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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Include Keywords in URLs

Bill Hartzer

Your keywords are a great tool to reach potential customers, so make them a priority. They should also be found in your URLs. Here is what Matt Cutts says about Keywords in URLs: Your domain name is a big place to start. You also need to find out what the leader in search engines, Google, has to say about it.

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Search Engine Marketing Tool Review: SEM Rush

Bill Hartzer

SEMRush.com is a keyword research tool that goes well beyond just providing a list of keywords to target for an online marketing campaign. Once on the SEMRush.com website, at the very top there is a red toolbar with the words “Enter domain, keyword, or url” where you can do just that. The interface for this site is very simple to use.

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Who Is Reading Your URL?

Small Business Mavericks

“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.” Computers do.

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How to Create a Custom URL for Your Facebook Business/Fan Page.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Create a Custom URL for Your Facebook Business/Fan Page I often get the question, “AK, I thought I created a username/custom URL for my business page but when I type in the address it takes me to my personal profile… what happened?&#

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Google Shows Bing Search Results URLs as Links in Google Webmaster Tools

Bill Hartzer

In Google Webmaster Tools, Google is reporting Bing’s search result URLs as actual backlinks to a website. But this is the first time that I have seen that Google is actually telling webmasters that there is a link to their website: and that link is a Bing search result URL. Google shows Bing search results URLs.

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Spring Cleaning For Your Blog – How A Little Work Can Drive Search Engine And Social Media Traffic

SocMed Sean

Remember, the more you clean up those old posts the more they will pay you back with increased search engine traffic or organic traffic from social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Tools like WP-CleanFix can help you identify any opportunities to clean up categories and tags (among other things) and make sure your database is optimized.

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SEO Software Tool Review: Colibri

Bill Hartzer

If you are going to be successful at getting your web pages to rank well in the search engines, it is extremely important to track how well they rank for popular keywords in your niche. There are various resources online that you can use to track your search engine keyword rankings, one of the most popular being Google Analytics.

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