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How Social Media Helped Get Top Search Engine Rankings with 2 Hours

Bill Hartzer

Today, I performed a really simple test to see if Likes from social media type websites could contribute to a top search engine ranking in the search engines. So, what did I do to set up and prove my theory that social media likes contributes to search engine rankings? The results? The Experiment. The Results.

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4 Blogging Strategies That Really Work

Small Business Mavericks

SEO Blogging – With SEO blogging, the idea is to produce content that gains search engine traction. 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. Either way, the main target is search engines.

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A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Any Google Penalty

Kikolani

Every web portal has to abide by Google’s webmaster guidelines to reach amongst the top ranking in search engine results. Two of the most common Google penalties are Google Panda and Google Penguin and few others which de-index your web portal and in some cases removes the website from the search engine results.

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10 Little-known Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

ProBlogger

Social blogmarking sites. Another underutilized but effective way to get traffic to your blog is by making use of social blogmarking sites. Even though this concept looks similar to social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit, it operates differently. The quality and title of the article is all that matters.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. This way if I go to digg/reddit/SU before Friend Feed, I don’t see duplicates.

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Conquering Big Industries: My Bulletproof SEO Strategy

Viper Chill

I like to focus on building search engine traffic to my sites because once you have rankings you can usually sustain them with little effort and the traffic they send is very targeted. If you’re entering an industry with a brand new site, the last thing you want to do is wait that long for some good search engine traffic.

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How to Test New Website Ideas

Idaconcpts

First off your domain name is very important. It must be an exact match because Google holds a lot of weight in the domain name in terms of their ranking system – and it must be a term that isn’t too competitive. After you have chosen your domain name, it is time to start creating your place holder site.