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Twitter has always been looking for better ways to combat spammers and it appears they have recently... read more »
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Here are 13 very convincing reasons why you should care about social media and why it is worth your time. read more »
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Google likes spam. Sounds surprising? Well, actually it does! Of all the spam that is generated, Google seems quite comfortable with 5% of the lot read more »
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I'm doing a talk at Gnomedex about how search continues to be part of our everyday lives -- and the issues that come with it, such as privacy. This post looks at some of those issues. I'm hoping to spark some discussion that will feed into my talk. read more »
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"No, Seth, it doesn’t take 10 years to become a success."

I follow Seth, I have his books, but I don't agree with everything "anyone" says, SEOblackhat.com echoes my thought. read more »
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Tom Critchlow gives us another clever and ethical linkbuilding technique. The basic principle is to find link leads by searching for pages or sites which used to offer a service and no longer do. read more »
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Extensive 6-page article on getting the most out of conferences by Lee Odden at TopRank. Includes tips from Brad Berens (iMedia), Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Chris Sherman, Kevin Ryan, David Berkowitz, Heather Lloyd-Martin and Michael Brito. read more »
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Don’t believe me, think about all the websites you’ve visited this week. Of those you’ve found, how much time have you spent reading the content in full? And if the website was a blog, how many of the static pages have your even looked at, let alone read more »
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SEJ explaining When, Why and How to Use Noarchive read more »
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Hamlet Batista has a great write up here about how automatic ranking software (WPG, WebCEO, SEO Studio) is being blocked by Google. He goes on to say why you shouldn't fixate on ranking reports and offers a solution(s). read more »
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Pierre has an interesting tale on how to Pre-classify your web pages so Eskimos don't receive refrigerators as
gifts and your hard work won't be mis-classified and given a thumbs down.

It's quite a charming tale... go on, read it, it'll make you read more »
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If you are like most Social Media users, you have more than one of social media profile on the web. Letting your friends and blog readers know what sites you use will allow you to connect in more places with new and current friends. read more »
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“Never assume.” - These 2 words represent the greatest advice ever given to me on the topic of website optimization. Here’s a list of 10 assumptions site owners make (myself included) that could cost you a ton of business. read more »
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These 30 "intermediate SEO" tweaks take one minute each and can increase profits significantly. They're "quick and clean" on top of that, they're no "SEO tricks". read more »
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Explore and validate page outbound links read more »
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StumbleUpon has plans to finally remove their 200 friend limit. read more »
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The goal of this type of comment spam isn’t linkbuilding directly - it’s finding linkspam victims to increase the conversion rate when the real spam gets dropped. "My guess is that it all goes into a database. The strings are then pulled from the da read more »
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Poor Matt Cutts, SEOs adapt once again. A recent Search Engine Roundtable survey reveals: SEOs want to buy links even if they're nofollowed: 50% of respondents said they would. read more »
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the good news is that social media gives us a surefire way to avoid using all those words that are confusing, over-hyped or just so overused they've been rendered meaningless: read the comments and conversations of consumers and prospective customer read more »
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Alexa is becoming a joke lately. Some people claim that over the previous two years it was already losing reliability, but lately it went completely nuts. Whatever they did on the last algorithm update, it messed up their rankings badly.

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Ann Smarty writes, "HighRankings forums recently discussed a SEO case when a person had to optimize for 50 states and reviewed potential pros and cons of the following possible steps to take." read more »
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Kate Morris writes "Back in the day, selling SEO/M services was relatively easy. The internet was "new," business owners were completely oblivious to the craft of search engine optimization, and were willing to pay people to "get them on the web." T read more »
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Pageoneresults writes "In just under three (03) weeks, I've managed to view a very large percentage of the Sphinn Profile database through public access. I lost count on just how many profiles I've read. I did learn quite a bit about each and every read more »
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It’s okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there read more »
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“Tweet Pro allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by allowing you to search through posted messages and profile information. Using this software you can be following people all over the world who share your read more »
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