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A New Zealand business owner has been ordered to complete 100 hours of community service after it was discovered she changed the business listings of rival companies in Google Maps to direct traffic to her own business. Read more
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Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to.

The remedies to this may vary but here… Read more
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Ask ten SEOs what you have to do to get more links, and 9 will tell you to ‘build great content’. In stead of taking this answer for granted, it’s even better to ask yourself why this is true.

Wiep gives us 6 reasons... Read more
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Content is King and links are Queen. Together with a nice dose of marketing they make a nice little kingdom. But what if you have trouble generating new content on a regular basis? How can resource strapped bloggers and busy web site owners leverage… Read more
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Thankfully, we are afforded the lovely ability to cite sources online. So we can find content out there, snag the information we want, and create thousands of pages from it without fear of having our site banned. Read more
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Much has been written about trying to gather more subscribers. A lot less time has been dedicated to examining why we should be pursuing this goal. It’s assumed that subscribers are worth their weight in gold, but are they really? Read more
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Well, Google says it’s up to Aaron Wall to decide… Read more
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Not much is known about manual reviews(concretely). Manual reviews are Google’s acknowledgment that anything algorithmic will have flaws. Google is known to employ thousands of people across the globe for it. This is an examination of a detected… Read more
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This is one of the simplest, yet most effective ways I’ve seen the Long Tail concept explained graphically. Read more
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Large scale ring of malicious websites targeting phrases including "Christmas gifts" and "hospice" discovered in the search results of Google, Yahoo and MSN. Read more
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"But in the second mail they were offering me $100 for the removal of the link. I was really amazed to see the mail because they paid for putting the link and now they are offering for the removal of the link also." Read more
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Help these two crazy SEO kids hook up and find married bliss in Vegas for PubCon. Lisa D (SEO-Chick extraordinaire) and Rob K (evilgreenmonkey) will marry if Rob ranks on the first page for "weddings" (code in blog post).

It’ll be the… Read more
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A freestyle UK SEO meet up is being organised by 4eyes and Peter in Manchester on the 14th and 15th of September, 2007.

More details on Peter’s blog. Should be worth attending.

Attendees to include DaveN, NFFC, Grinidone… Read more
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There are a lot of social media sites out there and yet there are still many people who don’t know much about them. This guide should hopefully provide some further information to social media newbies. Read more
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I haven’t seen this before, but Google is showing me AdWords ads that are partially targeted to my previous search queries. Looks like Google is taking personalized search to the next level. Read more
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"opps I guess, Brett didn’t like the cloaking thread and I guess I won’t be asked to speak at Vegas.. Darn it and I’m Forty this year I guess Birthday party will have to be else were" Read more
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