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So, I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to begin my daily routine of checking emails, web stats, blog entries, etc., when I noticed that I hadn’t yet loaded the Alexa toolbar on this particular machine. No biggie, I made a quick visit to Alexa’s site and had it installed in seconds.  After some re-arrangement I had all my toolbars exactly where I like them, Yahoo at the top, Alexa, and then Google at the bottom, closest to my cursor.  I was ready to quickly move on with my morning to-do list.

This is where the story gets interesting.

As I was reading through the news today I was thinking about how fast things are going these days.  Everyone is into tagging, feeds, photo uploads and more.  So of course I thought of the line from the Wizard of Oz - ‘Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My.’ Only this time its ‘Tagging and Uploading and Feeds, Oh My’ because that seems to be the topic of choice among the new products search engines are releasing these days.

There are those in our industry who will tell you that PageRank is dead.  I’ve been reading a lot lately about how we are supposed to ignore the green bar in our browser but you know what?  I disagree and I’m going to tell you why.

It seems like everywhere you go on the web and with almost every search you do you see a Craigslist.com listing.  Turns out, this isn’t too far from the truth.

This is going to be a new feature on the site: A daily roundup of all the happenings in the SEM world.  Today we cover many topics.  From Virtual Earth’s flaws, to many new Yahoo! products, to rumors of Ask Jeeves changes.  So let’s get right into it…

What does over 4 years in the SEO/SEM business feel like?

I thought I’d write this, my first article more as an introduction into who I am, and some of the things I’ve seen in my time in the industry.

I can’t tell you enough how pleased I am about Urchins new On-Demand version 6. I have been playing with web analytic software for over 5 years now and have tried it all. Urchin’s new version 6 on-demand web service is a giant leap foward. The interface is smooth and quick, the reports are comprehensive and easily located, and the data is thourough and concise.

Hello Everyone.  I figured it would be a good idea to start a thread that introduces the Textlinkbrokers.com staff.  It’s always nice to put faces with the people that you work with on a regular basis.  I don’t want to embarrass anyone too much so I will leave names off for now. I myself am sitting on the floor in the center. This will probably come as a shock to those who had pre-conceived notions that I was much older then 28 years.

The following picture was taken at the Phoenix Corporate Office of Textlinkbrokers, which is a division of 360 Enterprises, Inc. 20 of the 38 employees that currently work for 360 are housed in Phoenix.  The day this picture was taken it was 115 degrees, with no relief in site, thus the reason we are all in shorts and t-shirts.  Probably one of the reasons Phoenix is one of the fastest growing hubs of computer nerds in the country; It’s simply way to hot to do anything besides sit on a computer all day.

I know some of you were expecting a bunch of old geezers in suits.  Contrary to popular belief most of us are in our mid to late 20’s except for a few ranging between 30 and 70.  Not bad for a company that has over 4000 clients worldwide, including 2 top ten Internet retailers and several fortune 500’s.

We Look forward to the next few years.  You can look for all sorts of new innovative products, services, and acquisitions from 360 Enterprises, Inc.

Basic On-Page SEO

On-page optimization is often ignored by the top sites on Google - after all, who cares about a few percentage points when you can literally buy your way to the top of the search engine result pages (SERPs) with a bucket-load of inbound links?

Today I’ll discuss a bit about why, contrary to common practice, why on-page SEO is so important and then tell you how you can quickly optimize your web pages even if you have very little time!

Hello everyone,

We are looking for several more writers to contribute to our blog and newsletter.  We pay on a per article basis, either cash or trade for services.  Marketing experts, SEO experts, Marketing researchers are all encouraged to contact us.  We would like between 1 and 2 articles per writer per week on an ongoing basis. Whether you are looking to promote your own business and build your reputation or just work as a staff writer for textlinkbrokers.com, is up to you.  Contact jarrod@textlinkbrokers.com if your interested.

For those of you not familiar with “Creative Commons”, it is a term coined by creativecommons.org that is used to describe photos, music, and text that are freely available to reproduce/copy on your own websites/newsletters with the only condition being that you give credit to the author of the content you are reproducing.

So basically its free content.  All you have to do is provide a link to the original source. 

Here are two places to search for “Free Content”

http://creativecommons.org/find/

-and-

http://search.yahoo.com/cc

For example, a Simple search for the word “SEO” produced 142,000 pages of content in Yahoo, most of which is free to use.

I’m sure many of you can think of a ways to utilize these tools.  For all of you link builders out there you should seriously consider licensing your website/content with creativecommons.org.  Syndication is one of the easiest and best ways to get free links.

For those of you that dont know who Dan Thies is, he is one of the most well known keyword specialist out there. Aaron Wall did an interview with him a few days ago.  A good portion is focused on discussing ways professional SEO’s market themselves and build links.  It then goes into depth about keyword research, which is a very important topic IMHO. There are lots of good links to resources and articles.

Read the full Article Here: Interview with Dan Thies

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This wont last long!

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RapidKeyword has a new feature that will pull related keywords from Googles Beta Suggest Program.  I dont use RapidKeyword too often myself but it does have a nice array of ways to dig up keywords. 

There is also a Trial Download on their site http://www.rapidkeyword.com/

Sitemaps are more important then most webmasters realize.  Even some SEO’s dont use them, which is shocking.  This article will explain to you how to properly create a sitemap, as well as some popular tools to do it.

Keyword Research is still just as essential today as it has always been, for SEO.  This Article gives a step by step example on how to properly pick Keywords for a Niche site.