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Will a lot of tweets about your page from the UK get you ranking on Google UK but not Google US? This story suggests so. Read more
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I thought this was an interesting look at what "Do Not Track" might do in terms of online advertising, especially from the perspective of someone with experience in the wake of "Do Not Call." Read more
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My own take on the big New York Times story about the guy who says bad reviews still help him rank on Google. Maybe -- but I doubt it. What I don't doubt is that Google can indeed understand if a merchant has bad reviews or not. While it currently… Read more
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From Google, an update on how ratings and reviews end up on Google Places pages. Read more
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We've had the PubCon round up post earlier on Sphinn, but this deserves special attention -- and overview of interesting and some new things that Matt Cutts shared during his talk that will be of interest to SEOs. Read more
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This was a really nice, detailed list of things any new site owner may wish to consider about how to track visits, mentions and other metrics to help in their marketing. Read more
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I always was annoyed at the wire services and mainstream media that take pictures that have been tweeted and just use them without permission. Unlike web publications, there's no way to link credit or easily pull down if there's a complaint. The wire… Read more
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Now Google is showing large images of pages right within the search results, called "Instant Previews." My detailed look at how the system works. Read more
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Doing an SEO audit? Outspoken Media does a big review of five major tools. Read more
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Last week, Bing added links to things your friends are sharing on Facebook. That led to a lot of "how's Google going to react." Answer? This week, Google started testing new links to content being shared on social networks, as well as to what people are… Read more
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The Daily Beast set out to do some reverse engineering of what Facebook's news feed algorithm (EdgeRank, I guess) likes. They followed what happened to a 60 year old newcomer on the service. Findings? If you're new, your content can be invisible to… Read more
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Know your PWS from your NUM, as a way to make Google Search do what you want right from the address bar? Learn your query parameters alphabet, and you'll be a "command line" whiz plus learn about what Google's tracking. Read more
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At SMX East, there was a session entirely devoted to talking with Google about its keyword research tool. Over the course of the session, several reasons emerged about why you might not trust the data so much, at least for now. Read more
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Missed SMX East? Attended but couldn't get to all the sessions? Here's a recap of all the live blogging out of the show. Read more
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While I think Search Engine Watch knew this was link-baitish in running it, writer Gary-Adam Shannon seems pretty serious that it's all over for white hats and black hat is the way to go. OK, what do you all think. Is he right? Read more
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How do you turn off auto-play when embedding a YouTube video? Make it start at a particular point. The answer to this and other controls are covered here. Read more
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How are your tweets doing on Twitter? To help you understand more, Twitter says it will be releasing new Twitter analytic tools later this year -- apparently to everyone -- and for free. Read more
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We've had Google Instant for about two weeks now. Some predicted huge changes would come in the wake of it. Some predicted it was no big thing. What are your thoughts. Any impacts you've noticed? Life as usual? Read more
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A nice, simply list of top blogs, news sites, forums, conferences and tools about SEO. Read more
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Posies Cafe found that a Groupon offer brought in plenty of people -- but cost them way too much money. Easy to blame Groupon for wanting to keep too much of the cut. But note the comments, too -- more a lesson for business owners to think carefully… Read more
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I started working on my own piece about this, then Raven tipped me to this article from them on how yes, Virginia, there's still perfectly fine tracking of Google referrers from search despite Google Instant. Read more
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Within a week or two, the voting model will end at Sphinn. Stories can still be submitted, but editors will consider those in addition to others they find. Why? Rather than build community, voting -- an activity which is also in decline -- seems to… Read more
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Debate whether Google should penalize over paid links all you want. The bottom line remains that Google DOES penalize, when it finds them, and when it wants. And in this case, an online flower shop's SEO firm bought links for them. Penality ensued, and… Read more
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has talked about how much garbage there is on the internet. In this piece, I looked at how his own company is responsible for some of it, failing to curb the excesses caused by Google Trends and indirectly profiting from the… Read more
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It's been said before, but here's a fresh take on the paid link debate. Shouldn't search engines forget the issue of whether someone was paid and instead try to figure out if a link is deserved or not? If a paid link isn't disruptive, why be upset with… Read more
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