March Madness : SEO Fantasy Tournament
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March Madness is amongst us and Matt McGee, SEO and fantasy sports buff, has put together a Yahoo Fantasy Sports March Madness competition for the SEO crowd: Alright, the best three weeks of the entire year are about to begin. Today is Selection Sunday for the NCAA men&#8217;s hoops tournament, and the games start later this [...]
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Google rules all in the online world, and businesses live or die on its search rankings determined by a secret algorithm. Everyone is trying to crack the code, and some people might pay $10 million or more to anyone who does.
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How the right tools can create a solid search strategy.
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SEO Clinic, the free SEO recommendation and review service where Search Engine Journal editors and special guest SEO experts help sites better their rankings, usability and overall search marketing presence, is going to be running as a bi-weekly column here on Search Engine Journal. This week, we helped TechSmith, a screen capture and web video company, [...]
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Still trying to figure out which of the 73 sessions to attend at next week's Search Engine Strategies conference? Let Greg Jarboe guide you with his optimized schedule for paid- and organic-focused search marketers.
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Taking the pulse on hot topics and social media sites for SEO insight
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As previously mentioned, Nick Halstead will be revealing the top three places in the results from the programming competition he was hosting. Today starts the top three list with third place - an entry from Karol Grecki:   I was really impressed with Karol's entry and if it was not for the fact that it did not 'run out of the box' it would have been a close cut thing to be the winner. The fact is that because it was a pain to get running the two other judges only gave it 1 point each.   The post includes Karol's solution - a method that involved using the Zend Framework as a backdrop. You can see the application in action on Karol's website or just download the code and play along at home.
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Even the most seasoned optimization experts hit roadblocks when it comes to marketing their web sites. When these issues arise, the most common way to deal with them is through the use of pay per click advertising. It is important to understand that search engine optimization has its limitations. With the introduction of Google&#8217;s Universal Search [...]
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Jessica Bowman, Director of SEO for Business.com, has been updating core directory listings over the past week and lends some good advice on keeping track of SEO directed directory listings and link building information, which future SEO&#8217;s at your current company will cherish you for. Frustrations like you can&#8217;t imagine begin to emerge when you have [...]
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Do patents, white papers, and other publications authored by search engine employees provide clear guidance to how to optimize Web pages?  A panel of experts debated the issue at a recent Search Engine Strategies conference.
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Bloggers race to create compelling content during competition, but only one will survive what's billed as an "Internet cage match."
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Jim Boykin is a friend of mine and respected voice within the world of SEO, linking and informational blogging. I received a request from ReviewMe to do a review of We Build Pages, Jim&#8217;s company, and their extensive list of We Build Pages SEO and Internet Marketing tools. If Jim would&#8217;ve IM&#8217;d me and asked for [...]
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How did Search Engine Strategies measure up against other technical conferences? SEO analyst John Parent shares his thoughts.
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Mikhail Tuknov, founder of Infatex.com,  sent in this article on CSS and its importance in search engine optimization. I found it to be a basic and &#8216;to the point&#8217; read on how CSS can cut down on load time, cross browser compatibility and code cleanliness. As the holiday season approaches, Search Engine Journal will be [...]
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Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz had the chance to pose a question to representatives of the major search engines which has been on the minds of many within the industry; &#8220;how do the engines feel about pay-per-post services on blogs, where advertisers can buy links and product reviews?&#8221; The responses, as Rand reports, were surprising: Yahoo&#8217;s Tim Converse [...]
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My search buddy Jennifer Laycock just posted some information over at Search Engine Guide about an interesting conference kicking up its first show in San Diego, the Online Marketing Summit. No this is not Another Search Conference, instead it&#8217;s a total online marketing oriented conference which should have more information and sessions dealing with online media [...]
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PHPClasses.org has reviewed a new book today - "Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP" from Wrox Publishing by Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie.    This is a topic about which there is a lot to say, starting from the Google page rank algorithm, and what to do, as well what you should not do, to have your sites optimized to attract as many visitors as possible using search engine sites.   That is precisely the main topic of the book "Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP". Despite the title mentions PHP, most of the knowledge presented in this book applies to all kinds of sites, independently if they are served by PHP code or not.    Manuel notes that the "PHP part" mostly has to do with the creation of dynamic sites and working with current PHP applications (like WordPress) to make them more search engine friendly.   Overall, this is an excellent book search engine optimization - SEO. It is very complete. [...] Whether or not you are familiar with the subject, if you are looking for good a book to learn all you need to know about SEO, this may be an excellent choice.