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How Social Media Helped Get Top Search Engine Rankings with 2 Hours

Bill Hartzer

So, what did I do to set up and prove my theory that social media likes contributes to search engine rankings? I registered a brand new domain name, put up a very simple web page on it, and used a few social media websites to “like&# the site. But the social sharing (Google Plus and Facebook) is new.

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4 Blogging Strategies That Really Work

Small Business Mavericks

This type of blogging has a bad name in some circles. You set up a domain name with your primary keyword in it and target that keyword plus several more that are related. You can put your SEO blog on the back end of a domain that you want to increase traffic for or put it on a separate domain and use it to build links.

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A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Any Google Penalty

Kikolani

Once you enter the domain name select ‘Historic Index’ followed by backlinks tab, scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘download data’ 2. Some of the other common sources of spammy links are Forum Profiles, Blog comments, Social bookmarks and paid links.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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10 Little-known Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

ProBlogger

Social blogmarking sites. Another underutilized but effective way to get traffic to your blog is by making use of social blogmarking sites. Even though this concept looks similar to social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit, it operates differently. The quality and title of the article is all that matters.

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How to Test New Website Ideas

Idaconcpts

First off your domain name is very important. It must be an exact match because Google holds a lot of weight in the domain name in terms of their ranking system – and it must be a term that isn’t too competitive. After you have chosen your domain name, it is time to start creating your place holder site.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup and Blog World Celebrities

Kikolani

7 Facebook marketing tips from the pros – great tips from the top industry pros. 35 of the best Facebook guides of 2010 – posts on Facebook marketing, advertising, search, SEO, apps, tools, and much more. 10 Facebook advertising tips for brilliant marketers – not your average tips either! Link Building.

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