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Involving your support team in your SEO efforts

SEO is somewhat of an arms race. Organizations that are reasonably successful at it  follow best practices for on-page SEO, have great internal linking structure, and run inbound linking campaigns (great content, link bait, etc.). At the end of the day, however, what often separates good rankings from great rankings is the sheer amount of [...]

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Is your vendor bleeding your page rank?

Just a word of warning to marketers: I have seen a distubring resurgence of SEO black hat chicanery by agencies and software vendors that I thought died out a few days ago. In the past week I have seen websites where either a design firm or a web analytics company put a hidden link back [...]

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Google Is a Harsh Mistress

SEM is immediate and SEO is gradual right? That’s what I used to think. I’ve been spending the last month really optimizing our site for a specific keyword, expecting the return on the time investment to pay off 6-12 months down the ride. I was quite surprised to see today that we were in fact listed on Google’s first page — an improvement from page three just a month or so ago.

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