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9 Important Facts About Links

There are tons of articles written about links, and some of them are actually pretty good. But on the other hand, a lot of them give out very bad tips. However, the worst thing about this type of advice is that it bogusly offers guarantees.

Plenty of website gurus provide tips on how to make websites Penguin proof. They show how to avoid penalties. Unfortunately, I don’t believe these people. Why? Mainly because there are no guarantees in life and the online world can be unfair…period. I’ve listed a few reasons why I ignore plenty of this advice.



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Methbot, Bad News and Other Reasons why SEM/SEO Interest Will Grow in 2017

I have numerous different types of clients, and I have talked to plenty of people in my industry. As a result, I want to predict that 2017 will be a good year for paid search. Although I have many reasons for this belief, I have to admit that one of my reasons is very unusual. Because fake news sites are trending these days, Methbot and many advertisers don’t want their ads to appear on these types of websites. Basically, they view it as being ethical



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SEO Proves Strategy Driven

SEO has always proven its place in the world of tactical importance. After all, isn't that what this feature was designed to do? To improve traffic and rankings in the cyber world of getting noticed (and to generate income), has always been the goal of taking verbiage and creating a science of structure.

However, refusing to look at the more strategic function of SEO is doing a disservice to businesses that rely so heavily on staying ahead of the game. Set aside the tools of the SEO tactics for a moment and begin exploring the strategy that is really behind the game.



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Are You Killing Your Paid Search Optimizations?

There are 3 paid search optimizations that make your website perform badly.

I just found out about a Wikipedia page that lists various inventors who were killed by their own inventions. This is an awesome page, and if you choose to stop reading this article to take a look at that page, I won’t be offended.

But it gave me food for thought. What are some of the ways in which paid search optimization can kill a marketing campaign? The following are some of those optimizations:

Increasing Bids in Budget-Restricted Campaigns



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SEO Plus Bad Content Equals Disaster

Everyone says that content is king. Even though this may have some truth to it, I think that this one concept has hurt the online industry more than any other.

Per WordPress, there are more than 73.9 million new blog posts created each month, and this includes 49.0 million new comments. This equates to about 2.4 million new WordPress blog posts each day. In error, most think this is all good content. However, I think that most of this new content is crap.



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3 Reasons Why You Don’t Have to Monitor Competitor Traffic

Small business owners often monitor their website traffic. It shows whether or not their websites are successful. Monitoring this traffic provides valuable lead and sales information. Thus, this explains why the subject of traffic metrics is very popular. As a result, there are plenty of online articles on the topic.

In addition to monitoring their own website traffic, business owners also use tools to monitor competitor traffic as well. This is a concern for business owners because these traffic metrics are often higher than that of their own websites.



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Recent Study Shows What Search Terms are Among the Best and Worst for Click-Through

In a recent study, a set of search terms were explored and many surprisingly showed they aren’t getting a fair number of clicks on result pages.

What they found is not all search terms were created equally. This is especially the case with click-through rates. According to a study that was done by Seige Media, 42 top terms and their CTRs were explored. The purpose is to determine what works for searchers and what terms are a waste of money.



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Black Hat vs White Hat SEO

Even if you haven’t watched it yet, you’ve probably heard about the sci-fi series Westworld on HBO. Based on the 1970s film, the series is set in a wild west-themed park populated by realistic, intelligent robots where wealthy guests can play out any scenario they like, no matter how depraved.

The show explores questions of morality and of course, consciousness. When they enter the park, guests can choose their own clothing, including whether they’d prefer to wear a white hat or a black one, a none too subtle indication of their intentions.



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What you’re missing in your SEO Efforts

There are two ways you can go about building an online reputation or digital marketing strategy. You can either create a proactive campaign designed to get content to readers which is intended to get an immediate reaction, or you can be responsive by creating content which takes advantage of a popular idea or a well-known event to raise awareness of your brand.

One example of the responsive approach is following up on the announcement of tax incentives for renewable energy with branded press releases by solar or wind power companies.



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