Wait, what are you doing reading this introduction? There's no time… it's already "Week One" of our link building blitz plan! Like the great holiday and Cyber Monday deals on your site, your company's link building opportunities won't last long… But, if you start now,right now, you'll have a serious shot at scoring some great [...]

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Keywords and click are two of the most popular words on the Internet.  Countless readers will have visited this blog post because they realize the importance of those two words. We should immediately warn you that many may find the content of this blog post disturbing.  If you think you know all there is to [...]

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“Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so well, what a mind thinks is as dominated by biological patterns as social patterns are dominated by biological patterns and as biological patterns are dominated by inorganic patterns. There is [...]

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The biggest trick is to not just get the basics down and then expand with all the little aspects that add up to a good SEO plan, but to anticipate the future. In order to do this, you need to take a bit of a step outside your own personal web site realm and watch [...]

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There's one question people keep asking me: how to quote other people without being affected by Google's duplicate content filter. Yes, the most widely-used way to cite is to put the abstract in quotes and link back to the source. But is everything really that simple? There are no "official" Google rules as to citing. [...]

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Today is Blog Action Day; a day when thousands of bloggers post on a specific social change topic in order to raise awareness of that topic and, eventually and maybe, cause a dent in the issue. It's a day that sets me – and most likely you — apart from the rest of "them" as [...]

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It's Not What You Do, It's Why You Do It In Deja Vu Part 1, we talked about how no matter how much things change, the more they stay the same. Things evolve, but they do not change in respects to why they are there in the first place. Search Engines are no different. Over [...]

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Welcome to another edition of TGIF.  I hope that the week has treated you well and that you have enjoyed yourselves. If you didn't have a lot of fun and fund the week long, difficult and tiring, then fear not the weekend is upon you. Do something extra nice and put the world back in [...]

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Angie looks at the role of women in SEO, if there really is few of them in the industry, and why they might be so quiet within the various industry 'circles'.

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At WordStream, we recently released a Free Keyword Tool. Then we told people not to trust it. Sounds a bit contradictory, but let me explain… One of the most common search marketing mistakes I see people make is in trusting the wrong tools and data points. The best (or maybe worst) example of this is [...]

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