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Six months ago, I was a very different person. SEO was something I knew little about(I still do not claim to have above a beginner's understanding), and I was running an OS that I did not care for. Then one day, after struggling with a lousy driver install and a Lexmark printer(Die!! Lexmark...DIE!!!) I said some rather foul words, and went to the Ubuntu website, intending to dual bo...
We often hear the question, "How can I linkbait for a conservative industry? Doesn't linkbait have to be funny or crude or techie?" We've said it before and we'll say it again, you don't have to be Perez Hilton to do successful linbait. This week, Jane Copland discusses a few strategies to help even the most skeptical folks lea...
Sometimes working for big brands can be quite difficult insofar as Search is concerned. Very often your value to the institution is called into question, especially if the company has a very strong brand, but a poor SEO strategy prior to your joining. It doesn’t help that there isn’t much freely accessible research that may lend itself to causal arguments when it comes to Bra...
If you’re expecting me to provide the answer to this, I’m very sorry but I can’t! It’s because I don’t have the answer I felt it would be a genuine topic for discussion. If only for my sake as choosing any reliable and talented partner in any industry is difficult enough but to find genuine partners in the SEO world, well according to web developer&rsqu...
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A while back I removed all of the social media bookmark links from my blog. At the time, my reasoning was that it was simply cluttering up the page and really added no value. It also looked rather silly to have 15 icons at the bottom of each post so that someone might bookmark it.I'd actually add it back in if:A) I thought there were some value in doing so.B...
In just over a week I will be making my speaking debut at an industry conference. I'll be speaking at the a4u Expo in London, which is aimed at affiliate marketers, but is also twinning with SES to cover search. My particular session is on social media/networks and how they are being used by brands to drive sales (my co-speaker will be looking...
After a quick break, we're back at SMX Social Media with "A Marketer's Guide to Social Bookmarking & Tagging." Guillaume Bouchard from NVI is up first. He starts off with his token in-joke for French speakers. People laugh (in French: "hoh...
Having just wrapped up my presentation for Linkbait: Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites (I linked to Vanessa Fox's session coverage on Search Engine Land in case you want a recap), I thought I'd turn the tables and live blog Extra! Extra! The Social News sites. (Side note: My allergies have been a pain in the ass e...
As many of you know, Rand travels quite a bit for his work, leaving me at home with Raul, the cabana boy. All is well for the first few hours, until I grow tired of Raul's deep tissue massages and the peeled grapes he insists on feeding me. After that, I tend to get a little bored and lonely. I'm assuming the other conference widows out there feel the same way, and as such, I'...
As many of you probably know, today, October 15th, is the first annual International Blog Action Day. Thousands of blogs are joining together to write about one topic in many different voices: the environment. It's a fantastic idea that's gained some tremendous support from the United Nations, to Google, to LifeHacker and thousands of other partners big ...
I'm lucky enough to have a few high-yield websites in some local niches (real estate) with very low competition.For the three or four keyword phrases anyone would use to find my web sites and services, I already rank #1. In fact, for some of them I rank in the top 20 if you do the search terms without mentioning the city I am. Mention the city or county, and I'm right there ...
Business growth can largely be attributed to the systematization of your business processes. For many of us starting out though, that can be fairly difficult. I recently sold a product that is time-intensive and it occurred to me that I was limited in selling these by how much time I have. That got me to thinking about business systems and about taking advantage of getting things organized and ...
I'm halfway through my next post on rewriting the Beginner's Guide, but I'm just too tired to go on. Losing three hours coming over to New York doesn't help, either. So, I've turned my attention away from the project for now and thought I'd ask something a bit more participatory of the crowd here... What are the 5 industry-related websites (excluding the search engines themselves) that ...
Hey Everyone,This Post is just the way I feel, If you do not agree Its cool, I just wanted to make a blog post to let everyone know a little about how much I like seo moz!I have been reading seo moz for some time now, like many people here,I just started becoming more active ( comments , i.e. this blog post )You know, I read many blogs a day , and I figured that I should start posting and commenti...