SEO articles for your reading pleasure

Staying Ahead Of Google Search

Last week, I asked the musical question, "Are you keeping up with Google?" In that post, I tried to stimulate some thinking around the idea that waiting for the ranking algorithm to change is not the best time to begin doing something new in response. If you work that way, you are constantly feeling under the gun, like you can't keep up, and that you are always falling behind.

Continue reading: http://www.searchnewz.com/topstory/news/sn-2-20101117StayingAheadOfGoogleSearch.html

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CMS Keeps Two Sets of URLs (same content)

We are moving our site to a new CMS – same content, many identical pages, some new pages, same domain, different URLs. The CMS allows us to craft SEO-friendly URLs, like this:

www.example.com/page-keywords

The underlying page-number URL will also load that same page:

www.example.com/123.html

Question 1. In sitemap.xml, can we use the page number URL rather than the keyword URL?

Continue reading: http://www.highrankings.com/cms-2-urls-293

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Local Social Media Marketing: How your peers use Twitter, Facebook, and blogs

Foursquare or GroupOn? I think the playground game four square is far more impressive than the social media platform with the same name…and only then if you absolutely, positively can’t find a football. I think GroupOn has far more value for local social media marketers.

On the other hand, Senior Manager of Research Partnerships Andy Mott thinks that Foursquare is the natural evolution of the loyalty card.

Continue reading: http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/research-topics/local-social-media.html


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