Your Online Retirement
“Burningly it came on me all at once, This was the place! those two hills on the right, Crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn in fight; While to the left, a tall scalped mountain… Dunce, Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, After a life spent training for the sight!” Robert Browning “Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came” I’m sure you’ve all heard it before. Work hard your entire life while putting aside a portion of your earnings to fund your post-career retirement (supplemented by Social Security / Medicare or their non-US equivalents). Part of that advice is still good, since our laws are written in such a way as to make it foolhardy not to participate in these government programs. Plus saving as much money as possible is always a good strategy as a hedge against an uncertain future (and your heirs will love you for it). But retirement from online efforts when they are successful? Yeah, right. Cut back on the time spent online? Perhaps. However, instead of retiring from online, may I suggest instead…Online Retirement.
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Your Online Retirement
W3C Validation for SEO – Myth and Reality
A topic that has been discussed extensively by some people in the SEO community is the notion that having a W3C compliant web site is either critical to SEO or it’s not. Most recently, Edward Lewis and I debated back and forth on Twitter, with Edward holding firm to his long-standing position that compliance is necessary and me taking the stand that 100% compliance is not necessarily a factor in ranking. This latest back and forth was prompted by a tweet I posted while listening to Matt Cutts being interviewed by WebProNews during SMX West. In that tweet, I summed up what Matt had said regarding SEO and having a site that passes code validation. My tweet stated : W3C compliance is NOT an SEO factor to Google #MattCuttsQuote #SMX Edward then followed up to our Twitter conversation on this by writing a very lengthy and quite detailed article backing up his position on the matter. I’ll leave it up to you to take the time to read that article yourselves. And here, I would like to speak to my own position and the logic behind it.
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W3C Validation for SEO – Myth and Reality
Migrating to a New Domain and URL Structure – My Learnings
Recently the company I worked for made a big decision to rebrand and with it came the dreaded domain name change. We are also having a new website being built so another SEO favourite URL’s. This article will share my leanings from my sleepless nights and epic amount of research into making sure it didn’t go wrong
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Migrating to a New Domain and URL Structure – My Learnings
Advanced Search Engine Rankings Tracker – SEJ Tools
One of the most advanced and usable features inside SEJ tools is its SERP tracker.
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Advanced Search Engine Rankings Tracker – SEJ Tools
75 PR/Article Submission Sites to Generate Inbound Links
Article submission sites do not have as much authority and link value as they used to, but they can still help build your link portfolio and give a temporary boost in rankings.
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75 PR/Article Submission Sites to Generate Inbound Links
AlertRank: Google Alerts on Steroids
It is not really often that I am actually impressed by the tool (this is because I come across 2-3 new ones weekly so it is not really easy to surprise me already). But today’s one is truly awesome. AlertRank is a free web-based tool that helps to make sense of your Google alerts.
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AlertRank: Google Alerts on Steroids
Microsoft to Run a Massive Bing TV Campaign in the UK
The Guardian UK is reporting that Microsoft Bing is preparing to launch a massive TV ad campaign aimed at challenging Google’s dominance in the UK search market. According to the report, the series of Bing promotional TV ads is set to begin airing this week and will be promoting Bing as a “decision engine.” Microsoft has contracted the services of ad agency JWT. It aims to show how Bing simplifies the “information overload” that accompanies the results of other search engines – obviously hitting on Google
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Microsoft to Run a Massive Bing TV Campaign in the UK
Omniture Now Offers Enhanced Facebook Marketing Analytics
With the ever emerging and evolving world of web 2.0. marketers no more can afford to neglect social media, and with Facebook becoming the second most visited website online after Google … and THE INTERNET (thinking back AOL circa 1998) to the bulk of its users … analytical tracking and gauging user action, interest and return on investment is crucial to an online marketing campaign. By engaging in social media networking, marketers get an awesome opportunity to join the conversation and have more relevant interactions with their customers.
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SEO Wins & Sins: 5 Questions with Industry Leader Joe Laratro
Effective search engine optimization is equal parts art, science, and EXPERIENCE, so I sat down with industry veteran Joe Laratro to get the dish on what matters most in SEO.
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SEO Wins & Sins: 5 Questions with Industry Leader Joe Laratro
Penalties, Bans, and Paid Search
There are numerous posts on PPC vs SEO , who gets more money, and all that mumbo jumbo. To me, it’s right up there with “SEO is dead” type posts, good for attention, but there should not be any versus in that relationship.
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Penalties, Bans, and Paid Search
