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Keyword Meta Tags and Google

How much does Google use the keyword meta tag? Not at all according to a post today on the Webmaster Central Blog . Does that comes as a surprise to you? For many it won't but it's always nice to have some verification and...

On-Page SEO and Alt Text: SERP Ranking Influencer?

The most important on-page ranking factors for placing competitively in search engine results pages (SERPs) include keyword use in the title tag, keywords in the domain (page names and folders too), keywords in the headline tags, within...

SEO vs. PPC: The Engine Ready Study

It's the one discussion that every Website promoter wants to know - which traffic source is more valuable when it comes to conversion. Search marketing service and software provider Engine Ready released an update to its ongoing...

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Creating Effective Press Releases for Power SEO

Press releases are an effective means to attract media attention, but it is also one of the most cost-effective munitions in the search engine optimization and marketing arsenal. With a solid grasp of the English language and some...

Bing Releases Toolbox

Microsoft has taken a page from the Google playbook by actively embracing the webmaster and developer community with its Toolbox portal. The Toolbox is really just a collection of existing tools that links to important resources, but...

Twitter, SERPs and Chicago Hot Dogs

Conduct just about any search and you will likely find some information stemming from a Twitter profile. Businesses have learned that leveraging Twitter is not only a good way to make your company accessible, but also to reach out...

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SERPs, Twitter and Chicago Hot Dogs

At the end of March, 2009, we started searching Google for particular keywords and phrases and noted where Twitter accounts appeared in the search results. What we found was interesting – Google was giving prominent positions...

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SEO: Do You Link Three-Ways?

Hopefully by now you've come to the realization that the more links you have pointing to your website the higher it will be positioned on search engines. Getting links (or earning them) however is a time consuming and often complicated...

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Bing vs. Google: Ad Performance and User Behavior

Catalyst Group conducted a study pitting Bing versus Google and found some interesting results directly relevant to Web professionals. In the study, a search for "digital cameras" resulted in far more time on-page for Bing...

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More Major Google Changes; Search Options Surface

Very rarely are there seismic shifts in the search landscape. For the past several years, search engines have only teased us with universal/blended search and dangled in front of us the promise that open standards (RDFa and microformats...

Twitter's Big News has Huge Implications for Search

Twitter's VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram, has come out and said that Twitter will soon start crawling and indexing links included in tweets. That's big. Take a look at TinyURL's home page - they claim more than 222 million...

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Google AJAX Results & Position Tracking

Several months back Google begain testing AJAX search results. While it has not been rolled out to the general public ( and there is no word on when that might happen ) it does signal a pretty significant change is fast approaching...

Software to Get the SEO Party Started

Search engine optimization today is more challenging than ever. Many Web professionals have opted to take advantage of SEO software to minimize the learning curve and help manage their overall Internet marketing campaigns. While some...

Conference for In-House Search Marketers

Those SEOs most recognizable in the industry are often independents. The majority of SEOs, however, work in-house for companies both large and small. That may be one of the reasons that SEOinhouse.com and Search Marketing Expo organizer...

Google Reorganizes SERP Sitelinks: What You Need to Know

Google has been displaying site links - the linked words below a main search result that leads to internal pages of that website - for some time now. But there has been a restructuring. Now, instead of the stacked appearance of several...

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