SEO is DEAD!!! - not…

Well, here we go.  Google instant is announced and everyone is starting to write blog posts about how SEO is now dead and meaningless.  So silly. Certainly things are changing, and this will have some effect, but we need to focus on what it actually does. In my mind it does two things.  First, it “steers” people [...]

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Do Blog Comments Even Count Anymore - for SEO ?

This recent post over at Google’s Webmaster Blog and the fact that there’s a whole new search algorithm (caffeine) launching after the holidays really got me thinking about the future value of comment posting on blogs for SEO purposes. Let’s just think about it from a common sense perspective.  Although I’m totally oversimplifying, the whole idea [...]

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Link Building Made Easy

Link building to improve your organic search engine rankings is one of the easiest, and yet, least understood strategies that we all use. I often come across people who think there’s some magic bullet or secret answer to this…that only gifted gurus and SEO experts know.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The dirty little [...]

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Google Country Search Tool - Firefox Extension

Sometimes one of the best ways to “scale” a profitable campaign is to advertise on Adwords but target specific counries.  The problem is always having a quick and easy way to see the organic and paid listings…just as someone in that country would see them so that you can gather intelligence about the competition there [...]

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