Near the end of 2008, I came up with a pithy saying that many people named Brian Carter tend to repeat: >> Generosity is a strategy with a positive ROI I've heard it echoed lately by other marketers. Because it's true. And because it works. Not because they heard me say it. Why Should You [...]

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SAScon – swaggering new boy on the UK conference scene. I monkey walked my way through the front doors of The Bridgewater Hall, more tired than any man should be, followed the smell of coffee upstairs and hoped it would be worth the 6am start. The lineup certainly looked promising with medley of speakers from [...]

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Disclaimer: Readers are warned that this article contains language and ideas that may cause offense to those with traditional views: reader discretion is advised.  That disclaimer is important since we will be rejecting some concepts you may have accepted without question.  If you can suspend disbelief for a time, welcome. Home Pages Suck In a [...]

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Are you addicted to "how to" content? In SEO, there's more of it every day. And it stands to good reason: run a blog search for "SEO" over at Technorati and you get a modest 12,386 results at the moment. That's 12,386 separate SEO blogs (that Technorati knows about). While most SEO blogs branch off [...]

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If you have a website then it is a good idea to keep a track of your search engine positions for key phrases that people search for and that bring you traffic. For any SEO professionals this is especially true. Some people use commercial products for this task, others use online services, but there is [...]

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“Do you remember When we fell in love… We were young and innocent then Do you remember how it all began…” Michael Jackson Recently, Yahoo shut down its publishers network, their contextual advertising alternative to Google AdSense. Reading that news caused me to reminisce about the time when all content wasn’t monetizeable and simple monetization [...]

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The goal of these tips is to get the pages initially indexed and then more importantly, to keep those pages in the index. As mentioned earlier, just because a page is crawled doesn’t mean it will necessarily get indexed, so make sure that you focus on: 1.) Getting links to the homepage from high authority, [...]

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Some who know me may find it surprising that I descend to the vernacular in titling this blog post.  Be assured that the decision was not taken lightly, but in fact the word 'Suck' is used in a very precise and technical way. That also was true for another writer on web design whose work [...]

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Day in and day out, we all have a million things we want to do versus one million things we have to do. We own websites that need traffic and conversions, but have a limited budget. We want to do it ourselves… There are plenty of “how-to” articles out there… “Link Building in 20 Days [...]

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