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  • reading books

    Friday Night Links: Ready to Read

    Search was created to help people find the things they want to read, when they want to read it. So how do you create pages that are ready to be read? Check out linkbait strategies, landing page construction, SEO tips, and lots of other blogs…

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    Friday Night Links: Simple Addition

    Of course it’s the week that I’m out for vacation that new announcements start flying around the internet! Facebook announced video capabilities, Google Plus has launched, and all of the rest of Google’s products are getting a facelift and a few new features. Check out…

  • life lessons

    Friday Night Links: Life Lessons

    One thing that blogs show us all is that we have a lot to learn. Every day and every week, brand new information is produced, explaining old concepts in new ways or introducing new thoughts and ideas. This week, SEOs, businesses, and webmasters can find…

  • keywords

    Friday Night Links: The Key to Keywords

    The first time you had to pick keywords to focus your SEO efforts, you probably didn’t have to think to hard. But are the most obvious keywords the best ones? Here are some impressive ways to use a multitude of tools to understand which keywords…

  • pay

    Friday Night Links: Pay Your Way

    PPC is a powerful tool in the SEO’s aresenal – but it is the most powerful when it is used the right way, and it is too often abused. This week, plenty of authors pitched in with their recommendations about the best way to use…

  • In with the new

    Friday Night Links: Out with the Old, In with the New

    This week came with a lot of announcements – from Apple’s WWDC, to new buttons from Google and Twitter, to a new LinkedIn feature. Are you sure you’re ready to incorporate all the changes? Freshen up the rest of your site with a few new…

  • business

    Friday Night Links: Getting Down to Business

    This week’s links all point to one thing – it’s time to get serious about your company’s website. Whether you need to spend more time link-building or if you just need to the news about your small brick-and-mortar business out on the web, there’s a…

  • Teambuilding

    Friday Night Links: Team Building Exercises

    It’s graduation season again, and right around the corner is frantic-job-search-season for all of the lucky graduates. But not only are they feeling the stress – hiring teams all over the world are trying to figure out how to weed out the best talent. Thankfully,…

  • ThreePillars

    Friday Night Links: The 3 Pillars of SEO

    Social media, link-building, and on-page changes: the three major building blocks of SEO. This week’s articles were pretty evenly split among the themes, with plenty of variety within each category. Social media commentary focused on Facebook, including when to use Facebook comments and when to…

  • Gotta Share

    Friday Night Links: Gotta Share

    Finally, the internet world has a theme song: “Gotta Share.” Imagine attending a tech conference and suddenly being in the middle of an improv musical. That’s the situation a number of audience members were in at last month’s Gel Conference. Beware clicking on the video…

  • Shaking-Hands

    Friday Night Links: Selling and Optimizing

    If you are in business in any way, shape, or form, “sales” and “optimization” are two of your favorite words. Selling makes the business world go ’round. Optimization is the process of constantly making things better (and, if you’re anything like me, there are always…

  • Thinker

    Friday Night Links: Penny for your Thoughts

    In the blogging world, you tend to find plenty of thinkers, ready to spout out thoughts and theories to inspire others. SEOs are often thinkers, too – but they also enjoy experimenting and showing others what they’ve done or figured out. Here is a collection…