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A Blog Isn’t a Blog, It’s a Business

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I wrote my very first blog post on July 24, 2005. The post was called, “Winning the Search Engine Marketing War.”. But you know what, back in 2005, the blog post was pretty darn good. But you know what, back in 2005, the blog post was pretty darn good. What it used to be in 2005, isn’t what it is today.

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The Definitive Guide to Online Reputation Management

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Depending on the scope of the problem, several paths can be pursued in order to restore your online reputation: Aggressive SEO : Ranking on pages one or two of Google for your industry and brand name is one of the best ways to push down bad publicity. Sony certainly learned a reputation management lesson back in 2005. Our apologies.

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The Step-by-Step Guide to Improving Google Rankings Without Getting Penalized

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I’m going back to basics with on-page SEO to help you understand the new SEO rules, learn how to optimize for both humans and search algorithm crawlers, and to master on-page and off-page SEO. I could jump right into some actionable SEO strategies to use on your site right now. I learned this the hard way.