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SEO is still valuable. SEO is still important. But it doesn’t run the show. Read more
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In a blatant display of stupidity, some bright soul hacked Obama’s twitter and used an easily traceable affiliate link to try and make a quick buck. Say hi to the Secret Service for me, moron! Read more
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Danny Sullivan... and microblogging... vodka, stitches? what? Read more
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Rob over at Seocracy.com continues to amaze me with his outside of the box thinking. Here he shares a great tip on how to use Google2001 to find powerful domains to buy up. Read more
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Cool post about Twitscoop a better tool then Google Trends! Read more
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How to teach prospects and clients the principles of SEO? It’s a whole different ballgame than talking to your fellow-SEOs. Read more
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Spider Dave - Most web sites do not last past the first year of their inception. This means that there are hundreds of high quality sites simply floating around in your market with someone harnessing their search equity. By finding these sites,… Read more
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Datapresser is a one-of-a-kind content creation and network management system that takes the pain out of your day-to-day SEO tasks. Tracking the performance of the many sites in your network can be a huge challenge. And creating content for those sites… Read more
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Rob takes a light hearted look at web 2.0 stability and charging for services and writes "I am contacting all current friends (former-lovers and family members included) on each of the many social networks to which I belong, to let you all know some… Read more
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Mahalo pages must be just packed full of useful information, because such a flamboyant crusader for the anti-spam cause would ever allow his own masterpiece to look like a crappy MFA site which would be improved by a $2 article about GTA4 cheats… Read more
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The conferences have already had link buying panels, but they were pretty tame as far as things go. Would you attend a panel that focused solely on greyhat SEO at an SMX/SES show?

There’s nothing shameful about wanting to learn and… Read more
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Are you being left in the dust because you don’t know how blackhat seo’s are outranking you? SlightlyShady tells you why you need to know their tricks to stay ahead of the game. Read more
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Google appears to be testing new displays of paid search ads with URLs above ad copy rather than below in certain regions. See screenshots. Read more
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I’m officially a Twitter addict. Twitter is a mini-blog in the simplest of terms. You have 140 characters to promote yourself, meet people, say something of interest (or not), reply to others and basically chit-chat or ‘Tweet’.

I… Read more
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Ruud continues his ongoing series on How Search Really Works. In this part he goes into great detail regarding Vector Space. Read more
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Great interview with ten questions asked to social media/SEO aficionado Melanie Nathan regarding networking, Twitter and blogging. Read more
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Slightly Shady asks for input about a difficult life decision. To leave school or remain in it. When you’re making 10 times more than your professors, these decisions can be challenging. Read more
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Scott Hendison discusses the evolution of linkbuilding and makes the strong case for linkbuilding Darwinism...if an SEO doesn’t evolve his/her link-thinking away from the traditional sources of links (now much devalued), they won’t be able to… Read more
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What’s going to be the viral element that gets us to cut down on our collective carbon emissions? Who’s going to deliver us the iPod of cleantech? If we knew for sure, we’d be off building it, but these 10 web sites think they have the key… Read more
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I’ve got news for your guys: You’re all doing it wrong.

Using twitter as a link dump for backlinks really isn’t a very disruptive use of the system. You dont need any followers, so you don’t have to worry about… Read more
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Here are a few things to keep us in check. Sometimes you need to look at your habits on a basic level before you go out and buy that Mercedes SL65 AMG...unless you’re buying it for me. Read more
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Tom Schmitz gives a great overview of SEO, breaking down relevance versus authority and the factors that control it.

Plus he has a cool funky disco beat thing going at the beginning. Read more
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This is a great, comprehensive guide to using Twitter - if you want to introduce someone new to what Twitter can do for them, this would be an excellent start! Read more
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Lisa Barone asks: "Is the new connected employee, the one that reaches out to industry contacts via Facebook and stays in the loop during the day via Twitter, a resource for the business they work for or a time-sucking liability?" Read more
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A great post by Patrick about ways to make sure your blog is in ideal condition to perform its duty before you guest post somewhere else ... since you’ll be driving people back to your own blog.

Very interesting! Read more
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