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Every Marketer Should Be Technical
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Every Marketer Should Be Technical

There's been a lot of talk of roles like growth hackers, marketing ninjas, and technical marketing in the past year. Regardless of whether or not you subscribe to these labels, technical skills combined with marketing tactics are creating the most desirable and productive individuals in our industry.

A Simple Error that Tanked My Site and Stopped My Heart
Dave Robinson

A Simple Error that Tanked My Site and Stopped My Heart

Earlier this year a number of our sites tanked and when I say tanked I mean THEY TANKED. Not only did visits dry up, as a result of their rankings evaporating, but all toolbar PageRank disappeared reverting to n/a. I'm talking a site with a homepage toolbar PR 7 showing PR n/a! It was a very strange experience, made all the more strange by the fact that sites that ranked on pure age (been there since god was a boy with decent content) tanked alongside sites we'd worked on.

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The Red Carpet Economy
Gianluca Fiorelli

The Red Carpet Economy

Web marketing and the entertainment industry have more in common than you might think. In today's post, Ginaluca Fiorelli shares the epic tale of the Beauty and the Brand to show just much SEOs and web marketers can learn from watching the trends on the Red Carpet.

Building a Video SEO Strategy
Phil Nottingham

Building a Video SEO Strategy

Designing and implementing a goal-driven strategy for Video SEO is imperative to its success. In today's post, Phil outlines the core goals video can provide for SEO and explains what type of content is required for businesses to reach Video SEO glory.

Link Building 101 - The Almost Complete Link Guide (Updated for Post-Penguin)
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Link Building 101 - The Almost Complete Link Guide (Updated for Post-Penguin)

Quite a few things have changed in my approach to link building since my first link building guide back in 2010. One thing that hasn’t changed is my view that 80% of positive (and negative) SEO ranking factors still come from external sources – I’m not just talking about links here, but social and citations, also. This post is my updated view on Link Building 101 in a post-Penguin world.