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Search Engine Watch August 27, 2008 Kevin Ryan	Rehabilitating SEO Search marketers are some of the most passionate and dedicated people I've ever encountered. Those seeking to advance their position within search results can easily become obsessed (to the point of addiction) with checking results and positioning.
Search Engine Watch January 8, 2009 Justilien Gaspard	Don't Overlook These Link Building Opportunities With each passing year, link development becomes increasingly difficult. Yet we sometimes tend to overlook good link opportunities that are right under our noses.
Search Engine Watch January 9, 2011 Eric Enge	6 Ways to Sculpt Your Site's Link Equity Want to see a significant impact on rankings and traffic? Here are a few ways you can use link equity to help pages rank for particular search queries.
Search Engine Watch April 20, 2009 Ron Jones	SEO Tools 101, Part 1 Getting started in SEO can be overwhelming, but your job can be made easier with the right tools. Here's an introduction to some of the keyword tools, site-grading tools and linking tools that will give you an edge in your search engine optimization efforts.
Search Engine Watch February 1, 2011 Mike Grehan	The Google Spam-Jam Google must find an effective, scalable solution to fight spammy web results, rather than just plugging holes in its old PageRank model for organic results.
Search Engine Watch February 2, 2009 Ron Jones	Link Building 101, Part 1 The concept of getting backlinks to a page internally is sometimes overshadowed by trying to acquire backlinks from external pages. Why not use the same concept and apply it to your internal linking structure and reap the rewards?
Search Engine Watch March 27, 2011 Peter van der Graaf	Old Black Hat SEO Tricks Still Work This article is all about unethical SEO. Hopefully you don't have any practical use for it. Search Engine Watch assumes no responsibility when you end up being banned from Google!
Search Engine Watch March 8, 2011 Kristi Hines	Google Panda Update: Say Goodbye to Low-Quality Link Building What does the recent news of Google penalties and recent algorithm updates mean for your link building strategies? Advice on how you can determine valuable backlink opportunities.
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan	What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change.
Search Engine Watch September 29, 2010 Ralph Tegtmeier	On-Site Linking Architecture: Your Hidden SEO Goldmine (or Nemesis) - Part 1 If you haven't conducted a comprehensive analysis of your on-site linking structure, you may actually be losing search engine rankings, traffic, and sales due to a non-optimal on-site linking structure -- without even being aware of the fact!
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2010 John Lynch	Deconstructing Link Value Factors Links are the primary driver of domain authority and the key to ranking quality content. An outline of the factors that affect the value of a link.
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2003 Elizabeth Osmeloski	The Art of Advanced Link Building Advanced link building strategies are critical for achieving high rankings in search engines, according to two noted experts and representatives from Google and Teoma.
Search Engine Watch July 27, 2010 Eric Enge	12 Ways Your SEO Mileage May Vary If you've spent time analyzing search results for a variety of queries, you've likely seen results you can't easily explain. Here's why this happens.
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Search Engine Watch October 8, 2009 Sage Lewis	Paid Links: Seller and Buyer Beware! Don't let your site drop out of search results. Here's how.
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2011 Eric Enge	Case Study: Impact of Code Cleanup on Site Traffic How six months of improving site speed saw 40 percent increase in traffic.
Search Engine Watch September 24, 2008 Eric Enge	Use Care When Choosing an SEO Agency It's important to beware of instant SEO experts who know a few things about what's going on, but don't get the whole picture. Don't hire an SEO or begin SEO work on your own without validating that it's the right course of action.
Search Engine Watch January 6, 2011 Guillaume Bouchard	Using Social Media to Boost Search Rankings Social media can be used for more than branding, customer service, PR, and retention. It can also be used to support your rankings in the SERPs.
Search Engine Watch May 8, 2008 Sage Lewis	Giving Links Away There are a few ways of controlling what pages of your site share their link love. PageRank "sculpting" and siloing are two methods that use the "nofollow" attribute to control which links are counted in search engine ranking algorithms.
Search Engine Watch July 14, 2009 Eric Enge	Should You Still Use Nofollow? Recent changes in the processing of the nofollow attribute have caused consternation and concern among many publishers. How should you adapt your on-page SEO strategy?
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2002 Danny Sullivan	Google: Can The Marcia Brady Of Search Stay Sweet? Does search dominance by Google mean that the company is destined to be hated, in the way that Microsoft endures a poor reputation due to its dominance of operating systems, office software and browsers? Such a fate is not preordained.
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Search Engine Watch January 19, 2011 Gareth Owen	Social Media Links and SEO -- Spam Ye Not! Social media links have been increasingly making their presence felt in the SERPs. It appears as though the engines (in particular Google) may be responding to an increase in manipulative social activity.
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Search Engine Watch June 17, 2008 Mark Jackson	Domain Strategies for Search Engine Optimization You're optimizing your Web site. You're working on building links to your site. But are you paying attention to your domain name strategy?
Search Engine Watch February 6, 2001 Danny Sullivan	Bush's Dubious Victory At Google For the past three months, if you did a search on Google for a particularly insulting phrase -- think dumb Oedipus -- the top result was to the official George W. Bush campaign store. How on earth did this happen?
Search Engine Watch September 9, 2010 John Lynch	Creating an Effective Keyword Portfolio Means Understanding the Search Landscape This quick guide will give webmasters and SEMs the power and ability to understand the likelihood of ranking for a keyword using a competitive analysis.
Search Engine Watch August 13, 2010 Nichola Stott	Internal Link Housekeeping To get the best from your internal link strategy, it's a good idea to perform regular housekeeping checks looking at these three areas.
Wired August 2005 John Battelle	The Birth of Google Larry thought Sergey was arrogant. Sergey thought Larry was obnoxious. In spite of this, Sergey was drawn to Larry's computer project when it reached a certain complexity. Their experiences are recounted as their efforts produced the search engine named Google.
Search Engine Watch August 12, 2010 John Lynch	SEO for Start-ups: Build Authority Offsite How new online businesses can quickly create organic visibility while simultaneously building trust and authority within their domain.
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Search Engine Watch June 9, 2004 Jarboe & O'Donnell	The Art and Science of an Effective Link Building Campaign A group of experts at the Search Engine Strategies 2004 Conference offers answers to ethical and strategic link-building and search technology questions.
Search Engine Watch November 20, 2009 Chris Boggs	SEO Tools -- Worth the Time and Money? An overview of some free and paid tools that executives and non-SEO trained individuals can gain value from when evaluating internal or outsourced search engine optimization efforts.
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Search Engine Watch November 21, 2008 Chris Boggs	Selling SEO During an Economic Downturn In a down economy, business development for SEO becomes increasingly important.
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Search Engine Watch July 28, 2010 Gareth Owen	Defining Search Engine Optimization in 2010 Taking the time to identify your market and focusing on how to build relationships with those relevant sites will put you above SEOs who are still focusing on outdated tactics.
Search Engine Watch April 27, 2009 Ron Jones	SEO Tools 101, Part 2 SEO tools won't solve your problems if you have poor content. But they will help identify problem areas you should address.
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Page layout drives Web search A system that analyzes content at the level of blocks of information on a page, rather than the coarser page-level, could eventually lead to more accurate search engines. The technique could be ready for commercial use in a general search engine within two years.
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