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APRIL 11, 2011

» 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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MARCH 16, 2011

» How Q&A Sites Can Boost Your SEO SEOmoz has a great article on how Q&A sites can boost your SEO. All in all, I think Pavel put together a very good and very thorough analysis of Q&A sites and their SEO value. You must be logged in to post a comment. What’s The Best Discovery Engine?

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MARCH 20, 2014

It can be blog comments, forum posts, guest articles, author bios, or anything that is created by your website’s users and published on your website, blog, forum, or other Web property. Think about comments on your blog, for instance. SEO for Small Business blog comments forum posts SEO UGC user generated content'

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AUGUST 29, 2014

He shares his enthusiasm on Moz with a great article called Local Event Marketing: Earn Links, Build Citations, Get Reviews, Increase Foot Traffic, and Win at Local SEO. Casey Meraz then gets specific, using examples to show the SEO strategies that make your association with the promotion of a local event so effective.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

It is a nice idea, to think that Google has lists of things to do to make SEO a breeze. Stuff keeps changing in SEO because search engines have become more sophisticated. Be careful what you consider to be “the truth” about SEO. SEO for Small Business algorithms google ranking factors SEO'

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JULY 1, 2011

SEO Blogging – With SEO blogging, the idea is to produce content that gains search engine traction. 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. The key is to find the method that works for you.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

“Searchmetrics recently launched their yearly Ranking Factors Study that bases numbers on rank correlation and averages of top 10 SEO rankings, and this year’s analysis shows that content on top-performing sites is much more holistic and less keyword-focused.” Why The Topic Thing? What do you think?

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JANUARY 14, 2014

And other developments, such as requiring a Google+ account to comment on YouTube videos, have made Google+ more necessary for a lot of people. If you joined Google+ so that you can comment on YouTube videos, then go one step further and start using Google+ for marketing. SEO for Small Business google YouTube'

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APRIL 16, 2011

Improve SEO – A lot of people are using social media to improve their SEO , but I think a lot of them are getting it wrong. What is often done is to use social media for SEO. Do it moderately and your SEO can sing great harmony. You must be logged in to post a comment.

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

If that happens, then you can bet that online content producers that haven’t switched from the SEO tactics of 2006 to the SEO tactics of 2013 will fall off the radar. Write guest blog posts for their websites and interact with their readers through blog comments. Write great content.

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JULY 21, 2014

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Moz Blog in the comments of Bill Sebald’s article, “ Building Better Content By Improving On Your Competitors.” That is useful stuff, but then it gets even more useful because the comments are full of additional ideas that people share.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

In this case, whilst I think being a part of Google+ is important, it is equally important to understand the hows and whys – especially as it relates to small business SEO. Matt McGee on SearchEngineLand discusses two Google+ SEO guides (that are well worth reading) and he makes some salient observations.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

All of this is well and good, but if you’re going to listen to bad SEO advice, then you’ll have to suffer the consequences of said advice. You thought blog comment spam would help you. When you do, going forward, don’t trust the wrong people with your SEO. The latest was at Search Engine Journal.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The good news for a small business owner is you can run your own ongoing SEO campaign for $600 a year. You’ll have to take the time to learn how to conduct effective SEO and implement what you learn. The time it takes to learn how to SEO your own website could result in lost dollars in the process.

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JULY 9, 2014

Meyer does a nice job of looking at the way Google is changing to adapt to smaller screens and there’s a great discussion in the comments on what that means for internet marketing and SEO. This is the question that is taking up a lot of the discussion in the comments section of Dr. Meyer’s article.

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MARCH 24, 2012

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. Most SEO professionals know that growth has to be consistent and not sudden. One theory that is being discussed is that of intent. Perhaps you should.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

You can do link building, focus on SEO, engage with your target audience through social media, specialize in Facebook, pay for clicks, or use a combination of all of the above or add some other channels into the mix as well. You must be logged in to post a comment. Are you doing that?

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

This can be in blog comments, writing guest posts, being active on forums related to your niche, and the obvious social media realms such as Facebook and Twitter. This can include commenting on other people’s pages, retweeting tweets that are of interest, and being involved in conversations.

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APRIL 26, 2011

You must be logged in to post a comment. Tags: content , SEO This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 at 11:09 am and is filed under SEO for Small Business. This is probably the easiest way in the world to come up with great content for your website. Don’t you think?

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

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APRIL 23, 2011

One particularly telling comment in the Constant Contact interview is the answer to the very last question. You must be logged in to post a comment. » Let The Grocer Teach You E-mail Marketing What can a grocer possibly know about e-mail marketing? Everyone needs groceries. That’s phenomenal!

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

By default, the definition should boil down as being everything you do online – SEO, social media, advertising – everything. SEO , pay-per-click advertising , and social media marketing all need careful thought and a plan of attack mapped out, BEFORE your website goes live. You must be logged in to post a comment.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Black hat SEO has gotten a lot of attention as the various algorithms go after spammy content. Along with some great observations, these 6 warning signs were mentioned: paying people to be active on your social media content with likes, comments, subscribes, or clicks. It was a simple visual letting the viewer know what was happening.

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JULY 29, 2012

Do that three times a day and you increase your SEO coverage. People can comment on your blog posts and you can comment back, making it a particularly useful platform for meaningful dialogue. But a blog also has other characteristics that static web pages don’t have.

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MAY 8, 2011

One of the things that you’ll hear often among professional Internet marketers and SEOs is that you should blog every day. Using the logic of those SEOs who try to sell you on everyday blogging, you should update your blog ten times a day. You must be logged in to post a comment. » Do You HAVE To Blog Every Day?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The art of SEO is a lot like the art of gardening. It’s a good idea to periodically get feedback from both the tech-savvy and the tech-phobic users and take their comments seriously. Links are important, for instance, because when the person clicks on the link it should work right. Is It Easy To Use?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Of course, we should always have a proactive SEO strategy. You must be logged in to post a comment. There’s no question about that. But when you are fighting deep pockets and shallow content, what’s your game plan? You tell me. What’s your solution?

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MAY 26, 2012

You can gain a lot of inbound links if the deal is good enough, and social mentions are now considered good SEO fodder. Blog – having a blog will, over time, help to increase search rankings, if your blog receives a lot of visitors, a lot of quality comments, and a lot of inbound links.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

But what is even more interesting is the power of a retweet or a third party tweet as it relates to SEO and traffic. Now the question is, how can small business owners and other marketers use this data to improve their SEO for targeted search terms? Have you conducted your own experiments regarding using Twitter as an SEO tool?

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JULY 12, 2011

He recently decided to turn the comments to his blog completely off. WordPress has natural built-in SEO benefits. If you know who John Battelle is, then you’re doing good. He’s one of the pioneers of the Internet and actually has quite a following. OK, so why should you care? And why is that a big deal?

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APRIL 12, 2011

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APRIL 10, 2011

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

SearchDex’s name, however, has now been blighted and it will forever be known as a shady SEO firm. But as a small business person who is seeking coveted search rankings, what should you do if you discover your SEO firm is engaging in practices not approved by the search engines? You must be logged in to post a comment.

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MAY 17, 2012

Of course, “build inbound links” has long been the call of the SEO wild. Blog comments – quality, content related, and preferably interactive – that should be your aim when it comes to blog commenting. Write a good comment on a blog post that relates to your niche and you won’t have a problem.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

For the last seven years, David Mihm has been conducting some of the most important studies of Local SEO. The comments should be pretty good, too — I love a good discussion by people who are involved with the subject.

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APRIL 7, 2011

You must be logged in to post a comment. I understand all the other guidelines and agree with them. Perhaps EzineArticles is saying it won’t publish articles that exceed a certain percentage of keyword density because it wants to control spam in its directory.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Just read the comments on Facebook’s own page. Some people don’t want the most “relevant&# comments to appear on their pages. They’d rather that Facebook kept the chronological order for comments. You must be logged in to post a comment. But not everyone is happy with those changes.

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