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If you’re looking to connect with other web designers on twitter then this 100 web designers who use twitter will help you. Read more
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Some direct evidence countering the suggestions Google Webmaster Central blog made yesterday. Read more
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An excellent post analysing the accuracy and usefulness of PPC competitor review tool Spyfu. Read more
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Writing general ads aimed at large groups of unidentified people that are directed to all-encompassing home pages is a sure-fire way to lower your clickthrough and conversion rates. Read more
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Sphinn has been around for a while now and while the users and content are good there is one particular thing that I just can’t stand.

I’m always looking for ways to improve my efficiency and be much more productive. I do things… Read more
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Facebook announced a new round of changes to its site design and user interface today - in addition to changing the location of it’s ads.

In an announcement on July 20th Facebook states that the changes will result in a “cleaner, and… Read more
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A Yahoo patent application was published last week which looks more deeply into how the search engine would follow directions not to recall sections of pages pursuant to robots-nonindex tags. Read more
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This list is by no means exhaustive and there are hundreds of other factors that advanced SEO practioners will point to as having an effect on search engine placements. What you see here are simply the primary factors that should be taken into account… Read more
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I’d take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and… Read more
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I can’t believe that google have come out and said they are use people’s IP and Cookie data for search relevancy Read more
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A common misconception is that your job search starts once you decide you want to make a career change. In reality, there are simple things you should do on a regular basis to position yourself to be successful in your job search whenever that time… Read more
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Do you think it’s possible that Google factors CTR on their organic listings too to maximize the tasty-ness of their results? Read more
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With the recent changes in the way Google and Yahoo are ranking country specific TLDs, Adam has put together a fantastic post listing all the official or best domain registrars for each ccTLD. Read more
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Short article on using PPC typo campaigns to optimize for organic rankings with lower competition. Read more
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Tired of PPC? Try new PPC! Here is a good list of 14 alternate sources of paid search traffic that you might not be aware of. Read more
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Surely the topic of using negative keywords for organic search engine result pages has come up before but I’ve not seen any discussions myself. We posed the question on our blog and now I want to know what everyone thinks about it, and why the big… Read more
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I just noticed over the last two or three days that in Google’s organic search results, related keywords (e.g.law for a search phrase containing lawyer, dentistry for a search phrase containing dental, surgery for a search phrase containing… Read more
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I was doing some research looking for additional local directories in the city of Toronto for some of our local clients. After searching on the obvious "toronto business directories" I came across a ZIPLocal listing on Page 1 of Google which contained a… Read more
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Google announces that demographic targeting will now be available for AdWords users in the US & UK. Read more
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Creating locally targeted PPC campaigns? Here are a few tools and some advice on creating them for success. Read more
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Five handy firefox extensions to help you out with SEO and PPC. Read more
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Today I opened my email inbox to a subject line so bad, it added a nice slice of humor into my daily morning routine. I thought the text of the Tarzan-esque email is worth sharing not only for its absolute funniness, but also as an example of what not… Read more
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Interested what you can track for your clients or your own site? Hopefully this gives you some ideas. Read more
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We’ve come across so many SEOs who only want to charge their clients for rankings and neglect conversions. Clients do SEO in order to get traffic to grow their business. By ignoring this fundamental fact, SEOs are limiting their potential to earn… Read more
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