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Ew. Spam. It’s basically the compilation of what’s left over from the “good” parts. By definition Spam is unwanted. Though, there are those who eat it up and those who make money creating it. Welcome to my series of blog posts that will address… Read more
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Julie Joyce gives great practical advice on how to find the perfect link building targets Read more
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What do your online relationships say about you? I’m not talking about online dating; I’m talking about your social media relationships. What things are revealed about you, online, that you don’t even realize are being revealed? Read more
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A site cannot get to the top of the heap without doing the work. This means that there is a particular method you need to follow before you even start building links. Regardless of editorial or directory link building, you must have good and trustworthy… Read more
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How does one woman, who spends most of her time by the side of the road in Death Valley create viral SEO storms affecting some the biggest companies in the world? Read more
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A Guide To Qualifying Link Prospects For Relevance, Value & Potentiality from the crew (Garrett French) at Search Engine Land. This great article goes into how to pinpoint the best places for a link. They even provide a downloadable worksheet to help… Read more
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"Here I thought I knew a thing or two about Twitter, and then I came to this session!! The session was given by Jon Henshaw of Raven Internet Marketing Tools, Dan Zarrella, a social and viral media consultant, Lee Odden of TopRank, and David Snyder of… Read more
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With this economy, we’re all forced to be just a little bit more creative with how we do things. For companies, this mean streamlining processes and doing what it takes to retain employees. Stop with the costly extras and get down to business being… Read more
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I think it’s fair to say that the Internet (the economy doesn’t help these newspapers either) is really starting to have an effect we can all actually see. It’s not coming, it’s here. Good and bad, life advances and there will always be… Read more
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Sage Lewis raised an excellent point in his post. How do we get the proper exposure with little overhead? Honestly there is so much written every day that it gets very old trying to figure out if anyone has actually come up with something new. So when… Read more
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Janet at Search Mojo shows the SEO world that you can’t believe everything you read on the internet. Especially when it comes to search engine optimization. Read more
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Ask yourself “is it really worth it?” Is it really worth it to damage what could be a great reputation for playing the game fairly or are you OK with having that crowd of doubters who think (and maybe know) that you cheated to get where you are?… Read more
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Kaitlyn Smeland of Search Mojo: Environmentalism has injected itself into the public discourse lately on a couple different fronts- not just in Marketing. The U.S. athletes who showed up in Beijing wearing face masks to filter out smog caused quite a… Read more
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As one of the billions (I’m sure it’s billions now, right?) of people who rely on an Apple product every day, it was a bummer to hear that Steve Jobs may be sick again. I haven’t really followed the health of any CEO (except my own here at Search… Read more
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We’ve been assured that just because content sits on Google’s Knol site, it won’t gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how’s that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages… Read more
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The Google Knol I created just yesterday entitled ‘How to Read the Russian Alphabet in 75 Minutes‘ is already appearing on Page 1 of a Google Search for “read russian” with 12,300,000 results following. Read more
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Avelyn Austin of Search Mojo: I’ve always thought of myself as a optimistic person. For some reason, either side of the bed is the right side to get up on and life is constantly handing me lemons to make lemonade with my half full glass of water. So… Read more
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According to Hitwise yesterday, Google’s share of total search traffic increased again to 69.17% for the month of June 2008. Yahoo received 19.62% of all traffic, and MSN received 5.46%. The numbers represent losses in share for Yahoo and MSN and a… Read more
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Did you ever wonder how Google Adwords Expanded Broad Match really works? Relevance has very little to do with it. How do I know? They told me. All the infuriating details here. Read more
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Recently the SEO industry is buzzing around a relatively new term, advanced SEO.

Advanced SEO is not yet clearly defined but many people already seem to agree what it is. My personal impression as to this inherent definition is: Advanced… Read more
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Why do I love StumbUpon? Because I can just click a button and be connected to random websites I would’ve had NO idea were out there on the internet. I stumbled up on (ha ha) StumbleUpon (SU) sometime in 2007 (I think) and every so often I give up my… Read more
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The top ten strategies... which is more legit? Which is more respected? Here are the top ten in no particular order. Read more
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Ya fer sure, Yahoo Sponsored Search throws Tad Miller a curve ball eh. Read his realization here, ok: With apologies to Bob and Doug McKenzie, sometimes the most obvious things are right under your own nose and you don’t even realize it. To my… Read more
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Is it a crime against the "bloggers code" to submit blog post to a social media site for yourself or a client? Apparently, some think so. If Social Media is about "conversations" is submitting your client’s blog post to a social media site just… Read more
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Janet Miller, CEO of Search Mojo, discusses the more often than not controversy on who has the line on ethics in blogging: I’ve been hearing a lot of talk these days about the ethics of blogging, and I find it very interesting that traditional social… Read more
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