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Mical Johnson on stage at Ignite Tampabay 2013

Stop Thinking and Google It! – #ignitetampa recap

I had the pleasure of participating in the IGNITE Tampabay on April 25, 2013. This is the first time I had participated in this type of event. There was almost 900 people in the audience and when the lights hit, I forgot everything I was going to say. I still had fun and enjoyed every moment of it. Here’s the
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tag clouds and SEO with Matt Cutts

Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO?

  In this short video Matt Cutts, Google’s Head Spam Engineer, tackles the question “Do tag clouds help or hinder SEO?” Here’s a quick summary: Tag clouds are links Can be good or bad depending how you use them (think keyword stuffing) Think about where you want to send your PR Matt personally doesn’t use them     Technorati: TSF92JZJX6WM

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Google Authorship Program

Everyone seems to be buzzing about Google’s Authorship program and telling you the benefits about it. Just go sign up for it. You’ll thank me later. The directions are simple and there are even WordPress plugins for them. I use one called WP Google Authorship I naturally already have a Google+ profile and have gone through the process of connecting them. I even got
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Why Backlink Building Is Not Working For Some Websites?

The short version of this is that their website sucks ,but let’s take a closer look at some of the common problems in building backlinks. Quality Content The entire purpose of a link is to reference something of quality and relevance (I’ll get to that in a second) and somehow that gets looked over by people with they build a website and
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Google slaps around duplicate content

This is going to be a short post just pointing out a new change recently with the Google algorithm. But first I wanted to mention an update on my last post about Google Buzz. There were a lot of concerns about some of the privacy settings and how your information was being used. Google has made various updates and they
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SEO Tips for YouTube

  Have you ever wondered how to get your video’s to come up on Google Search? Make sure the keyword is in the title of the video Put the keyword in the description of the video Put the keyword in the tag of the video and only use 3-5 tags. Use business address for location if available Name the video
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Google's Agent Rank patent inventors

Agent Rank: New Google Patent Finally Approved.

Google’s Agent Rank is finally approved today and it will mark the beginning of the end for Yahoo and MSN (now Bing). I find it interesting that Google is looking at the credibility of the person creating the content over the inbound links as a priority. There will need to be other factors involved in this if this is to be useful
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Subdomain SEO Truth or Myth?

From time to time I will get asked the question “If I use a subdomain can I get that ranked with my regular domain url in the SERP (search engine results page)”   What do you think?  Your opinon counts: leave a comment below

Article Submission Secrets

In the following video I reveal some of the most closely guarded insider secrets to article submissions that will bring in tons of traffic and boost your search engine rankings. The is alternative way to create linkbait, which is creating content that people link to. Instead you allow them to syndicate the content (your article) in exchange for leaving a
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Blowing the SEO Myth

Here are some of the best SEO practices I have heard anyone speak about in a long time. Finally someone is a little verbal about what is wasting your time. The video is by Wil Reynolds( @wilreynolds on twitter) of ThinkSeer.com Wil Reynolds teaches which SEO practices are no longer used before explaining best SEO practices.