How Internet Marketers Should Use Social Media — SEO Hacker

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What’s true: social media is now a very powerful force to reckon with when it comes to internet marketing.
What’s not: exploiting the people using them is the way to do it.

If you’ve ever been an internet marketer (or at least had a faint background about it), you should be familiar about the dark side of the industry. In reality, some internet marketers don’t just care. These type of marketers have one end goal – to make a sale for them to gain profits. Period.

The newest favorite tool of these evil marketers? Social media.

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Link Building Tutorials: Organic Link Building — SEO Hacker

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The first type of link building is called organic link building. This type of link building deals with anything that doesn’t have to do with automated systems and/or practices that are frowned upon by Google and the SEO community.

Let me just point out that these are just some of the organic link building methods that are out there. And throughout the development of the web and the internet, I’m sure many more will be innovated in the years to come.

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How I get a lot of retweets — SEO Hacker

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When you’ve just published a new article or product and you want it to spread around the internet like wildfire to bring in some traffic, it gets a little bit frustrating seeing how little retweets you’re getting with your TweetMeMe button.

Instead of making your retweet button say something about the greatness of your site and content, it spells out ‘crap content’ when you get a big fat zero for your number of retweets. And it can just hurt the writer and marketer in you. It’s frustrating, I know. I’ve been there.

And my writing and marketing ego was going down the drain when I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a web-based social media tool. It was free – so just for the heck of it, I tried it out.

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Link building tutorial: How do I do link building? — SEO Hacker

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We’ve talked about link building theories and do’s and don’ts – now we’ll start talking about the dirt work. Just how do you do link building? There are two ways you can do it: Organic and Artificial.

Links don’t grow on trees

Just in case you were wondering, that’s not what organic means. Organic linkbuilding or natural linkbuilding as some SEO specialists call it, is linkbuilding without using technical methods or methods that are manipulated and created automatically or artificially.

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Link Building Tutorial: Ideal Site Attributes — SEO Hacker

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All links come from somewhere. Links have to be from a website to a website. Inbound links are links from another website to yours. We’ve already established the importance of having quality inbound links from quality websites but just what are the attributes of a quality website?

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Link Building Tutorial: Link Building Value — SEO Hacker

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Now that we’ve covered the importance of link building, we move on to the next question that most people and webmasters alike have in mind. Are all links treated equally?

If it was, then links spamming would be the best way to get a higher rank, right? Link spamming won’t get you anywhere. It is frowned upon by the SEO community at large and it will most probably get your site penalized by Google – especially now that they have Caffeine around.

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Link Building Tutorial: Why is Link Building Important? — SEO Hacker

Now that we’ve reveiwed what the heck link building is all about, we next move on to it’s importance. Why do we need to do linkbuilding? What are it’s immediate and direct effects on your website Search engine results page rankings?

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Link Building tutorial: What is Link building? — SEO Hacker

It’s not everyday that you get a tutorial for link building right at your Email or Facebook inbox as I deliver to you guys. As we start with the link building tutorial series, I’d like to first clarify for those who don’t already know: “what the heck is link building”?

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Link Building tutorial: Introduction — SEO Hacker

You all know that I’m launching a Free Basic SEO course which starts this December 1. I’m really really excited for that to push through! And I’m excited for you guys as you get to learn more about SEO and venture into the internet marketing world.

I’ll be starting a tutorial series about link building from today.

The outline of this tutorial will comprise of the following:

• What is Link building?
• Why is Link Building Important?
• Link building value
• Attributes of a site to get a link from
• How do I do link building?
• Natural Link building
• Artificial Link building
• Additional Resources

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A Peek in the Mind of an SEO specialist: Brent Rangen — SEO Hacker

There are a lot of SEO specialists out there. And rarely would you encounter one with good repute and who knows his stuff. All others are no-good oil snakes. I’ve encountered Brent as we exchanged tweets in twitter when he stumbled upon one of my entries. He’s an interesting fellow who’s worked in the SEO industry for a much longer time than I have so I thought I’d do an interview with him for you guys.

Brent can attribute his success to his diverse portfolio and a unique vision, which combines a background in technology and real world experience that lends itself to some very unique content and management. As technology and communication mediums continue to merge, Brent continues to research new ways to get a customer’s messages across to the readers and intended audiences.

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2 Things to Avoid When Linkbuilding — SEO Hacker

Links are an essential factor for the Search engine Optimization of your website. As I’ve pointed out in my previous entry, Links make up to almost 75% of your whole search engine optimization effect.

As SEO specialists, we always keep a keen eye on links. And we always try to accumulate and build links for our website. We find good, relevant and high quality sites to get or ask links from, then we do our stuff. But we should also know the things we have to avoid when we’re building links.

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How to Get More Readers — SEO Copyblogger

The web is a congested cyber jungle. Whenever someone is looking at your blog, the odds are he/she isn’t devoting full attention to you (never have, never will). While someone is reading (or skimming) through your posts, a lot of other websites and applications too are competing with that short attention. And unless you own Facebook, you probably have to make the make do with a 1-minute page view visit.

So now we have the problem – attention span.

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SEO Search Engine Optimization

So the question for the day is: who among internet users today has never used Google to search for something? Probably none. And today I’ve stumbled upon an entry of Stephan Spencer in Search Engine Journal which talk about Google Query Operators.

If you’re a frequent web user, or should I say, Google user, then you probably would want to know about these parameters you can use in order to help narrow down your search results to your desired… well… results.

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Why White Hat SEO is the Way to go — SEO Hacker

During some of my talks, before I go up on stage, I would often chat with some of my audiences. And some of them would tell me “so you’re responsible for all the spam in the web!” Big misunderstanding.

There are different kinds of SEO practitioners. But for now I’ll be splitting them into two categories: White hat SEOs and Spammers.

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Befriend the Virus of Exclusivity — SEO Copyblogger

Before I tell you how to exactly befriend the Virus of Exclusivity, I’m going to tell you what’s it all about in the first place.

Quick Example:

Think of say, online marketing. That’s a pretty congested and competitive niche. Thousands of people flock into it to fight for authority, dominance, and of course profits. But out of those people, only a recognizable few managed to stay on top.

Sure, those marketers maybe, the best, or the brightest, or the smartest guys on the face of the earth, but do you think that alone made them the big fishes in the vast ocean? Think about it.

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4 Steps to Successful Blog Planning — SEO Copyblogger

The best time is always now…

Stop wasting your time. If you want something done, do it now.

Think of blogging as a business. In fact, treat it like a business. No matter how little or big you invest in it, the point is to always make it grow for you to get the returns that you rightfully deserve.

And for that to happen, you must do something – a plan put into action.

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The start of Facebook SEO — SEO Hacker

As we all know, Facebook is fast catching up with it’s head-to-head traffic rank with Google as the world’s most visited website. And if you’re a frequent user of Facebook like me, I’m sure you’ve already noticed that Facebook has continually improved their search features.

It’s a no-brainer that Facebook will jump in the search game sooner or later. They are slowly redefining the web as we know it. They already have their own set of loyal users (around 120 million of us) who log in every day! And as we all know, all search engines are codes. And SEO practitioners better start giving time studying Facebook’s SEO if they want to be ahead of the game.

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Why the best SEO specialists are marketers — SEO Hacker

Being an SEO specialist, I realized that SEO is not about being the best programmer in order to understand Google’s system. It’s about ranking in Google’s Search engine results page because you are relevant and you want to market out something through being a presence in the first page.

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