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A Social Media Strategy Checklist
By Sean Carton Why should you spend your ad dollars on social media? That might seem like a silly question, given that everyone seems to be shifting ad budgets to hop on the social media bandwagon. But if you aren’t asking it, you’re asking for disaster. And if you can’t answer the question with a comprehensive, strategic answer, you’re wasting your money. It might sound harsh, but a recent Center for Media Research report has me worried. After surveying more than 1,000 people ...
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The Key To Developing A Social Media Strategy
By Jason Falls Social media is starting to take hold with brands, companies and organizations everywhere. While there are still stragglers, and it is probably incorrect to say most companies are getting with the program, a good number of them are. What we’re seeing in these organizations is a maturation process. Brands are done testing the waters, playing with the tools and saying, “We Gotta Facebook Page!” like it’s the corporate equivalent of an iPhone or Kindle. Companies are now approaching ...
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The Brain Trusts
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Urban Tree & Landscape
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Build Link Popularity
By Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans. Link Building… Time-intensive. Frustrating. Sometimes confusing. Yet Unavoidable. Because ultimately, it’s still the trump card for higher rankings. Many of us have been hoping that it would go away. In Brett Tabke’s 5/18 Robots.txt entry, he echoed a sentiment that many, many webmasters hold on to as a hope: What happens to all those Wavers that think [i]Getting Links = SEO[/i] when that majority of the Google algo is devalued in various ways? Wavers ...
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Link Building Tips
Building Link Popularity is a great way to help your site gain competitive PageRank (PR). Links from other sites also send direct visitors to your site. A little care in developing links will go a long way in getting your site ranked high in Search Engines. In this article: PageRank of the linking page. Total number of links on the linking page. Industry relevance. Page relevance. Anchor-Text. Dynamic link pages. JavaScript link pages. Redirected links. Framed sites. PageRank of the linking page PageRank ...
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Five Link Building Strategies That Work
Filed under: Blogs for Business, Link Building, Social Media Marketing
by Brian Clark We’ve seen that the real secret to SEO Copywriting 2.0 is creating compelling content that naturally attracts links, rather than begging for links to our keyword-stuffed web page. In other words, SEO copywriting is now all about response-oriented copy concepts and words that ultimately result in a favorable action from the reader. Since the popularity of our content depends on the reaction to it off-page, it makes sense that we might also need to step outside the confines of ...
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SEO Challenges of Restructuring a Site
By Eric Enge, Search Engine Watch Restructuring a site can present some major SEO challenges. It’s one thing to make simple changes, where a page on the new site corresponds exactly to every page on your old site. But it’s much tougher when you’re making more fundamental changes to the layout, organization, and content of your site. If you have a reasonably popular site, it has several assets that are put at risk when you change its structure: Users will have bookmarked pages on ...
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A Convenient Truth: To Link Builders With Love
By Sage Lewis, Search Engine Watch There’s no doubt link building is a win-win. The only way to acquire relevant and meaningful links is to provide some value to the Internet community. The value may come in the form of information and entertainment. Visitors may find value in unique positioning that makes a Web site stand out from the crowd. The longer I ponder the world of link building, the more I love it. It’s the ultimate social approval process. To attract attention, you must resonate ...
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