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Don't Forget Dmoz and Yahoo

The Two Top DirectoriesTwo great citations to raise trust in your website are Dmoz and Yahoo Directory. Don't overlook them. They can only help boost traffic to your site and ranking.DmozAcceptance...

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How to Find Bad Links

Have you had a significant drop in traffic and ranking? You probably have bad links pointing to your site.  If so, they could be hurting your ranking under Google's Penguin update.  Here's is how to...

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How to Get Rid of Bad Links: Part One

Best First Step: Ask for Removal on the Site ItselfNow that you've identified your bad links, you can now start the process of getting rid of them.Here is are some links for a site downloaded from...

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How to Get Rid of Bad Links: Part Two

Step Two: Use Whois to Find the OwnerLink Removal can be Enjoyable like a Video GameWhat if you try to remove a bad link using a comment form or email found on the site, but you receive no response? Or...

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How to Get Rid of Bad Links: Part Three

Step Three: Create the Disavow FileStep Three is creating the disavow file of the links you haven`t been able to remove.  You'll submit it to the disavow tool.  Don't worry, it's not hard. What You'll...

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Creating Video Content for your Clients

Filmmaking at Ducktoes Computer ServicesA really good way to get more traffic and higher ranking is to create video content for your clients and yourself.  Google loves high-quality content created to...

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Squidoo to Go Away and Delete (or Transfer) All Your Content!

This is just in.  I went to my Squidoo site to work on my lenses and found out that Squidoo is closing.  What a shock. This is the message:Squidoo is shutting downYou have a couple of weeks, almost, to...

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Hey, I Did It: Ducktoes Site makes Dmoz!!!

Hey, I did it.  I got my Ducktoes.com site listed on dmoz.org.  This is almost impossible these days, since it is ridiculously hard to get a listing there.  For those who don't know, it's the directory...

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Directories can be Problematic

Directories can be problematic in SEO.  You don't want to be listed in spammy, low-ranking ones. Even high ranking ones can be devalued or penalized by Google and end up being low ranking or toxic....

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This is the End (of Yahoo Directory)

Yahoo Directory to CloseYahoo announced on it Tumblr site that it is going to close the Yahoo Directory. This is what the report says, "Yahoo was started nearly 20 years ago as a directory of websites...

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Penguin Unrolled, Finally!

On October 17, 2014 Penguin unrolled again finally. This one is being called Penguin 3.0.  If you used the disavow tool and used it correctly then you'll find your poor ranking has improved or is...

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Pigeon Unrolled in Canada on December 22

The Pigeon has LandedThose who know me know I always follow ranking closely, an understatement, since really I'm obsessed with it. It's no surprise then that on December 22, 2014, I noticed right away...

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Sitemap your Site for SEO

Crank your RankThere are two different types of sitemaps, .xml and html.  The first you do for bots and the other for people. Both are great for SEO.  Both are white hat SEO techniques if you want to...

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Google Sending Mobile-User Friendly Warnings to Webmasters

Twice in the last week I've gotten an email from Google Webmaster Tools telling me that client sites are not mobile friendly.  They look like this:I really appreciate this because it will motivate my...

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Google to Make Websites Faster for Free

Watch out, your site is about to be transcoded by Google on slow mobile devices. According to a post on Bruce Clay's blog by John Alexander, Google is going to make slow and non-mobile friendly sites...

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Google Search Console - The Very First Baby Step of SEO

You want to learn SEO, but where to start? The very first baby step on the road to becoming a great SEO analyst standing among the grown ups (or doing your own SEO for your own website) is to get a...

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Google Analytics - The Second Baby Step of SEO

So you have Google Search Console set up and are ready for the next baby step on the road to SEO greatness (and standing among the SEO grown ups.) The baby next step is, drum roll please, setting up...

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Be the Site Google Wants to See

To do a good job of online marketing for yourself and others you have to have some sense of what Google wants.So what does Google want?The answer is, of course:Money. Google is a business like any...

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Ghost Referral Spam is Gone?

I first heard the news on the podcast SEO 101 with hosts Ross Dunn and John Carcutt:Google analytics spam was gone. Wonderful news! Yay, yay, yay, yay. (That's me dancing around the room and high...

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SEO for Beginners Subreddit!

Hey, we've started an SEO for Beginners subreddit on reddit.com.  Check it out! You can ask for help on SEO for your site or help others.

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Why Being Mobile Friendly is so Important

Great Video on Being Mobile FriendlyI found this great and funny video on mobile responsiveness by Eric Enge and Mark Traphagan of Stone Temple.  As Eric and Mark point out in such a fun and...

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Case Study: What Can Basic SEO do for a Website?

This post is by Cathie Dunklee-Donnell, Advanced SEO Analyst and owner of Ducktoes Computer Services Inc. Ms. Dunklee-Donnell is certified In Advanced SEO by Bruce Clay and Yoast SEO. Also trained at...

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Links Still Most Powerful Ranking Factor

This post is by Cathie Dunklee-Donnell, Advanced SEO Analyst and owner of Ducktoes Computer Services Inc. Ms. Dunklee-Donnell is certified In Advanced SEO by Bruce Clay and Yoast SEO. Also trained at...

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The Ridiculously Amazing Case Study about What Basic SEO Can Do, Part Two

This post is by Cathie Dunklee-Donnell, Advanced SEO Analyst and owner of Ducktoes Computer Services Inc. Ms. Dunklee-Donnell is certified In Advanced SEO by Bruce Clay and Yoast SEO. Also trained at...

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Great and Entertaining youtube Video Channels that Will Help You Learn SEO

The DEEP ENDI really love the DEEP END youtube channel for learning SEO.  Watch it as much as possible. He'll help you make a website that will help bring you more business, and in a simple,...

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