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Past High Rankings Advisor Newsletter Articles: 2012

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HRA 332: Google AdWords Interview I've put together an interview with my PPC go-to person, Pauline Jakober, for today's feature article.
Google AdWords Interview with Pauline Jakober of Group Twenty Seven - Today I'm happy to showcase an interview about Google AdWords with my colleague and friend, Pauline Jakober, CEO of Group Twenty Seven.		High Rankings Question of the Week - How do you plan on managing the new ad rotation settings in Google AdWords?

Advanced SEO Forum Thread of the Week - Is a "List Internal Links" in My Website Footer Bad After Google's Penguin Update?		HRA 332: Wrap-up - That's all for today!

HRA 331: Common SEO Questions and Answers Today, Jill answers SEO questions that she found in her Google Analytics using an Advanced Segment found at Custom Report Sharing.
Your Most Common SEO Questions Answered - Today I browsed through the 3,500 or so SEO questions people asked at Google and chose the most common ones to answer.		High Rankings Question of the Week - Do you love or hate (or something in the middle) Google's Penguin Update?

Advanced SEO Forum Thread of the Week - The "Penguin Update" - How Can I Recover?		HRA 331: Wrap-up - That's all for today!

HRA 330: Website Marketing Strategies I've been busy trying to market the new website I mentioned last time (Custom Report Sharing). It's rare that I start from scratch with a new site, so I'm learning new things every day. Today, you are the lucky beneficiary of what I've learned so far.
6 Web Marketing Strategies I've Learned (So Far) From Promoting My New Website - Read on to see what I've learned (so far) trying to market my new website.		High Rankings Question of the Week - What's your best tip for promoting a new website online?

Advanced SEO Forum Thread of the Week - Have You Received a GWMT Notice: Artificial or Unnatural Links?		HRA 330: Wrap-up - That's all for today!

HRA 329: The Dreaded (Not Provided) Keywords Today's post is about an important SEO issue affecting anyone who reviews and uses their keyword data to take action on their website, so please read on… - Jill
Measuring Natural Keyword Traffic in the Age of (Not Provided) Secure Search - What does Google expect honest search marketers to do when we can no longer accurately report the natural keyword segmentation of traffic?		High Rankings Question of the Week - What (if anything) are you doing to mitigate the loss of KW data due to the dreaded "Not Provided"?

Advanced SEO Forum Thread of the Week - Google Keywords Not Reporting Jumped in March		HRA 329: Wrap-up - That's all for today!

HRA 328: Email Marketing Today I have a guest article from Internet Marketing Consultant Matthew Coers about email marketing.
A Simple Strategy for Building Smart Email Lists - How smart is your email list? Read this guest article by Matthew Coers to make it smarter!		High Rankings Question of the Week - Are you doing any email marketing? If so, how's it working for you?

Advanced SEO Forum Thread of the Week - Google Is Heavily Weighting Words in the URL		HRA 328: Wrap-up - That's all for today!

HRA 327: The Benefits of Giving Today's article is a little bit different as it is a bit more of an inspirational article than an SEO tactic one.
Giving Has Its Own SEO Rewards - It's pretty amazing and very cool that a simple gesture can have such a profound effect on someone's career – and, I daresay – life.		High Rankings Question of the Week - Have you done any good deeds for others that ended up helping your business?

Advanced SEO Forum Thread of the Week - Google Changing Title Tags		HRA 327: Wrap-up - That's all for today!

HRA 326: Content Marketing Funnels Today I have a guest post on a very important online marketing topic from my good friend Karon Thackston.
Generate More Leads with a 3-Step Content Marketing Funnel - Does your marketing lead anywhere? Is there a plan and a purpose behind your content, or do you just toss something out there and see what happens?		High Rankings Question of the Week - Do you have a content marketing funnel or plan?

Stuff You Might Like - Save $150 on Advanced Link Building Seminar in Boston		Advanced SEO Forum Thread of the Week - Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Or Blog?

HRA 326: Wrap-up - That's all for today!

HRA 325: Looking for Blog Post Ideas? I hope today's post provides you with some ideas for what to write in your blog when you're stuck.
67 Ideas for Blog Topics - You're likely sick of hearing about the importance of having great blog post content. But you know you need it in order to have something to promote via social media. And you know that great blog posts can bring in lots of long-tail search engine visitors. What you may have trouble with is what to write about in your blog.		High Rankings Question of the Week - What are your favorite types of blog posts to write?

Stuff You Might Like - Become the "Go-To" Resource in Your Market!		Advanced SEO Forum Thread of the Week - How Viable Is the Freelance SEO Market?

HRA 325: Wrap-up - That's all for today!

HRA 324: SEO Q&A Lightning Round! I wasn't sure what to write about today, so I went to my Twitter followers for inspiration.
SEO Question and Answer Lightning Round - What does a good online marketer do when stuck for topic ideas these days? Go to Twitter, what else! I asked my followers to hit me with their burning SEO questions and they didn't disappoint.		HRA 324: Wrap-up - That's all for today!

HRA 323: Rel=Author Today I've got an article on why you need to do whatever it takes to get your content into Google's Authorship program.
5 Reasons Why You Need to Use Rel=Author on Your Content - If you're thinking that implementing the Rel-Author tag on your content isn't worth the trouble, Jill Whalen provides 5 reasons why it's super important.		High Rankings Question of the Week - To go along with this week's article on Rel=Author, I asked my social media followers if they've implemented Rel=Author on their content yet, and if so, was it showing in Google's search results?

Advanced SEO Forum Thread of the Week - Google passes value from an iframed link.		HRA 323: Wrap-up - That's all for today!