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Was Matt Cutts Blog Hit by Panda?
If third-party statistics from Alexa.com and Compete.com are to be believed, it could be that Google's ambassador to the SEO community has been Panda slapped. The irony would likely gain a few grins from those struggling to crawl out from the Panda hole. Read more
Testing My Blog Guest for Link Building - Initial Results
A look at the possibility of the My Blog Guest platform as a cheap white hat link building tool. Graphs the PageRank of each guest blog post for the two month period of the test. Read more
Google, Content Farms, and the Changing Face of UGC
The agrarian era of search was officially ended by Google last month. The post farmer landscape might represent a fundamental shift in Google’s philosophy about search and user-experience. Read more
Daily Kos has launched a grassroots-based search engine optimization campaign called "Grassroots SEO" for short. "The goal of Grassroots SEO is to get as many undecided voters as possible to read the most damaging news article about the Republican… Read more
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4 interesting major new link building services, as well as some long-standing options that some SEOs may not have discovered - selected by Rand Fishkin. Read more
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How Social Sharing Spreads News
Thanks to an initiative from websites to incorporate social media sites into their articles and blog posts, social websites are more popular that ever when it comes to sharing content online. The Guardian, a United Kingdom online and print newspaper,… Read more
Four Great Ways to Use Google’s Insights for Search Tool
You know about Google’s Keyword Tool and given the quality of free and premium tools now available for SEO, you’re probably over it by now. Then there’s Google Trends, which is fun to play with and shows comparative data based on keywords. But… Read more
More On Brand Links & Potential Anchor Over Optimisation Issues
A follow up to the article claiming more weight is being given to brand based anchor text. Broadly shows how an over optimised anchor text profile can be a barrier to top 5 rankings in Google. Read more
Would you believe there’s a top ranking site in a niche with over 300,000 searches per month which only has 4 pages and spams forums for links? Read more
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An interesting analysis by Tim Grice of some recent Google ranking changes and what might be causing them. Read more
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Love the controversy. Miles has picked up on a Video showing that Instant Search is five years old and didn't work then, so has Google made a critical error? Read more
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Posies Cafe found that a Groupon offer brought in plenty of people -- but cost them way too much money. Easy to blame Groupon for wanting to keep too much of the cut. But note the comments, too -- more a lesson for business owners to think carefully… Read more
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Thoughtful take on Google Instant by Franz Enzenhofer. He introduces the "Pass Through Impression". Can you capture the user in these fractions of seconds, to give him the feeling that he has reached his SERP destination? Read more
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Hey gang, here's my offering into what should be a littany of posts around LDA (and by extension SEOmoz's tool). Despite those that felt I should have been 'harder on them' I have tried to give more of a lesson into the world of LDA for now. More… Read more
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There aren't many places on your website where you can really let loose and tell your story. In our opinion, the "about us" page is one of the most neglected pages on a typical e-commerce site. It seems as though it's often written... Read more
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Kelvin Newman's neat list of smart ways to borrow your merchant's / manufacturer's  search traffic. Read more
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A video cartoon featuring Google's chief giving away ice-cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square today as a privacy group continued to hound the internet giant. Read more
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Okay, I’m a firm — and I mean FIRM believer in the value of LinkedIN as a business social networking site. I’ve blogged about using LinkedIn to gain some new traffic from an SEO practitioners point of view here. I’ve been ‘hooked-up’ by… Read more
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As SEO's we view links as a form of digital currency, that can be bought, sold, bartered, or gained through attention manipulation. However for the rest of internet this isn't always the case. Scott Rosenberg makes the argument that for many people… Read more
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Many businesses have already tried Twitter. Some have yet to test the waters. For those who plan to create a new Twitter account for their business, there are 4 things you will want to do first when you get started. Read more
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Ruud Hein discusses why the removal of voting from Sphinn is a spectacularly bad idea Read more
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Tad Chef on SEOptimise continues his theme of crowdsourcing posts amongst SEOs to come up with collaborative SEO tips - this time it's a wide ranging list of tips, tricks and techniques for optimising that all important title tag.  A great resource! Read more
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The differences between creating a blog vs a micro-site vs a landing page.  Each has unique characteristics and a different strategy that goes along with them. Read more
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Brain Carter with the numbers on how much a fan is worth. Would you pay that much, and do you think a Facebook fan is worth more than an email subscriber? Read more
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A must-read for every SEO out there - great insight by an excited SEO pro. Read more
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