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10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) | Small.

Small Business Mavericks

» 10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) Confused about SEO? Did you just buy a nifty SEO book, or download one for free, that promises to tell you everything there is to know about SEO? If your SEO guru or free e-book download is telling you to do these 10 things, fire him or throw the book away.

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5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO

Adam Sherk

Here are five ways that social media impacts SEO, or more specifically search engine visibility, rankings and traffic: 1. Unfortunately many social media sites add a “nofollow” attribute to any links within user generated content. This is a necessary step to combat spam but it takes away the SEO value of the links.

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Best Twitter Tips, Tools and Tactics of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

How can Twitter to used to support SEO efforts? Twitter and SEO. The Tweet Effect: How Twitter Affects Rankings by The Daily SEO Blog. How to Get More Followers on Twitter by Graywolf’s SEO Blog. The 11 Twitter Tools and Apps I Use Every Day in 2011 by Business2Community. Twitter Tips, Tactics and Techniques.

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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

ProBlogger

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. Links can do this regardless of whether or not they contain the “nofollow” attribute, contain redirects, come from a site with a high PageRank , and so on. For example….

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. SEO Checklist: 60 Essential Checks Before Launching a Website : Is your site ready to be launched?

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Should We Continue To Trust Google? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

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. link] #SEO #google Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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10 Dreadful Mistakes that Kill Your Comments

Kikolani

Besides her numerous guest posts all around the blogosphere, several prestigious awards like Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2011 , and being an all around nice gal, Kristi is always about GIVING to her readers. And yes, you need a mixture of both Dofollow and Nofollow links, because that’s what natural link building looks like.

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