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<title>30+ Very Useful Twitter Tools You Must Be Aware Of</title>
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<description>With Twitter the phase of &quot; do we really need it? &quot; is over. The &quot; how do we use it? &quot; phase is right now. There are numerous ways of using Twitter for everything from business to bull**** and even clients come up to me and ask me about Twitter after reading one of those Twitter articles in the main stream media. So what are the Twitter tools that really make a difference for SEO and overall business users? We see at least a dozen new Twiter tools every other day.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:05:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google SEO Starter Guide is Great News for Small Businesses</title>
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<description>The Google Webmaster Central blog yesterday posted about it's new PDF SEO Starter Guide , available for free download . This is excellent news for webmasters, especially during a recession, as many small businesses will be looking to push their search rankings/traffic forward but without the budget for SEO consulting. &quot;Welcome to Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. This document first began as an effort to help teams within Google,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:28:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How to Find Actual AdWords Search Query Triggered Using Google Analytics</title>
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<description>It can be very difficult at times to find the actual search terms your PPC traffic arrives from, so this is a Google Analytics trick all advertisers should know. Google's search query report can be useful but for high-traffic phrase or broad match keywords being told that 8 of your clicks arrived on &quot;85 unique queries&quot; doesn't really give you the complete picture!</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:54:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A Google Analytics Trick Everyone Should Know</title>
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<description>Google sucks when it comes to telling people what search queries your PPC traffic arrives from. True, there is a search query report but being told that 8 of your clicks arrived on &quot;85 unique queries&quot; tells nobody anything useful. Since the introduction of expanded broad match Google can (and does) match your broad match keywords to just about anything vaguely relevant; knowing these queries is important,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:44:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Keyword Research: 7 Keyword Modifiers to Optimise New Websites For</title>
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<description>This post is about keyword research , it deals with so called keyword modifiers . Let me tell you a story to explain those and why you need them: When potential SEO clients approach me my first question always is &quot;how old is your domain?&quot;. Then the second question is &quot;how long has it been indexed?</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:51:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Lazy Bloggers Guide to Quality Content &amp; Social Media Success</title>
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<description>I've been blogging for the last three years now and one of the most important things I've learnt is readers don't have the time (or attention span) to read through long detailed posts. Concise, attractive looking posts grab the attention of readers and perform far more effectively almost every time. I figured this out the hard way, spending hours writing up long posts which I considered to be quality content but unfortunately no-one else agreed!</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:37:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>5 Common Ad Testing Mistakes</title>
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<description>In my ppc for travel post from a couple of weeks ago I recommended splittester for testing ad variations. I got a bit fed up with only being able to test two ads at once and having to type the information in for each test. I though it would be a lot easier if I could do the same thing on a spreadsheet. I emailed Brian Teasley the creator of splittester, to find out what sort of statistical test he used so that I could implement it in my own spreadsheet.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:51:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Important Studies for Online Marketing</title>
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<description>A friend of mine recently told me that his new boss refuses to market the firm's website because she thinks internet advertising is a 'flash in the pan'. When my poor friend eventually got a word in edgeways, he said he understands the value of the internet as a marketing platform but needs to explain this to his employer. Therefore,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:59:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>50+ Must Read Web Design for ROI, Usability and SEO Articles</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12665</link>
<description>Web Design for ROI is a book that had huge impact not only on myself. It has changed the way the SEO industry approaches web design and finally made people embrace usability to it's full effect. Sadly the web developer community wasn't impacted to the same extent yet. Many web designers and developers, especially of the &quot;failed artist&quot; kind seem to assume that web design is more about flashy animations,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:04:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Are Google Now Penalising &quot;Free Gift&quot; Blog Reviews?</title>
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<description>Google have obviously been clamping down on paid links during the last year, but it now looks like they may also be taking a stance against blog reviews made in exchange for free gifts! Just in case you haven't heard of this; a recent popular strategy has been for website's to offer a free gift in exchange for bloggers reviewing and linking to a product.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:57:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>7 Weirdest SEO Mistakes Big Companies Make Abroad</title>
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<description>Ever since I concentrated on SEO for international clients entering the German market I not only was astounded by lots of localisation mistakes . It strikes me even more how international clients, big companies or should I say corporations literally sabotage their own SEO success. Working for small business clients is fine but doing it for several years bored me after a while.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:31:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:14:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Travel SEO &#226;&#128;" How to Target Searchers at the Right Stage of the Buying Cycle</title>
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<description>Having been involved in a wide range of travel SEO projects during the last 12 months, I thought it would be a good time to write about the buying cycle of searches when purchasing a holiday online.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:29:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How to Find the Top Sites in a Niche</title>
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<description>Recently, I've found that I'm searching around for the top sites in any niche on a regular basis. When I mention top sites, I'm referring to sites with: The most traffic The most number of feed subscribers Sites with a specific audience (if I'm marketing a country specific item) The most evangelical audience To give you an idea of what these might look like, I'll use the internet marketing niche as an example. In my mind,</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:27:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Displaying Post Count for Forum Listings</title>
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<description>I've noticed this on Google a few times recently, but when forum listings appear in search results they have a post count, number of authors and last post date stamp alongside them: I'm already finding this very useful to filter out the one post results and find posts containing more substantial information, without the need for clicking each listing. Copyright SEOptimise.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:55:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Position Preference Bidding: A waste of time?</title>
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<description>It is a PPC truism the ads in the top two positions get too many &quot;curiosity clicks&quot; and tend to convert poorly in comparison to ads lower down the page. I guess the thinking is that people who bother to read past the first couple of lines on the SERP are serious buyers. (So much of a truism that I can't seem to find one blog post to link to that deals with this. Maybe it is a Richard Fergie truism rather than an industry wide one).</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:23:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Can You Name a Location Where Wikipedia Doesn't Rank in Google's Top 10?</title>
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<description>I'm not saying this is a bad thing, infact it's probably quite useful as Wikipedia will provide a different type of search result, but the number of locational searches where Wikipedia rank in Google's top 10 is quite incredible! Here's some I found by performing a range of queries for countries, cities, counties,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:00:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>30 Internet Marketing Blogs You Must Know to Succeed Online</title>
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<description>There are probably tens of thousands of Internet marketing blogs . They often focus on different marketing aspects yet still you can easily get overwhelmed by the sheer number of them in every niche. In order to prevent information overload I selected 30 marketing blogs I am convinced everybody serious about online marketing success for his blog, website or ecommerce site should at least know. I divided the list into categories. Of course they aren't as strict as they seem,</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:31:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How to Alienate Google by Ignoring Browser Compatibility!</title>
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<description>Over the last couple of weeks I've been moving into a new apartment and I had a problem getting the oven to work (not too good at these sort of things). Anyway, I didn't have a manual so I headed over to the manufacturers website, Creda, for help. Searching for Creda in Google I found www.creda.co.uk at #1, but was surprised to see the following result snippet displayed: Bit strange,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:24:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Analytics Tools &#226;&#128;" Yahoo! Sees Mixed Response</title>
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<description>Yahoo! has launched its own analytics tool, promising real-time reports to 13,000 small business customers, with a further role out in 2009. Following its acquisition of IndexTools earlier this year , the search engine pledges to make visitor analysis available rapidly. This, it claims, will allow marketers to respond quickly to stats on sales, traffic sources and page views. Annoyingly, at the moment newbies trying to sign up to the service can't.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:14:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Beer Googles</title>
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<description>This weekend will be the first trial of Gmail's new Mail Goggles product ! Users who sign up can no longer stagger in late on a Friday or Saturday night and send emails they later regret because the mail provider will demand they take a sobriety test. People trying to email at potentially inebriated times will be faced with messages like: &quot;It's that time of day. Gmail aims to help you in many ways. Are you sure you want to send this?</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:35:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Travel PPC: 10 Ways to Improve Your Campaign.</title>
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<description>Do you do any sort of PPC for the online travel vertical? I recently attended a Google Webinar about online travel trends which they based on a ComScore study of 50,000 UK web users. Our Google rep, Marie, sent me a copy of the ComScore study which I have used to bring you my top ten useful tips for running a travel ppc campaign. Nearly half of all travel searches are brand related ; can you afford to miss out on all this traffic?</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:05:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Linkscape for Less?</title>
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<description>On Monday, like most of the rest of the search world, I was reading the seomoz blog and marvelling at their amazing accomplishment . For those of you who don't keep up with what's going on, Rand and the seomoz team have built an database of 30 billion web pages including a link map with information about which links are nofollowed and the anchor text used. All this is available for only $79/month.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:46:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>30 Ways to Get Links Naturally &amp; Stop Link Building</title>
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<description>More and more conventional link building methods, like directory submission are of less and less value , Google does not even recommend high quality paid directories any more. In fact soon we'll see a situation where all artificial ways of link building will be frowned upon. On the other hand former SEOptimise writer and renowned UK search marketing blogger Patrick Altoft reported a few days ago about companies which spend thousands on link buying budgets per month.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:10:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pay Per Chick; Pay for Conversions, Not Impressions</title>
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<description>Its Friday afternoon, no one's blogged on here for a while and I've been asked to step up to the plate without mentioning SpyFu. I should've been thinking of what to post for a few days now but I'm afraid I've been a bit distracted' So, I'm sitting in a bar with a nice cool pint. I lean back in my chair and look around; what do I see? That guy over there, he's got one friend opposite him but he's talking so the whole room can hear.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:42:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>WordPress Hacked? 7 Great Self Hosted Blog Platforms as WordPress Alternatives for SEO &amp; Business</title>
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<description>WordPress is the most popular blog platform for a while now and thus the main target of hackers just due to this fact. Also vulnerabilities pop up so often that you just can't keep up with the hackers. Recently one of the many WordPress Blogs I look after got hacked again by an &quot;online pharmacy&quot;. Of course I'm not the only one . It was the second hack with 3 months of this WordPress blog.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:25:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>5 Simple, Effective Tactics to Promote a New Website</title>
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<description>I've been building quite a lot of sites recently, both personally and client related. In this time I've observed quite a few strategies that are key to helping a site grow from scratch. Traffic is usually what the success of a website lies on, so you need to know how to build traffic as effectively as possible. Luckily, over the last 2 months I've helped launch over 10 sites and quickly drive them to large amounts of relevant traffic and lots of feed subscribers.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:21:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>4 Ways Fool Your Competitors Using SpyFu.</title>
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<description>Wouldn't it be great if you could convince your competitors that they had to spend big in order to keep up with you? If they use SpyFu to estimate your ad spend and CPC then you can. I've looked at what SpyFu say about their own algorithm and techniques and then I've combined this knowledge with what I observed last week to come up with these ideas about how to turn SpyFu into a double agent. Firstly let's look at how SpyFu calculate their Ad Spend and CPC estimates.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:37:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>50 Blog Post Ideas for Business Blogging</title>
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<description>Business blogging is not always easy . You can't annoy people too much, you can't be too personal funny outspoken A business blog is subjective but unlike a private blog you still are writing for people interested in your trade, products and services and not necessarily you as a person watching movies and eating out. So you need ideas that are creative while not being too creative as to scare away your business audience.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:59:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>A Spin Thing: Wrinkle cream and SEO</title>
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<description>I went for a drink with a friend of mine recently and she was telling me about an anti-wrinkle cream she had bought (I will not be naming her, she'd kill me!) which turned out to do nothing for wrinkles. She had invested in Johnson &amp; Johnson's Complete Lift cream, only to have the Advertising Standards Agency ban its advertising a few days later for being &quot;misleading&quot;. The watchdog was responding to complaints by the public that the &#163;17.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:32:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Are Google Being More Open about Quality Scores?</title>
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<description>I was doing some keyword maintenance today and I noticed something new when I hovered over the magnifying glass thing beside the keyword: It looks like Google are being more explicit with their quality scores. Could this be a new feature that they haven't yet announced on their blog ? Or could it be an accidental leak ? To me it looks to be too well integrated to be accidental which means that Google are trying to make things clearer for us.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:13:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Are UK Supermarket Retailers Too Big for SEO?</title>
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<description>Earlier today I wrote a blog post over on e-consultancy which looks at how UK supermarkets are ignoring SEO for major keywords . In my opinion this is a massive oversight and it appears that the leading supermarket retailers such as Asda, Sainsburys and to a certain extent Tesco are trying to overprotect their brand rather than optimise their website's for very important keywords. I'm not suggesting that they keyword stuff their h1 and title tags etc,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:26:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Small (but Great) SpyFu Experiment</title>
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<description>For those of you not in the loop, spyfu.com is a web service that provides information on who is bidding on what keywords as well as further information on competitors' daily ad spend as well as their average CPC. The startup squad have a great article on what spyfu does and how it does it . No Mr Bond, I Expect you to Disagree. Everyone seems to have an opinion on how useful spyfu is,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:57:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Contentious Search: Google, Religion and Freedom of Speech</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11147</link>
<description>Google has reversed a decision which saw it previously refuse to carry paid search adverts for a pro-life Christian group when the searcher types in &quot;abortion&quot;. The Christian Institute, the group in question, (which must have received greater levels of traffic over this event than it ever has before because of this story) approached the search engine earlier this year requesting paid adspace. Google refused,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Quo Vadis: SEO Has 5 Futures</title>
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<description>Sadly the future of SEO is mostly a topic for people outside the industry who grab attention by reinforcing prejudice. On the other hand we're in the middle of huge changes taking place in the SEO industry or should I say' yes, what. Already at present we rarely speak about SEO anymore. It's always part of a composite term or a larger concept like search marketing . Here are the 5 most common SEO futures already visible right now: findability advanced SEO SEO 2.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:58:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Search not squeezed by global slump</title>
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<description>You may have noticed that, while Britain's investment bankers may be facing a lean Christmas, SEOptimise has expanded its team. This is because, despite the credit squeeze, the search sector is growing rapidly. Recession, it seems, happens to other industries - the rise in search marketing budgets is so inevitable that even with a slow or fall in economic growth, the sector continues to expand. I am not even offering you anecdotal evidence.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:17:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SEOptimise Continues to Grow with Two New Staff Members</title>
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<description>Hi I'm Kelly Barrass and have just joined SEOptimise as a Marketing Assistant. I am an undergraduate at Oxford Brookes University, studying Marketing Management and English Literature. I have previous Marketing Experience for an award winning business in Surrey, and am keen to extend my knowledge and awareness of Search Engine Optimisation. What Being a part of SEOptimise means to me As I get ever more familiar with Marketing as a concept,</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:07:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Advertisers Quick to bid on &quot;XL Airways&quot; &amp; &quot;Lehman Brothers&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10968</link>
<description>Following XL Airways going into administration last week and yesterday's annoucement that Lehman Brothers are filing for bankruptcy , many competitors have quickly setup PPC ads targeting brand queries to take advantage of this. Below are the ads appearing on Google for XL and ads have quickly started appearing for Lehman Brothers too: This obviously wouldn't have been possible before Google opened up brand bidding , but is this a good thing?</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:14:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Search from the horses' mouths</title>
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<description>I encourage potential search engine optimisation (SEO) clients to read up on the sector through the internet. I want firms to understand the role of our service so they can appreciate the benefits resulting from it. However, there is a vast amount of information, opinion and sometimes startling-opposed conjecture scattered across the web and for a newbie, it can be pretty difficult to figure out what is sense and what is silly - or even potentially damaging.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:55:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>25 Outdated SEO Terms &amp; Tactics vs Their Modern Alternatives</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10880</link>
<description>Many webmasters and website owners fail to notice the fundamental changes the web has taken in recent years. People still waste time with meta keywords tags, obsessing about PageRank and measuring keyword density for highly artificial sounding page copy. Get real , most of the old school website optimization tactics are completely useless, sometimes even harming your website. Many SEO tactics have changed, others have been replaced.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google: Guardian of knowledge or danger to freedom?</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10807</link>
<description>Google's recent tenth birthday has left me (and pretty much everyone with an opinion on search) pondering the extent of its power. In its short commercial life the engine has changed from quirky student project to a multi-billion pound business. It has spawned language developments, helped create the sector in which I work and inserted fingers into a startling number of pies &#226;&#128;" admittedly never quite replicating the success of its search facility.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:17:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 10 Resources to Pass the Google AdWords Exam in a Week</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10724</link>
<description>Hi, I'm Richard Fergie, the newest guy at SEOptimise. I've been with the company a week now and I've just taken (and passed) the Google AdWords exam. I've been asked to do a blog post about it so (in the best SEO blog&#160;tradition) I decided on doing a top 10 list of things I've found useful. Here goes' 1. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The Official Resource The AdWords Learning Centre . If you are a visual or aural learner head straight for the multimedia lessons. If you're in a hurry,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:11:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SEO losing out to paid search budgets</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10719</link>
<description>British firms will spend a quarter more on search advertising this year than last, a new report released by E-consultancy predicts. The online marketing maestros have published their Search Engine Marketing Buyer's Guide , which forecasts search marketing spending will increase by 24 per cent this year. It asserts that, despite the possibility of a recession hitting adspend, firms will keep upping their search marketing budgets. This year,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:37:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>106 Days to a Profitable Christmas</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10703</link>
<description>I hate to instil fear into the hearts of those people for whom Christmas is a chore but the day is screaming ever closer. However, whatever the thoughts of those with a lengthy present-buying list, for marketers and online retailers this festive period could be in for a treat. The Interactive Media in Retail Group has published analysis which suggests 68 per cent of consumers are more likely to shop online this year,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:05:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Business Blogging: 5 or 5K? Choose Your Audience</title>
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<description>Almost 3000 Sphinn visits from August 6th until September 5th August was a very successful month for this blog, especially as it was during summer where many people are on vacation. Business blogging is one of the key methods of reaching an audience for a SEO company. SEO firms can't rely on the major social sites like Digg, Reddit or even StumbleUpon as the audience there often is wary of SEO already to due to elusive nature of SEO: You only recognize bad,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:43:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What Twitter could Learn from Sphinn &amp; SEOmoz Nofollow Tactics</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10546</link>
<description>There's a heated discussion on Twitter today following the move to take away link juice from bio links on profiles. This follows Dave Naylor's backlink tip which caused Matt Cutts to notify Twitter founder Evan Williams , appearing to request/recommend that hyperlinks are removed from profile bio. The heated discussion occurred because many active users feel that the time and effort they have spent in building up their Twitter profiles should be rewarded with a backlink.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:51:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>How are Google Promoting Google Chrome?</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10530</link>
<description>I expect by now most people have heard about Google's launch of its new web browser Google Chrome yesterday. Rather than talk about Google Chrome itself (as it has been very well covered already), I've taken a look at how Google are promoting this to encourage users to download and try out the new browser. Google.com &amp; Google.co.uk Both Google.co.uk and Google.com have download messages on their homepages.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:10:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Search propelling global adspend</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10474</link>
<description>Global economic issues are hitting adspend in many arenas but the internet is continuing to grow as a medium, a new report shows. Aegis Media has revised its global advertising expenditure forecast for 2008 by just over a percentage point. It now expects global promotional spending to grow by 4.8 per cent this year, rather than the previously anticipated 4.9 per cent. That may not sound like a vast amount but when you consider the epic levels spent in total across the planet,</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:53:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ten Top Tips for Tip Top Copy</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10396</link>
<description>Relevant, useful and appealing content is a vital part of any search engine optimisation (SEO) campaign but it is not as straight forward as writing a business letter or a proposal. There are different ways of writing for the web which may not be immediately obvious to the average business director who has agreed to keep a blog or write an authoritative guide to help their business gain momentum. Here are a few tips for creating good, readable web copy. 1) Keep it simple,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:23:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SEO is Dad: The 30 Easiest Ways to Get Links and Exposure</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10355</link>
<description>Most website owners rely on quick website tweaks and the right tools for measurable website success . That's not wrong but that's also not enough. Being serious about business, a webmaster must get links to get additional exposure via search engines, of course predominantly Google. Google still judges a website mostly based on the number and quality of links pointing to it (backlinks). So even today you got to get links , be it via outstanding content,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:30:03 GMT</pubDate>
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