Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

What we learn doing SEO for real clients. 1,311 posts since 2007.

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Microsoft Offers Social Media for Small Business e-Book

It's entitled "Let's Talk". I don't know anything about it but the graphic makes it look ginormous. Tip o the hat to Tad Chef

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An(n)als of Keyword Research: Scranton Needs An Enema

Sometimes this job can lead you down strange rabbit holes. The blog just got a referral from Google for this search. The following ad showed up on the right side of the SERP and caught my eye (how…

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Black Monday: The New Holiday?

Judging from the amount of search traffic this blog is seeing I would say at this moment more people are looking for deals and sales than actually working.

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Feedburner Was Down. Now It's Up.

RSS is back. Apologies to all of those who panicked and jumped out their window in what will now be known as "the Dark Times".

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I'm a Mortgage Broker, I Mean SEO

Rand Fishkin posts about the SEO growth phenomenon that many of us in the business have been in experiencing over the past year. As the economy sours, more and more businesses have come to the…

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My Worst #1 Ranking

Someone just searched for this and I showed up at the top.

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NoIndex, NoFollow SEO Overkill

SEOs use "noindex" tags to prevent a search engine robot from indexing a particular page on a site. We use "nofollow" tags to prevent the passing of page rank through a particular link to the…

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RSS Feed Down

Feedburner is having some major issues and was slowing down the blog. I'll bring it back later. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Lots of People Searching For Black Monday Shopping Today...

I wrote this article on Black Monday Shopping a year ago and it is doing very well this year. If you can afford to do long term planning for your SEO it can really pay off. What words are your…

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Black Friday Deals In Your City

Are you looking for Black Friday deals in your city from stores like Walmart, BestBuy & Target? I bet a lot of people are looking for this stuff. The economic meltdown of 2008 is probably the best…

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