Another top class video from SeoMoz ….this is about using Twitter as a tool for SEO. Yes, you can see trends and predict good article titles and when to publish them. Also learn about the ‘Query Deserves Freshness’ factor in the Google algorithm.

The free trend tool mentioned in the video is Trendistic.

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Link order on a page – there has been a persistent rumour that the 1st link on a page is the MOST important. Straight from the horse’s mouth, Matt Cutts (Google):

Surprised?
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It is that time of year again: review of 2009, review of the last decade. Oh memories of this and that.
However, among all this drivel there is some good material; it just needs to be filtered out.
So here is my Xmas present to you! Check out:
The Top 50 SEO Posts of the Year [...]

Really? “You will very likely discover that the Google Penalty was more a blessing than a curse because your site will come out stronger than ever before.” says Stepforth.
Follow the logic in this video …

Link to article: http://www.stepforth.com/blog/how-a-google-penalty-can-make-your-site-stronger.php
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Matt Cutts endorsed WordPress for being a superb choice for an SEO-friendly blog platform. WordPress inherently solves a ton of SEO issues, bloggers might have. It is a fantastic piece of software, it makes your site easily crawlable by search engines, solves some 80-90% of mechanics of SEO and is the first big step anyone [...]

Matt Cutts explains the thinking behind “Caffeine” – the next BIG change to Google – so this could affect your rankings.
Matt – sporting his new hairstyle (or lack of hair style) – thinks rankings should not change significantly. However, it is the start of a big change. Trying to stay ahead of Bing and Yahoo.
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It is always sound advice to follow an “expert” who is actually produces the goods. Many so-called experts reveal all but in practise are not able to deliver the goods. Shoemoney has a proven track record so when he offers free training materials – take note! He has produced a 12 week course – each [...]

Guest Article:
In the corporate world of today, gaining advantage over the competitor and take over the market is the prime objective of every company. Each year many companies allocate a considerable percentage of their budget to marketing and research to gain advantage over their competitors. The recent evolution in industry and marketing concepts has lead [...]

“Nofollow”
We use nofollow a lot! Ideally for what is referred to as “sculpting”; in essence you are trying to use “Google Luv” or “Google Juice” efficiently on your site. Passing Google PR juice ONLY to the pages that you want ranked well.
For example, do you want some of a page’s google PR to be shared [...]

SEO Optimisation
Over optimisation for SEO? Yes, quite easy to do and has serious consequences on the search engines. In this first video, we concentrate on on-site over optimisation. Off-site over-optimisation will be featured on a second video. Keyword stuffing may be obvious – but consider also internal links and un-natural link development. Enjoy …..

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