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Getting Started With Link Building

Link building is by far still the most important effort for gaining search engine rank.  Although shifts from quantity to quality have certainly altered approaches, the fact that links generate value and trust is as important today as it has been for years. The biggest change is how Google views links and the value derived from each one.  Anything gamed is extracted – Matt Cutts’ team is clearly driving a clean-up process.  But a well-crafted...

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Editor’s Picks: April 20-24, 2009

Promoting content on Twitter. With the popularity of Twitter growing by the hour, it is important to start considering some of the ways to push your content on Twitter. Just like “digg it” and “stumble it” buttons made it easier for your readers to submit content to these popular social media sites, it might be time to add that “retweet” button as well. Ann Smarty does a great job of listing all the different ways...

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Editor’s Picks: April 6-10, 2009

Marketing on Wikipedia. Search marketers tend to have a love-hate relationship with Wikipedia. Some complain about the lack of transparency in what gets approved and what doesn't, while others resort to outright spamming.

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Think Before Starting A Link Building Campaign

Most people with SEO experience know that a good selection of strategic links will set a web site apart when it comes to improving search engine ranking. Consequently, developing a search engine optimization strategy will more often than not focus on a link building campaign. Increasingly however, there’s a trend towards jumping on the user generated content bandwagon with site owners happy to set up a blog to update once in a while or to...

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The Value of Conducting Competitor Research for SEO

One of the most overlooked aspects at the start of a new search engine optimization campaign is the value of conducting competitor research. Rather than constantly checking positions on the search results pages, competitor research means digging a little deeper and attempting to uncover the reasons behind rivals’ online success. You can do this yourself and try to understand more about the industry or you can ask your chosen SEO company to do it on...

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Blow Your Mind Link Building from SMX Advanced Seattle

I wrote up my summary on this morning’s first session, Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques, and then I felt that I should revise a bit once I heard Matt Cutts refute (yet again) many of the techniques that were discussed. He asked the audience in his “You and A Session with Matt Cutts” if they wanted to be the Milli Vanilli of search? As we all know, Google has taken an aggressive stand, with...

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