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Interesting article by Andy Atkins-Krüger who discussed the search engine algorithms of the Yandex search engine with its founders, with some speculation on whether Google uses similar ranking and relevancy formulas. Read more
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Research by a security analyst this week found that an Android phone collected location data every few seconds and sent it to Google several times an hour. Apple disclosed in a letter to Congress last year that its phones "intermittently" collect… Read more
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The biggest problem with Social Media is that too many people talk about it and not enough people ACTUALLY USE IT TO GENERATE REVENUE. Read more
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Looking for some link building inspiration?  This post has 89 resources to inspire you! Read more
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Google is testing a new feature that marries its Instant Previews with AdWords. The test gives searchers a chance to see the ad’s landing page without clicking on the ad. Read more
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Today I've discovered two terrific Twitter visualization tools that I would like to share with you. Both can help you find very interesting people to follow on Twitter. Read more
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An up-to-date post about the Yahoo-Bing Search Alliance and how it is/has affected clicks, costs and volume. Read more
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A useful post on how to group your keywords in order to analyze them in segments. >>> Earlier this week, SEER held a “Google Analytics 101″ training for our interns. Questions were asked about RegEx, and I ended up sending an email out to… Read more
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Dave Harry discusses various approaches to deal with mass produced Web content --as well as Web spam-- from a geek's point of view. Obviously explicit feedback mechanisms don't work well, because they're spammable and active user participation is rare,… Read more
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This stealing of content is what’s known as copyright theft, and it’s against the law. The minute you create original content, you become the copyright owner which means it’s yours and yours alone, even if you share, rent, or pass it out.  Here's… Read more
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A list of 8 top-notch SEO Plugins that will help you get maximum exposure for your WordPress blog. Read more
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A wild week that started with Matt Cutts statements about content farms and ended with a massively successfully Demand Media IPO. Making sense of a critical week in content farming. Read more
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Michael Martinez argues that links obtained by SEOs that would not have otherwise seen the light of day are paid for - period.  A refreshing take on the othewise tired "paid links" debate. Read more
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Aaron Wall offers up his point of view on correlation analysis as it relates to SEO for Google. And as always, he drops in some great links for the sake of context and insight. Read more
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We know that local is big (for SEO) this year, but another area of importance is having an universal search strategy. If you're not already into video; get on it. This post from Richard is a good place to start.... even if you're already doing video,… Read more
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Vanessa Fox reports how Google Translate spamming Google's Web search was caught red-handed, and educated Google on how to solve such issues. Meanwhile Matt Cutts promised to tweak Google's robots.txt. Read more
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Marketers can pay for these ads on a cost-per-action basis, meaning they pay for "likes" as some advertisers pay for clicks. Though clearly marked with the words "sponsored story," the like-ad -- which will includes a user's name, just like the news… Read more
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I started looking at the stats of other pages, where seasonal drop was certainly not involved, I saw similar increases. What’s more interesting, all the fans in unrelated fields started to unsubscribe on the same day. Read more
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A humorous exercise in futility over at the SEO Igloo Blog leads to what looks like serious design flaws --or oversights at least-- in Google's local search machine: "What system and safeguards have Google put in Places to make sure that they know when… Read more
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Google is considering to give users the rights to fight own battle aganist spam. Answering the question on Hacker News Discussion Matt confirmed Google is also thinking that way. Read more
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In the past, it was known to local SEOs that Google Maps preferred businesses near city centerpoints. As Google reduced that factor's weight, it appears that they added city and ZIP border outlines in determining local relevancy. Yet, Google can make… Read more
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B.L. Ochman writes how for decades, brands lied, exaggerated, omitted facts and glossed over defects, but Social Media changed the balance of power. Read more
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A disenchanted Jill Whalen concludes: "It seems that as an SEO, your choice is to help ruin the Internet by performing spammy SEO for your clients (or to heavily invest in Google AdWords) which of course plays right into Google's hands." -- If not Matt… Read more
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If you'd like to get retweets, attention, engagement, or whatever from industry experts on Twitter, maybe you should read Melissa Fach's interviews with those who told her what they're looking for in your timeline. Read more
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The frustration that the country’s magazine and newspaper publishers feel toward Apple can sound a lot like a variation on the old relationship gripe, “can’t live with ’em, may get left behind without ’em.” The New York Times reports… Read more
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