SEO Ethics

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Saturday, February 28th, 2009

It is funny I've started a new project but haven't shared it with my best friends - SEOsmarty readers (no, actually it is sad)... From now on, apart from seeing me regularly on Search Engine Journal, you'll be able to read my posts at DailySEOtip.com - a new blog I've started ...

Monetize Your Twitter Account! (Really?)

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Today in the morning I was pinged by one of my Facebook friends with some cute news: a start-up called Magpie (aff link) offers you to monetize your Twitter account and earn money for Tweeting the ads. My instant reaction was "Nah..." The whole idea of earning money from friends sounds ...

No, You Are NOT Allowed to Use Any Flickr Images

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

The common delusion (under which I've also been for some time) is that you can use any image you find at Flickr as long as you link back to it. Well, this is wrong. Let's try to figure all Flickr image license types to see which images you are allowed ...

SEO Smarty Is Back!!!

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Ok, my blog is back! I have to apologize for being so dumb that the hosting transfer took me about a week! But please bare with me: I have reasons (well, one reason to be precise) to be busy and overwhelmed and... Alright, I guess that's enough for excuses - ...

The Ethics of Guest Posting – Am I Wrong?

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Guest posting (contributing to other blogs with the link back - usually in the "About the author" section) is the great way to: build backlinks; attract audience (probably interested in neighboring niches); build relationships with other bloggers, etc I've been recently involved in a number of guest posts throughout different-niche blogs and was struck ...

SEO Consultant’s Email Signature – What’s Your Tactic?

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I've been recently thinking about optimizing my email signature. The problem is, I have too many things to include there and at the same time want to keep it simple and clean. Running a few experiments I came to important (yet evident) conclusions: email / digital signature is of great importance: ...

Online Negative Reputation Case Studies – That’s Never Been Easier

Friday, July 11th, 2008

While Tom over at SEOmoz posted a must-read piece on negative reputation, its types and ways to deal with it (like SERPs monitoring, social media monitoring, etc), I decided to add my two cents here discussing a few online services that encourage spreading negative reputation over the Internet. The websites discussed ...

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