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Link Spamming Is Not Good SEO

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This type of blogging was popular in 2005. In fact, in 2005, just about everybody who was blogging was blogging this way, but it’s not the right way to blog. There is a type of blogging that is still popular and that may soon find itself on the outs with Google, if it hasn’t already.

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Does E-mail Marketing or Blogging Produce More Results

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“Build a time machine and go back to 2005 and start your blog then,” I say. However, a lot of other things have happened since 2005 that change the blogging/social media landscape. Their eyes are hungry, their pens poised over notebooks. We take a question from the crowd. ” a woman asks.

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Why Images Make For Good Marketing

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Since 2005, however, social media has taken on a much greater importance. Online marketing has increasingly grown since its inception in the early 1990s. For a long time, it was mainly constrained to search engines. Instrumental in that growth have been such sites as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Pinterest.

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SEO Or Marketing?

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There are still some companies trying to do it like it’s 2005. Search engine optimization has changed a lot over the years. That is, their main aim is to acquire as many links as possible. I don’t think that’s the best approach in 2013.

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Today A Search Tool Dies

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has announced that today spells the death of a search tool that has been with us since 2005. That was when Yahoo! actually tried to be a search engine. Site Explorer is no more. Site Explorer is a tool that many webmasters used to see who was linking to them, and who was linking to their competition.

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How To Keep Your Website Redesign SEO-Friendly

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However, you do want your website to look like it meets the design standards of 2013, not 2005. If these metrics are high for your website, you should think about your redesign long and hard before implementing it. You don’t want to lose the effectiveness of those key metrics.

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Mailed vs Email Greetings for the Holidays

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The percentage of consumers buying greeting cards for Christmas fell from 77% in 2005 to 73% in 2007 and to 62% in 2009, according to the Stevens, Pa., While Christmas remains the holiday that sparks the most greeting card sales, fewer people send cards each year, according to Unity Marketing.

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