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7 Link Building Mistakes You Ought to Avoid

If you were looking at your Google Analytics around the dates of March 21-23, then there is a good chance you saw some changes to your site…

Like a 10% to 30% drop in traffic.

It could be on sites you were working on…or sites you hadn’t even touched. Some speculated that the long-term search was being affected where keywords were disappearing in the Google Suggestions.

In fact, what happened was Google rolled out a fresh update of Panda in February…and then another in March.

Some significant changes have been made through those updates that can affect your

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10 Lessons Seth Godin Can Teach You About Blogging

Ever since I started in business, I’ve always loved Seth Godin. He’s a brilliant marketer and a great writer. In fact, he runs one of the most popular blogs.

Over the years I’ve read many of Seth’s books, listened to his interviews and have even seen him speak on a number of occasions…

And while many people view him as “America’s greatest marketer,” there is a lot to learn from him about blogging.

Let’s explore 10 of those lessons:

Lesson #1: Blog, prune, experiment, repeat

When it comes to creating content for your blog, the conventional method is to analyze

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How to Build Links Through Guest Blogging

Google wants less spam and more quality content on the web. And you need more links for your website. Guest blogging is the perfect solution to both Google’s wants and your needs. It is the marriage of content development and link building.

Here’s how you can get the most out of guest blogging and link building to drive more traffic to your website:

Step #1: Building your content portfolio

Whenever you are contacting a blog owner or editor for a guest posting opportunity on their site, you will want to provide some of

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How to Optimize Your Mobile Site for Search Engines

According to Google, mobile search is growing so much faster than desktop search… in fact, it’s grown so fast that it’s even beating Google’s predictions.

As Google’s Zero Moment of Truth ebook says, mobile is “not ‘the wave of the future’ any more — it’s right now”.

With mobile search becoming such a dramatic part of online search, it’s absolutely crucial that you optimize your site so that it is seen by searchers and engines. But before we get into that, here are some statistics for you:

Statistics every mobile SEO marketer needs to know

Let’s look at some

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How to Optimize Your Business For Local Search and Social Marketing

If you have a local business or one that targets audiences in a specific geolocation, then you will want to move beyond general guides for search and social optimization. This post will take you through several marketing strategies for local search and social media marketing.

Keyword Research for Local Search

Before you can optimize your website, social media profiles, or anchor text for link building, you have to know what keywords you want to use. When it comes to local search marketing, you are not only targeting industry-specific terms, but geo-specific terms

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The Marketer’s Guide to Blogging

As a marketer, have you ever wished you had a resource with all the essential and advanced information about blogging in one place?

You know…information about how to write a viral post to information about where and how to position your comments to get the best results.

Well, I’ve tried to do my best in giving you everything I’ve ever learned about blogging in the ten years I’ve been doing this in one giant post.

Now, I’m sure I might be missing a few facts…but that’s where you come in. I need you to provide that information in the comments

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How to Rank on the First Page of Google Through Videos

Don’t you ever wish there was a way to land on the first page of search results that didn’t involve the back-breaking work of traditional SEO?

Well, ever since Google started giving more and more attention to its blended results, you have had an incredible opportunity to jump to the first page of results by creating video content.

Studies have shown that videos were over 50 times more likely to appear on the first page of search results as part of the blended results.

The bad news is that this pushes down web pages…the good news is if

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How to Get Bloggers to Reply to Your Comments

Want to know the secret to getting big time-bloggers to reply to comments you leave on their blog? I’m talking about people like Brian Clark, Ramit Sethi and Danny Sullivan.

“No way!” You say, “Those guys are too busy! They’ll never respond to me.”

Anyway, why should you really care?

Well, getting someone to respond to a comment you left on their blog is a direct line to getting their attention…

And getting their attention is one step closer to becoming popular online.

And becoming popular means you are driving more traffic to your site, converting more

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The Marketer’s Guide to the New Facebook Pages

The New Facebook Pages design is here. For anyone in the Facebook marketing world, this means a lot of major changes. If you took advantage of the features of the timeline design for personal profiles, then the pages will feel similar. This guide will help you find what you’re going to like and hate about Facebook’s latest updates to pages, including how your brand or business can adapt.

What is New About the Facebook Pages Design

Before we dig deep into the details, let’s take a look at some of the major changes to the Facebook pages’ design.

Here, you

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9 Hard-Hitting Content Strategies for Small Business Blogging

Are you a small business owner with a blog? Is the blog successful? Well, if it’s not I might have a hunch why…

…and it has everything to do with content strategy.

Content strategy is a focused look at the entire life cycle of content…from the creation to maintenance and even retirement of content. You look at things like developing, curating, information architecture, writing, editing and marketing.

Unfortunately, not very many people take the time to think strategically about their content, they just design a site and start writing.

I want to change that mindset right now and give

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