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The latest Gmail phishing exploit is particularly professional and difficult to spot. Only the URL on the spoof Gmail Welcome Page reveals the trick. Read more
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StumbleUpon has introduced a new URL shortener that displays the blog post within a frame that maximizes the possibility that the post will be retweeted. Read more
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From Vanessa Fox:
"Web applications need more than technology to thrive. They also need customers. And more often than not these days, those customers are acquired through search. But how well can this new world of the web that Google is ushering… Read more
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Danny via Search Engine Land - One of the changes really shouldn’t hurt many sites, impacting only a “power SEO” technique commonly called PageRank sculpting that I’d say fairly few use. The other has a bigger impact and potentially means… Read more
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Why isn’t search getting the respect it deserves? Quality SEO is a valuable activity that can dramatically transform profitability of a business. However, since this is not yet understood by many management team executives, it is often both… Read more
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If getting visitors to read your blog is a goal, then editing what you have published already will be many times more effective than continually adding new content. Both are good but editing can be done with knowledge on what has been shown to be… Read more
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A good list explaining why your site may have high bounce rates. "Bounce Rate can be simply defined as the percentage of website visitors that leave the website directly from the page they enter without clicking through to any other page of the website." Read more
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Andy Beard takes a look at FeedBurner’s change to now include tracking of FriendFeed subscriber data. Read more
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Based on recent discussions on pagerank sculpting and the nofollow tag, the wisest course seems to be to limit the number of comments on a blog. A balance must be struck between useful extra content and pagerank dilution through extra outlinks. Read more
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A fabulous Power Point presentation is featured giving a step-by-step guide to optimizing a website for keywords with the goal of getting traffic and visitor conversions - not just top positions. This is a must-read for all keyword researchers and… Read more
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Publishers must take responsibility for the suitability of published adverts, even if the ads are chosen by an automated system like Google’s AdSense, the UK advertising regulator has said. Read more
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Actually, this is my blog post about a week ago. This original post has previously has five tips only, but a kind commentator suggested another useful tip that makes it now six. Hope these tips can help especially bloggers and forum moderators. Read more
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SEL - "So I audited the website, made all kinds of great SEO recommendations, and nothing. None of them got implemented. Not a single one."

Sound familiar? This story is told all too often, at search industry events, cocktail parties and… Read more
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As a small business owner you may not always have the money to invest in the tools you really need. That’s ok. You might actually be surprised to learn how just how many great low cost and even free tools there are to help you improve your online… Read more
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Many biz dev folks reading this could benefit from it as well.
Expert SEOs can often spot such ‘client assets’ but that process can be optimized by simply asking the client the right questions. Read more
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Jordan Kasteler writes, "Recently, I spoke at SES San Jose on “building a search engine friendly website” with emphasis focused on the incorporation and embedding of multimedia. Before narrowing my speech down to multimedia I had researched some… Read more
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Marty Martin has a collection of posts about how to run your SEO business from the thought leaders of SEO. A great collection of must read posts for anyone in SEO. Read more
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Matt McGee writes, "I come home from Columbus to start another chapter in my own life: I’m now open for business as an independent search marketing consultant and trainer. At the same time as I begin my own consulting and training business, I’m also… Read more
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"Business blogging is not always easy." Here’s some great ideas for 50 business blog posts. Read more
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Matt Cutts posted the following comment on his blog on September 24, 2008: "I wouldn’t be surprised if new PageRanks started showing up this weekend or so."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/traveling-light-posting/#comment-133935 Read more
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The last post you’ll ever need on Google Analytics, covering ecommerce, advanced PPC keyword tracking, cross-domain analytics and more! Read more
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Ann Smarty writes, "More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn’t been hacked." Read more
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Ann Smarty writes, "Being automatically updated once a page is changed opens up a wealth of (probably missed) opportunities. There are two handy ways I personally use to keep track of changes introduced to any webpage" Read more
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Tony Adams wsrites... With the “Web 2.0″ world that we live in, companies are inclined to create “snazzy” new AJAX experiences for users. I have been dubbing this the AJAX Dilemma lately because organizations/companies/website owners are… Read more
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Ann Smarty loves playing with visualizing tools because they allow her to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time she has compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics. Read more
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