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Live Election Coverage

SEOAly — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:51:55 +0000

You can watch live election coverage courtesy of MSNBC right here at SEOAly.

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Sarah Palin: Embarrassingly Unapologetic Ignorance

SEOAly — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:48:23 +0000

Governor Sarah Palin’s first ever policy speech should have been a slam-dunk. The topic of the speech? Funding for programs that address the plight of children with special needs. A subject that – if for no other reason, as the mother of a child with special needs - should be well within [...]

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I Hope AIG Executives Enjoyed Their Retreat

SEOAly — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:10:53 +0000

While I sit at my desk working my 40-hour week at one of the largest website design & marketing companies in the country wondering if I’m going to have enough money in my checking account to fill my gas tank next week, I find myself growing more and more angry toward the acceptance of the [...]

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Reasons To Login Before Commenting

SEOAly — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:23:20 +0000

Do you have to log in to leave a comment? No…at least not yet, anyway. Trust me, though…if you intend to take the time to comment, you should take the extra 8 seconds to log in first. No, really…you SHOULD. Why? Two reasons… First, you should know that I have just installed “Social Profiles“. It is [...]

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The Economist…Plagiarists?

SEOAly — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:04:15 +0000

In a ridiculous attempt to defraud it’s readers into believing the idea was unique, The Economist has launched an application that seems eerily similar to the “If The World Could Vote?” project’s application - which was launched months ago and continues to gain popularity. Trying to capitalize on that site’s popularity, Economist? I think not. [...]

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Duplicate Content - Did Google Do A 180?

SEOAly — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:39:53 +0000

A lot has been made of the recent post at Google’s Webmaster Central Blog regarding duplicate content. The post, entitled Demystifying the “Duplicate Content Penalty”, basically calls into question the idea that a site can be “penalized” for having significantly similar content to another site and places the blame on webmasters and SEOs for perpetuating [...]

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The Jury Is Still Out On Headings…

SEOAly — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:58:51 +0000

Back on August 1st I wrote a “just wondering…” post regarding the importance of headings as they relate to on-site SEO efforts today - specifically H1, H2 and H3. I didn’t get much expert feedback, so I’ve decided to implement some real-world testing on an established domain to see if headings have an impact on [...]

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Why NOFOLLOW My Comments?

SEOAly — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:52:36 +0000

Some people are wondering why I’ve decided to remove the NOFOLLOW from the comments section of my posts using the “NoFollow Free” WordPress plugin. The answer is simple: to encourage discussion. Will there be some jackassess out there that will leave a “great post” comment just to get a link? Sure there will. When they [...]

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Final Results of NOSNIPPET Testing

SEOAly — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:23:00 +0000

Well, the results are in. Oilman was absolutely right - as if I ever doubted him for a moment! The NOSNIPPET robots argument was not only preventing Google from generating a random snippet of text to use as the description within the SERPS, it appears to have been preventing a description from showing at all. [...]

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What Does Web 2.0 Mean In The Real World?

SEOAly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:38:04 +0000

When people hear the term “Web 2.0″ it conjures an image of ingenious developers creating new programming languages…like the progressions of HTML, XHTML, CSS, Java, and PHP - most of which are acronyms that very few know the true meaning of, aside from the certainty that they all have “something to do with computers…”. While [...]

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Search Engine Submissions Are A SCAM

SEOAly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:50:10 +0000

I constantly come across advertisements for “SEO companies” (and I use that term loosely) that tout the features and benefits of choosing them for all of your search engine optimization and search marketing needs. Website promotion through search submissions is SEO circa 1998. Yet, the marketing materials for these companies inevitably include within their bullet [...]

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Defining “On A Personal Note”…

SEOAly — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:59:13 +0000

I wanted a category that would allow me to share some of my own personal experiences and observations without a definitive topic in mind. Most will clearly be search marketing related, because that’s what I do…but some may simply be observational editorials on topics ranging from starting small businesses to writing a resume to how [...]

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Unexpected Results Using NOSNIPPET

SEOAly — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:11:09 +0000

I’ve been playing around with some different robots arguments to determine exactly what they do. The constructive purpose of the nosnippet tag continues to elude me, as it didn’t work as I had believed it would (or should, for that matter). In using the nosnippet argument, my assumption was that it would prevent Google from [...]

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Kwippy - New Microblogging Platform

SEOAly — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:47:15 +0000

I’d not heard of kwippy before today (I’m still kind of a Social Media plebe), but I love learning about new tools and services that help people stay connected online. Thanks to Jeremy Weiss for the invitation! While I’ve not had much time to play around and/or familiarize myself with it’s individual features in comparison [...]

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How Important Are Headings These Days?

SEOAly — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:49:06 +0000

I’m having a bit of a difference of opinion over the importance of headings - specifically H1, H2 and H3 tags. A while back I made some suggested changes to our standard operating prodedure with regard to creating website rough drafts. Several of my changes were adopted and have since been implemented into our SOP, [...]

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What Is A “Professional Ethics Proponent”?

SEOAly — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:38:08 +0000

To be perfectly honest, I don’t have a clear definition for the term - I kind of made it up. Hear me out. I’ve worked for companies whose business philosophy stood in stark contrast to my own. A person can be great at sales without being a charlatan. A product or service with real benefits [...]

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Why I Love SEO

SEOAly — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:02:33 +0000

There appear to be some who misinterpreted my previous post regarding SEO consultation as negative toward the SEO industry as a whole. Nothing could be further from the truth. I love SEO. I think it’s fun. Then again, I’m kind of a geek. Luckily I’ve always been comfortable embracing my geekdom. I like researching terms…I [...]

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Social Networking For Less Internet Savvy Small Business Owners

SEOAly — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:19:09 +0000

Being a small business upstart often means also having a small marketing budget. As such, many small business owners find themselves in the driver’s seat when it comes to developing their own marketing strategy - online or otherwise. The rise of Internet marketing has opened an enormous window of opportunity for new businesses to introduce [...]

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“SEO Consultation” Is Ruining The Reputation Of An Entire Industry

SEOAly — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:35:51 +0000

Before any of you SEO consultants out there try to serve my head on a platter for impugning your work or your character, hang on a sec. I have provided hundreds of hours of SEO consultation to small business owners. That’s the basis for this post. Some of those consultations have proven to be valuable [...]

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Must Have WordPress Plugins For Newbies

SEOAly — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:38:35 +0000

WordPress rookie? Been there! I used WordPress for the first time a few months ago. A friend of mine that runs a blog mentioned it’s what he used, so I just ran with that…having no idea that there was so much to be done to the “out-of-the-box” WordPress to make it more functional and more search [...]

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The SEOmoz Expert Quiz Is Fixed!

SEOAly — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:33:05 +0000

I reported last week sometime that the SEOmoz Expert Quiz wasn’t recording all the answers. Don’t think I didn’t freak out a bit when I took it and only got a 50-something percent! As I scrolled down the page I quickly realized that it didn’t record all of my answers…WHEW - [...]

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On-Page SEO & Keyword Research - Important to Small Business?

SEOAly — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:33:31 +0000

Websites are to small business success today what door-to-door sales were to the success of Kirby vacuums in the ’80s. Despite the pop culture ribbing the company may now receive, their door-to-door sales efforts made Kirby Vacuum Cleaners a household name in suburban neighborhoods throughout the country. That marketing plan worked because of [...]

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3…2…1…LIFT OFF!

SEOAly — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:12:33 +0000

Welcome to the inaugural blog post of SEOAly! I’m a budding SEO. Be patient - this is one of many projects I’m attempting to launch simultaneously! A little background on my SEO knowledge - I know what NOT to do and a lot of what TO do. That said, I don’t know it [...]

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