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Stop The Spam, Please!

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One particular type of spam that I find particularly egregious is blog comment spam because I see so much of it. Here are five specific ways I can tell a blog comment is spam and why I won’t approve it. Your comment is written by your company name or a keyword phrase. Your comment won’t be approved.

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About.Me: A Good Starting Place On The Web? | Small Business Mavericks

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I’ve always been a proponent of your own domain name. domain names don’t typically do well in the search engines. You must be logged in to post a comment. I still am. But I recently took a quick survey of About.Me You can also link to your websites so if you build your About.Me

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4 Blogging Strategies That Really Work

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This type of blogging has a bad name in some circles. You set up a domain name with your primary keyword in it and target that keyword plus several more that are related. You can put your SEO blog on the back end of a domain that you want to increase traffic for or put it on a separate domain and use it to build links.

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Should You Build Generic Untargeted Inbound Links?

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There has been a lot of discussion of late surrounding comments made by both Google and Bing representatives related to the ‘over optimization’ of web pages. In fact, for the majority of websites, the main inbound link and associated text is to the home page using either the business name or the domain name as the link text.

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More Updates Means More Traffic | Small Business Mavericks

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My conjecture is that small business owners who own their own domain names update their sites more often than those who don’t. You must be logged in to post a comment. It’s important to point out that this study was made only with customers of SiteKreator.