I harp on the importance of link diversity, all the time and how you should always be looking for different places, or perhaps better said “sources”, to get links regardless of the juice they may send your way. But what about not live links, how do they affect SEO? Not Live Links One source webmasters […]
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Say you find your exact same content on someone else’s site, word for word. Maybe someone else brought it to your attention in the first place, but either way, it’s your content which has been illegally stolen and published on someone else’s site. You may even just do searches for your content every now and
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For a lot of us, online marketing is all about making money. To effectively make money in online marketing as it relates to SEO, we should focus on buying keywords. These are keywords which people search for when they’re in a purchasing mood, hence buying keywords. Buying Keywords You want to focus on buying keywords
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Awhile back one of my sites was hacked and it was the infamous TimThumb hack which is a common vulnerability in outdated versions of WordPress or more specifically the TimThumb script which resizes images in WordPress. I was reminded of it when a friend of mine’s site was more recently hacked and sure enough it
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Awhile back I talked about getting the dreaded letter from Google informing you that they’ve detected that you’re doing something they don’t like. Matt Cutts, the face of Google’s web spam team, has said that they try to avoid the word “penalties” but instead favor the term “manual action”. Algorithmic Google Penalties A manual action
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Last week I talked about how to find out when is the best time to send emails to your list. One of the most reliable methods is to do some testing yourself to find out which time yields the greatest opening and interaction percentage from your list, and I mentioned the way to do that
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As I have covered time and time again, email marketing is still the best source of targeted traffic you have at your disposal whenever you need a quick burst to send to an offer or just a new article you have written. These are people who like your content to the point that they have
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Matt Cutts, the face of Google’s SEO team, recently put out a shoutcast to address a new spam related algo update (another one?!) which has been nicknamed the Google PayDay loans algorithm update by a lot of search engine marketers. Google PayDay Loans Algorithm Update The name comes from the sorts of search queries the
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A quick SEO tip which a lot of webmasters overlook is setting a preferred domain for each of their sites. First I’ll show you how to do it, then I’ll explain why it’s a simple but important change to make in your Google Webmaster Tools. How to Set a Preferred Domain Why Set a Preferred
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Last year we saw one of the biggest supposedly private blog networks, Build My Rank, go down. The reason it went down with a bullet courtesy of Google was simply because, A: it was abused, and B: it wasn’t private. Let’s talk about what makes a private blog network private. What Makes a Private Blog
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