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A New Linking Strategy: Out is the New In

ProBlogger

There were no search engines and directories were fairly small and specialized. We allow links in the comments, but we nofollow them so no link juice escapes. As the search engines get smarter, and the value of comment links, forum links, and social media links drops, the value of in-content links (i.e. Not at all.

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The Most Important Blogging Analysis Ever

Viper Chill

How To Market Your Blog in 2007 ( Link ) A great post that shows the number of ways you can promote your website over the coming year. SEOBook Authored by my friend Aaron Wall, SEO book is the top resource online about increasing your search engine rankings and getting more website traffic.

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UKeiG Blog: Top Search Tips - May 2008, Liverpool

Buzz Marketing for Technology

There were the usual suspects but the Google Custom Search Engine was new. Use the site: command to search individual web sites that have appalling navigation and useless site search engines. otherwise the search engines will ignore them as stop words. Links to this post: " rel="nofollow">. 0 comments. posted by @.

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tweet Spinner also has a “nofollow&# user list that will algorithmically never follow users who meet certain criteria. Moreover, you can also nofollow people based on their tweets. You might not want to follow specific users ever, and you can put their usernames into this box. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Why Social Media Is a Better Investment than SEO

ProBlogger

We have reached a point in late 2010 where the work required to generate traffic for a normal blog via search engines is much greater than that required to generate an equal amount of traffic via social media. I am not saying search engine traffic is bad. To use an old adage, when you only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail.

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Email open rates continue to decline from 14% in the second half of 2007 to just 11.2% The social prehistory of search engine marketing relevance and what it means for SEO and content by Conversionation. When asked how discover new online products, a large majority of consumers chose search engines over social media sites.

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Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’ve written 1886 blog posts for Search Engine Roundtable and a couple dozen for Macgasm. Excuse me, but did you bother to read the portfolio on my blog (one of the widgets in the footer)? Here are my blog posts for Lifehacker. Here’s Mashable. And guess what? There are more blogs too.

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