Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 11, 2011

Keyword-stuffed Content - This has never been a good practice. Focus on great content that helps your visitor. Publishing Only Other People’s Stuff – I see blogs with auto-generated content and think, “Do you really think that’s going to work?&# That’s cool. Today, it’s even worse.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

In February of 2011, Google released the Panda update that took rankings away from websites with low-quality content and sites with more advertising than content. always linking to your homepage (as a blog, you should have lots of links built to your blog posts too). Submit your blog to blog directories.

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Blogger Tools Tips Hubpages 42

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 9, 2012

Dave offers “25 ideas for ways you can get value out of Twitter, with a mix of business and personal focus,” such as meeting new people, staying on top of the news, influencing the influencers, and re-purposing content. Twitter Tuesday: Twitter’s New Changes – What You Could Expect by Hubze Blog. Twitter and SEO.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

In January of 2011, I said that I’d make our Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 subscriber only. This year, I am pleased to bring back our Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 thanks to an excellent sponsor, HubSpot. This post is a somewhat technical approach toward dealing with duplicate content issues.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 26, 2011

What does it really take to build a hustling and bustling blog with a thriving and active community around it? Let’s talk about her not-so-secret secrets that power up her blog. And blog commenting is still one of the easiest ways to get backlinks. Mistake #1: Commentators seek out dofollow blogs only.

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Comments FeedBurner NoFollow Blogosphere 167

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

I’ve already written about Google’s recent algorithm update that has resulted in many websites losing search rankings while benefiting WikiHow and eHow, both considered content farms by many SEOs and Internet marketers. Google’s algorithm was intended to address content farms and lower their rankings. But eHow gained.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 21, 2012

Beyond personalized search results the engines are also looking at social activity in aggregate to help evaluate the popularity or relative importance of content and the authority of both sites and authors. Unfortunately many social media sites add a “nofollow” attribute to any links within user generated content.

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