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http://www.imageworksstudio.com/blog/how-set-marketing-budget-your-smb/index.html
its up to number 7. We updated it in April of this year to bring it current and added some new changes. This post BTW has been featured in a NYT best selling business book.
its not a rewrite by the way. It's the original article. wondering if OTHERS that have rewritten it could be one of the reasons
marketing budget
we used to rank 3-5 on this term, got many of our visitors from it. It still ranks number one for setting a marketing budget.
Here is the link
http://www.imageworksstudio.com/blog/how-set-marketing-budget-your-smb/index.html
Hello,
I have had an article consistently rank between 3-5 for the last two plu syears now. Recently it dropped down to 11-13. All I did was add my Google plus picture to it.
I have been hearing things along the lines of content rewrites. I am well aware of the fact that there are many duplicates of my article are out there. Is this the legitament problem though? Those articles have links to my sites.
I have even found other articles that link to my article that have been duplicated. So there's all sorts of duplicate syndication out there. Wondering if I should start asking people to take down my article.
Any info on recent Google activity on this subject?
yeah def. But what may seem like legitimate and white hat webmaster to webmaster outreach clearly also resembles paid links. Just hoping to not get penalized for something that represents something else. Which seems harder and harder with every algo update
as paid links?
Example: A PR 4 page updates the page a year later with new links. Does Google discredit these links as being fishy?
localleze I have personal experience with. I could give you the lowdown on what websties are powered by localezae if you wanna send me an email - it's not a directory submission service, but used for building citations. And is for helping you with your localmaps.
I have never used yext before, but they look sweet, and you should check them out as you get a free citation grader
Does anyone see this getting any better. It is getting absolutely ridiculous and almost to the point where it looks like soon analytics will be pointless!
Can Rand pull some connects and tell Google - Hey Camon! This is ridiculous, we need to see at least a little bit more of these!
i im guessing because insurance is a huge opportunity for affiliates! Just a guess though!
check out yext.com. Citations are more important for local factors than link building. Manual link building almost becomes too tough and time consuming unless you are running your own affiliate gateways or running your own website where top position in the SERPs means A LOT, and you don't have to spend a lot of time talking with clients, making business deals - you know the whole 9 yards for agency stuff
just do whatever it is the business does. Then use Yext or Whitespark & localeze to get your citation game tight. Go to yext right now and use there free citation grader tool. You will not regret it!
Interesting topic and would love to hear some thoughts. How do you justify SEO, measure results, etc etc
thanks, been using majestic SEO - pretty sweet actually as it has been finding links from 2007 that were actually broken so i could fix them 
and not just every single link, but ones you know that Google is actually indexing. I find seomoz to be super easy, but there is no way to distinguish links that are actually counting "juice", or am i missing something.
What about majesticseo - any other similar tools you use when trying to find linking sites that pass juice?
Why wouldn't you submit to multiple high ranking content directories sites? If a few pick you up great....
Are you worried of a dupe content penalty? Are you using C tags to avoid this?
found some broken links from 2007 to our site pointing to a url that needs a redirect. Obviously I am going to set that up (in-case there are others out there i don't find pointing to the same URL) but should i also reach out to the webmaster and ask him to update the link, or will the redirect suffice?
I don't want it to look like a paid link when in fact it is completely natural
anyone that knows a good one isn't going to give it up!
I would checkout http://www.onlinemba.com/
and http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/ to get started and see what kinda competition is at the top
very competitive niche
Which got hit harder in penguin update. I was looking at SEER Interactive backlink profile (the SEO company that didn't rank for it's main keyword phrases) and noticed a pretty big trend on why it might not rank for its domain name.
SEER was in a majority of anchor text, many coming from directories.
i'm guessing THEY were effected because they matched the exact match domain link profile rule
I'm not an expert programmer, but if i was playing "Google Programmer" I would think the Algo update went something like.
If ((exact match domain) & (certain % anchor text==domain) & (certain % of anchor text== partial domain + services/company)) {
tank the rankings
}
So back to the question, do you think that this update had a lot to do with directories, article directories, or neither.
Is article directories still a legit way to get links. (not ezine)
you link out to wikipedia?
I feel there are always benefits to linking out to authority sites like this
