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How to leave comments for the best SEO?

I’ve gotten email asking about how to leave comments so that they are full of SEO goodness. Blogs and forums have the best potential for leaving comments. Blogs In blogs, they usually ask for your name, email address, your web … Continue reading

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The 10 for 10 Challenge

The easiest and fastest way to build traffic to your site is to post comments on other sites, using your web address. This does two things. First, it builds inbound links to your site, boosting your SEO and ultimately getting … Continue reading

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SEOmoz | Overcome the Google Analytics Learning Curve in 20 Minutes

As recently as a month ago, I was a victim of a state of mind I call Analytics Dismissal Disorder. This mindset is common after hearing about the importance of analytics, installing the tracking code and then getting overwhelmed by … Continue reading

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Why Blogging is the Perfect Small Business Marketing Tool – Remarkablogger

I’ve been reading Michael Martine’s blog, at Remarkablogger.com for a while. He’s always got great, solid, down-to-earth advice. You should check his whole site out if you are serious about blogging. His focus is on business blogging, actually making money … Continue reading

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I swear the camera adds 10 pounds…

Here is the post that inspired this post. Thanks to Laura Roeder. On video there’s nothing to hide behind. It’s your verbal stumbles and nervous laughter and futzing with the neckline of your shirt. It’s your face, your wrinkles, the … Continue reading

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How do we get Google to crawl the site again?

Selma asked me on the Walton.com Facebook Fan Page “How do we get the SE’s to crawl the site again? (“SE” is search engines, if you didn’t know.) This is a great question and deserves a great answer. I told … Continue reading

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Seth's Blog: Failure, success and neither

The math is magical: you can pile up lots of failures and still keep rolling, but you only need one juicy success to build a career. The killer is the category called ‘neither’. If you spend your days avoiding failure … Continue reading

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Customer Acquisition Through Blogs is Directly Related to Frequency of Posts

HubSpot recently published a study about marketing. One of the things they found was that companies who blog more often are more likely to acquire customers. Read that again slowly. “Blog more often” correlates with “more customers”. An underutilized blog … Continue reading

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Ten With Tess – An Interview On SEO Success

Last week, I wrote an article, Do You Love To Talk? SEO for Comment Virgins, urging people to leave comments on other people’s blogs to increase their own SEO. Among the 7 people who followed directions and commented on the … Continue reading

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Do You Love To Talk? SEO for Comment Virgins

Do you like to talk with people and build relationships? Have you ever told someone how you feel about their blog post? Have you ever left a comment on a web site? If you have never written a comment on … Continue reading

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