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"What's the best WordPress SEO plugin?" I'm asked that question all the time, and recently took part in a debate discussing which plugin is best. I decided to draft a features list comparing the top three most downloaded SEO plugins to get a better picture of what each plugin has to offer, ... Read more

So I started writing a post titled 4 Ways to a Worthwhile Keyword List and quickly realized it was far too lengthy. Thus, you are now embarking on post one of a four-part series. Each post will discuss different processes to locate valuable keywords and how to lay them out in a way ... Read more

The web is comprised of information; or content. Every web page online is a living document of information that contains a specific piece of information with an intended purpose. Search engines crawl and index pages that are unique and provide value to their visitors. For example: a publisher writes content for a user ... Read more

A 404 page shows on a user's screen when they reach a page that doesn't exist on the website. This can happen when they reach a page that was deleted, clicking a broken link, or typing the wrong URL. More than likely you've encountered a few humerous 404 pages in your web ... Read more

Blog comments:  quick link building win or spam-tastic black hat method you wouldn’t touch with a barge pole? I wanted to find out what the general consensus was on this ...

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This month I reached my official one year tenure as an employee of SEO.com. During the past year, there have been many notable and industry changing events, so much that I could go on for pages and pages. I have chosen 7 that have affected me and those around me. Included is ... Read more

SEO and PPC should be considered children of the same parent: search marketing. Their strategies should be considered together for best results. There is some debate in the industry if running PPC and SEO can cause cannibalization of traffic; and there have been studies suggest both a positive and a negative result. You ... Read more

2011 was a big year for social media. We saw continued growth of sites like Facebook and Twitter, as well as the introduction of Google+. Many businesses continued the adoption of using social media as part of their marketing strategies, and now we are seeing the the early stages of what the ... Read more

Social bookmarking is a way for people to tag, share, organize, store, and search for useful links online. Instead of saving sites as bookmarks or favorites in your browser, you compile them online into a website you can reach from any computer. These bookmarks reference noteworthy links and can be private, public, ... Read more

* Sharing is the key activity when it comes to proper social media participation and beyond. When you don’t share anything on the web today, you can’t compete with those ...

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Blogging on a regular basis is vital in helping to develop a strong online presence. With some effort and well researched blog posts, you can take your blog from zero to hero. One of my great friends, Dan Bischoff from Lendio, wrote a great post over on the Raven Blog on how ... Read more

Hi SEO.com followers,  My name is Ty Kilgore and today I’m going to be answering the question;  How do I Rank in Local Search or how do I rank in maps? Local SEO is that something that has really taken off in the last year to year in a half.  The search ... Read more

Sometime last month, my friends and I did what most people do on a Friday night. Yes, we went out to blow off some steam and in the process, popped ...

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Bing Webmasters Tools are a set of tools made available to a site’s webmaster by Bing, allowing you to see how Bing sees your website.    Bing Webmaster Tools provides you access to the following data: How often Bing has crawled your site Problems Bing found while crawling your site such as Malware ... Read more

Read the First 58 Takeaways from Conversion Conference London? Here are the next 65, from the afternoon of the first day. Confessions of a Conversion Rate Optimiser The afternoon kicked ...

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Let’s get one thing straight first:  you will NOT be required to do the following in order to get free followers on Twitter using this method: Tweet interesting thoughts Post ...

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If you want evidence of the way the internet is pervading every aspect of our lives, you need look no further than its effect on education. The internet and social media have dramatically changed both teaching and learning. In fact, most students’ (an incredible 93 percent) first instinct when confronted with a ... Read more

A deep link is when you link to a page on the site other than the site's home page. For example, Google.com is the homepage of Google. Linking to Google.com/trends would be a deep link. If you see text after a / on a website, like in the case of Google.com/trends, you ... Read more

Good project management is the backbone of any successful SEO campaign. With the right planning and execution, good management can keep the project profitable, lower stress and maintain client satisfaction. ...

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How do I write SEO Friendly Content? The first step is to use a catchy title and use the keyword in the title. Make someone want to read the article. The second thing is use subheadings in your articles. Include relevant keywords in the subheadings, also known as an H2 or H3 ... Read more

A few days ago I was looking through my mentions on Twitter and I noticed a rough correlation between the strength of relationship I have with a person and the ...

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Google loves original content.  Original content is something that you wrote that you did not pull from any other source.  There are a number of places where good content can be added to a site.  Some options include: Blog posts Reviews Content on site Text on pages of site  What kinds of ... Read more

Recently I’ve written about Klout score optimisation. Since then I and others who outed themselves as actively using Klout have been attacked by self proclaimed SEO stars and other people ...

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* 2011 has been another very busy year on the SEOptimise blog, with nearly 400 posts generating over 400,000 visits and well in excess of half a million pageviews (oh ...

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* There are many misconceptions about the kind of skills and traits you need in order to find a job within the Search Engine and Social Media Marketing Industry (hereinafter ...

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There were many great tips at Conversion Conference London last week – too many to fit into one blog post. Here are the first 58 takeaways from the first day. ...

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Last week I setup a Facebook poll to ask people what they considered to be the most significant change in search during 2011. This has received a great response, so ...

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* Has your brand ever considered setting up a forum on its website for visitors? The benefits to a brand of a successful online community can be considerable. It builds ...

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