Stop Procrastinating: It’s Time To Address Mobile SEO

Columnist Janet Driscoll Miller explains how to evaluate your mobile performance in organic search so that you can make the case for investing in mobile.

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The B2B SEO Opportunity In Organizational Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions present unique opportunities and challenges for B2B search marketers. Columnist Derek Edmond explains how to plan and prepare for the process.

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Target’s Mobile Site Shows The Value Of An SEO Spring Clean (Sorry, Target!)

Columnist Chris Liversidge gets back to basics by taking a look at how to tackle a common SEO problem: duplicate content.

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Tool Overview: LinkRisk — Not Just For Detoxing Anymore

Link Week columnist Julie Joyce reviews the LinkRisk tool suite, which has added some useful capabilities you may not be aware of.

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Local SEO In 2015 – Look At The Big Picture

When you’re doing Local SEO, columnist Greg Gifford reminds us, you must take a step back and look at the big picture if you want to be successful.

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Breaking The Glass Ceiling Of Search Through Acquisition

When you’re working on an SEO campaign within a particularly competitive niche, it can sometimes feel that for every step forward you take, your competitors are taking an extra two. This is particularly relevant when you come into a niche where there have been a select number of really…

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All Things SEO: Our Top 10 Organic Search Columns For 2014

All Things SEO is by far our most widely read column here on Search Engine Land, and our columnists have worked hard all year to provide a wide variety of helpful SEO content for our readers. While many in the organic search community turned to these industry experts for their insights regarding…

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5 SEO Tactics To Kick-Start The New Year

If you’re like most people, you’ve probably already checked out for the year. Clients are out of the office, you’re on vacation, and 2015 contracts have already been signed. There’s nothing left to do but close that computer, put on your slippers, throw a log on the fire,…

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Effective Keyword Targeting: The Key To Growing Traffic & Revenue

Columnist Trond Lyngbo explains how proper keyword targeting is the key to improving your site’s visibility in search engines.

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How To Make Every Single Page On Your Website Evergreen

Web pages may not be meant to last forever, but I think that most web pages can do a lot better. Many pages and articles published today lack evergreen qualities, which means that in a few months or years, they will be old and useless. They will join the billions of other pages littering the…

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How Google’s Penguin 3.0 Is Playing Out Across The Web

How has Penguin 3.0 resonated globally? Contributor Philip Petrescu of Advanced Web Ranking shares data on the algorithm update’s impact.

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Close More Clients With A Quick Local Site Audit

We all know it – selling local SEO to clients is tough. After my “simple math” post back in October, I’ve gotten a ton of questions asking for more details about our sales process. As we all know, small business owners  assume that their site is the best and that they should…

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2015 SEO Not A Playbook: The Half-Decade Edition

Search engine optimization shifted dramatically during the first half of this decade. I wonder how it will evolve? Google Got Intelligent Google has always been smart. When it launched, the PageRank algorithm changed everything, so much so that Google …

Mobile SEO & E-Commerce Growth Beyond Black Friday & Cyber Monday

Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be over, but columnist Jim Yu reminds us that the holiday shopping season is still in full swing.

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How To Write A Meta Description That Gets Click-Throughs

I feel sorry for meta descriptions. Google has long held that meta descriptions do not impact search engine rankings. From a 2007 post on the Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google reiterated this point yet again in 2009 in a post stating that the meta keywords tag was not used as a ranking signal:…

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3 Common Challenges Facing All SEO Managers

Anyone managing an SEO program, either in-house or for a client, knows there are a multitude of challenges. In fact, at SMX East back in October, Mark Munroe gave us this hilarious quote applying Murphy’s Law to SEO: It’s true! Just when you think everything is perfect and things couldn’t be…

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