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PubCon South 2010 Dallas–Highlights from SEO Training Day on April 13

The organic search training session yesterday began with a great Texas-style breakfast with biscuits & gravy.Yum! Here are some quick highlights for our near-live-blogging. You can follow the chatter from the Twitterati on #PubCon. Carolyn Shelby did a nice job with the introduction to the SEO session. Joe Laratro: Use Bing Webmaster tools to discover outbound links from your site that may be malicious, viruses, untrusted sites. Experts–blog about what you do every day, like landscape jobs with images and locations for geocentric keywords and content. Make sure your biz is listed in Google’s local search listings. Online biz –get

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Live from PubCon South 2010 in Dallas — Latest in Search Marketing

I’m at PubCon South in Dallas this week for the conference and training day. We’re pleased to make our first attempt at “near-live-blogging” from a conference. Let us know in comments or Tweet me about what you think of this type of coverage and what you’d like to hear about. I’ll be Tweeting some of the best tips on SEO, social media, and search engine marketing for your online marketing efforts from @CYL4G_SallyAnne to #PubCon. Shhhhh….they’re starting! -by Sally Anne Dishong, SEO + Social Media Web Content Editor_

Twitter Your Way to a Blog Post

Often, one of the biggest roadblocks to successful business blogging is finding the time to write posts. If you’re struggling with this challenge, but you and some of your team members are already Tweeting (micro-blog) business-related topics and updating your business Facebook fan page and other social media sites, here’s an idea for you: “Curate” your real-time content by topic from Twitter and other social media status updates onto new pages or blog posts for your website. The folks at SEOMoz have put together a video about how to aggregate your Tweets and other real-time content onto pages or posts

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7 Ways to Recycle Your Website Article Content

As an online marketer, you want to get the most “bang for your buck” with the time and money you spend on website and blog content creation. Quality online content is an inbound marketing magnet–it’s what attracts the search engines and the visitors to your site for you to convert them to sales.   Your website content (articles, blog posts, video, images, audio, etc.) is a valuable business asset. Treat is as such. Here are seven ideas to get you started: Start with an article or blog post about an interesting topic for visitors to your site (also use keyword research

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Make the New FTC Disclosure Guidelines Your Affiliate Marketing Ally

Bloggers and affiliate marketers can turn the new FTC (Federal Trade Commission) disclosure guidelines into a marketing tool. Transparency and integrity support your sales efforts and are a cornerstone of best practices in online marketing. You can increase your credibility and professionalism by letting your readers know about any payments or material you receive from product endorsements or online affiliate sales. And yes, it’s also true that you can be fined up to $11,000 per post for not disclosing this relationship, so that’s another good reason to follow the new rules! In your blog posts and website content development, make

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