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http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jlo024pd-_W5Y6BxhaoxL4Y_HzE/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jlo024pd-_W5Y6BxhaoxL4Y_HzE/1/di</img> As I write this, some facebook developers are already developing an app for facebook and McDonalds, that will let you and me check in to McD stores while updating facebook statuses ! Facebook is doing the location based thingy and I have a feeling this is one of those “next big additions” going to happen. Why ? Because as we all know, location based services are the future and what can be better than facebook? What about Gowalla and foursquare ? Well, they have been good at what they are but I don’t think they…

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SEO News replied May 10, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/pagination.jpg Today’s post is an answer to a question from Don: How to best handle pagantion, use the same description meta tags? Use the same title tags just add page 2 First off, I’m going to answer this as user: avoid pagination if at all possible. Things like slide shows or lists where you show the 5, 10, 15 or even 100 items–just don’t dothem in multiple page format. It’s just awful for usability. Users want the info all on one page … really. But back to the question at hand: how do you handle it from an SEO perspective? If you absolutely positively can’t get all the information onto one page and have to spli…

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SEO News replied May 7, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HqLwYWhfXjCl5p0fA-N5a6CDb54/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HqLwYWhfXjCl5p0fA-N5a6CDb54/1/di</img> Google has this amazing experiments going on at its labs area, that some of them are really awesome, they should be available on the public platform. Unfortunately, Google have still not made them public, possibly because of incomplete testing. Also, not all of them are that awesome, some are lame and dumb even for a four year old. But here are two such tools in Google labs that I think should already be made public, for its pure awesomeness ! 1. Search YouTube videos by comments If you didn’t know yet, Y…

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SEO News replied May 7, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XODwOAnaU6cuNPfnDokO6l9FMo4/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XODwOAnaU6cuNPfnDokO6l9FMo4/1/di</img> If you thought U.S is the country with the fastest internet in the world, you’re wrong. Its Korea, followed by some very interesting countries like Latvia, Aland Islands, Japan, Romania and Lithuania. And the countries with the slowest internet are: Guyana, Zambia, Nepal, French Polynesia and the like. Surprising isn’t it ? Here’s the entire chart where all the countries in the world are ranked according to their internet speeds. Both the speediest and the sluggish internet connections of the whole world ! …

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SEO News replied May 6, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/seo-tools-tips.jpg I was having a a few conversations on twitter last week. It was clear that more than one person needed a little bit more explanation about how to put some of the tips I mentioned into action, so here are 6 quick tips to help you improve your posts. Pull Quotes Blue Widgets solved all my problems… If you’ve read a magazine in the past 20 years, chances are good you’ve seen pull quotes in action. Somewhere in page they will select a quote-worthy bit of text, make it larger than normal and maybe a different color, then wrap the rest of the text around it (like that box above). How can you use pull quotes…

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SEO News replied May 6, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/high-volume.jpg Today’s post is an answer to a question I took a few weeks ago: How to organize archives/categories on Wordpress for news site/blog that publishes a lot of articles, around 30-50 daily. your site’s link equity will determine your crawling depth and crawling frequency The first thing I want to bring up is that generally, if you’re publishing that volume of posts per day, your posts probably are date sensitive, so you don’t mind Google attaching a date to your posts. You can include the date in your URL structure, but it’s not necessary. However, you do want to have date archives available and close …

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SEO News replied May 5, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Jn_mlHUVBOwav6MxwB8n8CfZv_E/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Jn_mlHUVBOwav6MxwB8n8CfZv_E/1/di</img> http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/social-media-engagement.jpg Honestly, I’m tired of hearing this thing time and again that every time it pops up, I’m almost certain that this conversation is just a meaningless blabber. Every conference, every meetup people just love using that magical term – “Social Media Engagement” ! In my honest opinion, they’re lying and here’s why ! Nobody knows how to measure engagement ! Disagree ? Ask the dude, what he does to find out how much his brand/prod…

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SEO News replied May 4, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/v76TEG84KEG4gCpMSw1ZiOYELXM/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/v76TEG84KEG4gCpMSw1ZiOYELXM/1/di</img> When Nick Roach designs a theme, you can trust blindly on its quality and he’s been proving it time and again with his new designs. The latest to hit the stable is the “My Product” theme, which is the best WordPress theme I’ve seen yet, that fits a product showcase or a company portfolio. That is if you have an online product to sell and is looking for the cheapest and effective solution to design, this is the theme for you. Download and zip it in and you have a professional looking, sleek, cross browser com…

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SEO News replied May 1, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i3-WJK_pVEDjKE3oCx_6cOxi-Go/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i3-WJK_pVEDjKE3oCx_6cOxi-Go/1/di</img> Okay, back to some basics today. These days, landing pages are being used very frequently, even though they have evolved from the cheesy designs and glaring oddities. These days landing pages come with sexy designs and the best compelling copies, that can convince you in seconds. We’ve seen many good examples of modern, sleek looking landing pages, which are eye candies but when it comes to search engine optimization, I’ve seen that not all of them are fool-proof. Which is what we would discuss here today. …

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SEO News replied May 1, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/april-1010.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! Brick Marketing – Sign up for the SEO Newsletter Directory Journal – Get permanent deep links in a search engine friendly directory Interested in seeing your message here? Th…

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SEO News replied April 30, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/952N3v2RNT487OC6UrYl-jRDsLE/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/952N3v2RNT487OC6UrYl-jRDsLE/1/di</img> If you didn’t know yet, I’m one of those weird people who follow around 15,000 people on Twitter, while is being followed by a cool 22,000. Why weird you ask ? I have friends asking me all the time, how in the world are you following 15,000 people, and how do you manage it ? And some even dismiss me for a gamer. I see all that happening around me, and quite frankly enjoy it. The critics, the admirers and the friends. Let me make a few things clear here. If you’re a critic, it might help you to understand …

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SEO News replied April 30, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/facebook-basket.jpg While Facebook may be a hot marketing tool right now, there is danger in putting too much effort into making it the center of your marketing efforts. In a recent post I spoke about publishing paths and tailoring your content and selectively publishing it to different websites. It can be dangerous, though, if you take it too far and focus only on building your content on one website (particularly one you don’t have absolute control over) because you leave yourself and your business open to whims and decisions of others. I see this happening withTwitter to a certain extent and now, with increasing frequen…

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SEO News replied April 29, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/link-begging.jpg Link begging is the practice of identifying link prospects, usually through competitor backlink analysis, and then contacting each one of those sites and begging for a link. Link begging typically ignores the original context of the link, as well as the probable motivation of the linker. Not only that, it’s potentially destructive to an organization’s industry relationships and the link builder’s will to live. Engaging the experts and bloggers in your space can lead to far greater returns on your time and effort. Engagement will also make you happier – it emphasizes community, participation and recognizing…

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SEO News replied April 28, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/turn-off-blog-comments.jpg In the past I’ve spoken about why I turned off blog comments, but it was mostly from a time/labor perspective. Now I have another reason, one that affects everyone from an SEO Perspective. In some cases. leaving comments on will negatively impact your rankings and traffic.In case you missed it, in yesterday’s post I spoke about how Google is being more aggressive in trying to figure out the proper date for a post and displaying it in the SERP’s. Comments are one of the key tools they use. So is having a date in a Google SERP listing a bad thing? In some cases, having a date in your SERP is a good…

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SEO News replied April 27, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1GfckDVyQ13fd8GxbWMOBfQSSeM/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1GfckDVyQ13fd8GxbWMOBfQSSeM/1/di</img> For many years Apple has been at the leading edge of technology, software, branding and web design. A strong and instantly recognisable Apple style is maintained across the company’s applications and Internet exposure, with several key aspects in its approach to design. Strong, bold icons are used to define and navigate; great product and screenshots reveal the goods; cleanly-gridded typography with various sizes of text makes large amounts of content readable; and a cool colour scheme of white, blue, grey and …

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SEO News replied April 26, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/google-date-posts.jpg In recent weeks I’ve noticed a disturbing new trend in Google SERP’s: Google has become much more aggressive at trying to reverse engineer the publication date of a post/page.First let’s be clear about what we’re discussing. In some cases, when you do a search, Google will show a date in the listing. See the example below: http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/date-example.jpg Initially, Google only looked at the date that was near the H1/Title of the page and, if it found something, it used that as the date in the SERP’s. This was fairly easy to override: when a post hit a certain age you co…

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SEO News replied April 26, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y2kWHd9bbrn5B4AOEaLXCuGeaCQ/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y2kWHd9bbrn5B4AOEaLXCuGeaCQ/1/di</img> When it comes to Twitter, Tweetdeck and Seesmic rules the app world. But on a Mac, there are lot of other eye candies that miss the limelight because of the dominating two. Here is a list of some better alternatives, that you might have missed. 1. Blue Bird – Exclusive Twitter app for Mac http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1twitterappformac.png Bluebird is a nice Twitter app exclusively for Mac users. You’ll love the Mac-like interface. Download 2. Nambu http://www.dai…

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SEO News replied April 26, 201014 yr

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SEO News replied April 24, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/zAjSx8Kz3k0WINVHefHtSQ6U7wI/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/zAjSx8Kz3k0WINVHefHtSQ6U7wI/1/di</img> Quick round up of all the important and not-so important things that happened on the web, this week. Google Analytics turned five on April 22nd http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/image40.png It was 5 years ago that Google acquired Urchin – the Google Analytics tool you see today. Img credit – More Visibility Google AdSense payments on Western Union for more countries Google added more countries to its list that can withdraw AdSense payments via Western Union. New additions …

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SEO News replied April 23, 201014 yr

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/whYIQDnkHnVDpBl7Ut19IcbvfQ0/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/whYIQDnkHnVDpBl7Ut19IcbvfQ0/1/di</img> Many a times, numbers don’t really make any sense at all. They’re just numbers and that’s what they are. But I love infographics for the fact that they put things into perspective, and in one glimpse you understand what that numbers really mean. These are the best infographics out there on Twitter. Informative, fun and meaningful. Hope you like ‘ em. 1. Infographic showing twitter milestones & Twitter usage stats on a timeline http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1twitterstatsinfo.png…

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SEO News replied April 23, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/directory-links.jpg Today’s post is answer to a question from Curedream: Is there really any value in getting links from the Yahoo directory I’m going to move that up a bit and tackle directories in general. In my opinion, yes, there is value in getting your website listed in some directories–but not all. The trick is figuring out which ones matter most. IMHO there are four directories that every website should try to be listed in: Yahoo, Business.com, Botw and DMOZ. Three of those are require an annual review fee. DMOZ is free; however, getting into DMOZ is considerably harder than it used to be. I recommend sub…

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SEO News replied April 22, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/outsourcing-hiring.jpg One of the first considerations for a web site owner is how to get the content you need at fair prices. Most serious web site developers have little to no time to create the most important aspect of a web site – the content. Outsourcing content creation to a company has many advantages. However, hiring in house writers can give you a great deal of control and flexibility that companies cannot provide. Some web site owners will even do both. Outsourcing Content Creation When you outsource content creation to a company or firm, you can trust that you are backed up by experienced editors and managers…

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SEO News replied April 20, 201014 yr

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/wbp-linkbuilding.jpg The following is a sponsored post. When I announced I was doing sponsored posts/reviews again, one of the first people to contact me was Jim Boykin of WeBuildPages. He let me know he was interested in getting a review of his link building services. To be honest, I had some concern about reviewing another SEO’s services. I told Jim that, if things didn’t work I didn’t want to give him a bad review and would just cancel the review. Thankfully that never was an issue. While I would usually disclose the website used in a review, doing so doesn’t seem like a wise choice in this situation, so I’ll omit s…

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SEO News replied April 19, 201014 yr