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There are two important aspects of successful link building. Finding the right balance between building authority and PageRank vs. getting anchor text is key to making the most of your SEO efforts... and renting links is not the only answer. Read more
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Don’t be a sheep, think about why good SEO is good for your website Read more
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A big change from an SEO point of view, is the ’submitted by friends’ section. Where it used to be very easy to please your Digg friends by digging the stuff they submitted, this has changed now. The mass digg option, -digging several articles… Read more
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With 52 submissions, 38 gone hot (a startling 73%), 81 comments, and 614 Sphinns, Today Lyndon become the #1 Sphinner of all time. Congratulations! Thanks for all the great content. See it here: http://sphinn.com/network.php?sortby=2 Read more
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Has digg done a booboo and dropped the ball? The word on the street is not good. I am still confused with it, it’s changed the underlying nature of the site at first looks. Read more
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Dan Thies debunks a couple of SEO myths regarding servers and keyword density. Read more
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Dan Thies from SEO Fast Start discusses how we can Get More Pages Indexed With Nofollow. The post is written well and easy to understand. Interesting post Dan. Read more
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You can’t buy these cereals in any store, only at Google. Seriously, a mashup of cereal brands and Google personalities, direct from the Googleplex itself. Read more
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Techcrunch uses the new wikipedia IP trace tool have a look at which adult and porn related articles googlers have edited. Read more
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Typically, prospective SEO clients send consultants a RFP with questions about staff, expertise and process to make sure the SEO firm is qualified. But what about qualifying the SEO client? The most successful search engine optimization engagements are… Read more
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Some great advice on running a succesful Sumbleupon campaign. Read more
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Here’s the deal. These new "flying saucer" aircars look like they might, ahem, actually get off the ground. I also know that Google’s Matt Cutts has long wanted a flying car. Plus, I just thought flying cars are cool and wanted a way to make… Read more
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Google seems to have dropped their "time in" operator. Where if you search for "time in [location]" they would have returned the current time in that location.

Hence, they are requiring you to buy a watch to tell the time...

I… Read more
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I have been a big fan of Sphinn for a while but this is getting ridiculous. From now on, if you dont have anything new to say, dont say it.

We all know about how to do SEO on social networking sites. We all know how keywords work. We… Read more
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Accounts submitted by on online marketer to Newsvine have mysteriously vanished. Author looking for explanations and other SEOs that have experienced this cut from the vine. Read more
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The long anticipated announcement by John Mueller (aka JohnMu and Softplus) that he will be joining the Google Team in in their Zürich (Switzerland) office, joining the team around the Webmaster Tools as a Webmaster Trends Analyst.

We all… Read more
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It’s obviously the interview season over at fantomaster.com. Now, it’s SEO topshot Mike Grehan who has posted his piece on ClickZ, explaining the return of the Nefarious Search Engine Spammer industry. And as always when Mike’s signed his… Read more
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This is actually 2 stories by Robin good about how his sites were apparently kicked out of Google for selling text links

The second article is here Read more
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The bulk of the article is focused on the many benefits of forming a local SEM organization that we’ve learned one year into the life of SEMpdx.

Only a true Northwesterner would understand why a Portlander getting his city disrespected… Read more
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A brief look at setting client expectations for search engine rankings and SEO success. What’s important for clients to understand? Read more
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Want to know who’s behind those "anonymous" edits to Wikipedia listings? A CalTech student has created a tool that lets you enter a company or organization name and discover which entries have been modified by users within their internal networks,… Read more
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31 tips to help you write better copy Read more
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The types of link buys that Google has a distaste for are the links that are exchanged directly for cash. Modify your way of thinking just a little and there are a wide array of easy to buy high value links awaiting your purchase. The key to having a… Read more
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For your Web 2.0 sites, comes Web 2.0 analytics. Track anything, use in any formats and view in your own custom layout. Read more
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Some interesting analysis of how Zappos are dominating product based search results using subdomains. Read more
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