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Just a lot of links on building links. Read more
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Our newest author, Barry Adams, had an interesting first post where he see's the future of the internet in 'appification' and believes that our future, SEOs that is, will be changed far and wide from what we know today. Me? Believe it or not I am not… Read more
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Really enjoyed this breakdown.  Good resource that may come in handy with clients or people in our industry less familiar with all of the many terms we toss out.  Anyway, I thought it was a great reference piece. Read more
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It may seem like a basic enough concept and post, but believe it or not, everyday I see so many people doing it wrong.  Good job to Chuck for posting this great information about having clean URLs and their benefit to SEO. Read more
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Chuck Reynolds is always on the bleeding edge when it comes to using location based social sites, and even better in educating business how to use.  In this post he explores FourSquare and does a great job of showing why business need to start caring. Read more
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I enjoyed this conversation between Ruud Hein and Arnie Kuenn on link building. Think you will, too. Read more
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While I don't get to conferences much, and generally don't read many posts covering them that have anything of interest, the gang at Vertical Measures at least had a few goodies of interest from OMS.... worthy addition. Read more
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A very interesting read about the impact that the Olympics are having on the Google search reults.  Worth a read for sure! Read more
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From the Page: [Dave Wallace] As time rolls on, it is becoming more evident everyday that we are living in a Google world. What began as a search engine in January 1996 has quickly evolved into many additional things. Read more
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As one of the 3 lucky Vertical Measures employees soaking in all the fantastic, valuable knowledge here at Pubcon 2009 in Las Vegas I wanted to share all the best SEO related information in a fast, clean uncluttered way.  I’m not going to spend a… Read more
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Majestic have managed to increase their web index to 1,026,035,494,521 unique URLs. An impressive achievement by their backlink tool but also means they can independently verify Google's claim last July to have reached the 1 Trillion URL milestone. Read more
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Lisa barone writes, "Wow. I’d personally like to welcome Seth Godin to the world of brandjacking and hostage taking. I didn’t know you had it in you." Read more
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We all know Flash hides content, but updates to Adobe Flash enable some love but not all and nothing good enough to consider flash. Read more
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Microformats are gaining popularity, and if you’re not using them, you should be. Google’s introduction of Rich Snippets in May 2009 is just another indication that microformats will continue to gain popularity.  Good article from Ralph, part of… Read more
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(guest post via Search Engine People)- As part of SEP’s geo/local SEO experts week, I put together a technical review of how search engines go about geo-targeting and how you can adapt your strategies for the best chance of success.... Enjoy! (and… Read more
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Wordpress by default “nofollows” all links within blog comments. While there are measures that can be taken to remove the rel=”nofollow” from links in Wordpress blog comments, it has typically been “all or nothing.”

Not any… Read more
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Hi there… my name is Dave, and I am an algoholic…

The other day someone asked me via instant messenger about some patents for an area one particular SEO was doing some research in. After suggesting a few patents and research papers and… Read more
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If you have ever lost sleep over the fear that a would-be hacker might get hold of your Wordpress blog, here are some measures that can be put in place to help prevent “attacks” on Wordpress driven blogs. Read more
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Search Engine Journal and it’s client services division headed by Loren Baker are merging with Search & Social, the company founded by Dave Snyder & Jordan Kasteler. They’ve formed a new full service online marketing and media firm; Search &… Read more
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If you’ve Googled your name in the past few weeks then you’ve likely seen the changes to the SERPs. Profiles with corresponding images are now shown at the bottom of search results; up to four profiles are shown. The search result includes your… Read more
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Jon Henshaw gives a great overview of the Google’s new referral strings, what it means for SEO’s and SERP trackers, and why we still need to know more. Read more
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With Twitter’s popularity, brand managers everywhere are beginning to use the service to monitor conversations related to their brand and product names. This post examines some of the ways this is taking place and explores how you can use Twitter to… Read more
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URL shortening services have been around for a number of years. Their original purpose was to prevent cumbersome URLs from getting fragmented by broken email clients that felt the need to wrap everything to an 80 column screen. But it’s 2009 now,… Read more
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Michael Gray (@graywolf): Rule Number one of operating a web 2.0 user generated content website, if you don’t have someone involved in your development process who thinks about how to abuse the system, and put steps in place to prevent it, someone… Read more
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Back in the early days of search engines and search engine optimization it was an anything goes environment. Initially, SEOs stuffed reams of keywords into their page to get their pages to rank. Then when links became the driving force in rankings SEOs… Read more
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