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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

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Nonetheless, as I was identifying their needs; talking about where they are now; and what they’re goals and challenges are, one of the partners was skeptical about search engine optimization (SEO). Bookmark a site on a social bookmarking site where they can look it up later and where some of their contacts might discover it.

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How to Get Found Where Your Buyers are Looking: Web Presence Optimization

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It starts with a well-optimized website of course, but there’s much more to it than that; a website isn’t the only way to show up in a search, and traditional search engines aren’t the only online tools that buyers are using to learn about products and services. Provides referral visits to your website.

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How to Get More Blog Traffic – Real World Data

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The key is a balanced strategy of search engine optimization (SEO), social media, syndication and guest posting. Just as it takes time to build a following, it also takes a while to build credibility and authority with the search engines. Twitter is the most productive, driving more than half of all non-blog social media visits.

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Three Overlooked Ways to Improve SEO Results

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Blogs are a source of fresh content, which search engines love. Links from social bookmarking sites can improve the rank of content-rich pages buried in your site’s navigational structure. The major search engines are increasing incorporating social signals into their search results.

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How Much of Your Traffic “Should” Come from Search?

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Also, the positive trust effect built up over time with the search engines can eventually be overwhelmed by the impact of brand strength. Again, this has mixed results in terms of traffic proportions, as it increases referral traffic (specifically from social networking and social bookmarking sites).

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Web Presence Optimization, Reloaded

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The second and third largest “search engines,&# based on volume of searches, aren’t search engines at all: YouTube and Facebook. Also, keep in mind that search is no longer just Google. If you’re not there, searchers aren’t finding you there. See the reputation management question below.

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12 (of the) Best WordPress Guides and Plugin Reviews of 2011

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Pam Moore reviews 50 of her favorite WordPress plugins, divided into categories for social sharing & engagement, design and image enhancements, search engine optimization, and development (e.g., 11 WordPress Plugins You’ve Gotta Have by Social Media Today. 14 WordPress Plugins Worth Considering by JT Pedersen.

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