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How to Build a Content Strategy for Your Blog

Zarko Zivkovic — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:45:18 +0000

It’s never a good idea to start a blog without taking some time to think it through first. Many of us think we’d like to become a blogger, but we don’t sit down and think about what exactly that means. “What am I going to blog about?” “Who is going to read my blog?” “What [...]

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3 Steps to Protect Consumer Privacy and Be FTC Compliant

Doug — Wed, 30 May 2012 10:50:39 +0000

Recently, the FTC and the White House have published recommendations and pushed for legislation for internet advertisers to help protect consumers’ privacy. It’s become harder than ever to be anonymous on the internet; with Cookiegate fresh in the memories of Commission members, the FTC’s report, “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change,” is [...]

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Panda and Penguin, Both Are here .. Tell me How I am Going To Market my Website

Michael Evans — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:00:06 +0000

This entry was written by one of our guest post authors. The author’s views below are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Practical SEO. Penguin has successfully created a thick line of difference between Spamming and Online marketing. All those good for nothing tasks like directory submissions, article submissions, [...]

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6 Ways to Make Your Site More Engaging

MattBeswick — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:34 +0000

Can we all agree that being spammy (even just a little bit) is a no-no? We all know that Google certainly thinks so, although isn’t always that good at spotting it! You’ve probably seen some of the worst offenders: plain pages full of hot-blue text links, crappy ads crammed everywhere, machine-generated content or even no [...]

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Google Auto Suggestion Sucks

Zarko Zivkovic — Sat, 12 May 2012 23:55:02 +0000

Look at the image below… Not the results you would expect right? I knew Google auto suggestion sucks for many terms, but for something like this, well, it’s pure censorship, like with many other porn terms, but in this case “anal” can also be presented as a medical term, so not sure if it was [...]

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Outreach Made Easy, Zemanta + Rapportive

Zarko Zivkovic — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:20:15 +0000

I know most bloggers tend to give up easy on link building opportunities, they either send a direct mail of which most get ignored or they fail to find the right way to approach a fellow webmaster. I have a way around that, and it’s very easy (takes time, but it’s easy). There are different [...]

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Link Wheel Explained or Why You Should Avoid it, Especially Now With Penguin Update

Zarko Zivkovic — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:00:00 +0000

I remember that when I started dabbling with SEO in 2006 the concept of link wheel was one of the best methods used to get solid rankings. In fact, for a short while link wheel was probably the best way to get rankings boost and was the preferred way of link building for many SEOs [...]

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Negative SEO Factors – Penguin, Panda and Whatnot!

Zarko Zivkovic — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:11:50 +0000

Well the last week or two were rather interesting considering that most of the online community was talking about over-optimization penalty, negative SEO and outing. All that became a bit clearer after Google announced their webspam update, or now officially called Penguin update. Penguin update was started on the 24th April and it’s now finished, [...]

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Questionable Google Search Results

Zarko Zivkovic — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:54:38 +0000

With the new webspam update rolling out, the talk in webmaster forums and Google+ it is hard not to notice a shift in search results. It’s hard to believe what piece of crap ranks out there, even with all the updates and Panda’s in the world, maybe the new one will fix them, but as [...]

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Over Optimization Penalty Factors

Zarko Zivkovic — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:27:55 +0000

Since we are all worried about what may trigger the over optimization penalty I wanted to ask you to share your thoughts with us. We all have different takes on the matter, so I included some basic questions that may trigger the penalty, please rate them accordingly by filling out the form below. You can [...]

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