SEO

How to Build Links with Images

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The following is part of a series of posts on image optimization. In this post we’re going to be talking about using image optimization as a link building technique.

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How Often Should You Update Evergreen Content

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The idea of evergreen content is that it is essentially unchanging, intended to last “a long time,”and have little or no maintenance. So isn’t updating evergreen content a bit of an oxymoron? In some cases yes, in some cases no.

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Image of the Day – For Traffic and Social Engagment

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The following is part of a multi part series on image optimization. In this post we’re looking at driving traffic with with “image of the day” type of posts.

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How Many Websites Should I Run

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A question that I get asked fairly regularly is “how many websites should I run? Am I better with one website or lots of little ones?” The question has some different aspects, so, as someone who runs more than one website, I’ll try to share some of my experience.

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Raven SEO Tools – How to Use the Event Manager

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The following post is part of a series on Raven SEO tools. In this post, we’re going to look at the event manager.

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How to Make Your Website Look More Legitimate

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In the most recent 12 months, Google has taken steps to reward websites that are brands, or at least give signals that they algorithmically look like brands. If you’re not national, regional, or local brand, here are some steps you can do to look more brand-like.

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Where to Get Photos for Your Website or Blog

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The following is part of a series on image optimization. In this post we’re going to be looking at sources for images. Premium Stock Images There are a lot of sources for stock images on the web. On the web, however, there is a huge divide in prices. While the images from this category are [...]

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Andrew Wise of SEOLinkWheelers Talks About the Panda Update

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The following is a sponsored post. For today’s post we’re going to be talking with Andrew Wise of SEOLinkWheelers.com you may remember I spoke with Andrew back in January (see Interview with Andrew Wise of SEOLinkWheelers.com). Today we’re going to be talking about the Panda update, can you tell us what you think where the [...]

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How to Optimize Your Images For Search Engine Traffic

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The following is part of a multiple part series covering image optimization techniques. This article is intended for beginners through intermediate SEO’s; if this doesn’t pertain to you, you may want to skim as most of this will probably be review material for you.

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How Much Time Do You Spend Actually Doing SEO

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How much time do you spend doing SEO per day?  Or, specifically, how much time do you waste reading about SEO instead of doing it? Unless you are beginner who is still  learning, if you’re spending more than an hour reading about SEO everyday, you’re probably wasting your time.

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Traffic Down From Panda Update – Diversify Your Traffic Sources

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Recently Google had an update and some webmasters were significantly impacted. Google has had many big updates and will have many more. If your rankings are soured by an update you may become angry at Google. IMHO that is just not the smartest or most profitable approach.

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Raven SEO Tools Review: Social Media

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Raven SEO Toolset in a powerful tool in any SEO’s toolbox. In the first part of this Raven SEO Tools series, we looked at Using Raven SEO Tools to Manage and Track Your Keywords. In this post we’re going to be looking at using Raven to manage your social media profiles.

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Let’s Talk about Keyword Density

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Recently, I received an email question wanting to know about keyword density, asking questions like how do I deal with it, is it still a factor, and how important is it. As with most things in SEO, the answer is … it depends…

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How to Create a Dynamic Footer Carousel

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In my piece on How to Build an Effective Footer, one of the tips I mentioned was making your footer more dynamic by including links to posts that are currently popular on your website. It’s something I do on the bottom of this website. I’ve gotten a few emails asking how, so I figured I’d [...]

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Why It’s OK to Offend People in Social Media

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Recently, Kenneth Cole took a bit of criticism in the social media space for making what many considered an insensitive tweet. I’m going to disagree with the social media guru’s here and say it’s ok to offend people. In fact, it’s probably something you should do on a regular basis.

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Raven SEO Tools Review – Getting Started With Keywords

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I’ve been spending some quality time with Raven Tools, and I thought I’d turn it into a tutorial series to help you get more out of using the tools as well. To read all the posts visit my Raven SEO Tools Page.

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How Small and Local Businesses Can Use Facebook

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If there’s one aspect of social media that mainstream press seems to love, it’s Facebook. For this post we’re going to be talking with Greg Finn of Cypress North, Victoria Edwards of Linkshare, and Marty Weintraub of aimClear about how small businesses can use Facebook.

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Are Search Engines Using ClickStream Data

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Recently there was a big kerfuffle over Bing copying Google results, Bing denying it, the Google FUD machine in full force, and some nice conspiracy theory about who is pulling the strings and why. While this makes for some exciting drama and fun twitter banter, there is some actionable information for SEO’s: paying attention to [...]

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How Mobile Friendly is Your Website

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In late 2010, the New York Times published an article titled 2010 the year of the Tablet, or iPad. In 2010, Apple sold 14 million iPad units. In the 4th quarter of 2010 they sold more iPads than they did Macbooks, and 2010 had Apple’s highest Macbook sales ever. With the iPhone coming to Verizon [...]

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How to Build an Effective Footer

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Footers are one of the most often underused, misused and abused areas of a website. In this post, I’ll be taking a look at footers and passing on some tips to help you get more out of them.

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