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March 10, 2011

Roger Tung asked a question

Google gives ability to block unwanted results- How will that affect rankings, businesses & search?

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Jan. 27, 2011

Andrew VanderPloeg and 7 other people answered this question

Why is it so important to be listed on the first page of search results?

Quite plainly, the first results page is where you need to be. Attention spans on the Internet are incredibly low...you need to be immediately accessible.
Furthermore, the first few results on page one have a huge advantage. In their research, Google has actually tracked where ... more

Jan. 17, 2011

Andi Gutierrez asked a question

What are some stances in the search neutrality debate? What would regulation mean for search marketing?

Dec. 30, 2010

Dejan Petrovic answered this question

What impact do you think Google Instant has had on long-tail search?

I have been monitoring several large traffic volume sites based around long tail searches. The effect of traffic has been insignificant considering every site is affected by this across the board. What played greater role in the organic Google traffic levels was recent algorithm changes ... more

Dec. 15, 2010

Larry MacDonald and 3 other people answered this question

What is great SEO content?

It is very simple. Really.
Write what you would want to find if you were searching for what you are writing about. Make it the most valuable page you can find.
Google only wants one thing: people to use its search engine rather than Yahoo or Bing, ... more

Dec. 15, 2010

Brent Chaters answered this question

What is the single biggest SEO misconception that you see from clients?

Not to tweak or change pages that are already ranking well. The search engines are tweaking and changing their algorithms by being stagnant you do nothing but also risk dropping in rankings. Test and try new things, regardless of how well a page may already ... more

Dec. 14, 2010

Brent Chaters and 3 other people answered this question

What are the 3-5 biggest ethics problems in SEO?

The question of ethics for SEO is a tough one. As already stated anyone who promises any sort of position or rank on a term is flat out lying, at least for a ranking that will have sustainability over time.
There are folks who burn domains ... more

Dec. 9, 2010

Jennifer Wing and 2 other people answered this question

How do you hide URLs that you don't want indexed from a spider?

By using a Robots.txt file in the directory.

Marketing

Page View

Search Engine

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Nov. 29, 2010

Jeyzar Barhami and 5 other people answered this question

What are backlinks?

how do i check my realtime backlinks for http://vimux.com please?

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Small Business

Backlinks

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