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APRIL 7, 2011

Should You Use A Ghost Twitterer? » EzineArticles Says Keyword Density Is Important If you’ve been paying attention to the Google Panda update, you’ve noticed that EzineArticles – the largest article directory online – was hit and suffered a huge traffic loss.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I’ll have to respectfully disagree with him even though I respect his knowledge, reputation, and his spirit. Let’s use a search query that Michael references in his blog post as an example. He’s wrong about meta descriptions. It isn’t that the search engines use them for ranking purposes, but they do use them.

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MARCH 5, 2011

But if you consider that inbound links refers to content you create on other websites and link back to your own, then I’d certainly call that content. I’m referring to articles, guest blog posts, and other such content. This is a category of content that many SEOs don’t consider content.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I’m going to assume that by “ultra-competitive niche&# she is referring to niches like SEO, Internet marketing, and real estate. » Is Link Buying Necessary? Here’s a great interview with three professional link builders. to incorporate link buying into your marketing plan.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

This is often referred to as an abandoned shopping cart and is similar to an offline shopper heading to the checkout, then dumping their basket and leaving the store empty handed. » What Are You Doing With Abandoned Shopping Carts? In an offline environment it is relatively easy to analyze why that shopper had left empty handed.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Bing responds: “We use over 1,000 different signals and features in our ranking algorithm,&# Bing vice president Harry Shum said Tuesday, referring to the mathematical code that search engines use to choose their results. That’s a bold claim.

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MARCH 2, 2011

Here are others: HubPages Buzzle Associated Content Articles Base Find Articles These are all sites that can be referred to as “article directories&# under the traditional definition of article directory. And for the record, EzineArticles was not the only article directory affected by this algorithm change.

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