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Optimizing Pages For Link Or Profit Potential

Each web page can be optimized for conversion or linkability, but few pages are well optimized for both. That is part of why search as a business model works so well. The signals of quality that search engines look for are typically associated with information, not pages that convert well, thus those who have overtly conversion oriented sites and pages have to buy advertising.
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12.14.06

Increase Your Site Traffic During the Holidays

Capture those users at the moment they' re searching for your products and services. Your ads will appear on LookSmart sites as well as our expanding distribution network on top tier partners: CBS Television Sites, InfoSpace, CNET's Search, Mamma and more.
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12.13.06

Duplicate Content SPAM

QUESTION: We're a very small company with an 11 year website history, with web development resources somewhere between quite miniscule and non-existent.

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11.30.06

SEO Conference Tips And Tricks

The number one tip would be - don't be shy - talk to people, and talk to LOTS of people. There are few opportunities to discuss all your pressing questions about SEO/SEM with people that ACTUALLY might know the answers.

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11.16.06

Microsoft Search SEO Tips

There are many things you can learn about search engine marketing from infamous rich girl Paris Hilton, who some have called the Queen of Links.

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11.01.06

SEO Job Interview: Ten Tips

Over the past year I've interviewed for a half dozen SEO jobs at substantial companies where they've decided to stop out-sourcing and bring the SEO position in-house.

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10.13.06

Location, Location, Location - Site Vs. Customers

Another thing the web hosting company forgot to tell you… An aspect overlooked by many site owners, and one that gets minimal coverage in web design or SEO articles etc, is the importance of server location to your site rankings, traffic and consequent success.

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10.05.06

SEO Rip Offs - If It Seems Too Good To Be True...

Have you ever gotten an e-mail or stumbled across a website that made SEO claims which seemed way too good to be true? There are companies out there that...

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09.21.06

Paid Listings Becoming More Relevant Than Organic Results?

It's long been an article of faith among many Web users that the organic results served up by the search engines' algorithms are more relevant to most users' queries than the paid results.

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09.07.06

Jill Whalen Interviewed At SES San Jose

This is Jill Whalen's fifth or sixth interview of the day, a fact I am critically conscious of before sitting down to speak with her at 2pm on the second day of last week's SES conference.

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08.22.06

SES San Jose: Blog Optimization

Moderated by Detlev Johnson of Position Tech, this panel included: Stephan Spencer of NetConcepts, Rick Klau of Technorati and Amanda Watlington of Searching for Profit. First up was Amanda with yet again, a unique presentation. There is still lots of unclaimed territory with blogs.

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08.08.06

Successful SEO Needs Effort Not Quick Fixes

It would be nice if we could master search engine optimization and procure high rankings simply by editing Meta tags but thats just not going to happen.

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08.03.06

Internal Blog Links: SEO Help From Your Blog's Past

High search engine rankings are important to most bloggers and website owners. To achieve those page one search placements, a combination of interesting and informative content along with many links to your blog are needed.

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07.18.06

Silly SEO Mistakes, Stumbles & Blunders Of Ecommerce Webmasters

Web business owners commit some SEO & ranking gaffes, sometimes without even knowing what they've done. In the manner of a Letterman top ten list, I'd like to offer the worst in the hope that I can prevent you making the same mistakes.

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06.30.06

Getting Listed in Hours On Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc.

In 48 hours or less (many times the same business day!), your site will begin to show up in the sponsored links of Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, AltaVista, Excite, InfoSpace and many other search engines. No other service is able to match this claim.

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06.26.06

SEO Benefits For Online Shopping Sites

Having worked at a J.Crew store awhile back and now working as a project manager at a reputable SEO firm, I want to shine some light on how heavily branded and well-recognized retail shopping sites can benefit from SEO.

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06.15.06

SEO The Way It Should Be

I had a nice marathon meeting on a SEO project for a larger client that, despite the length, was a pleasure.

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06.01.06

Walking In The Search Engines’ Shoes

You know the old saying about not criticizing someone until you walk in their shoes.

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05.18.06

Search Engine Optimization: Beyond Search Keywords

The words people type into a search box are not always the words they like to read when they click on the search result. Here's why.

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05.04.06

Undesirable SEO And What To Do With A Small Marketing Budget

I got a lead through our website the other day with an interesting comment attached. The prospect was requesting specific information on pricing for our services but as you can read below, they simply copied the information from what another SEO provided them.

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04.20.06

Google Sitemaps Wants Your URLs

Vanessa Fox, a technical director for Google's Sitemaps product, thinks you should be using Sitemaps with your site today. Here's why.

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04.05.06

The Changing Facets Of The SEO Business

The word "change" has over a dozen definitions, at least according to my electronic source at Princeton University.

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03.23.06

Where To Look For A Qualified Audience

Simple, cost-effective and targeted, LookSmart's 181 vertical search sites deliver to advertisers, consumers that are not only more qualified, they're ready to buy.

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03.20.06

Measuring Success As An SEO

"How do I know if my SEO campaign has been successful?"

I was asked this deceptively simple question the other day. I wasn't able to give the fullest response but considering the circumstances, I gave it a great effort.

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03.16.06

Organic SEO

The fabled tales of successfully tricking search engines into high rankings have given way to a new truth, to achieve decent consistent ranking you cannot engage in tricks but on focused optimization done in a professional ethical manner.

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03.09.06

Where To Look For A Qualified Audience

03.06.06

SES NY: Thinking About The Future

I was in the 'Search Pundits' session this morning here at Search Engine Strategies in New York. Basically, you had Robert Scoble, Matt Cutts, Jeremy Zawodny, Zia Daniell Wigder and David Vise sitting up front with Danny Sullivan moderating questions from the audience...

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02.28.06

Interview With Eric Ward Of URLwire

If there is a ying and a yang to search engine optimization then many SEO professionals would agree that content is the ying and links are the yang.

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02.16.06

SEO Accounts For Only 11% Of SEM Spending

A recent study published by SEMPO shows that a scant 11% of all SEM advertising is spent on SEO, with the bulk, 83%, spent on PPC advertising.

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01.31.05

Inside The "Shadowy World" Of SEO/M

One of the liabilities of working in the field of search engine optimization and marketing is the cold fact that, without a year of tedious explanation, hardly anyone understands what we do. Explaining my job to politely interested relatives is roughly the equivalent of explaining...

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01.12.06