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When we go through the verification process for an SEM company we are focusing primarily on their track record of previous success. We are also making sure that those results are not being attained by black hat tactics. Read more
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AdWords enters a new area, with "comparison ads." This is where Google runs an ad itself for a particular topic and then sends people to see products being offered. First up: mortgages. Read more
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Information on some Sphinn updates and the new Sphinn Member offering. Recommended reading for all Sphinn users, new and old. Read more
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Twitter blocks link equity hole on m.twitter.com and nofollows trending topics Read more
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For those of you not using Linked In Groups, here are the steps to take that will immediately give your blog or website a traffic boost. Read more
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Geo location is a hot trend right now. Twitter claims it is moving close to launching a new feature which makes it truly "location-aware." It's a new API that will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. Don't worry too much. There… Read more
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Several important tactics to brand your Tweets that 99% of marketers are not doing, but should. Read more
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Here’s a Bing Hack that is needed to Understand how to see Bing’s GEO-targeted results from a different local. Read more
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With the recent introduction of the 10-pack for non-geo-targeted searches last week, it’s going to be that much more important to know *exactly* where your clicks are coming from on an organic search results page. In a guest post on Mike… Read more
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Can’t find who to follow on Twitter? Kevin Rose launched a new directory that’s pretty cool. Anyone can list themselves in any category. How it works, plus some tips on getting into it. Read more
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The article goes into exposing the newest spam tactic to exploit the Follower list of some of the top accounts on Twitters. Read more
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Andy Beal makes some great points and awesome suggestions for improving Google Search. Matt Cutts, take note! Read more
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Edward takes an in-depth look at twitter titles and gives advice on character limits, scrubbing retweets and avoiding RT frenzies that can obscure your brand keywords. Read more
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Rand recently asked if URL shorteners passed link juice - after testing it for about a month, it’s safe to say that TinyURL doesn’t. But, why not? Read more
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Aaron Wall had a really interesting post about how it seems as if Google has started shifting its algorithm to favor big brands in search results. That started quite a Twitter storm today between @mattcutts and @stuntdubl, in particular. I found the… Read more
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One of the most common statement link vendors make in their quality parameter is “Get links from High PR websites”. This makes their pitch sound compelling to most of their prospects. But we find the statement a bit misleading because you don’t… Read more
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David Mihm explains a new display layer that Google is offering in maps. Read more
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Well what can I say? How valid are nofollowed anchor text properties? I have ranked a site in a similar way for a test, but cant share it, Dixon very conviniently runs a similar test with good results.

Good SEO is also about experimentation. Read more
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Exact match domains are valuable because they have huge traffic, SEO, and branding benefits. In fact, in the recent past, CreditCards.com sold for $2.75 million, Business.com for $7.5 million, and Sex.com for $14 million.

Why are these… Read more
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Google made the decision today to flip it’s Google US live servers over to be AJAX driven, instead if the regular flat HTML that we all know and love. Read more
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David Harry writes, "Are you looking to hire an SEO consultant or in-house staffer? Then do me a favour, don’t even bother asking an SEO about what keywords they have ranked in the past… and screw the references while we’re at it ok? No really, I… Read more
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Patrick Sexton announces that We Build Pages now builds widgets. Read more
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I just started noticing this tonight (1/13/08)…how long has this been going on? What determines when a result will have 1 or 4 description lines? Thoughts? Please see this screen shot…

I double checked my ff add-ons and none appear to… Read more
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