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This Week in Search for 9/17/09

Posted by Sam Niccolls on September 17th, 2009 at 5:54 pm to Roundups and Recaps

Recapping a week that saw Joe Wilson and Kanye West make headlines as hecklers, this week's post shares great resources for Google Local and recaps news from across the search industry.

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Our Stance on Paid Links & Link Ads

Posted by randfish on September 17th, 2009 at 1:30 am to Link Building

Tonight I'm tackling a contentious, thorny issue and that's always a tough task. Thus, I'll ask, up front, for a bit of leeway in how my words are parsed and interpreted. I'm happy to make clarifications on specifics in the comments. Lately, we've been getting a lot of questions (through Q+A as well as from clients and the SEO community) about the ...

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Crawling & Indexing - It's Not as Simple as Just In or Out

Posted by randfish on September 15th, 2009 at 11:48 pm to Technical Issues

Short post tonight as I'm just back from a short trip with Mystery Guest to celebrate our one year anniversary (which was awesome, BTW) and need to get caught up on lots of email. Let's start with a quick quiz - which of the following statements is true? A) My pages are in my XML sitemaps file, so they must be getting crawled B) My pages have been crawle...

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SEO Guide: International Versions of Websites

Posted by Danny Dover on September 14th, 2009 at 9:19 pm to Websites

This is the second post in a series of SEO Guides aimed at answering frequently asked SEO questions. (The first one was Properly move domains ) If you have an idea for another guide, please let me know if the comments below. Background: This is one element of a problem called internationalization. The internet evolved (or was intelligently designed for those no...

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A Link Building Rule to Cut Out and Keep

Posted by RobOusbey on September 14th, 2009 at 7:42 am to Link Building

There's one piece of advice I've given to quite a few people recently, who are just starting to market their website. I thought I'd share this with you, and show how savvy internet marketers can get even more out of the same tip.

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Google Quietly Pushing More Links + Data in Snippets

Posted by randfish on September 14th, 2009 at 12:31 am to Google

The last 3 months have heralded a bevy of new tests and features from Google's search results, and it's worth taking a review of the most frequent of these and examining what it potentially holds for optimization of the future. The new results types include: Growth of Rich Text Snippets Internal Anchor Links Page-Specific "Sitelinks&qu...;

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Internet Marketing Certification Course Discount

Posted by Sam Niccolls on September 11th, 2009 at 2:48 pm to Miscellaneous

If you're looking to learn more about internet marketing, Market Motive offers a certification course that's worth checking out. And if you're an SEOmoz reader, take advantage of your $500 discount.

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Whiteboard Friday - Ignore the Long Tail at Your Own Peril!

Posted by great scott! on September 10th, 2009 at 10:26 pm to Whiteboard Friday

You do all kinds of keyword research trying to find the highest-volume terms around your niche. You work and work to move one place at a time up the rankings for those competitive terms, and you still don't see the traffic increase you're hoping for. Why? You're ignoring the long tail! All of those strange and unique searches people do when looking for your specific products or cont...

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This Week in Search for 9/10/09

Posted by Sam Niccolls on September 10th, 2009 at 2:23 pm to Roundups and Recaps

The Nuremberg trials, World War II, Vietnam, John F. Kennedy's assassination, Watergate, and Project Mercury. What do all these events have in common? Find out how the answer can help your website rank better and got caught on what happened this week's search news.

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17 Ways Search Engines Judge the Value of a Link

Posted by randfish on September 10th, 2009 at 1:28 am to Link Building

It's 9:30am and you've just started a pitch for a new SEO client. They're the curious type - wanting to know how search engines rank pages, why the changes you'll recommend will make an impact, where you learned to do SEO, and who you can list as good examples of your work. As you dive deeper into the requirements for the project, you arrive at the link building section. The client wants to kno...

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A Developer's Adventure Into the World of SEO

Posted by RefurbUPS on September 9th, 2009 at 10:53 am to Technical Issues

Before I begin, I would like to emphasize I had never before done SEO. I had no clue about the terminology used, and I was never part of the club most of you have been in for a while. I have a tentancy to ramble, but I assure you it is all relevant to my tale of mystery, drama, and eventually, wonder. So please bear with me. I am not trying to bring new information to the table, rather I am try...

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How to Network at an SEOmoz Seminar After-Party

Posted by audiore on September 8th, 2009 at 12:24 pm to Events and Conferences

Ok, SEOMozer folks, this is my very first YouMoz post and I’m pretty nervous about it. It’s just like songwriting where you compose something from your personal perspective and cringe a bit as you put it out there for everyone to see. (And if any of you are even thinking about checking to see if I know what I’m talking about, let’s make it ...

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Sneak Preview of London PRO Training Seminar

Posted by willcritchlow on September 8th, 2009 at 1:09 am to Events and Conferences

The time has come to register for the London PRO Training Series 2009: Tips, Tricks and Tactics. Building on the success of the recent Seattle event, we have gathered in London some of the best SEOs around and given them strict instructions to make their presentations as actionable and tips-focussed as possible. It's time to get your ticket for 19th-20th October.

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How To Integrate SEO Into Your Business

Posted by Tom_C on September 7th, 2009 at 1:49 am to Business Tactics

One thing that you'll hear over and over again in the SEO industry is "make sure that you embed SEO in your business". I know I've said it a lot at conferences and in client meetings but what does it actually mean? Well this post is chock full of tips to help you actually embed SEO in your business. Since I've not long come back from the Seattle SEOmoz Pro Training Seminar (which was tot...

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Whiteboard Friday - Email Marketing & SEO

Posted by great scott! on September 3rd, 2009 at 10:21 pm to Whiteboard Friday

Some call it old-school, but email marketing is still among the most effective channels out there. In this week's Whiteboard Friday Rand looks at some fundamental tactics of email marketing, including how to build and engage your list and how these strategies both compare and dovetail nicely with the SEO practices you already know so well. ...

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This Week in Search for 9/17/09

Our Stance on Paid Links & Link Ads

Crawling & Indexing - It's Not as Simple as Just In or Out

SEO Guide: International Versions of Websites

A Link Building Rule to Cut Out and Keep

Google Quietly Pushing More Links + Data in Snippets

Internet Marketing Certification Course Discount

Whiteboard Friday - Ignore the Long Tail at Your Own Peril!

This Week in Search for 9/10/09

17 Ways Search Engines Judge the Value of a Link

A Developer's Adventure Into the World of SEO

How to Network at an SEOmoz Seminar After-Party

Sneak Preview of London PRO Training Seminar

How To Integrate SEO Into Your Business

Whiteboard Friday - Email Marketing & SEO

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