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Who Is Reading Your URL?

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“A site’s URL structure should be as simple as possible. Consider organizing your content so that URLs are constructed logically and in a manner that is most intelligible to humans (when possible, readable words rather than long ID numbers). A URL like [link] is much less appealing to users.” I thought so, too.

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Is It Time To Change Your Inbound Link Strategies?

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Some of this debate has focused on link strategies, the quality of sites that you gain links from, and the anchor text used. Conversations often mention that Google doesn’t like to see every link being a keyword, yet this seems to be glossed over or totally ignored when discussing link strategies.

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5 Things To Keep In Your SEO List For 2015

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B2C has a good look at SEO in 2015: the 5 Essential Elements of a Successful Strategy by Keely McGroarty, and I think some of these should make it on to your list next year: Responsive design — because mobile is only going to be more prevalent in the future. Take responsive design, for instance.

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Six On Page Search Engine Optimization Must Do’s

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For a small business, your on page strategies are equally if not more important than your off page activities. A page’s slug is its url. Newly found urls are then visited and indexed by the search engines. Search engine optimization is not all about gaining inbound links. For example, [link].

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Improving On Competition

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Competitive Intelligence has always been a useful tool for improving your content strategies by looking at what others in the same market are doing. ” The article takes a look at how to isolate information by using a tool like Screaming Frog to look at things like the URL, Title Tags, Meta Descriptions, and the like on a rival site.