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http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/u6FDdwH6ggsKgmyvETKUTegCatE/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/u6FDdwH6ggsKgmyvETKUTegCatE/1/di</img> This is probably a clear signal that there is no more space for another social networking site on the internet unless you do it the niche way. Another Web 2.0 league social networking/blogging platform VOX from Six Apart is no more after Sep 15th. While the reasons are not explained, its obvious that they probably realized its a failed product. http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/image2.png In an email send to users, VOX said – Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect…

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/sidebar-silo.jpg The following post is part of a series on How to Silo Your Website. You should review, How to Silo Your Website the Masthead, How to Silo Your Website the Breadcrumb, How to Silo Your Website the Content. For this part, we’ll be taking a look at the sidebar. You want to keep the sidebar content dynamic …IMHO the sidebar is the second most abused and misused part of a website (the footer is the most abused which we’ll talk about in a later article). The sidebar is so abused because people stick too much third party content, widgets, social blocks, and simply too many links. In the past year I have worked on…

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/natural-links.jpg A while ago I wrote my case study on how I listened to Google and failed. The post got a lot of attention from the SEO community. Many people wondered whether natural link building was really dead and what was the future of building natural links. I’ll try to answer some of those questions in this post. The statements below are a mix of my opinion/my personal observations. 1. Is There a Universal Definition of ‘Natural Link Building’? http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/natural-link-building.jpg There’s one thing I’ve learned from some of the reactions of my previous post: Not all people hav…

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/dynamic-content.jpg One of the problems I encounter on large client websites–or with clients who constantly add or update existing content–is getting this content into the index as quickly as possible. One of the tactics I recommend is using the homepage. When I talk about adding dynamic content I mean in the main content section …I can think of only three or four websites I have ever worked on where the homepage wasn’t the most frequently crawled page on the entire website (the outlier cases were viral microsites, in case you were wondering). So your best strategy is to use this frequent crawling to spoon feed links to th…

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/scorpion-seo.jpg This is a post that may anger you and piss you off, but hopefully it makes you think a little. But I think a lot of the people in the SEO community are short sighted and are willing to sacrifice themselves and the community as whole if they see the chance to get a link or exposure. Much like the scorpion in the tale of the frog and the scorpion, they can’t help themselves even when it means their own self destruction. I’ve been in this field for a log time. I’ve seen a lot things and gotten a lot of help from people who came before me, and I appreciate the value they contributed in teaching me a trade that…

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/reward-loyalty.jpg Are you familiar with the following concept? It is much easier and more cost effective to sell to existing customers than it is to acquirer a new one. Which one would you rather have? Sell 50 items to 5 people or 50 items to 50 people. When you are designing and tweaking your marketing campaigns, be sure to include your current customer base and maximum their profit potential. Here are several ways to do just that, give your customers a reason to come back for more. Special Discount Offers I recently purchased something from an online retailer. When I received my package, I noticed there was a …

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/funnel-spider.jpg The following is part of the series How To Silo Your Website. Be sure you have read parts one and two: How To Silo Your Website: The Masthead and How to Silo Your Website: The Breeadcrumb. In this part, we will be taking a look at the content area. This isn’t so much about conserving pagerank or link equity, but more about funneling it where you want it to go …When I talk about the content, I mean the part of your website template where the information is. At the time of the writing of this post it is my belief (and the belief of many others) that links in this area are weighted differently than links in …

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/sniper-seo.jpg One of the mistakes I feel many people make is that they write articles or posts chasing very broad topics. IMHO it’s much better to write narrowly focused posts, pages, or articles and tie it together later on. This is a concept I call head and tail content that I touched on in my How I Manage a WordPress Website. In my experience converting long tail phrases is easier, especially if they answer a question or solve a problem …So what is an example of content that IMHO is too broad? Something like “how to plan a Disney World Vacation.” While this is a good topic for a an article it’s far too broad for you to…

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/small-hotels.jpg In my first post on hotel SEO, I explained how big hotels with conference facilities have an advantage over small hotels. But small hotels need not despair, because they have ample link building opportunities too. In the interest of keeping things short, here are some link sources I’ve seen in the hotel SEO scene, which sources are accessible to small hotels. I’m [mostly] skipping the commentary. 1. Local universities and colleges – If out of town students have friends or family helping them move in to dorms, where do those friends or family stay? Local hotels that are affordably-priced, naturally. Not…

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