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Patrick Altoft writes "What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about Linkbait

Lyndon Antcliff has become one of the most notorious linkbait experts after a recent high profile project involving a hoax story was publicly “outed”.
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Hamlet Batista has been accepted to speak at SMX in Seattle. His topic will be White Hat Cloaking. Expect raw truth and some great tips, those of which most are too shy to speak about. Read more
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When this happens, the only thing that will keep you going is your passion for the topic. If you are truly interested in the subject, you won’t give up easily. You won’t stop. You’ll make time to write. It won’t be a chore. You’ll enjoy it.… Read more
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Guest post by Ryan Durk -

For 24 hours on 1/1/08, Google’s logo kindly began linking to my site.

Starting New Years Eve, Google redirected all clicks on its homepage logo to a search for the term January 1 TCP/IP.… Read more
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Haven’t read it in depth yet, but here’s some info from her blog post:

The ebook is 35 pages long and these are the major sections:

* Chapter 1: Getting and Installing WordPress
* Chapter 2: Basic WordPress… Read more
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When looking to start a new website or blog, choosing a niche is one of the most important decisions you will make, and it may require some time and research. Here are a number of tools and websites available that can help with the research. Read more
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A useful checklist of things every small business website owner needs to check for at least once a year. A lot of things like contact forms should be checked more regularly though. Read more
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EO strategy should be designed to provide optimal return within a given risk tolerance. If you can also plan for future changes while still having a good ROI in the current market then it makes sense to do so. Read more
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An awesome post by Rebecca from over at SEOmoz on Pubcon in Vegas. Makes me jealous - I only got to hang in Chicago (snowy), noone wanted to kill me (that I know of) and I didn’t lose any money.

And I call that a conference ... sheesh. Read more
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In an effort to further quantify and understand this phenomenon, McAfee studied 1.9 million typographical variations of 2,771 of the most popular and well known Web sites. Of these, we found 127,381 suspected typo-squatters. Read more
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Here’s some data from a very small experiment using Google Trends data to generate referrals to my blog. Read more
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Lisa blogs from a seminar with senior MarketingSherpa people to cover very important findings from MarketingSherpa’s updating ’Landing Page Handbook’. Find out what kind of landing pages work best.

There are some real gems in… Read more
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An explanation of why longtail keywords are more important than shorttail, and how to maximize your traffic for them with deep links. Overlooked by many SEOs, they’re easy to rank for, and bring in truly surprising amounts of traffic.
This is… Read more
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