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Search Engine Optimization Firms Like RankPay Still Hurting SEO Industry

Bill Hartzer

Mike Stewart, a good friend of mine here who is based in the Dallas area, who runs a Small Business SEO firm , sent me the following email he received today from a company who did just what I am describing here. Do you currently have an active SEO campaign. SEO Specialist. URL:* www.RankPay.com. Share this on Technorati.

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100+ Blog Directories and RSS Sites for Promoting Your Blog

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Blog URL (e.g., Feed URL (e.g., Meta description: (usually no more than 200 characters, e.g., “Webbiquity is the fusion of SEO, search marketing, social media, reputation management, content marketing and social PR to make you or your company omnipresent on the web for your unique search phrase.&# ). Technorati.

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4 Steps to Segment Social Media Traffic in Google Analytics

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“Direct Traffic&# is visits from people who clicked a bookmark to come to your site or who typed your site URL directly into their browser. Instead of using the domain names or URLs of the most popular social sites (e.g. In this case, there were 72 visits from sources that include “twitter&# in their URL.

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Top 5 Search Engine Optimization Audit Quick Tips

Bill Hartzer

Even if you already have someone who is taking care of your SEO for your website, it is good to have an SEO Audit done at least every 6 months to make sure that your website is performing the way it should: and having someone take a look at your website for search engine optimization issues that your SEO may have missed can be a good thing.

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Search Engine Optimization: 10 Search Engine Ranking Problems

Bill Hartzer

Newer websites need to be careful not to have too many 301’s, because this can cause the site to get ’sandboxed’ This is especially common when performing site re-designs and initial SEO audits, making it increasingly important to make sure and do the proper SEO and keyword research initially, to avoid having to redo this later.

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Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card

Bill Hartzer

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card , an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Apparently, though, based on this SEO report card, Google themselves are not doing a very good job at setting up the redirects.

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Web Marketing Association Best Web Sites Lack Search Engine Optimization

Bill Hartzer

While this agency’s web site, www.extractable.com, may look good on the web, the agency does not conform to what I would call “SEO Best Practices&#. Among the SEO mistakes I reviewed are issues like a horrible internal linking structure and duplicate copies of their content on the site. Share this on Technorati.