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I've said quite a few times that the key to an effective link building success is proper organization. Oftentimes we need to accomplish so many various tasks when building links that solid management and organization is a must: we need to brainstorm various link building ideas (and document the effectiveness of each), store the potential link partners' contacts (for further…

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How to Organize Your Link Building with SEJ Tools

Google Wave was officially launched in beta a couple of weeks ago and already plenty of people realize its potential usefulness. I guess most of people reading SEJ have joined the party so far (tip: I got my invite by asking on Twitter, you can do the same if you haven't yet), so I decided to start sharing my tips on…

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5 Google Wave Search Tips for Research, Trends & Tracking

Have you ever noticed how many bloggers and social media marketers just tell people that they should go out try social media? How you shouldn’t worry about learning social it? That you’ll learn it on the fly and everything will be fine. Well, I’m not one of those. It’s absolutely in your best interest to learn the…

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5 Reasons to Learn Social Media

Google’s announcement of personalized search for everyone has stirred a lot of mixed reactions from the search industry. Eric Schmidt’s interview on CNBC has even provoked various sentiments on privacy issues. I think Aaron Wall of SEOBook.Com has an excellent take on this one. Personally, I agree with Kalena Jordan’s conclusion on whether or not SEO …

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How SEOs Win the War on Personalized & Real-Time Search

Ever since Google Chrome blog announced the launch of Google Chrome Extensions, people have never stopped talking when this move is going to kill FireFox. Well, you might know how much I love FireFox (even despite the fact that because of my experiments with addons it sometimes becomes dead slow) and how hardcore I may become wen it comes to something…

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FireFox Addons vs Google Chrome Extensions

Semantic Checker is a new and still experimental Firefox addon (download it here) highlighting semantic elements in the web page you are currently viewing. The tool should be used for on-page analysis as well for educational purposes (to see which sites are introducing new HTML elements and microformats, for example). Here are the elements the tool supports: Semantic HTML4 elements …

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Analyze HTML Elements & Microformats w/ Semantic Checker

There have appeared a few really cool interactive buttons recently that visualize how popular the story is. The best thing about them is that they really encourage the visitor to share and promote the page and therefore I highly recommend you to install a few of them. The question is which one ...Tweetmeme seems to be the most popular one…

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Interactive Buttons with Hit Counters – Which Ones Do You Use?

It's Christmas Eve, or the Night Before Christmas, and the time has come again to track the route of Santa Claus as he travels the globe, bringing presents to the good boys and girls. Want to track Santa's whereabouts on Christmas Eve? Here are the online tools you need. Official NORAD Santa Tracker NORAD continues it more than 50 years tradition of…

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Track Santa Online with Norad Santa Tracker & More

Every year as the holiday shopping season ramps up, people ask me the same question over and over again "What do you want for Christmas this year?" I consider myself a pretty simple fellow, and always have a difficult time answering this question for a couple of reasons : one because I'm not used to getting gifts, and two because…

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SEO Christmas Wishlist : Perfect Presents for an SEO

I find it sad that many people are absolutely unaware of Google advanced operators, or even if they do know about the advanced search, they never use it. I for one use Google advanced operators all the time: when doing on-page diagnostics; searching for backlink opportunities, doing competitive research, etc, etc So in this post I decided to share the best…

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Tools and Resources to Learn Google Advanced Operators

Google Talk is becoming one of the most popular IMs (maybe that's only my impression because most of my friends are SEOs and Googlers but I haven't had the need to start any of my other instant messengers for ages). So here's the good news: you can use Gtalk not only for chatting - with the following Google Talk Bots you…

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5 Coolest Gtalk Bots for Internet Marketers

Still remember MyBlogLog? Sometime in 2006, it was one of the hottest social networking tool for bloggers because of one simple reason - it allows bloggers to put a face on their blog visitors.  I remember using MyBlogLog for quite some time until Yahoo purchased it in 2007 and MyBlogLo started offering blog site analytics tools both as free and…

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Yahoo to Shut Down MyBlogLog

“I mean, what are they gonna say about him, when he's gone, huh? What are they gonna say? Are they gonna say "he was a kind man"? "He was a wise man"? "He had plans"; "He had wisdom"? Bullsh**, man! What are they gonna do when he's gone? … Am I gonna set them straight, …

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Chris Henry Rashomon’d By Google Real Time Search

We are in the midst of the largest algorithmic changes to Google’s relevancy since the Florida Update of 2003, and perhaps even the largest change for how marketers approach search since Google and Inktomi revolutionized the concept of citation based rankings. The interesting part of this change is that it is not focused on one concept, but rather several, that…

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2010 : A New Age For Search Marketers

Welcome to another edition of '7 Days of Search and Social' - First off, HAPPY HOLIDAYs to all those partaking. May you and yours have a safe and relaxing time! Now, I had thought things would start to slow down as we got closer to the holidays, but not so. We had a lot of interesting posts, patents and toys…

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Weekly Search & Social News: 12/22/09

Last time I shared a quick tip on how SEJ tools help to analyze your design. Today I am going to share another feature that allows to quickly collect your off-page stats (I say quickly because that's actually the best part about the tool: there's nothing there you can't do yourself but with it you'll save much time). Quality analyzer (the feature…

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Analyze Your Current Off-Page Stats with SEJ Tools

I can't tell you how many jobs I've landed just by coming up in searches for my own name in Google. Since I am an Internet marketing professional having a web presence is a must. What if you're not a marketing professional, is a web presence something you should work on and will it benefit you?…

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Should You Be Marketing Yourself Online?

I was reading up on Google acquisitions yesterday and although Google's acquisition this year is not as many as previous years, particularly 2006 and 2007, Google's acquisitions in 2009 certainly made sense with their landmark acquisition of AdMob as their most expensive buy. But looking at Google's 2009 acquisitions from a quality, and not quantity perspective, we see that the company…

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Google’s 2009 Acquisitions : Focus on Mobile & Collaboration

With so much important private information we store at our computers and send to our co-workers, secure browsing is very important. For us, search marketers, there is another benefit of seeing online security flags while we browse: this works as an additional help for SEO diagnostics because security flags can easily be the reason of low rankings. So this post lists…

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How to Insert Page Security Alerts Into Google Results

Those of you who follow my writing know that I'm a bookworm. And just as I'm frequently lending books to friends (or thrusting them at their faces while ordering them to "read this," as the case may be) I like to share great posts, resources and other items I find around the blogosphere. Real quickly before I get into that, I'd…

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Great Search Marketing Reading I HAD To Share