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Why Did a Russian Weed Company Just Buy Ebola.com for $200,000?

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According to SEMrush , a nifty (and sometimes accurate) tool that shows you which terms a site ranks for, Ebola.com doesn’t rank at all. Suffering from poor site architecture or indexing problems, maybe? Monetizing this site with adsense advertising isn’t a terrible idea. For anything.

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What To Do About a Filtered Yelp Review

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Let’s start at Google’s official word on duplicate content : “Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results.” Or worse yet, posted front and center on the company’s site.

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Is Hummingbird Good for your Business?

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Not too long ago, you could open Google Analytics to see exactly which keywords were searched by users who visited your site. The other huge update, that may or may not be related to Hummingbird, is the sudden rise of directories and review sites in regular search results. By far, the biggest update is to the way keywords are reported.

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How We Got a Link from The Huffington Post

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It took a little over an hour to write and post it through all of our regular channels, and then I was back to work on our clients’ sites (my calendar says I was working on Miguel Palma’s site , and who am I to argue.). The next day, a pair of pingbacks arrived from two blogs I’ve never seen before.

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Why Facebook’s Updates (probably) Won’t Kill Your Business

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Facebook realized that the user was seeing promotional stuff in their news feed as well as the ads on the site. How do I get people to click or sign up for something from Facebook? They want to make sure the promotional stuff stays to the Ads and the engaging content stays on the news feed.

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Yelp?

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It turns out that the internet’s most popular business review site, at over 100 million registered users, still isn’t popular with everyone. If I had a dime for every time a business owner tore into Yelp, I’d already be retired.

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Our Pleasanton Young Professionals Presentation: A Wrap Up & Reference

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Link building is done by earning links from relevant and authoritative sites, to make your own website more relevant and authoritative. Search engines analyze content to decide what your site is for and what information it provides. Results are more accurate with larger sites. Personalized Google Results.

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