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Sep
14

I Wanna Link Your Brains Out!

written by yankeerudy

For web folks, our drive to get links is no less primal than the human urge to… um, procreate. Unfortunately, many of us go about link building like awkward teenagers. Which of these profiles fit your link building approach?

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Jul
19

Seven Links Challenge

written by yankeerudy

Darren at Problogger issued a 7 link challenge last week, asking bloggers to post links in his seven categories. It looked like it would be fun, so for the benefit of new Smartacus blog readers I’m jumping onto the blogwagon.

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Jul
12

Six Reasons To Trust Your Website To Wordpress

written by yankeerudy

I’ve been reading some real touchy-feely articles lately about why business owners should use Wordpress for their websites. I like Wordpress (we use it here) but touchy feely doesn’t help anybody. Here are some real benefits of using Wordpress for your website, instead of paying for a custom web development job.

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Dec
22

Robert Scoble is a Big Baby

written by yankeerudy

Last week Internet industry pundit Robert Scoble started (yet another) firestorm with his blog post about how SEO won’t matter any more in 2010. Naturally, the very headline caused a knee-jerk reaction of condemnation in the SEO industry — we have enough trouble explaining to clients why what we do is important to them (and it is important) without some wag confusing them.

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Oct
27

Mad SEO Scientists

written by yankeerudy

In a recent post I talked about some dumb job posting terminology found on job sites. It occurred to me that SEO specialists aren’t “rock stars” or “gurus” at all. The more accurate descriptor of an SEO consultant is “Mad Scientist.”

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