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Case Study

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August 28, 2006

Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

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SEO Tips I Learned from Matt Cutts

August 22, 2006

As an SEO one of the things we often have to overcome is optimizing for the singular and plural form of the word, such as [blue widget] and [blue widgets]. Now some folks go the route of building one page for each keyword. While this can work you often end up with two very similar [...]

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Chicken Noodle Soup Video

August 21, 2006

Do you Know what the Chicken Noodle Soup Video is? Well you should …

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Targeting Keywords versus Targeting Traffic

August 15, 2006

In the olden days of SEO it was all about targeting the “right keywords”. You wanted to rank for [blue widgets] you put blue widgets in the right spots, your title tags, your meta tags, you looked for a density of x%, you put your keywords in bold and italics and things were golden. While [...]

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Danika Patrick

July 21, 2006

Sometimes it’s not important that you be the best in your game. Sometimes if you’re above average but are distinctive and set yourself apart you can work the magic and get lot’s of ink. Case and point Indy Race Car Driver Danika Patrick. Danika came onto the Indy Race Car scene a few years [...]

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Profits Murdered By Google Adwords

July 19, 2006

There’s been quite a bit of noise in the SEM space about some of the recent changes made by the Google Adwords Quality Score. I thought it might be interesting to take a more in depth look at some of my site statistics.

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Reputation Management – Case Study, Part I

June 1, 2006

Since my experiment in reputation management is actually getting much more interesting than I planned I thought I should go back and do a proper writeup.

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Shoemoney

May 22, 2006

Can you outrank Shoemoney?
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Shoemoney on Typekey: click here
Shoemoney on MSN Spaces: click here
Shoemoney on Pimp my Blog: click here
Shoemoney Media Group: click here
Shoemoney doing Google Video: click here
Shoemoney on Digg: click here
Shoemoney on Threadwatch: click here
Shoemoney on V7N: [...]

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Dark Alley’s of MySpace

April 27, 2006

In part II we looked at legitimate Marketing Examples on MySpace however it’s hard to take a complete look at all that MySpace is without acknowledging that it does have a dark and seedy district. There are some adult areas with lots of nudity however as of this writing none of the pages linked to [...]

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Marketing Examples on MySpace

April 26, 2006

I will admit when I first stumbled into MySpace I really didn’t think it was much more than a bunch of horrendously ugly pages with really cheezy music. However if you are willing to dig a little deeper you can find some legitimate companies and organizations who are using MySpace. If you’re ready let’s dive [...]

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Getting to Know MySpace

April 25, 2006

While I’ve only been playing with MySpace for a few weeks and I’m no expert, having gone through a lot of it I’ve prepared a little primer that can help get you up to speed and understand how MySpace works. Hopefully my newness puts me in the same boat as other newbies who will have [...]

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Looking at MySpace

April 25, 2006

After reading what my buddy Martinibuster had to say about MySpace and learning that MySpace was the 10th most visited website on the internet ( via ZD net). I knew that the time had come for me to get on the MySpace bandwagon or get left behind.

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Googlebase Preliminary Results

April 11, 2006

So it’s been about 2 weeks since my Googlebase test and it’s time to look at some preliminary results. One of my favorite public SEO tools is Jim’s cool SEO Tool. It give you all sorts of information but one of things I really like is looking at domain age. I’ve included a screen [...]

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Button Pushing is Not Marketing

February 15, 2006

From the Wall Street Journal comes this comment about the “v7ndotcom elursrebmem” contest :via WSJ.com
Several other groups are trying to win the contest by soliciting links via an entirely different route: aligning themselves with charity groups and promising to donate the prize money. SEOs grouse about that tactic, saying it makes the contest a test [...]

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Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part III

January 26, 2006

In Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part I, we looked at some examples of screen resolutions, and content placement. In Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part II, we looked at how banner size affected the “sweet spot” being above or below the fold. In part III we’re going to look [...]

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Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part II

January 25, 2006

In Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part I, we looked at some examples of screen resolutions, and content placement. In part II I’m going to show some examples of how I look at and approach design considerations, specifically where the important “money making” parts are in relation to the screen break.

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Maximizing Profits With Website Design and Layout: Part I

January 24, 2006

I was building new site this past weekend and I got into the liquid width versus static width debate with myself again. Now I’ve been involved in designing, programming, running, and optimizing websites in one way or another since 1998, and while I’m no usability expert I think I’ve seen and built enough websites to [...]

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v7ndotcom Elursrebmem Blogs

January 19, 2006

After what seems like forever (but is really only 4 days) my v7ndotcom elursrebmem entry finally ranks, coming in somewhere between 25 and 30 depending on what ranking tool and data center you happen to be using (SERP). However now that every SEO on the planet has a blog I thought I might cruise around [...]

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The Sandbox and Delicious

January 4, 2006

Over on the Link Building Blog Andy’s talking about how the blog is still sandboxed. Not that Andy needs my help, but I’d like to take this opportunity to prove the value social bookmarking can play in getting your website out of the sandbox. I’ll be dissecting my own site and Rand of SEOMoz [...]

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Behold the Power of Authority

December 28, 2005

It’s been interesting to watch [Eco-Friendly Flip Flops]

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