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(Evan Kramer is a guest blogger for SEO.com. He has successfully launched consumer websites AjcJobs.com, Kudzu.com, AutoGuide.com, VacationRoost.com, GoHoming.com and ezprints.com. He writes his own blog, The Chief Internet Officer. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and daughter. If you are also interested in guest blogging opportunities, e-mail marketing @ SEO.com. Guest posts ... Read more

SEO.com is hosting the Utah Tech Council’s industry breakfast Thursday, July 29 from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at its corporate headquarters at 14870 Pony Express Road in Bluffdale.
Tim Sullivan, president and CEO of Ancestry.com, will speak on “How to Execute a Big Idea.”

He will tell the story of Ancestry.com’s experience of landing the hit NBC TV ... Read more

Time flies by. It’s more than two years by now that I write the highly popular “30+” list blog posts to get links and traffic for SEOptimise. I’ve often tried to abandon them, to write tutorials or other types of postings but list posts with around 30 items still rule. They get the most shares on [...]

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<!--Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter.-->How to Write Highly Popular 30+ Item List Blog Posts to Get Links and Traffic

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Following my BrightonSEO presentation yesterday, I thought it would be a good idea to use one of the WordPress plugins I recommended, Blackbird Pie, to recap the top tweets from the day: It’s actually incredibly quick to write a post like this, all you need to do is install the plugin and insert the tweet [...]

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<!--Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter.-->Top 16 Tweets from #BrightonSEO

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Today I presented at the excellent BrightonSEO mini-conference. My talk looked at 20 WordPress plugins to supercharge your blog – here’s the slides, with links to each of the plugins below. Brighton SEO – 20 Top WordPress Plugins Tweetmeme Blackbird Pie Backtype Su.pr FlickrRSS All In One SEO Yet Another Related Posts Plugin SEO Friendly [...]

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<!--Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter.-->Top 20 WordPress Plugins to Supercharge Your Blog

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One of the things we constantly have to do as SEO experts is give recommendations to companies on how they need to change their site so that they can be better optimized.
The sad thing is that a lot of the things we recommend should have been done during the Web development phase the first time around.
No ... Read more

A few days ago, a client expressed a doubt that’s probably all too common. He said, “You guys recommend that I get more involved in social media, but I’m in the (insert boring industry here) industry. What is there to say about the (insert boring industry here) industry?”
Is social media stardom reserved only for the ... Read more

We’re teaming up with Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) in a free webinar that will discuss how to tear apart a site and find common issues that are keeping it from ranking well.
This webinar is about the nitty-gritty details, and will explore the key components of a Web page that search engines analyze to determine ... Read more

A fool and his money are soon parted. This old time Idiom has never been truer especially when it comes to poor PPC management.

Three of the most trusted SEO and social media experts, Rhea Drysdale, Tamar Weinberg and Lee Odden. Photo by toprankonlinemarketing. Interviews are often overlooked pieces of distilled wisdom. They aren’t very popular on social media but they definitely should be! In interviews experts often provide the most valuable nuggets of their knowledge in a very [...]

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<!--Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter.-->35 SEO & Social Media Expert Interviews

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Yahoo recently sent out an email to their advertisers that discusses some of the organic Yahoo to Bing transition topics. The email goes over some of the basic questions about the transition and gives some pointers, but it adds some appreciated insight into the launch of the Bing search results in the Yahoo engine and dates ... Read more

In our day and age, nothing is becoming more important than monitoring your brand name. With websites like RipoffReport.com and Scam.com, you can find yourself looking for an SEO company to handle your Reputation Management in a hurry. Some companies often take it a step further, monitoring their executive management member’s names and their products and ... Read more

If Internet buzz is to be believed, lots of marketers are getting excited about this Conversion Optimization stuff.
If you’ve been reading about conversion optimization and are thinking about trying your hand at optimizing your company’s website, let me give you one tip that will save a lot of head-scratching and staring at the floor whilst being ... Read more

This week you may have noticed we have started recruiting for an SEO executive – rather than just writing up a standard we are recruiting post, I thought I’d share the process of how to advertise for jobs online. This is quite worryingly from Oxford – image credit Flickr As a disclaimer, I have nothing [...]

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<!--Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter.-->10 Online Ways to Advertise for Jobs Without Recruitment Agencies

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It feels good to be mayor. We would know. We’ve officially declared ourselves the mayors of summer, and are holding a Foursquare Challenge to determine whether or not you can get an ROI from the application.
Not on Foursquare, yet? Chances are you will be soon. Foursquare gained 1 million users much faster than ... Read more

Having attended both SMX Advanced conferences in London and Seattle earlier this year, I thought it would be useful to share the highlights of each event and compare the differences of each conference. Image credit: Flickr On a personal level I found them both to very good events, for different reasons. London provided my first [...]

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<!--Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter.-->SMX Advanced 2010 – Best of Seattle & London

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So China just renewed Google’s license to operate there. Google has tried to “abide by Chinese law” as they prefer to put it. Chinese law says: The communist party decides what’s the truth and what not. What’s not true shall neither be published nor searched for. Are multinational corporations like Google good law abiding citizens? [...]

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– The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum selects SEO.com as the 6th top young company in Utah at the annual “Top 25 Under Five Awards.” SEO.com’s continued growth and strong revenue helped the SEO company gain 11 spots from the previous year.

PROVO, Utah – For the second-straight year, the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum has named SEO.com among ... Read more

In recent months I have been reading all kind of material on Facebook, search and SEO. I’m not here to predict the future or to hype Facebook as the new better search. Instead I’d like to analyze the clues we already have. Others have done great work on Facebook SEO by now. Moreover I’d like [...]

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<!--Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter.-->Will Facebook Search Become the Dominant Player?

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Dive into social media and soon you’ll see the good, the bad and the could’ve-been’s out there. I want to address the latter. So many pieces out there get little attention due to one or two small things that could make a good thing, great.
Here are a list of the things I’ve seen make a piece fall ... Read more

Dear Readers, at the end of last week I haven’t published the “Twitter weekly” column. This time it was no poor time management issue. I did it on purpose. The week before I had written a highly popular “Twitter weekly” post but it was the last of its sort. Why? The Twitter hype is over! [...]

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<!--Download our free business guide to blogging whitepaper and sign-up for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter.-->The Twitter Hype is Over

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Last Friday, the trash talk commenced, team anthems were chosen, and iPhone stopwatches were synced as we gathered for the Annual SEO.com Office Olympics.
In 2009, we pulled muscles, scraped knees, and put a hole in our wall. This year we repeated all the above and added a little swelling.
Was it ... Read more

Crossroads by Captain DJ. Getting targeted traffic for a website is just the first step in a thorough SEO process. What comes next? Landing page optimization or conversion (rate) optimization/CRO follows. After all you want the visitors you get to stay on your site and perform the desired action (like ordering or subscribing). One of [...]

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