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topSEOtips.com tracks SEO podcasts, screencasts, videos, and step by step instructions to help your website rise to the top of the organic rankings in Google and other important search engines.

Wil Reynolds Video On Free Competitive SEO Tools

Wil Reynolds speaks about free SEO tools including SpyFu and Compete.com. The audio is difficult to understand but worth checking out.

Google's Matt Cutts offers SEO tips to small business owners

Rodney Bartlett interviews Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2007 in Las Vegas. Matt offers some excellent tips for small business owners and answered a few great questions.

Search Engine Watch Experts

Get Links Now: Make a Difference, Make Connections

Want to solve the link building riddle? Stop thinking about money and start thinking about something bigger. Getting outside of your own little world can expand your horizons, as well as your link portfolio. ...

Leveraging Social Media to Educate

There's been lots of hype about social media lately. But what's it mean from a business perspective? How can it help you educate potential clients or customers, or spread the word about your product or idea so that people are talking about it among themselves? Today, we'll explore the basics of social media and how to get started using it to help spread that awareness you seek. ...

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. When considering how your SEO time is spent, what's important and what isn't so important? What kinds of things are OK to obsess over? Are there ways to improve or correct obsessive SEO behavior? ...

A Challenge to our Attention-Challenged Generation

Nothing important ever gets invented, created or built without putting in some serious time. If you want to get some real work done, you need to stop accepting interruptions from the Internet, e-mail, cell phone, texts, IM, and other technologies. ...

Weapons of Mass Optimization

Building an in-house SEO team can be a daunting task, especially for large organizations. With proper planning, the experience becomes more manageable, and success becomes more likely. The important thing to remember when planning such a big project is to start small, and pay attention to the smaller details within the larger project. ...

SEO Success -- Guess What...Content Works!

Fixing problems and implementing some search engine-friendly practices can have an immediate effect on a site's search engine rankings. But for long-term improvement, no search engine optimization technique works better than creating quality content. ...

Killer PPC Ads: The Fundamentals

Writing small, punchy ads requires plenty of art and science. These guidelines will help get more clicks and stymie your competitors. ...

Word or Phrase Co-Occurrence within Particular Industries

Are search engines smarter now than 4 years ago? I certainly hope so. There are too many words that could mean multiple things, and so many Web sites have at least some content that appears to humans but not text browsers. ...

6 Tips for Aligning Your National, Local SEM Efforts

The volume of local searches continues growing, which means national-level search advertisers must develop strategic plans for incorporating local search into their national search programs. The benefit: lower cost leads with higher conversation rates. ...

NBC's Olympic Fool's Gold; Google Comes Home Empty-Handed

It's understandable that an older-school company like NBC may get some things wrong, and rely on old metrics to judge success. But Google didn't exactly turn in a world-record performance for the Olympics either. ...

High Rankings News Feed

Can Google Follow Non-www Links?

For purposes of discussion, let's say my main URL is www.example.com. I have a plethora of links in my site for indexing purposes between pages. The page links all go to their respective pages properly, but are linked to example.com (without the www part).

Blog on Different IP

I'm wondering if there is more link value provided by a new blog if it is hosted on an IP with a different C block than the IP address of the web site itself. The owner of the business would be writing the blog and sharing business expertise with the idea of building the brand of the business.

Getting Search Engines to Re-crawl

I recently set up a new site, which isn't something I often do, and forgot to set up the meta title and description. Now what is called up on Google for my site is HOME and a sentence from mid-page. Now that I have fixed the Web problem, how do I get the search engines to do another crawl of the site?

Top Search Engine Ranking Software

I'm about to renew our contract with our search engine ranking optimization software, but thought I'd check out other options before committing. What do you folks use?

Stuff You Might Like: Recent Interviews With Jill Whalen, CEO High Rankings

I had the pleasure of being interviewed recently by a number of online marketing folks and thought you might enjoy learning more about me and my thoughts on a plethora of search marketing issues.

Advanced SEO Forum Thread: Will Google Suggest Changes in the Way You Optimize?

Google has announced that they are rolling out 'Google Suggest' this week, which will provide searchers with a list of query suggestions when they start typing into the search box.

Advanced Forum Thread of the Week: Important Hub Pages in Supplemental / Not Ranking

Forum member 'don h' discusses a website problem that's been plaguing him for ages.

High Rankings Advisor 238 Wrap-up

Lots has happened since the last newsletter.

Is Twitter for the Birds?

Today's guest article comes to us from my friend and long-time HRA subscriber Jim Spencer, founder of JBS Partnersnbsp; a website design and marketing firm in Winchester, MA, that serves small business and solo entrepreneurs. I met Jim in person at a SEMNE (Search Engine Marketing New England) event. nbsp;

Save $10 on Writing With Keywords

So, I'm a total toad! In the last newsletter, I mistakenly sent Karon's special discount offer on the latest version of her 'Writing With Keywords' book only to the 'text-only' newsletter subscribers and not to the HTML ones...duh. Since the HTML readers make up more than 2/3 of the readers, Karon has agreed to extend the offer through this week.

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