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Search Traffic Declining? You’re Not Alone (and What to Do About It)

Webbiquity SMM

Use directories based on their relevance and value, but as with news releases—not just for backlinks. In early 2013, Google devalued general directory links for search rankings. That is, the old SEO strategy of improving search ranking simply by building or buying lots of links from broad-topic web directories is no longer effective.

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How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Bill Hartzer

Let’s look at some specific examples that prove that investing in search engine optimization is, in fact, a great investment. Let’s take, for example, Gun Barrel Ranch. They invested in a few good website directory listings such as the Yahoo! Let’s take a look at another example.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Official Eclipse Trailer

Kikolani

Free business listings in local search directories. Adwords and PPC – the biggest money wasting mistake new users make. 55 examples of perfect slideshow presentation in web design. 44 impressive examples of reflection photography. 9 tips for creating more small business blogging ideas. Be your own PR firm.

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Are You Getting Bad Real Estate SEO Advice?

Small Business Mavericks

I mean, for example, Twitter is a great marketing tool. I’d rather see you start a blog or list your website in local directories. See the “I use it&# link above as an example.) Just so-so. There are other things I’d recommend for SEO. As you know, I use it. But for SEO, I wouldn’t recommend it.

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4 Easy Ways of Subscribing to Feeds in Google Reader

Buzz Marketing for Technology

If you put in the name of a blog, say for example google tutor , if it finds a feed with exactly that name you will be subscribed automatically (read more here ). You can see an example of this in the picture. And finally, if you put in a site URL or feed URL, it will add the correct feed for you. Just posted. Categories. Blog Search.

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Conquering Big Industries: My Bulletproof SEO Strategy

Viper Chill

Health, gambling, forex and gaming industries for example, are very competitive online. The phrases in the example above are considered to be long-tail phrases as they contain more words and have a much smaller search volume, but they’re also easier to rank for. Let’s look at ViperChill as another example here.

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Should We Continue To Trust Google? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

Here’s the primary example that I’ll give (and I have refrained from talking about this, but I just can’t resist any longer): EzineArticles experienced the second highest percentage change in search results. Article directories? It is the most popular article directory online. Google, puh-lease!