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Top Ten Items in SEO and Search Marketing

Checking out the competition

In SEO, checking out your competition is essential to your over-all campaign. Basically, there are two questions that should be answered by your research about your competitors and these two questions are: what are the things that your competitor does that are more successful than what you’re doing and which new tactics being employed by your competitor that you can also use to have effective link building?

Where to promote your blog’s RSS feed

Any blogger should know that promoting a blog’s RSS feed is very important. The main question is to where should these feeds be promoted? This article gives 8 prime spots to promote your blog’s RSS feed. These spots are: RSS autodiscovery, subscriber count, call to action, big orange feed button, email form, welcome message before posts, call to action after posts and content links.

SEO in financial websites

Any website can make use of an SEO campaign and financial websites are not immune to this. Credibility is very important in building a solid group of clientele and your website has to have lots of this. If you have a finance website, it is best that you are specific with your services and allot a page for each of your services. By doing this, you will have better chances of improving your website ranking because your services are very specific and categorized well in separate pages.

Link building from A - Z

This resourceful article gives a list on what link building is all about using all the letters of the alphabet. The writer of the article argues that you will see a lot of numbered lists about link building, so he used the alphabet as a kind of code so that SEO practitioners can remember everything they need to know about link building.

In-depth review of Keyword Discovery

This article presents statistical and graphical data to support the hypothesis that the program Keyword Discovery is making the wrong keyword suggestions. It is very important that in using keyword research tools, one must use his own common sense, research and knowledge because these tools are merely making suggestions based on automated data which of course, can also have its own share of errors.

Comparing link power between two sites

For all those who have been very curious in determining or comparing the link power of two sites, then you should read this article as it presents two ways to do so through the use of majestic SEO or SEOquake Firefox addon. These two sites have the ability to empirically compare the link power of two websites providing utmost advantage to you over your competitors.

Are web directories, a thing of the past?

Other emerging web directories like Google and Wikipedia are gaining more popularity by the minute. This means that old web directories such as DMOZ are now getting less and less used by people. This prompted DMOZ to publish a blog demanding respect, and in answer to that blog post, this piece was written.

How to use Google Talk effectively

Google Talk is a new instant messaging program powered by Google. It is a heavy favorite among users and in order to effectively get the most out of it, this article provides four ways on how to do so. These four ways are: using Google Talk as a translator, using it as a live chat client, using Digsby which is an add-on application which enables users to integrate other IMs with Google Talk and using gTalk sidebar which integrates Google Talk with Firefox.

How to be successful in YouTube?

This blog post written by Sheena Melwani, who herself is considered very successful in YouTube shares her insights on what is the recipe for success for videos posted in this website. Sheena highlights that videos should elicit a reaction to be popular. Success in YouTube can also be accounted to the use of the different elements in the site.

Ways on how to identify link prospects

Links are important in SEO and this blog post gives out 17 ways on how you can identify link prospects. Several tips given include: linking out to known link sites, bookmarking, promoting in Twitter and getting links from sites which have the similar content to your site.


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The RockinSEO Team is very excited to announce version 2.0 of RockinSEO.

Thank you for all the feedback and support on RockinSEO, and based on your feedback, we have now rolled out version 2 of RockinSEO.

Version 2.0 of RockinSEO now includes:

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