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Visiting UK
2007-12-15 16:13:00
Have you ever visited UK? Some great destinations are to be discovered like London and Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland. /* Images are wrapped in divs classed "flickr_badge_image" with ids "flickr_badge_imageX" where "X" is an integer specifying ordinal position. Below are some styles to get you started! */ #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper {text-align:center; width:260px;} #flickr_badge_wrapper {padding:10px 0 10px ...
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How to Save Online with Coupons, Deals & Promotions
2007-12-13 08:56:00
For years, I’ve been telling our friends that if you take the time, you can find some great bargains on the Internet. I personally like to use BestBuy coupons for my electronics and you can’t pass on Target deals . I think women will like that one the best. Many online coupon codes can ...
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Matt Cutts: Top SEO Advice
2007-12-11 06:06:00
Another top SEO tips video interview of Matt Cutts from Google came out of the Publishers Conference (pubcon.com) in Las Vegas. Matt first talks about new Wordpress release handling duplicate content issue and how it is much better from overall SEO aspect.He also gives great tips for writing content using keywords and how it relates ...
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Improve SEO - Create Robots.txt file
2007-12-05 07:53:00
How can you improve your website's crawlability and Search Engine Optimization? There are many other ways by optimizing your pages and templates to make easier for spiders to crawl and understand your website like using Robots Meta Tags but one easy and effective way is to tell bots what to index and what they should not by adding a Robots.txt file to your root folder. The robots.txt file will instruct search engine robots what pages on your blog or website should be crawled and indexed. Most websites (CMS, Wordpress, etc.) will have files and folders that are not relevant for search engines (like images or admin files) and you really don't want them to crawl them because there is no relevant content on them so creating a simple robots.txt file can actually improve your website crawlability.
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More Blog Comments with DoFollow
2007-12-05 06:03:00
Having more comments on your blog gives your post's more unique content and thus more "love" from Search Engines. But how do you encourage readers to post more comments on your blog? One good way is to use DoFollow plugin on your blog and join ?U Comment - I Follow? campaign. U Comment I follow SEO for comments?U Comment - I Follow? campaign was created to encourage more blog comments by letting readers know that you don't use "Nofollow" tags in posted comments (which is default setting in WordPress Blog ) so your readers comments will count towards their blog, links and ultimately Google Page Rank.
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Best and Free SEO Tracking Software
2007-11-30 06:33:00
Tracking your website’s performance is essential part of any SEO marketing campaign. By analyzing traffic stats, tracking, analytics, Google analytics, log files, etc. you will get good picture of what is going on with your site and what needs to be changed or what needs more testing. Interesting video aired yesterday on WebProNews with Aaron Wall, ...
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Promoting Affiliate Website for Organic Search (SEO)
2007-11-29 09:09:00
Join the forum discussion on this post Is it possible to promote your free affiliate website in Search Engines for Organic Search? I don’t think so. Here I’m talking about affiliate website you get for free when you sign up for affiliate program like www.ytbtravel.com so your website url ends up being something like ...
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Quality One Way Backlinks - Effective SEO Technique
2007-11-25 22:56:00
Join the forum discussion on this postSearch engine optimization (SEO) is getting harder and harder every single day with Search engines algorithms changing thus making it tough for webmasters to rank websites highly. There are many black hat tricks and tactics available today but don’t waste your time on those because they will only bring you short term gain. Instead, use a few tried and true SEO techniques and principles for they will get you in good standing with Google and bring long lasting traffic and rankings. (more…) If you find our site useful buy our staff a coffee!Share This
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Understanding Google?s Mindset on Classifying Spam
2007-11-18 03:11:00
If… people would not notice it when Google removes your site from the search results Google can clone your business model without paying writers to produce content or carrying physical inventory … then your site is spam. Maybe not by today’s standards, but eventually. As the web evolves, a once whitelisted site can become a site that is ...
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The State of the SEO Market in 2007
2007-11-18 03:11:00
Philipp Lessen recently asked me to guest post on Blogoscoped about the state of the world of SEO in 2007. I talked about recent events, editorial considerations, industry consolidation, and all sorts of other goodies. I also did a mini interview with Web Pro News at the Blog World Expo. I pulled my wonderful wife ...
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Why SEOs Should Use the Meta Keywords Tag On Their Homepage
2007-11-18 03:11:00
Should the MarketingSherpa’s guide to landing pages use an effective landing page? Should a company touting the value of statistics use statistically relevant datasets? Every day someone is getting called out for being a liar, a thief, or a charlatan douchebag. You can’t track it all, but simply following your own guidelines and ideals lessens the ...
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Anti Vote Baiting (Beta)
2007-11-18 03:11:00
Matt Cutts recently offered a public voting for my lynching, but we just talked things over, and there will be no lynching - at least not yet. I think Matt is a great guy, but his job is tough as a public face of THE company dominating the web. It is easy to take a series ...
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Q & A Open Thread
2007-11-18 03:11:00
Feel free to ask any SEO or internet marketing related questions and I will try to answer them below. I prefer to answer broader industry questions than site specific questions. It can take a day to do a strong site review, and I could miss a lot of things that are wrong if I give ...
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Helping Charities is a Form of Spam? Or Just Great Marketing?
2007-11-18 03:11:00
Donating to a charity or sponsoring an event is one of the safest ways to buy a link, but getting them to use and recommend your product is a far more effective approach to marketing. Why? Passion is more important than PageRank. Charities Can Help You Market Your Stuff Cheaply Some charities want to change the world, ...
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BizRate.com & Google Break Up
2007-11-18 03:10:00
Google Checkout Makes Shopping Sites Undesirable As Google Checkout ramps up, many thin arbitrage / shopping aggregator sites are going to see a significant love loss from Google. In September Andrew Goodman wrote a piece on how paid search and organic search quality criteria may play off each other, after coming across a post on Inside ...
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Perceived Authenticity is Key to Profitable Niche Publishing Business Model
2007-11-18 03:01:00
Via TC, I discovered IBM released a report on how the they think the $550 billion global ad market might change in the coming years. The predictions look bleak for most ad agencies and traditional media gatekeepers, but good for niche publishers who have a solid stream of attention: The “voice” delivering a message, along with ...
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How Efficient is the Web at Selling High Priced Items?
2007-11-18 03:01:00
I wanted to get my wife something cool for her birthday, but the gift I wanted to buy proved nearly impossible to find from a trustworthy source. I was going to get her a high end autographed item, but who should I buy it from? The not for profit site that is down, requiring you to ...
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The Value of Consumer Generated Media & Editorializing Commercial Offers
2007-11-18 03:01:00
Looking for Christmas oriented keyword research? You would be hard press to find a better list of hot toys this year than to look at Amazon.com’s holiday toy list. Google also offers their Google Trends product, which will likely confirm the validity of Amazon’s list as the holiday season draws near. Both of these lists ...
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View the Presentation From My Speech at Blogworld Expo
2007-11-18 03:01:00
This is was a document about how optimizing a blog is largely a game of competing for attention, with tips on how to win attention and marketshare. BTW, I am going to WebmasterWorld Las Vegas Pubcon next month. I think I am speaking on two or three different panels. If you find our site useful buy our ...
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[Video] Creating Your Site?s Internal Link Structure for Google and Searche
2007-11-18 03:01:00
This video is a bit longer than some of the earlier videos, clocking in at 9 minutes and 39 seconds. The Dual Roles of Navigation: Navigation needs to be user friendly and search engine friendly. If you want a user to pay attention to an offer you have to link to it with a call to ...
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Too Smart For Your Own Good
2007-11-18 03:01:00
A few days ago Andy Hagans sent me a link to a 1924 article titled Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men, which has a couple killer quotes in it. The first is how to succeed in business: That criticism may be justifiable, fo I am mediocre. But the point I have in mind is this: ...
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[Video] How to Spam Google Without Being Viewed as a Spammer
2007-11-18 03:01:00
This 7 minute and 50 second video is one of the first SEO videos I made. After reviewing it I realize I could have moved the screen around to show a few more examples of the stuff I was talking about. Rather than discussing one topic this video moves around to offer a wide array ...
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[Video] An Example of What Not to do if Your Site Ranks Well
2007-11-18 03:01:00
This 3 minutes and 29 second video was one of my first. It is not as clear and fluid as some of the more recent videos. It talks about how many websites ranking for years got killed by a Google engineer within days of being mentioned on a popular SEO blog. The Role of Editorial Decisions ...
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[Video] Intro. to PPC Marketing Using Google AdWords, Yahoo & Microsoft
2007-11-18 03:01:00
This 9 minute and 37 second video offers basic tips for starting with pay per click marketing. General Tips for Starting With PPC Advertising Start advertising on the major search engines. Google , Yahoo , and MSN give you faster feedback and better traffic quality than smaller search engines typically do. The size and scope of the large ad ...
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How Natural is Your Site?s Growth? Check Your Google Indexing Profile
2007-11-18 03:01:00
Michael Jenson from Solo SEO recently emailed me about a cool new free SEO tool he created called Index Rank. After seeing my post about Google date based filters, Michael created the Index Rank tool, which allows you to see the growth of a site’s profile in Google based on the number of pages indexed ...
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New SEO Tool: Website Health Check Tool
2007-11-18 03:01:00
The Website Health Check tool aims to provide a simple and intuitive interface to seeing if your site has any major SEO issues. The site queries Google to grab pages you have indexed in Google, and looks for issues amongst the first 1,000 results. If your site is exceptionally large, you can use the date ...
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[Video] Planning & Preparing for Success Online
2007-11-18 03:01:00
I am by no means a standard for success (I have many flaws that need fixed), but this 5 minute and 25 second video highlights some of the things I did right that helped me do well on the web. I am off to the blogging conference tomorrow, so no videos ...
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Linkbait is the New Reciprocal Links Page
2007-11-18 03:01:00
[Update: it appears a friend wrote a spot on article using the same title about 6 months ago. Here is some link love for him.] I have been a big fan of linkbait, but for all its upsides it does have many potential risks that are rarely discussed by most marketers. Outside of those risks, ...
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Online Poker for Mac
2007-11-16 18:27:00
Playing poker online has become very popular. There are variety of poker games to play with your computer but not many websites offer games for Mac. More and more users today own a Macintosh computers and the demand for Mac Poke r is increasing. Even though the number of these websites is larger now days ...
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Adsense Ads change - Lower CTR?
2007-11-16 06:31:00
Join the forum discussion on this post How will new changes to Adsense Ads affect webmasters? Internet is buzzing about latest changes by Google AdSense in their text ads so now instead of getting paid when people click anywhere on an ad unit it will only work  when there is a click on an actual title or URL in the ad.  Smaller area of the ad is now clickable thus making clicks more targeted and most likely we’ll see lower CTR and definitely significant drop on some webmasters adsense earnings . Here’s explanation by Google from their Inside Adsense Blog: “We’re rolling out a change to our text ad formats to help reduce accidental clicks and increase value for advertisers…..This new format will match the changes we’ve implemented on Google.com to help decrease the number of accidental clicks and increase the number of ad conversions. A reduction in accidental clicks will keep users on your pages, interacting with your content until they choose to click on an...
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