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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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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…

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 …

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…

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…

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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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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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…

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…

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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Today’s post is a question from Max Capener, who wants to know what’s the best way to handle old sites that you buy? Ok so that’s a question that has a lot of different aspects, and I’ll try to go over a few of them. First, let’s talk about why you bought the website. Was it the competition? Were you looking to re-purpose/redirect some link equity? Or is it just a good domain name? If it’s the competition, you have few options you can leave it in place and try and secure two spots in the SERP’s. If that’s your plan I’d try and keep as much the same as possible: hosting, design, architecture, whois, etc. I’d only change each piece one at a time and very slowly. Chan…

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