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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/google-holiday.jpg For the past few years, right before the prime 4th quarter holiday selling period, Google pushes out an update that causes an upheaval in the organic SERP’s. This has lead to talk of there being a Google Holiday Update Conspiracy, with the goals of making SEO look bad to drive up Adwords spending. Is there any truth to these rumors or is is just people upset about rankings loss? Let’s take a deeper look at the issue … First let me preface this with a little background. When I worked as an in house SEO for a large regional retailer many moons ago we had a policy: no new programming goes live on the websit…

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SEO News replied November 2, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/scribe-coupon.jpg One of the tools that I use regularly as part of my SEO toolset is Scribe SEO. If you’re thinking about trying it, now is a great time because they are offering a special from November 1st through November 5th. When checking out use promo code [sTEPUP] and you will automatically be upgraded to the next level for free. (see my original Scribe SEO review for a complete look a scribe). So how can you use Scribe to help you make more money? Here’s a drop dead simple way: Use any of your favorite keyword research tools such as Wordstream, Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery, SEMRush, or save money and get acces…

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SEO News replied November 1, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/singular-keywords.jpg This post is a short response to a question Ireceivedvia email last week. The question was how to do deal with singular and plural versions of a keyword in that page title. The slightly spammy way that many people deal with the problem is to create two single pages, one for the single and one for the plural version. While this solves the keyword targeting problem, it often creates duplicate or at least conceptually duplicate content. If you don’t understand the difference between technically different and conceptually different be sure to read this classic post from Sugarrae When Unique Content is Not…

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SEO News replied November 1, 201014 yr

Over the past few years that i have been marketing online promoting my site(s) i have cheated a little and used a submission service to get the job done when i have little time to do quality link building. SubmitEdge is a SEO Firm that offers Link Building Solutions, Directory submission, Article Submission, blog commenting and a few more services that i will mention later in this thread. I was a little skeptical about using them at first because of the prices for the packages but soon after i did the article writing/submission service and got all those "Your Article was Approved" emails i kept on using them for anytime that i needed some quality link building done when i…

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snakeair replied October 31, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7Dz0BsADcYBkIrQxyYq3975dpv4/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7Dz0BsADcYBkIrQxyYq3975dpv4/1/di</img> Facebook pages are without doubt the most used ( and underused ) social media tool today. They’re easy to set up and easy to manage. For the same reason, they’re a little over done too..as all you need to set up a page for yourself is a name and five minutes of time. Today, there are around 1 million pages on facebook, of which a major part is built to market a product/organization/service. But are all these pages really doing what they’re supposed to do ? Are they up there, just because it was possible and som…

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SEO News replied October 31, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/wh-oct-2010.jpg I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here. Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links. CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action information from click tracking heat maps. BOTW.org – Get a premier listing in the internet’s oldest directory. Ezilon.com Regional Directory – Check to see if your website is listed! Content Customs – Unique and high quality SEO writing services, providing webmasters with hundreds of SEO articles per week Majestic SEO – To analyze back-links, MajesticSEOs d…

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SEO News replied October 29, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/head-tail.jpg Although I have mentioned head & tail content on this blog a few times, I haven’t devoted an entire post to it, which is probably an oversight on my part. The first step in creating head and tail content is to create the tail pieces first. I went into some detail about this in the post keeping your articles focused. If you haven’t already read it, you probably should–if only so that this article makes the most sense. Once you have all or most of the tail content written, it’s time to think about the the head. While I’ll often use outsourced services for tail content (see textbroker.com review) for head pi…

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SEO News replied October 28, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/seo-calendar.jpg I’ve mentioned the benefits of having an editorial calendar several times on this blog, and Lisa has done an excellent job of explaining why you need an editorial calendar from a content production point of view; however, what I haven’t talked about is how to use an editorial calendar from an SEO perspective. From an SEO perspective, an editorial calendar can has several points worth noting: You need to produce, publish, and link build to new content at least 30-45 days before you can expect it to rank (unless its a QDF term)You need to have a recycling strategy in place for old contentYou need to maxi…

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SEO News replied October 26, 201014 yr

Submit to over 800,000 sites... Promote your website to over 800,000 Search Engines, Directories, Link Pages, Online Malls, Classified Sites. Submit as many times as you want using multiple domain's if you own more then 1 site. This is truly a great piece of software to get indexed by the search engines consistently. Without traffic, your business, blog, forum or whatever business you are into will not get known to the public and most of all, you will be loosing out on potential sales or growing your downline. Global-Search-Engine-Submitter is traffic generation machine on steroids. Get Fully automated submissions... Manually submitting your site and wasting h…

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snakeair replied October 24, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YWFJzFzQm649vWesHD2suFLB0Lo/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YWFJzFzQm649vWesHD2suFLB0Lo/1/di</img> Last day I read this great article by Megan Berry, at Open Forum Why increasing followers is not a Twitter strategy. Absolutely brilliant article ! As the headline suggests, Megan talks about how numbers can misguide you on Twitter and explains well about why follower number isnt everything. If your social media consultant or manager points first to your Twitter follower count when you ask how things are going, you have a problem. I love this line. Now, before you jump into conclusions, Im not going to…

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SEO News replied October 22, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/section-targeting.jpg In yesterday’s post, we spoke about why you would want to change your content based on traffic intent. In today’s post, I’m going to give you a basic framework about how to do it. This post is written as a Thesis Tutorial, because working with Thesis is just easier (see my Thesis review), but you can easily adapt the code to any website or theme. OK. Like all Thesis customizations, we’re going to need to open up the custom_functions.php file. In this example, we are going to offer different social buttons based on where the user came from. If they came from a social site, we’ll show the interactive bu…

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SEO News replied October 20, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/change-content.jpg A few weeks ago, Brent Payne made a post about “whitehat cloaking” and changing your content based on referring website. He asked for some feedback on Twitter, causing some follow up discussions. I had a few people asking for examples about how to do this. In this two part post, first we’ll look at some theory about why would you want to do it, under what circumstances, and how to do it without angering the Google Gods. In tomorrow’s post “How to Conditionally Change Your Content,” I’ll give you some ideas about how to implement this. Let’s talk about the high level strategy items first. Why would you wa…

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SEO News replied October 19, 201014 yr

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snakeair replied October 17, 201014 yr

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SEO News replied October 16, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/review-box.jpg Box.net is an online file storage system that allows you to keep files/folderssynchronizedin the cloud or across different computers. Box.net is one of those services I REALLY want to like. Unfortunately, it just never seems to work out for me. Box.net allows you to share andsynchronizefiles with other people across the internet/cloud. For customers who upgrade to the business or enterprise level, desktop synchronization is a key feature you pick up. The thing that most excited me about the Box.net service was integration with Google Apps for domains. However what I learned after trying was that you need to …

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SEO News replied October 14, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pVRfgDge7PGl02Lr-BYSBS12L84/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pVRfgDge7PGl02Lr-BYSBS12L84/1/di</img> Measuring your social media influence is tricky. Clearly, numbers dont mean anything, but its your action potential that really matters on networks. While this is obvious, diving into social networks, with all the complications and types of networks involved, measuring ones potential or reach on facebook or any other social network for that matter is difficult. http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/measurefacebookinfluencefriends.gif However, we have certain obvious clues that tells us a …

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SEO News replied October 14, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/dropbox-review.jpg Dropbox.com is an online file storage system that allows you to keep files/folderssynchronizedin the cloud or across different computers. It’s not a secret that I’m a big fan of cloud computing. Dropbox is one of the tools I use that makes working in the cloud a little easier. The concept is pretty simple: install the Dropbox software on any computer or smart phone you own, and the files/folders will be synchronized whenever those machines have access to the internet … automagically. You don’t have to remember or tell it to sync–it all happens in the background. Here are some of the ways I use it: Mo…

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SEO News replied October 12, 201014 yr

I’ve been promoting my advanced SEO book‘s free chapter for a while now and, since virtually the beginning, I’ve seen a remarkable trend in my data. That trend is a roughly 14% unsubscribe rate. About 1 in 7 people who choose to get a free sample chapter go on to unsubscribe. http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/book-unsubscribe-rate.png Aweber email stats show that 59 out of 412 eventually unsubscribed. That’s incredibly high. But what’s really remarkable is why it’s so high. It’s so high because my writing is phenomenally bad! But, based on feedback from some unsubscribers, I have another explanation. Their view is that greyhat/blackhat SEO is …

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SEO News replied October 10, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cQb2xaY7EPGKOzZ_b_naQveL_gY/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/cQb2xaY7EPGKOzZ_b_naQveL_gY/1/di</img> Unless youve been living in a cave, you couldn’t miss todays date. Its 10.10.10 – a rare day thats special to everyone simply because of its numbers and occurrence. There are reports that astronomers have predicted the day to be lucky, especially for those whore born today. Well, apart from astronomy, what makes 10.10.10 special to people across the globe ? Lot of random things. 1. 10.10.10 May trigger a computer virus like Y2K Remember the Y2K virus ? Well, computer experts are fearing another virus atta…

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SEO News replied October 10, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4q1n3miR1lQjWxBJmZ3F6vlBlhY/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4q1n3miR1lQjWxBJmZ3F6vlBlhY/1/di</img> For those of you still trying to figure out what social media is (Im the one in front of you), theres a little PDF Beginners guide thats out. Its called The Beginners Guide to Social Media and is authored by Creative Concepts LLC. The aim of this handbook is to give beginners an idea about the basic terms and terminologies used in social media, their meaning, usages etc. This is probably not your copy if youre a hard core social media enthusiast. Honestly, I liked the idea and quickly downloaded the guide th…

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SEO News replied October 9, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/crawl-errors.jpg When you are reviewing a website, whether for your own projects or for a client project, one of the important areas to review is crawlability. In this post I’d like to talk about some of the ways you can look for and diagnose crawling issues. If your important pages aren’t within 2-3 pages of linking hubs on your website, you will have problems …The first step to diagnosing a crawling problem is to use a simple [site:example.com] search and compare how many pages you really have with how many Google thinks you have. Now, bear in mind that this number is an estimate. What you are trying to do is get a rough…

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SEO News replied October 7, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/shoeboxed-review.jpg The following is a review of Shoeboxed.com, a receipt scanning and business card scanning service. receipt scanning and business card scanning … organized online … and it’s completely painless … To be honest keeping receipts, accounting, or any book keeping work is pretty much something I hate. I can’t tell you how many times I’d be talking with the accountant, she’d ask for some receipt I wouldn’t have, and I’d have to go digging for it. I was talking with my friend Merrick at PRLeap earlier this year, and he mentioned a service he was using to scan receipts and then organize the receipts online. I ga…

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SEO News replied October 5, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-1rlXmisrV6pwCXaAMnL-QZ_S7A/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-1rlXmisrV6pwCXaAMnL-QZ_S7A/1/di</img> So the new buzz in town is the Samsung Galaxy Tablet. I tried to speak with some Mac fanboys about their opinion on the Samsung Galaxy Tablet, and almost all of them didnt want to comment. That was a clear indication that this baby is something to watch out for. And yes, indeed it is. Samsung Galaxy Tablet takes over the iPad in more than one way in its features. Take a deeper look. Samsung Galaxy Tablet v/s Apple iPad Feature Comparison FeatureSamsung Galaxy TabletApple iPad3G ConnectivityYesYesWi Fi…

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SEO News replied October 5, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/k-_7Zf9rmtIYGxU6khJR6vAWzf4/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/k-_7Zf9rmtIYGxU6khJR6vAWzf4/1/di</img> Remember those days when publishers would do anything to make it to the Digg front page ? A Digg front page meant server crashes and loads of traffic, it was a whole adrenaline rush. Well, not any more. http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/diggv4.jpg After the V4 Redesign, its been all downhill for Kevin Rose and his team. Probably Kevin did a good job in transforming Digg to a better scalable product, and got rid of tech issues as he claims which was the biggest problem. But the team…

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SEO News replied October 3, 201014 yr