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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. That blog post is no longer live because it was terrible. 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. See, I wasn’t competing with a lot of blogs back then.

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My Failed Attempt at SEO (And What I’ve Learned)

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Did you know that I’ve failed at SEO before? This was when I knew SEO like the back of my hand. I’m talking about when I was good enough to get sites ranked on page 1… that’s when I really failed at SEO. My first blog post. I published my first blog back in November 2010. And boy was it was heartbreaking!

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Why Redesigns Sabotage Your SEO Rankings (And How to Avoid It)

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Especially when it comes to destroying all of the hard-earned SEO rankings you’ve built up over time. Here’s how to avoid sabotaging your own SEO rankings with your redesign. There are hundreds of rankings factors for SEO. In 2011, Google Panda was released. Take blogs for example. I’ll explain. The best solution?

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Thin & Duplicate Content: eCommerce SEO

Inflow Insights

For eCommerce SEO professionals, issues surrounding duplicate content , and also thin/low-quality content, can spell disaster in the search engine rankings. Inflow’s Cruft Finder SEO Tool. Instead, they want to send users to true content pages (product pages, category pages, static site pages, blog posts and articles).

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How to Choose Which Top Level Domain to Use

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In 2011, ICANN extended gTLDs to companies and organizations. If you run a business, blog, or another professional website, a.com TLD is probably the way to go. From an SEO point of view, the.net is better than most other lesser-known extensions if you’re in the tech industry or work for another brand.net fits with.

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Writing Content That Is Too In-Depth Is Like Throwing Money Out the Window

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Well, let’s first look at my first marketing blog, Quick Sprout. With Quick Sprout, it started off just like any normal blog. I would write 500 to 1,000-word blog posts and Google loved me. Just look at my traffic during January 2011. It was called The Advanced Guide to SEO. Heck, that’s a lot for any blog.

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4 Step eCommerce Keyword Research Strategy (Advanced Guide)

Inflow Insights

Blogs and articles. We recently helped a client to find and optimize the underperforming blog articles on their site. After we implemented our SEO optimizations to the article, it began ranking #1 in Google for several of our target keywords (while additional target keywords also moved up in the search engine rankings).

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