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White Hat SEO: It F@$#ing Works
Rand Fishkin

White Hat SEO: It F@$#ing Works

I hate webspam. I hate what it's done to the reputation of hardworking, honest, smart web marketers who help websites earn search traffic. I hate how it's poisoned the acronym SEO; a title I'm proud to wear. I hate that it makes legitimate marketing tactics less fruitful. And I hate, perhaps most of all, when it works. Here's a search for "buy propecia," which is a drug I actua...

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Retargeting: What It Is & How to Use It
Joanna Lord

Retargeting: What It Is & How to Use It

I've wanted to write this post for a couple weeks now. The topic of retargeting and remarketing is hot, hot, hot. As more blog posts get written and more resources get pushed out, there still seems to be quite a bit of confusion around what it actually is, and how it is different from regular display media buys. This post is meant to help with that confusion and hopefully leave everyone w...

How To Manage Twitter: Do It Your Way
Jennifer Sable Lopez

How To Manage Twitter: Do It Your Way

These days it seems like every time we turn around someone is telling us how to manage our Twitter account(s). Whether they're talking about managing a business, a community or even a personal account, I sort of feel like I'm always being told what to do. Sadly, as my mother knows very well, I usually don't take well to being told what to do. This is especially true when it comes to social medi...

One Year Later: Changes in SEO
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One Year Later: Changes in SEO

It's been a year, one calendar year since I joined Distilled. My first task was to write the post for SEOmoz as the rest of the office was going to be out on holiday. (Hi guys, bye guys ...) So I geared up to write my first blog post on SEOmoz, as my others were always YOUmoz posts. ...

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Which Link Metrics Should I Use? Part 2 of 2
Aaron Wheeler

Which Link Metrics Should I Use? Part 2 of 2

We all know that, at first, it can be really difficult to decide what the most valuable link metrics are and when to use them. Last week, Rand outlined and defined a variety of metrics that are used to assess the respective values of domains, pages, and links between them. This week, he's back with the stunning conclusion: how to actually use these link metrics in your research and...

Link Anatomy - Understanding The Value Of A Link
Daniel Deceuster

Link Anatomy - Understanding The Value Of A Link

Far too many of us in the SEO industry tend to think in absolute terms. You are either White Hat or Black Hat, this works or it doesn't, this link is amazing or it is worthless...you get the point. This is dangerous thinking because if something isn't absolutely perfect or golden, we tend to evaluate it as useless. In nothing is this more obvious than in link building. Link...

4 SEO Presentations w/ Tips, Graphics + Data You Can Use
Rand Fishkin

4 SEO Presentations w/ Tips, Graphics + Data You Can Use

NOTE: All of the slide decks in this post are free to download and distribute, as are any of the stats/graphics in them (please reference the source if you do). Hopefully they'll be helpful learning tools and will make your deck-building processes easier than mine have been! The past few weeks have been a whirlwind for me, and they're not slowing down anytime soon. Just 2 weeks ago, I je...