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Microhoo – What SEO Can Learn from the Yahoo!/Bing ‘Arrangement.’

August 19th, 2010 | Finn | Usability

A search engine subbing out their organic results isn’t a new thing. But now, in a web once filled with search engines, only two search engines provide their own organic and paid results:  Google and the other one Bing.

SEO Boy’s own Jennya has written pretty comprehensive list of tools to

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Google Reviews Now Open to Responses

August 18th, 2010 | Eric | Local SEO, Reputation Management

How do you handle a negative review? You can read our previous posts, but I came up with a handy dandy acronym that will probably find it’s way onto a PowerPoint someday. Keep your responses to negative reviews “LOW.”

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SEO News Roundup for August 13, 2010

August 13th, 2010 | Robert | SEO News Roundup

We’ve all tried to visit a site when our anti-virus, or spy-ware stopper, or whatever-stopper shows up and warns us to run away. Generally the culprit is some form of malware and it’s something that we might not know is infecting our site.  Alex Cohen from Digital Alex shares an eye opening experience about avoiding malware. It can be difficult to build links or develop a workable SEO strategy if your site isn’t safe for your users.Take these steps …

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Are You Ready for the Yahoo & Bing Merger? Tips for Bing SEO…

August 9th, 2010 | jennya | Uncategorized

It seems like it was just yesterday when the Yahoo & Microsoft partnership broke news. Here we are just about a year later and the merger is definitely well on its way. Systems integration testing began mid July and several blogs have reported seeing Bing results on the Yahoo search page.

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SEO News Roundup for August 6, 2010

August 6th, 2010 | Robert | SEO News Roundup

Crafting outstanding content is by no means an easy task. Today’s web is full of different content types, from images to widgets. Take away all those crazy fonts and pretty backgrounds and you’re left with what really matters to SEO. Tad Chef over at SEOptimise shares some advice on how to create content that spreads like wildfire. So don’t take content for granted because you have to craft killer content to get noticed.

A good proposal can change your business by …

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WIIIIPEOUT! What to Learn from Google Wave’s Web Surfing Crash.

August 5th, 2010 | Finn | Social Media & SEO

Waving Goodbye To The Day
Once upon a time there was a tool that was supposed to revolutionize the way people interacted with each other online. Facebook killer? Pleaaaase! Try EMAIL Killer!

This tool was making the Post Office plan its Pony Express-like demise.

Part Blogger, part Facebook, part Basecamp, part genius.
But, now, sadly, in the words of David Gray:
“…

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Our Greatest Hits for July 2010

August 5th, 2010 | AmyHoffman | Greatest Hits

The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered SEO Boy’s four most visited, and hopefully most valuable, articles from July. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber you may have missed these insightful and helpful SEO management tips. Enjoy!

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Lean and Mean Local SEO

August 3rd, 2010 | Eric | Local SEO

I had the fortune of having dinner with a multi-millionare (Yeah, he picked up the check) and during the course of the dinner he made this statement: “A business never floats. You either move forward or you move backward. You need to always move forward.”

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SEO News Roundup for August 2, 2010

August 2nd, 2010 | Robert | SEO News Roundup

Anyone who has ever written knows what its like to have writers block. Most of us don’t have the luxury of going to a hipster coffee shop to smoke our bubble pipe to find our muse. If you find yourself stalling out on creativity when developing copy, Case Ernsting from MetaSpring Web Design offer some handy tools and tips to find out what people are talking about. These tips will help you determine what readers will find relevant, and …

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Video SEO – Part 2: Onsite (and the Fun Begins)

July 29th, 2010 | Finn | Video SEO

In part one, I talked covered the type of Video SEO optimization most everyone with 30 seconds of content in a YouTube account can optimize. The techniques can also be used to similar effect in Vimeo. And it’s good practice to the techniques. Some amazing traffic can come through those search engines.

But to be honest, the type of video SEO project I truly enjoyed getting …

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