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MajesticSEO has today upgraded it's service. The industry has needed to see back-links by Class C for some time. While upgrading the system, you can now also see the number of Government and Educational sites linking to a domain as well. Read more
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This is the kind of stuff that gives the SEO industry a bad rep. I don't normally pay any attention to the childish battles that many SEOs have but what Peak is doing is just flat out wrong and deserves to be called out. Read more
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David Mihm knows local, and he has a few thoughts on how this deal may affect the landscape of local search as we now see it. Read more
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Whether you’re ready to embrace it or not, social media is changing the way we communicate and make decisions. Today’s technology has impacted our daily lives and routines in a big way. If you don’t wake up to Facebook, you probably know someone… Read more
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Dave Snyder writes: The citation method of ranking indexed content is flawed. It is based on human aid, and any technology based on the work of humans is always going to have flaws. Links are the product of what elicits an emotion from website owners,… Read more
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This is about Link Wheels and how they should become a part of your SEM practices. Read more
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Google is trying to take interactivity away from the source and centralize it.  That sets up Google in channel conflict vs me. It robs my site of much of its value . Ethically, this is like other services that tried to frame a source’s content or… Read more
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A few people have spotted video thumbnails appearing in the search results when the page doesn’t include a video, but rather a peel away ad.  This is a big loophole because trusted sites wanting to increase click through rates could just add Flash… Read more
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Looks like a cool tool for a quick SEO snapshot when you aren't by computer. Good for those impromtu meetings where people want a quick snapshot analysis of their site. Read more
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Internal links can be very powerful in helping you distribute the link equity that those external links bring, and they can decrease your bounce rate and increase your page views per visitor by sending your visitors to other pages. Read more
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If you’re planning to move your site to a new domain, use the Change of Address tool to tell Google about your new URL. If this is old news, I sure didn’t see it anywhere.

Note that when I went through the process I got a message… Read more
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Google news spam for competitive terms is getting out of hand. Read more
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Yikes, have I really been giving out incorrect advice on using WordPress permalinks all this time? Well, no, not ALL this time, but certainly for a while now.

After reading this, and then researching it for myself at WordPress.org, it DOES… Read more
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In his ’white hat link bait’ video, Matt Cutts says it’s not ok to pay for links. Pay for cheap content instead.

As Christina says in her great rant ’...what is “white hat” about paying crap wages for something inane… Read more
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Ever since Kevin Rose stood on television talking about his new site Digg.com, social news aggregation sites have been about trying to be as democratic as possible... Read more
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Very interesting interview with Bruce Clay about how he started his SEO agency. Read more
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The defendant has issued a affidavit that states Google is to blame because their checks for trademark.

A very interesting case to follow. Read more
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Shoemoney discovered someone bidding on his trademarked name, and is now going after him in court. There is evidence to indicate this may be a google employee. Read more
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Debra Mastaler writes: "With the economy the way it is, we’re getting a lot of inquires from people asking for package programs. They’re willing to cut back on the number of link building techniques they contract for, but not the quality of the… Read more
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Check out Guy’s Twitter stream for an example of how the master leverages Twitter. Then listen to the webcast. You’ll be trained the art of Twitter weaponry in no time. Read more
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It’s important not to make the mistake of assuming that as the need for links hasn’t changed, that the methods of acquiring them haven’t. Just as the web has changed from brochure websites to interactive communities so has the methods of building… Read more
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Chris Smith writes, "The Twitter social networking and micro-blogging service was launched only two years ago, but it’s rocketing up in usage numbers quickly, and it seems likely to turn red-hot. Many companies are rapidly cluing into the promotional… Read more
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Julie Joyce provides practical solutions to the SEO who asks: "What if you have a client who wants SEO but simply does not want you to do any link building even though you’ve told this sweet client that link building is a key component of doing well… Read more
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A guest post written by Brian Norgard, on how to use Twitter to build your business.

"Emerging platforms create new opportunities to find and acquire the lifeblood of your business—customers. Twitter is the breakthrough product of 2009… Read more
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Jeremy Schoemaker: I am always amazed at how scared people are to fail. I fail all the time.... or at least what other people would consider to be failures. I would rather call them experiences.
Learning from your failures and trying until you… Read more
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