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A summary of one of the most detailed discussions on the topic of pagination with a Googler and some of the brightest SEOs covering the various options.

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For many months now, webmasters have been responding to signals from Google that page speed would soon become a ranking factor. Very recently, Google confirmed that for a limited set of queries, Google.com (US) results are influenced by page load times… Read more
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Site speed or page speed -- either way, it's now officially part of Google's ranking system. And has been in place for a couple weeks on English-language searches on Google.com. Read more
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Images (awesome ones that is) can some of the best link magnets on the web. But the problem is people tend to just steal them without linking to the source. In this post Wiep shares some tactics and tools you can use to ensure you get maximum link love,… Read more
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Some proof that Yahoo & Bing do not pass link juice via 301 redirects. Also validates that Google passes some link juice via the same redirects. Read more
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The second ever SphinnCon Israel was a huge hit.  Check out the big recap to catch up on all the highlights. Read more
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An awesome step by step walkthrough from Rich Baxter showing how to use pivot tables to construct awesome pivot charts to visualise keyphrase research and ranking data.Excel ftw. Read more
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This is a ton of great tips and information from Jill Whalen - I'm definitely going to save this post and share it a lot! Read more
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Richard Baxter of SEOgadget with a detailed (illustrated) writeup of a presentation he gave at last week's SES London 2010: when dealing with multi tiered sites (eg in the travel industry), how do you go about making sure internal link juice is… Read more
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SEOgadget's top six actionable tips to take away from SEOmoz's latest toy, Open Site Explorer. Powered by Linkscape, OSE is possibly even more powerful than Yahoo! Site Explorer and there are some great tips here on using it to your best advantage. Read more
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While it is true that it can be extremely difficult to break into an established niche (especially if you are on a limited budget), this doesn’t mean that there aren’t any opportunities left. Thanks to the fact that we live in a fast paced world,… Read more
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Comparison of the data side of things behind the new Google Keyword Tool. A must for data junkies and anyone who likes charts. +1 insightful. Read more
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There are mainly two questions your clients would want the competitor research to answer: Read more
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@richardbaxter shares his experience with shopping for old domains :"This post isn’t about whether an expired and redirected domain passes value, it’s about my experience in actually buying one to play around with and test out. So, how do you (or… Read more
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Richard Baxter discusses link building by guest osting on well-scraped blogs. Could these scraper sites really pass any value and can the process of guest blogging on well scraped sites be levered to work in your favour? Read more
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Richard Baxter over at SEJ discusses how to diagnose website architecture issues: "So what ideas should you be looking at when you’re trying to figure out if there’s a problem with your website architecture?" Read more
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The average SEO is like an average chess player, seeing things only on the surface (links & keywords). The best SEOs think like advanced chess players, looking ahead, and making decisions that don’t have immediate effect. Having a good design is… Read more
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Jon Myers opens his Searchcowboys account with a blasting post on Universal Search Video Results.

Online video is going from strength to strength in 2009. There has been a lot of talk about it over the last few shows I have spoken at.… Read more
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Pageoneresults is taking his exploration of Twitter even further with a look at the 250 character SuperTweet. While Twitter limits the viewable tweet to the famous 140 characters the true maximum is 255. He’ll be experimenting this weekend with the… Read more
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Rand Fishkin says this tool is a game changer. I tend to agree - the Top Pages On Domain tool from SEOmoz Labs is awesome. Find out why in this post... Read more
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A very useful list of plugins by SEO tech guru @richardbaxter - quite a few I need to check out! Read more
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Trying to rank in international markets? Own the correct TLD but still not seeing the right results? Where’s your hosting at?! Here’s how to solve the problem of international hosting. Read more
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Jason "SEO is dead" Calacanas, founder of Mahalo, used "SEO is dead" as a publicity stunt to help launch his made for AdSense scraper website. In the past we have noted how he was caught ranking pages without any original content - in clear violation of… Read more
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In case you ever need to find and replace a text string in every post or page of your Wordpress site, this SQL code will help you out. I recently had to move a client’s website from staging into production, and just when I was getting ready to publish… Read more
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Windows guide on using WGET, the free network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP Read more
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