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Stop Link Building, Write Good Content

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.” If you’re not a search engine optimization wonk, I’ll explain it this way: Two years ago, you could win Google searches if you had more links pointing back to your site than anyone else for those same keywords. And your site will be devalued if you pull that stunt. Valuable content. So what DOES Google want?

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Three Most Important Content Marketing Lessons of 2012

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This year has been one of major upheaval after another for content marketers. Here are three things that every content marketer should have learned from the past 12 months. Google isn’t letting us get away with putting out schlocky content and cramming it full of keywords to trick the search engine spiders.

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Alan K’necht: Über Thinker & SEO Brainiac: An Interview

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Both Google and Bing now include various social sites content in their search results, are continuously monitoring social sites like Twitter and Facebook for breaking news or topics and are within an hour or less adjusting search results to ensure their users are finding the latest relevant content.

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5 Top Performing Blog Posts You Should Read

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As Firebelly’s resident “datasmith,” I’ve spent a lot of time measuring and analyzing the content we produce. Below is a list of our top performing blog posts and why they are essential reads: Clever QR Code Example: The World Park. Who knew QR codes could be so clever? Source: [link].

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6 Annoying Ways You’re Using WordPress

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It becomes a greater issue when regular, non-seasoned visitors realize that your site looks just like the other generic website they were looking at. For example, just take a look at this post, and how it could look with no formatting. You should weigh several content management options before deciding on WordPress.

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Insider Interview: 3 Critical Things You Must Know About Conversion

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For an e-commerce site, it’s as simple as buying a product, going through the checkout. For example, you pay $8 or whatever for a click and then you have 15 form fields with a CAPTCHA at the end that barely works. So, here’s Jesse’s take… What is conversion? It doesn’t make any sense to me!

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Looking Into The Social Media Past

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In preparation for the New Year, we’ve been working on transferring our Firebelly blog from Typepad to the beautiful WordPress content management system. Check out just a few examples… The “Facebook Movie&#. It’s amazing how some things we didn’t even know about in 2007 or 08 became big news by 2010.

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