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Powerful SMO Tool for SEO in the New Year – SamePoint
Update regarding SamePoint Unfortunately, the SamePoint website is D-E-A-D. 🙁 As you may have figured out by now, using SMO (Social Media Optimization), tied in with SEO in your Online Marketing efforts, is fast becoming a must-have. But with all the Networking sites (professional, social, and somewhere in-between) APIs (Application Programming Interface), tools and more …
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Optimizing What? SEO for Pages – Not Sites
In my SEO consulting, I can’t tell you how many times I hear this flawed phrase “I want my site on the top of the search results. Please optimize my website and make it number one in Google.” Firstly, you optimize pages, not sites. Secondly, and almost as important is the idea that anything can …
The SEO of Search Trends – What are people Searching for?
I’m into SEO and it helps to know what people are “searching” for. People everywhere are looking for stuff; business stuff, relationship stuff, news stuff, fun stuff, illegal stuff – all kinds of stuff. So for different reasons at different times, I like to ask the question “What are people Searching for?” Of course, depending …
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SEO – Unique Content vs Syndication
Thinking of SEO and looking at two quotes from the founder of the Internet Archive, I again run into the common debate over content. I remember in an interview with search giant, John Battelle, Brewster Kahle, entrepreneur and founder of the Internet Archive was quoted as saying: The library of Alexandria was the first time …
Top 5 Free Image Sources
In today’s web, a good site needs imagery; design, colors, and yes, even photos. Finding them (for free) on the internet for re-use can be difficult, if not downright dangerous. Here, I’ll give you a tip or two on doing just that. UPDATE 10/12/2011 I’ve added a few new image sources at the bottom of …
Top News Readers / RSS Aggregators
Updated for 2018! Like many of you, I read a great many different blogs, and come across even more on a daily basis. Also like many of you, these add up to overwhelm. And so of course I searched…for some decent News Readers. This morning, I came across a great Lifehacker post on the Best …
Yahoo gets LinkedIn
So I was working on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Progress reports for the site and checking CSKnet’s stats on Yahoo… (Website now dead) And found that Yahoo is getting Linked In…In more ways than one. I wanted to see who Yahoo thought was linking to “craigkiessling.com,” and to remove consideration of links from “craigkiessling.com.” (Links …
Simple Search for Movie Times & Theaters
Simple commands in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, will return all you need for your movie viewing pleasure. Does this scenario sound familiar? You want to go see a movie. You pick a movie. You do a search on what theaters are in your area. You see if any of them are …