http://www.searchlaboratory.com – Tweet It has been common practise in recent years when optimising websites to avoid using any techniques which could be remotely regarded as Black Hat. For instance, anybody hoping to gain quick, high ranking results in search engines using spammy, grey hat link building would be a venturing down a dangerous path. These types of tactics can (unfortunately for all us white hat SEO’s) work in the short term. Websites may be able to creep under Google’s radar and rank on the first page with little effort, but eventually those kinds of sites would be caught and penalised, heavily! (SEO)

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http://www.amnavigator.com – Those who follow my blog, magazine articles, and conference presentations know how fascinated I am with the subject of motivation, especially when it comes to effective motivation of such a unique “workforce” as affiliates. Needless to say why a post published on Econsultancy.com yesterday has immediately drawn my attention — right upon spotting its title in my Google Alerts list of notifications — “The art of affiliate incentives”. Overall, it’s a good solid article by Owen Hewitson, a Client Strategist at Affiliate Window/Buy.at. But I have two things to add to the important subject he has chosen to tackle. (SEO)

http://www.seochat.com – Users visiting the search giant Google today will be in for a treat as they unveiled a new interactive logo. But is the logo what it appears to be or is there something more lurking beneath the surface ... Recompile one file & boost performance Quickly find & fix hotspots with Intel® Parallel Studio. Get the eval guide. (SEO)

http://www.amnavigator.com – David Meerman Scott has a new book out. It is co-authored with Brian Halligan of HubSpot, and entitled “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What every business can learn from the most iconic bank in history”. I’ve had a chance to read it cover-to-cover on my transatlantic flight a couple of days ago. Yes, its a quick (and tremendously engaging) read. In this 160-pager, Scott and Halligan break the famous band’s success into 19 marketing lessons (each chapter of the book corresponds to one) which can be used by virtually any business (old or new) for the effective promotion and growth. (SEO)

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http://www.amnavigator.com – One of the suggestions under my Digital Marketer’s Twitter 100+ Master List was to put together a list of SEO experts to follow on Twitter. The day has finally come and today I will indeed focus on the Search Engine Optimization experts you don’t want to miss. Here is my list (not a ranking, just a list of folks and online resources — broken into two lists, arranged by the number of followers on the day of this post — whose tweets I often find to be of great help): People (SEO)

http://www.seochat.com – Yesterday we took a look at some marketing ideas that went viral to a greater or lesser degree. We considered some of the factors that encouraged any particular viral marketing campaign to grow as we looked at approaches from Dropbox Dothetest.co.uk and BT. Now we ll look at some that I think of as modern classics.... Recompile one file & boost performance Quickly find & fix hotspots with Intel® Parallel Studio. Get the eval guide. (SEO)