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Are You After Traffic or Visitors?


A while ago I have written a post about how you should treat the people who visit your blog. My point was that treating them like an amorphous mass of "traffic" ...

How to Remove utm_source & Other Parameters From Your URLs


These days it's a quite common and very annoying habit by a few services to attach utm_source and other parameters to your internet address aka URL. It's not only that. Basically anybody can ...
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How to Build Links Like Jaamit


Jaamit Durrani and a cat that looks like Hitler at Think Visibility. This is how funny @jaamit was.* T​hree months ago Jaamit Durrani had asked me whether I'm ...
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The Anatomy of an SEO 2.0 Web Directory of the Highest Quality


* I'm preparing a SEO 2.0 web directory right here on my blog as you might have noticed already. What? A web directory? In SEO 2.0? It sounds ...
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SEO vs SEO 2.0: Top 15 Differences


* What is SEO 2.0? These are the 15 most important differences between SEO and SEO 2.0: table{font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 11px;} td{border:1px solid black; text-align:left; vertical-align: text-top; padding: ...
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What Does My Bounce Rate Really Mean?


Image: Open 19 by Rupert Ganzer. As a modern day SEO I deal half of the day with decreasing bounce rates. It means: I try to make people visiting websites ...

Non-Profit SEO Resources


Non-profit SEO was on my mind for some time at least as long as I have known the Graphic Alliance, a social designers network of companies and ...
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Top 7 CSS Tricks for Better SEO


Google baby by skoop. As most of us know it is often really difficult to build websites for both the user and Google. Google still needs to be assisted in finding ...
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How to Get Links on SEO 2.0 and Other Blogs


Image: Node by Uqbar. As both business blogger and SEO am I aware of both sides of "link building". I get lots of spammy comments from Asian "blog ...
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How Social Networking Has Killed Digg and SEO 1.0


Three years ago I boldly predicted that social browsing services like StumbleUpon will kill Digg and SEO 1.0. Did they? No. I was wrong. Social networking did though. Let me explain. StumbleUpon ...

Guest Blogging Guidelines


Popular link building techniques get exploited or even abused and thus Google has to react. I've seen more and more of such cases with the recently hugely popular guest blogging. Thus you ...
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‘SEO is Dead’ is Dead


Diamond Skull by Damien Hirst. Image by Aaron Weber. Recently a post titled "How SEO is breaking the web (and killing Google)" has garnered almost 200 tweets. While I assume ...
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101 Ways to Make Your Blog More Popular and Successful


* After 13 years of online publishing, 7 years of blogging for a plethora of blogs, being an SEO for six years and being paid for blogging for five years by now ...
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Panama Hat SEO


I confess: I've been lying to you all these years! I don't wear a white sombrero like my avatar does. I wear a Panama hat instead. There is ...
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The New SEO – Search Engine Organization!


Mexican Fans by Celso Flores (image added by sombrero expert optimizer Tad of SEO 2.0) "The New SEO - Search Engine Organization!" is a guest post by Albert Gouyet, Vice ...
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Quick & Dirty SEO or Quality Optimization?


Most Hair Cuts 6.99$ by a4qpa. Last week I went to the barber. Actually she's a female barber so should I say hairdresser then? I paid 25 Euro for approx. ...
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Search Marketing Standard: The Future of Print & SEO – Interview with Associate Editor Frances Mary Krug


The Search Marketing Standard is not only the oldest search marketing print publication I know of, it's also the most focused and probably most popular one. Over the ...
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Why People Hate Ads and Love SEO


Love by jimscottIMD. I hate ads. I'm not the only one. Most people hate annoying ads. People hate ads on the Web and block them using a plethora ...
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SEO is a Craft not a Science


Running Bumblebee by wwarby Recently there has been a backlash in the SEO industry against what is deemed to be a non-scientific approach when it comes to SEO ...
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Google Filters: Exact Match Anchor Text Links Are the New Meta Keywords


It's always fascinating to see how Google treats SEO techniques that have gone main stream. Basically Google often uses filters on them. Of course many people out there ...