grader from HubSpot This free SEO tool measures the marketing effectiveness of any website.

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WebMarketCentral

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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PPC Cost SEO SEM 20

WebMarketCentral

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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SEO SEM Best Practices Buzz 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 12, 2008

The most difficult websites to search optimize are those of small or new companies, in a market with larger and more established players, focused on a highly competitive set of keywords. A company blog can also be used to give a (small) SEO boost to the corporate site. Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcom.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 21, 2007

Like any presentation from one of the big analyst firms, the research focuses on very large companies, and is vertically unfocused (in this webcast, they divided websites into three groups: e-commerce, manufacturing [including B2B] and financial services), but still provides some nuggets of value for smaller organizations.

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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Back in May of this year, I reported the results of a test of the impact on B2B website traffic growth using Web 2.0 That experiment showed that tagging B2B thought-leadership content on social media sites increased traffic growth for B2B websites by 50%, and on a B2B marketing blog by more than 100%, over 60 days. social tagging.

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WebMarketCentral

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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SEO SEM Work Management Thought Leadership 20

WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 15, 2007

A great tool for monitoring the results of your SEO efforts. Check Rankings A subscription-based service (free registration required) that provides daily reports of your site's ranking for keywords you choose across all the major search engines.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

One area clearly is organic search engine optimization (SEO). While it isn't necessarily cheap, it's inexpensive in comparison to most other types of online marketing and advertising programs, and nothing is more effective at drawing targeted website traffic at the time prospects are looking.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

For example, Wikipedia's list of social networking websites now contains 111 entries; an impressive list, but certainly not all-inclusive. It's been said that with great power comes great responsibility. That responsibility isn't always handled properly.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 12, 2009

These range from website backlinks to the actual words on a particular page and whether a website has trust and / or authority. Many a SEO Company has tried to manipulate the results to their benefit. Of course, Google combats paid links or other “unnatural” links with its algorithm or in extreme cases penalising a website.

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