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Love them or hate them Google have been the number one search engine for years, they have become a brand in themselves and a huge household name, but are they losing the plot? Read more
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Rishi Lakhani (@rishil) on James Caan, entrepeneur of BBC "Dragon's Den" fame & chairman of UK SEO agency Fresh Egg. Caan gave the keynote at their recent workshop on how to keep your best staff which all search agencies could learn from. Read more
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A seasoned industry insider's thoughts and opinions on how the newly announced Microsoft and Yahoo partnership will affect several facets of the SEM industry. Read more
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This list of the 30 free SEO tools you must know will be a mix of web based tools, stand alone software, and Firefox extensions. Read more
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Bill walks through how a patent application offers ideas on ways that a search engine might use information about page load times. Read more
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Technical optimisation is a part of SEO often not given the attention it deserves by both web developers and even some SEO’s! But as I say it is key to get these building blocks in place for the success to follow. So what are the things we need to… Read more
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A month on from Google's 'Vince' update and what has been the impact on UK websites? Was Patrick right there being a correlation between search volume data and ranking position? Or was Aaron Wall in thinking that “Google is promoting brands for big… Read more
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For so long a vast amount of webmasters and SEO’s have been solely optimising their site for Google, Google has basically been the king when it comes to driving traffic and getting top organic rankings for your company could potentially earn you a lot… Read more
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The current popularity of Twitter and the fact that Twitter are trying to turn them selves into a real time search engine has made Google stand up and react. Read more
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After months of development and months of closed Beta testing, we are delighted to announce the launch of ArticleRanks.com in public Beta. Read more
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No, it's not your imagination. A new version of Sphinn has been launched. Rob puts out the details, and we'll be working though the beta version this week, stamping out bugs. Read more
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Where I offer 20 classic quotes from Monty Python and give them context in today’s business world. Read more
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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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I don’t know whether you ever get this thought when touring the web, but there are some sites that I think ‘I wish I could get my hands on it!’…where you can see that SEO hasn’t even been given a second thought, but where great gains could be… Read more
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A link spike is exactly what it sounds like it would be: a point in time when backlinks go up sharply, backlinks go back down sharply. Read on ... Read more
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Ciaran Norris waxes rhapsodic about the recent Twitter trends...misinformation and hoaxes. Read more
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Myself and Sam Murray have on numerous occassions debated whether bold and italic tags has any impact at all anymore on the search engines. Sam argues that even if it doens’t you SHOULD make use of these tags...and I must agree (damn I actually… Read more
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Howdy folks! Rebecca here, blogging regularly once again in SSDB fashion (that’s Same Snark, Different Blog for you initialism noobs). If you managed to pry yourself away from the month-long Michael Jackson tribute festivities, you may have heard via… Read more
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Bing’s much awaited launch caused some real buzz in the Internet world. Check out this interview with Rajesh Srivastava, Principle Group Manager, Bing. See what went into launching Bing, from choosing the name to discussion about its algorithm. Read more
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Google is hitting the streets of San Francisco next week — with at least one high-powered supporter in tow — to talk to small/local businesses about Google products and services. The event is called “Favorite Places,” and Google will have San… Read more
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Great list of tweeps to follow from North South Media. Read more
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This article tells a tale of Amazon refusing a commission on a link distributed through social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Read more
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A great post by Garrett French that will surely become a tremendous guiding resource for those wishing to engage in link building to help clients perform better in international markets.

This is a must read! Read more
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So, as Moore’s idea diffusion curve dictates Twitter is reaching the early and late majorities. Like Bebo, Myspace, YouTube and Facebook before them Twitter is reaching its maturity. We see the celebrity and mass market adoption of the media booming.… Read more
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Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign against George Bush – the elder – coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid”. The slogan was originally intended to remind the campaign workers to talk about fundamentals – ie the economy. Politicians… Read more
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