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By Tyler King    |     October 18th, 2010
Get started with link building by submitting your site to directories
There are a number of services online called "directories" which are basically just huge lists of links to other websites. It's like the yellow pages but for websites. Submitting your site to a few directories can be a great way to generate a few incoming links.
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Tags: SEO, Blogging, Inbound Marketing
By Tyler King    |     October 4th, 2010
How User Generated Content Helps SEO
With user generated content (UGC) you can let your website visitors contribute content and help your site's SEO.
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Tags: SEO, Blogging
By Tyler King    |     September 13th, 2010
How will Google Instant impact online marketing?
In this post, I discuss how Google's new search product may impact online advertising and long-tail search engine optimization tactics.
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Tags: Marketing, Google, SEO, Adwords, Advertising
By Tyler King    |     September 8th, 2010
Three ways Canonicalization can help with SEO
Canonicalization refers to the practice of defining the URL structure of your website to search engines so that you can maximize the SEO juice to all your pages. It sounds complicated, but there are three easy things you can do to get started.
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Tags: SEO, Tips, Canonicalization
By Bracken King    |     August 26th, 2010
Keep the 80-20 rule in mind with your SEO
The 80-20 rule describes a common scenario in which a relatively small portion of causes (e.g., 20%) account for a large amount of the effect (e.g., 80%). This type of situation crops up all over the place and is particularly relevant when thinking about the amount effort you put into SEO.
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Tags: Business Decisions, SEO
By Tyler King    |     August 25th, 2010
Revisiting Disqus vs. IntenseDebate - I choose neither
The two most popular systems for powering blog comments are Disqus and IntenseDebate. Recently I've decided that I don't like either of them.
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Tags: SEO, Reviews, Blogging, Disqus, IntenseDebate
By Tyler King    |     August 9th, 2010
SheerSEO Review - Track and analyze your site's SEO
SheerSEO is an online tool that helps you stay on top of your site's SEO performance. It helps track keyword rankings, referring sites, social networking activity, and more. In this review I'll describe the pros and cons of the software.
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Tags: SEO, Reviews, SheerSEO
By Tyler King    |     July 26th, 2010
SEO Checklist: 6 easy things you should be doing
Most of our SEO advice focuses on things that probably sound pretty intimidating to SEO rookies. In this post, I'm going to suggest a few things that are so easy that you won't have an excuse not to do them.
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Tags: SEO, Tips
By Tyler King    |     July 19th, 2010
Google Webmaster Tools - Free SEO Tools for your Website
Google Webmaster Tools help you understand how your site is showing up in Google search results, and across other sites on the web. These tools are particularly useful if you spend time working on SEO and you need to evaluate how you're doing.
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Tags: Google, SEO
By Bracken King    |     July 15th, 2010
Check out your online competition with SEMRush.com
Earlier this week, I talked about how checking out your competition online can be a good way to get some ideas and identify opportunities for establishing your small business online. I briefly mentioned that there are a number of online tools available to help you do just that, and today I want to talk about one in particular: SEMRush.com.
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Tags: SEO, Spying, SEMRush.com

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The predictive power of search
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What does Google's new web index mean for search and SEO
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