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Over at Search Engine Watch, David Harry has written an incisive post, asking "are directory links still worth doing?" We strongly recommend you read David's post; it will give you a better understanding of how SEOs are looking at link building in the Post Penguin world. David makes several great points about the danger in generating low-quality directory links to your website month after month. However, David hits on a key point that we really want to expand upon. You

Last week we explained why linking is still (and always will be) crucial to your SEO campaign. Ever since Google's Penguin Update hit, marketers have been worrying that link building isn't going to work anymore. Now that Google is penalizing sites with a bad link profile, SEOs have gone running for the hills, scared that links are no longer key to getting rankings and traffic. As we noted, links remain SEO fuel for your website. While linking remains important, you

Andrew Chen has a great Quora-comment-turned-blog post. Andrew breaks discusses the eternal struggle for every marketer: how to balance user satisfaction versus virality. This is something every marketer faces, as she must decide whether to create a campaign that focuses on value exchange or one that focuses on growth. Both arguments have their merits. An experience geared toward value exchange tends to be a much better one; thus, your customers will be much happier, ensuring a high retention rate and

Giuseppe Pastore has a great post on SEOMoz about how Twitter's bad SEO negatively impacts his brand. We highly recommend you check out the post. It's a great read, not only for the SEO knowledge that's dropped but also because it gives you a great peak into the mind of a rock star online marketer. For online branding, it doesn't matter how much great content you produce or how valuable your products/service are in "real life"; it only matters what

So you’ve decided to kick of (or completely rebuild) your online marketing efforts. Awesome, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. And if you’re not generating business from the web, you definitely have a problem. Keyword research is crucial to every successful online marketing campaign. That’s because keywords are the backbone of your Search Engine Optimization. You need to drive traffic to your site from the organic search results. And the only way to do that

Google Search is about to get a little more sensitive to your needs. Wednesday, Google announced the launch of Knowledge Graph, which is an attempt to make search more human. Based on new technology Google has developed and acquired, Knowledge Graph will make the search engine algorithms act "more human" by providing instant answers to search questions. Knowledge Graph will first be available to US-based users, and soon rolled out globally. Google’s Knowledge Graph follows similar efforts by Bing’s “Snapshot”