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Search Engine Watch November 25, 2008 Mark Jackson	Keyword Research for Search Engine Optimization All your SEO efforts will be in vain if you haven't spent enough time focused on which keywords you want to target.
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Search Engine Watch May 24, 2010 Josh McCoy	Breaking the Single Keyword Obsession in SEO Campaigns Structuring a site to be SEO-friendly, as well as reinforcing a keyword theme in your content strategy that greatly expands the broad term desired, should result in great rankings for competitive terms.
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Search Engine Watch November 11, 2008 Carrie Hill	Six Things You Might Be Doing Wrong (And How to Fix Them)! When you look at what is and isn't working for a small business Web site, you'll find that the most frequent issues fall within six categories. Some are flaws in site architecture, while others are the result of poor planning or marketing discipline. All are fixable, if you know what to look for.
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Search Engine Watch November 11, 2008 Mark Jackson	Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO By optimizing your Web site for organic search, and building out a bunch of pages for each keyword that you're honestly interested in targeting, you'll likely end up improving your Quality Scores as well.
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