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Thank you for finding my blog. As a 7 year agency SEO Director and VP, and a current in-house SEO and Social Media Director, I can offer a wealth of information, knowledge, and perspective in the topic of organic SEO. I also realize that I don’t know everything. But I love sharing and talking about SEO. It has become my career and passion. So please join in the conversation, stir things up, and let’s debate some SEO. Of course newbies are always welcome and I love to help people out and answer questions. Feel free to follow me at Twitter @miguelsalcido and on Google+.

Storify

I came across Storify the other day and found it to be very intriguing for it’s content curation capabilities. So I decided to put together the story below, a debate/examination of in-house SEO versus agency SEO. I hope that you find it useful, I enjoyed curating it. With more and more executives shifting dollars to [...]

Subdomains-vs-Subfolders

An interesting question was posed to me this morning via Twitter from a local social media maven, Melonie Gallegos. What gives a domain more SEO benefit (link juice): a subdomain or a folder under the primary domain? xyz.domain.com vs domain.com/xyz This is a difficult question to answer in 140 characters, thus, here I am writing [...]

Most businesses out there will setup their blog within their existing site like domain.com/blog or they will add it to their domain as a subdomain such as blog.domain.com. Either way is good and I often go back and forth as to which I prefer, which tells me that they are both good and it just [...]

In search marketing often times we are providing insights and reports to people who quite frankly have absolutely no idea what it is we do, let alone what the data we are reporting on means. It is also difficult to translate reports for clients because there are typically many ways to interpret data. Add to [...]

Case studies are now coming out showing that social media signals do directly boost organic rankings. But those rankings are short lived and fade with time similar to the QDF effect.

Recently an announcement that Google, and Bing, are using social media signals to help them calculate organic rankings was made. Twitter and Facebook are known to be two massive social media sites with oodles of active users sharing each day and it makes sense that these are two good places to start building a social [...]

I attended and spoke at the August MIMA event last night. MIMA (Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association) is a fantastic group of professional and highly educated Internet marketers, creative designers, and lovers of all things digital. They have one of the better organized communities that I have come across. And with abut 250 people at their [...]

Today SEOmoz posted a bonus whiteboard video featuring none other than Matt Cutts. The video is prompted by the current SMX Advanced conference going on near the new SEOmoz offices. And since Matt was in town Rand properly took the opportunity to have this interview, in which he asked a number of great and specific [...]

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