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I Listened to Google and I Failed
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 591 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: Link Building
Google's mantra "creating compelling content that attracts natural links by itself is all you need to do to rank" debunked by Graywolf's SEO blog. Read more
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How to Get Links in Tough Industries
Avatar Story Found By: lakhyaphukan 605 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: Link Building
Instead of giving very generic advice, the author has come up with specific examples on getting links for a few 'hard to get links for' businesses online. Not much there for advanced SEOs, but beginners and intermediate link builders may get ideas for… Read more
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Introducing Our 5 New Sphinn Editors
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 604 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.sphinn.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Please join me in giving a warm welcome to our five new Sphinn editors: Glen, Debra, Todd, Mat, and David. The post also mentions that we've done away with the "moderator" title. Read more
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Why I Won’t Buy From You!
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 604 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bryaneisenberg.com
Category: SEM
The guys from "The Grok" provide some common copywriting mistakes both in ads and on landing pages that can drive potential customers away.  They also provide alternative methods which can convert much better. Read more
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Hacking for SEO – BEWARE of the Crap Hats
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 614 Days ago
News Source: http://seobullshit.com
Category: SEO
This is a public service announcement! - seriously. Please do note this tactic and advice. It can SERIOUSLY hurt your site (or client's site). Book mark it, pass it along to others... do what you do. I would like to get the word out on this exploit.… Read more
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Evil Conversion: When Optimization Goes Too Far
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 622 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Usability

Sandra Niehaus writes: "As online marketers and conversion experts, we want our sites to be effective. No, it has to be said: we want more than that—we want to turn our sites into kick-butt conversion machines, leaving competitors in the dust with… Read more
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Ruud Questions: Aaron Wall
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Member Story Found By: Ruud 633 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: SEO
Too full with good opinions, insights, ideas, in-your-face tell it like it is snippets to pick just one; instead, just go [del]read[/del] enjoy it :) Read more
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If It’s Too Good To Be Fricking Link True…
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 640 Days ago
News Source: http://www.linkspiel.com
Category: Link Building
Funny to see some of the directories listed that they listed on their "ultimate guide"  Debra does a great job on this one! Read more
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8 SEO Myths Debunked
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 648 Days ago
News Source: http://www.highrankings.com
Category: SEO
I could debunk SEO myths all day. In this article, I choose 8 of the ones I tend to hear about often on forums, blogs and at conferences. See if you agree that they're myths! Read more
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Why 80 per cent of the links your have built will disappear in 6 months?
Avatar Story Found By: nevilrohinton 654 Days ago
News Source: http://www.zenofseo.org
Category: SEO
However scary this may read, it’s true, and contrary to the feelings that the title of this post may have created, this is actually a blessing in disguise for those who have been involved with “value driven” SEO strategies. Let me explain Read more
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TOPSEO's - An Independent Authority?
Avatar Story Found By: pageoneresults 670 Days ago
News Source: http://www.theseoblog.org
Category: SEO
My original intent for this whole test was to see how TOPSEO’s would go about contacting TKG. Would they send the company an email through our sales email address? Would they try to call us? Would I get a response to my personal email address? I was a… Read more
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How to Get More Comments on Your Blog
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 768 Days ago
News Source: http://sem-group.net
Category: Social Media
What I really like about that post is that Alisa is talking from experience – this is priceless. Therefore I recommend all (especially new) bloggers to give this post some serious thought. Read more
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Interview with Debra Mastaler
Avatar Story Found By: KenLyons 832 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wordstream.com
Category: Link Building
Link building expert Debra Mastaler shares her thoughts on paid links, link bait and social media's impact on the link building landscape. Read more
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Want Better Web Design? Watch Real Users
Avatar Story Found By: cre8pc 849 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Usability
"I've long felt we’re missing something with the way we go about user testing. There’s a lot of advice to go out and get 5 random people, show them something and get their feedback. Companies pay for random people. I would rather spend time out in… Read more
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15 Ways To Get Your Blog Comments Noticed
Avatar Story Found By: AbsolutelyTrue 877 Days ago
News Source: http://sem-group.net
Category: Social Media
Commenting on blogs is a great way to get yourself (and your blog noticed). If you type in your site address in the comment form, you will get a little link on your name in the comment.Here are 15 ways to get your blog comments stand out from the crowd… Read more
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I’M TELLING! (or reporting your SEO competitors)
Avatar Story Found By: Sugarrae 919 Days ago
News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Category: SEO
I have never reported a competitor, never will and believe heavily in karma and that you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Quite a few folks in the audience clapped loudly, quite a few looked at me and rolled their eyes. It’s… Read more
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The Future of SEO – Structured Markup
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 912 Days ago
News Source: http://seogadget.co.uk
Category: SEO
A great read from R ichard Baxter on how structures markup will influence SEO. Read more
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Evolve or Die? Amazon.com Chooses To Die
Avatar Story Found By: Sugarrae 950 Days ago
News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Category: Affiliates
The social Web has changed things and we can no longer force customers to come to us. We need to go where they are. To embrace that. To evolve with the times. And for the most part, businesses have done a fairly good job at adapting, even the most… Read more
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10 Sure-Fire Ways to Get Banned from Digg
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 975 Days ago
News Source: http://sem-group.net
Category: Social Media
Good post listing some written (and not only) rules for you to never get banned from Digg Read more
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Directory Discounts & Link Building Service Promotions
Avatar Story Found By: SimonHeseltine 1005 Days ago
News Source: http://www.linkspiel.com
Category: Link Building
A compilation of discounts for directories and SEO tools, as well as some free ones you may not know about. Compiled by Debra Mastaler at the newly redesigned Link Spiel Read more
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Matt Cutts Illustrates Google Unable To Handle 302 Redirect Results Properly!
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1012 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: SEO
Matt Cutts posted on his blog under title "Switching things around" that he is 302 redirecting his domain mattcutts.com to a new one dullest.com. Here are few important points of what Matt Cutts wrote:

- "I added an .htaccess file that will… Read more
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Google Forcing Your Hand, Stealing Your Thumbprint
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1024 Days ago
News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Category: SEM
Lisa Barone writes, "Earlier this week there was a lot of buzz about the new Google Profiles. I tried to ignore it because I find the idea of gift wrapping your online thumbprint and then hand delivering it to Google completely absurd. But people were… Read more
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Adobe SEO Critique
Avatar Story Found By: beussery 1030 Days ago
News Source: http://www.beussery.com
Category: SEO
You be the judge on this video recently posted by one of Adobe’s Senior Technology Evangelists.... Read more
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Link Building & The Blurring Of Brand Identity
Avatar Story Found By: debram 1027 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Link Building
Julie Joyce writes: "if you do use social media for branding purposes... you really should keep a close eye on your own brand and others who attempt to represent it so that any links gained will be yours." Good article by Julie on how brand identities… Read more
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ShoeMoney Sues Google Employee For AdWords Violations
Avatar Story Found By: Purposeinc 1040 Days ago
News Source: http://www.techcrunch.com
Category: PPC
Shoemoney discovered someone bidding on his trademarked name, and is now going after him in court. There is evidence to indicate this may be a google employee. Read more
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