Recently I had a client in a difficult niche that was having issues building backlinks. There are many site owners in competitive niches — I'm looking at you, lawyers — that have zero interest in helping their peers, even if it means they're helping themselves. The idea of helping out a  potential competitor is like [...]

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Creating a new site is always fun. This has always been the best way for me to get inspired, find new valuable contacts, broaden my outlook, etc.

A solid start is important. This way you can quickly meet people who will than share your message, link to your content and grow your resource.
However doing [...]

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Arnie is one of those people I think deserve more credit. Then again, he most likely gets just that but from his large clientele. Street cred versus rockstar fame, so to say. He’s on the link building side of things, the place I call “in the trenches” – it’s fascinating [...]

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The IIS SEO Toolkit is aimed at web developers, web server administrators and hosting providers to improve their web sites relevance in the search engines. I will not go into detail here of all of the features, i will more than likely skim quite a bit of what the kit offers, instead concentrating on SEO [...]

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Guest blog post from Danielle Ingram, Content Writer at Creare Communications. Discusses the benefits of utilising YouTube as part of an SEO campaign.

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It would seem we're about ready for that biennial discussion about the state of SEO, what it is and perhaps what it should be.  John Andrews put me on this train of thought with his recent piece on Why SEO Sucks.
There is a reason why SEO sucks for many, many people. It seems SEO is [...]

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This is the third part in a four-part series on How To Ensure Social Media ROI.
Read previous parts here:

Part One: How To Get Social Media ROI
Part Two: The 4 Functions of Social Media

Part Three: Repurposing Linkbait To Get Social Media Marketing Results

If you're not familiar with linkbait, it's essentially a way of getting links for [...]

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Google announces the ability to target your ads to only those placements that are above the fold on the Content Network.

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Tad's a smart person. Strikes me as such and shows it in the things he posts, says online. He lives in Europe, I come from Europe; instant bond. Us knows us.
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In 2005 you described the state of SEO in Germany as backwards, out of time, virtually non-existent. How are things today? [...]

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As I sat down to write this, I realized that I could write this entire blog post in just four magic words, namely the Golden Rule.  Those who are successful at social media marketing would immediately understand exactly what I mean – no further explanation needed. 
 
But others might need a few more words of [...]

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