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SEO 101 | The Beginning SEO Podcast

Jun 08

Ranking an XML file, Bing, and other listener questions

Listener Questions

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We take some questions from the chatroom and from the forums and answer them on this episode. We answer one on ranking an XML file, one about Bing.com, and a few from the forums.

May 18

Knowem - Social Media Identity Theft Protection

Industry Issues, Reputation Management, Social Media

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We talk to Michael Streko about his new service to run a username check on multiple social media sites called Knowem.  He also tells us how to sign up for announcements of some upcoming features that are sure to be blockbusters based on the sneak peek we got tonight.

May 11

Ranking an eCommerce Site

Industry Issues

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We discuss why it really doesn’t matter the platform that you’re hosted on, but give a suggestion as to one you should most certainly take a look at when considering starting an ecommerce site.

Apr 27

SEO 101 Site Review for livdb.com

Consulting, Listener Questions, Site Reviews

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In this episode, we take a look at livdb and give them some ideas to help improve their SEO efforts. We also answer a listener question at the end of the show.

Apr 20

Traffic for SEO

Blogging, Linking, Listener Questions, Twitter

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We answer some questions that came in over Twitter about blog comments and squidoo pages, then talk about how traffic can increase your site’s rankings.

Apr 13

SEO 101’s IMSB Recap

Conferences, Consulting, Content, Listener Questions

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Carolyn shares a couple of presentations she gave at IM Spring Break earlier this month. The first was on the most common problems seen with potential clients, the second was on information architecture and content creation plans.

Apr 06

SEO 101 Site Review

Listener Questions, Monetization, Site Reviews

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In this episode, we talk to Ian Westerman from Essential Tennis about what he can do to increase the search engine traffic to his website. He’s been busy building a great site for his users, so now it’s time to start attracting more users. Listen in as we start giving him the information to begin getting search traffic to his website. You’ll get some ideas as to where we start when evaluating a site and what to fix first for SEO purposes.

Mar 30

Keyword Research

Keyword Research

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Starting out with a site, you need to know what to rank for. In this episode, we discuss some keyword research tools, both free and paid, and talk a little on how to select a good keyword out of the list that gets generated.

Mar 23

Cloaking revisited and a big announcement

Cloaking, Conferences

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As we start our 3rd year, we revisit our first topic and dicusss why cloaking is still bad and a newer way people are using it, which is still bad if things go wrong. We also make a big announcement for the upcoming year, so listen in to find out what it is.

Mar 16

PubCon South, Twitter, and Multivariate Testing

Conferences, Multivariate Testing, Twitter

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We discuss what happened at PubCon South last week, talk some about Twitter, and then answer a listener question about Multivariate Testing.

Mar 02

IM Spring Break

Conferences, Listener Questions

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We are joined by the one and only Dave Snyder to talk about the upcoming IM Spring Break conference - what to expect, who should attend, and what the costs are. This is one incredible value, so don’t miss out on the spring break event of the year for our industry!

Feb 24

Show starting up again…

Duplicate Content, Industry Issues

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We’re going to start the show back up after a real short time away. We think the bugs are worked out with the new network, so this was mostly a test episode, but we also do talk a little SEO.

Jan 26

First SEO Call-In Show

Listener Questions

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Listen to our first call-in show, complete with lots of technical glitches. We’ll get those ironed out, and that should help you iron out the problems you’re having with your website’s optimization as well. Listen in (around the issues) and then ask us questions.

Jan 20

Twitter Welcome Page Site - tw33t.me

Reputation Management, Twitter

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If twitter answers the question “What am I doing right now”, then tw33t.me answers the question “Why should you follow me right now”. Learn about this great new website that puts the personal into twitter and lets you see who’s behind a name.

Jan 13

New Show? Sort of.

Announcements, Conferences

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We talk about our show moving to a new network, Carolyn going to some upcoming conferences, new seo tools being released to public beta, a new show that is just starting up, Carolyn owning Perdue.edu, and translating from marketer to developer.

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