1. Aaron Wall released the free SEO guide for bloggers, aptly titled - The Bloggers Guide To SEO

2. In a very comprehensive and fully illustrated guest post over at Problogger.net, Ciaran McKeever shows us How To Herd Organic Search Traffic To Your Blog.

3. Google engineer, Matt Cutts, answers one of the most burning questions webmasters and site promoters have - the Duplicate Content question.

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I popped by Lynn Terry’s Internet Marketing Blog a few minutes ago and saw her December Blog Stats post. Lynn’s a bit of an exhibitionist *grin* with her traffic stats and loves to show off the main traffic referrers, with some nice personal analysis thrown in for good measure.

Here’s what I find most interesting about her Clicknewz traffic:

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So you want to get traffic to your site (through links and search engines), but you’re so paranoid about ‘bleeding pagerank’ or sending visitors away that you won’t link to other sites?

Heh, good luck.

It’s a well known fact that referencing other sites, especially authority sites and blogs in your niche is one of the best ways to build awareness of your content.

Lets use your blog as an example. You write and publish a killer post, with no links. Now, you’re so paranoid that you ‘never’ link out in any of your posts.

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When doing keyword research for niche discovery or article writing, a lot of newbie marketers use online tools or desktop software to generate data. In the hands of a skilled search engine optimization specialist these tools can produce a goldmine, because they know how to interpert that data.

But to many new marketers rely too heavily on the raw data and simply don’t know how to use it. They take things much too literally.

For example, one online tool takes related keywords and phrases from several different sources, runs them through Google to find out how many searches a month there are for those phrases and weighs those numbers against how many pages there are in Google “competing” for top results in the SERPs.

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