Twitter in Google – Rand Fishkin Interview Part VII

Twitter in Google – Rand Fishkin Interview Part VII

Read my previous part to my interview with Rand here - The Future of SEO

Twitter has obviously made a splash in the last 12 months or so, and many people are finding it a really useful means for find high quality, up to date content – Michael Jacksons death represented how quickly Twitter can spread information about current events before the search engines really have time to react. How much is Twitter currently used by the search engines and how do you think the search engines will...

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Link building strategies – Rand Fishkin Interview Part III

Link building strategies – Rand Fishkin Interview Part III

See part II of my interview with Rand Fishkin here: What does the Bing-Yahoo deal mean for SEO?

Do you think that link building is become more or less relevant in SEO? What would be your top tips for link-building?

I think that it depends on how you define link building. If you talking about link building as being like manual link building, like I go to a guy and try to convince him to link to me on his little site or I go and talk to a blogger and try to get him to write about me or link...

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What does the Bing-Yahoo deal mean for SEO? Rand Fishkin Interview Part II

What does the Bing-Yahoo deal mean for SEO? Rand Fishkin Interview Part II

Click here to see the first part of my interview with SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin – Affiliate SEO

Big news with Microsoft Bing and Yahoo’s new search deal. What does that change from an SEO perspective both in the short term and the long term ramifications of this deal? Do you think this new combo has a genuine shot of taking significant market share from Google?

I'll answer the second part first, and I will say no, they don't have a good chance of taking market share away from Google,...

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Shut up and listen! - The other side of Social Media

Shut up and listen! - The other side of Social Media

Much of my writing on the topic of social media on this blog has talked about utilizing social media to promote your business or website - and it's true, there is an enormous amount of power in social media that, if leveraged correctly, can generate a phenomenal amount of traffic, leads and sales.However there is big problem with using social media solely for promotion: You spend so much of your time talking that you forget to turn it around and actually listen.

Twitter is a prime...

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The Dangers of using Social Media to Promote my Business

The Dangers of using Social Media to Promote my Business

When I arrived at work yesterday I received a serious shock. All the Twitter accounts run by our company, including our primary @affilorama account, had been suspended. Months of hard work building up a sustainable following disappeared. Not only could I no longer communicate with our followers, who have come to expect our daily updates of affiliate and online marketing news as well as the latest updates on Affilorama, but communication with potential business partners was lost....

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