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Roger Montti aka MartiniBuster on Webmaster World illustrates some techniques to find good .edu pages to get links from by tracking .edu pages that link to your competition. On Yahoo do the following searches: linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “bookmarks” linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “links” linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “favorite sites” linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “your product or your service” (add modifiers to get [...]

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Don’t you hate it when another blogger beats you to the punch on writing about a good idea? Well, Steve McStud Espinosa kicked my butt this morning with his post, Take Advantage of Trusted Sources – Local Search Tactics. In the post Steve talks about how to link to other webpages that the search engines [...]

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I was perusing Sphinn this morning and found 400 Quality Links that Deliver Both Immediate Traffic and Search Rankings on the ConversionStats blog.  If you are looking for a way to increase inbound links to your site this would be a great place to start.  Nice work guys.

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A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the Best Passover Book Title Ever. I thought the book cover was such a classic that it deserved a submission to This Is Broken, a site I found several years ago that I loved. It features bone-headed product design choices such as this classic playground location. [...]

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In a previous post I stated that Facebook Local could end up being a very important marketing opportunity for you business. Since then, thousands of businesses have created Facebook Pages – simple templates to create a page about your service that can be promoted via Facebook’s social network. In principle the more networked your business’ [...]

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Warning: This post is not for those who are weak of heart or small children. If you use the safe search option on Google or a V-chip turn back now. You are in the wrong place. Really. Stop. I mean it.

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Like all other years AG (After Google) in 2008 the incoming link to your site will be king, perhaps for the last time if the Google algorithm changes. From my experience optimizing your site’s “onpage” factors and then getting targeted links is still the best way to boost your performance in the search engines. The [...]

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This holiday season how about giving the gift of SEO? Why not link to your favorite cause with targeted keywords in the anchor text? It’s the gift that keeps on giving, and of course it looks great under the tree. Here’s my list Google Santa:

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I have received a number of emails asking for more info on how to determine which sites you should buy a link from.  There are a number of great articles about this around the Web and I have been pretty jammed over the past couple of days so I thought I would take the easy [...]

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I came across this presentation on link development which Sugarrae Hoffman gave this week at Pubcon. If you are considering buying or begging for links to your site, as many businesses are these days, she provides a great overview on how to choose between hiring a linkbuilding company and training an in-house linkbuilder. While much [...]

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