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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/seo-automatic.jpg For this post I’m going to review the SEO Automatic Plugin produced by Scott Hendison. Some of you may know some of Scott’s other work from Search Commander, Inc. and the WP Core Tweaks Plugin. For this post, we’re going to be looking at his latest creation SEO Automatic for Agencies. The plugin is designed for agencies and SEO firms who run a lot of site audits and are looking to save time by getting a quick assessment of a website’s technical aspects and identifying any potential problems or issues. The plugin isn’t designed to replace a experienced SEO, but it does automate some of the grunt wo…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/may-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! Directory Journal – Get permanent deep links in a search engine friendly directory Authority Labs A new web based rank checker, learn more in my Interview with Chase Granberry of …

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/scam-listing.jpg Anyone who deals with the public sector will have to deal with negative listings about them in the SERPs at some point. The most damaging of these is the “scam” listing. In this post I’ll discuss some tactics you can use to handle them. In this age it’s inevitable that some will say something negative about you and you need a strategy to deal with it…I got the idea for this article when I read a post by Tim Ferris called Tim Ferris Scam – How to Deal With the Haters. The article offers some practical real world advice ( I’m particularly fond of the Colin Powell quote), but this post is really just …

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/kwd-focused-posts.jpg One of my constant criticisms of bloggers and the blogosphere in general is the sacrifice of keyword focus and the traffic it could bring when bloggers are more lyrical with their prose than they need to be. In my opinion that post meets the goal of being interesting while talking about a commercial subject… Last week I was reading an article in USA today (on my iPad) and came across an article that shows you can do both. Take a look at this article on five concerts you should see this summer before we get started. The article discusses five artists, the shows they are putting on, and why you …

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/l_600_340_9E58B5FA-9803-48DA-9C99-90836DC5250A.jpeg In my most recent column on Search Engine Land I wrote about Foursquare Tools for Businesses. After writing that article, I came across a local promotion. This promotion came from a local Italian ice shop. Now, you may not think Italian ices are a competitive business. But there are no less than three places that are about equidistant from my house. If, by checking using foursquare, I can increase my chances of getting a free ice now and again, I’d definitely use it and visit there. To be perfectly honest the $2-$3 isn’t the issue. It’s a bit of psychology at work…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/12pdAawlNNwHlyrArfn9fIwZHOo/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/12pdAawlNNwHlyrArfn9fIwZHOo/1/di</img> http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailybloggr.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fthe-best-facebook-application-to-syndicate-your-blog-and-facebook%2F&source=ManiKarthik&style=compact&service=bit.ly No, this is not a sponsored post. But this facebook application is plain awesome ! I’ve been looking for facebook applications that will syndicate content from blogs to facebook in a non-annoying way and except this one, have hardly found any. In fact, I tried a few and none of …

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/l_600_300_ACF7E9A5-B164-41CE-9222-3FD5B7A565FF.jpeg A few weeks ago I received a copy of the new book ProBlogger, Secrets to Blogging Your Way to a Six Figure Income from Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett. The book is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to learn how to be a professional blogger–or how to monetize a blog they already run. Before I go any further, in the interest of full disclosure, I will tell you that the review copy I received was provided free of charge. To be honest, though, getting a $25 book free of charge really isn’t enough to sway my opinion. The book is divided up in several section…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/l_600_300_707BC0FB-1833-4BB7-8602-ECFDA6286EC5.jpeg I’ve been doing SEO for a few years, with specific focus on social media and ways businesses can find their audience, their prospects and make money out of utilizing social media to generate leads. What I am still troubled to see, maybe because I live and breathe this industry, is that social media still seems a place where businesses fail. Throwing up a fan page without knowing how social media runs or without interacting and responding to individuals, letting the page run on auto pilot is something I see far too often and are common online business mistakes. This …

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eHpU7-B8dOLyjOB5seK6fdRhDqA/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eHpU7-B8dOLyjOB5seK6fdRhDqA/1/di</img> http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailybloggr.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fdont-trust-google-try-yandex-russias-search-engine-now-gone-global%2F&source=ManiKarthik&style=compact&service=bit.ly Just when everything was going monotonous ! Yandex, The “Google of Russia” has gone global today, giving us one more option apart from the three big boys Google, Yahoo and Live ! http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/yandexsearchengine.jpgImage Courtesy …

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/ftp-ipad.jpg I recently became the new owner of an iPad 3G and, despite my initial skepticism when the device was first announced, I actually really like it. Truth be told, I actually like it more than my Asus Netbook. That said, if it can’t help me actually get work done, then it really is a toy. So I brought it along for my recent trip to Search and Social summit in Tampa to put it to the test. Whenever I go to a show I really try to take care of the heavy lifting before I go. But sometimes things just don’t work out that way. I had to take an image that was sent me via email and FTP it up to the server. So here’s how you d…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/two-plugins-may2010.jpg As I mentioned before, I’m a big fan of plugins. They help me manage and run Wordpress more efficiently and GTD. I’ve got a list of SEO Plugins for Wordpress, which is on living URL (hmm… 2008. Guess I need to update that…). Last week, I came across two new plugins that are different. I think they really help Wordpress take a big step forward. One is from EzineArticles and the other is from Linkshare. For those of you who might now know, EzineArticles is an article-marketing website. You upload articles to their system with two goals in mind: syndicating your content to gain links and hosting conten…

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http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/authority-labs.jpg The following is a sponsored post. For this post we’re going to be talking with Chase Granberry of AuthorityLabs.com. For my readers who don’t know you, can you tell me a little bit about yourself and some of your SEO related experience? I’ve always been an Internet geek. I love the potential the web has to offer and really realized this potential when I was in college. I saw how the Internet could make advertising much more relevant & flexible for consumers, while improving accountability for advertisers. When I graduated, I took a job at a commercial printing company to help them develop a site…

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http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/C4rF9cFgl1WXXekf-avCDi-B4JQ/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/C4rF9cFgl1WXXekf-avCDi-B4JQ/1/di</img> http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailybloggr.com%2F2010%2F05%2F5-popular-social-media-myths%2F&source=ManiKarthik&style=compact&service=bit.ly Okay, I decided to write this after a lot of thought. Why ? Because a topic like this, I knew would be easily shunned off by many of you. One would think – “Myth ? Not for me, I know the real thing.” Well, that’s what I thought too, until I spoke to a few tweeps about social media recently. http://www.dailybloggr…

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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…

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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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…

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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