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Interesting post that looks at current and future social media trends. Read more
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Interesting look at some of the bloated pricing models that some "SEO Experts" still try to pawn off others. Read more
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Any links a person can pursue and obtain just because that person has certain defining personal characteristics should not be able to positively affect search rank. That in essence, such links are irrelevant to the site and products being sold and are… Read more
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Earlier this morning a colleague of mine was conducting a search and called me over to show me something interesting. Immediately below each of the sponsored search results (AdWords) were three separate variable names and values. The numbers that have… Read more
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Danny Sullivan writes, "At our SMX Social Media Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo, Jimmy Wales of Wikia Search, and Steven Marder of Eurekster all took part. Jason had… Read more
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Lee Odden’s Web 2.0 Expo coverage discusses "the importance of not jumping into social technologies and applications just because the competition does, but to have specific objectives and measurement with defensible results." Read more
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Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. Read more
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If you’ve been on twitter today, you would have seen a lot of people voicing their disgust at Jason Calacanis’ words during todays keynote. In particular, Rand Fishkin twittered that he left in disgust. And it was bugging me that I… Read more
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A good and fair article on why big brands downplay SEO dealing with everything from brand politics to the sites technology. It seems that the bigger you get the harder it gets to do good SEO. What do you think? Read more
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Are your readers doing what you want them to do? Are they clicking through to your links, ordering your eBook or signing up for your opt-in? If not, you need to learn a master craftsman’s copywriting secret.

This technique acts like a… Read more
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A case study of a stumble that got 200+ reviews in 2 weeks in spite of some negative reviews. For a comparison: Usually I got several thousands of visitors with 20 stumble reviews. Read more
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Already you can tell this will be a different kind of post for me. Before I begin my curmudgeoned polemic, let me state for the record: Overall I LOVE the internet. I love how it empowers, entertains, enables, etc. I believe it is the most powerful… Read more
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The SEO community has been foaming at the mouth lately over whether or not we need standards for the industry. Standards won’t signal maturity, but will rather lead to homogenization of industry strategy. Ethical and educative issues should be… Read more
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Every suggestion in this is well worth considering. A must-read post on getting more traffic that should give you at least one new thought. Read more
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An "SEO agency" called Internet Advancement has been sued by Washington State and required to pay over $100,000 in fees for scamming its clients. Among the restitution includes penalties against offering services to new members and requiring refunds to… Read more
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Hitwise released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States for March 2008, showing Google at an all-time high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit all-time lows. 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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In what appears to be a very carefully considered, strategically phrased statement this afternoon, Yahoo said it will actually test carrying Google’s ads on its own pages, calling the test a "strategic alternative." Microsoft isn’t happy and… Read more
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Shari Thurow writes, "For the past two to three years, I have been watching SEO/SEM firms increasingly focus on the user, specifically offering website usability services. Although I laud the evolution of SEO/SEM firms to increasingly focus on the user,… Read more
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If you’re not yet optimizing your news, image, and video content, you need to start. Another study released this week backs up previous research indicating that blended, or universal search is changing the way users search. Making sure your… Read more
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From May 28th 2008 the practice of blogging under false pretences (or flogging as we like to call it) will become more than just black hat - it’ll become illegal! Read more
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I’m pleased to announce that we’ve now taken on 2 new Sphinn moderators, helping us to manage the staggering growth of our site.

Brent Csutoras and Jeff Quipp have kindly volunteered to take up this challenge, and I hope that you… Read more
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The biggest problem with SEO standards is we’ll get some half baked, half assed, implementation that’s just as bad as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As a concept it’s seems like a wonderful idea, everyone agrees to a set of established… Read more
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Now this is an issue the SEO community has to deal with not hiding behind "white hat or black hat anything goes as long it works" slogans. Either we ostracize people doing that and make people aware that it’s not SEO or soon people will spit on us… Read more
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I don’t always agree with what gets posted over at SEO Theory, but this is a thought provoking piece. As the web continues to expand, how will/can current search technology keep up and how do current failings present themselves in light of rapid… Read more
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