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A client recently asked me to share a few blogging tips and recommend some good articles to read. I went a little overboard ... and put together this huge list of 61 recommended articles and posts about blogging. Now you can just bookmark this one… Read more
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Now this is an issue the SEO community has to deal with not hiding behind "white hat or black hat anything goes as long it works" slogans. Either we ostracize people doing that and make people aware that it’s not SEO or soon people will spit on us… Read more
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The biggest problem with SEO standards is we’ll get some half baked, half assed, implementation that’s just as bad as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As a concept it’s seems like a wonderful idea, everyone agrees to a set of established… Read more
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Apparently the line has been drawn in the sand by Microsoft’s Steve Balmer in a letter sent to Yahoo today. That line is three weeks to see some kind of progress in Microsoft’s bid to take over Yahoo! Read more
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From the page: Google has already demonstrated an immense desire to invest in startups with unique ideas and the right code to implement them. By storing your code with Google, what is to stop them from just peeking in? By using the AppEngine, you… Read more
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Pretty humorous comparison between bloggers and rappers. Funny but true. Haha. Read more
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Jordan McCollum writes, "Remember earlier this week, someone was trying to trademark the acronym ‘SEO’? A helpful little comment on our post on that news just pointed me to the ’enterprising marketer’s’ response, posted Wednesday. And if… Read more
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Though unwritten, there are implied rights and rules of engagement, set and enforced by the mob’s wisdom, which we should make official. Read more
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SEO Book.com - Lets take a look at a typical Mahalo page
mahalo.com/Best_Computer_Speakers
That page has a #1 ranking in Google with 0 unique content and 0 value to the searcher (according to Google’s above guidelines).

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PR sculpting seems to be "all the rage" at the moment. Tracking the conversation back seems to get me to an article by Dan Thies of september 4th last year, pointing back to an interview with Matt on SEOmoz. It’s been a whole load of buzz lately,… Read more
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Shimon Sandler interviews Chris Winfield at SES NY in regards to Social Media Optimization. Great 4 minute interview. Read more
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Loren Baker offers 9 tips on using LinkedIn & Facebook to maintain a well balanced network that will help you connect with your colleagues online and help to brand yourself. Read more
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Internet marketing is about lots of little things, not one big one. This list is half-list, half-procedure. If you go down these items in order it might give you a decent internet marketing plan for the next few months. If you have others, post ’em as… Read more
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Google’s search-within-a-site feature launched about 3 weeks ago. Discussed in-depth at SES New York. Today: NY Times. So why post old news? Ann Smarty (SEOSmarty) is quoted in NYT article! Very cool.

So are Pinny (Ice, Ice, baby) and… Read more
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Different from the hidden links injection reported earlier this month, this one involves the attacker creating a new physical directory in your Wordpress installation, and populating it with HTML files that then use Javascript to redirect visitors to… Read more
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Loren Baker writes, "I’m not a big Internet Explorer user but today I’m using IE as my browser of choice. I noticed that when I launch Skype and IE, Skype highlights phone numbers on web sites in the browsers for calling via SkypeOut." Read more
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A personal, and oh so painfully true, story from the SearchBash party during SES NY 2008. Read more
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Dave (theGypsy) discusses Microsoft’s TIPIS, and has created a flow chart to illustrate. It will help identify who the key influencers are within any group. Imagine the power when combined with Facebook or Linkedin! Read more
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Ann says "Yes, I know there are much more great FireFox plugins but I am sharing only those I am using myself and find really useful." Read more
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Search Engine Land - There is a cautionary tale for Yahoo, Google or any company that allows user generated content in their local product. These affiliate spammers are deceptively providing a "service" that is unneeded and unwanted. Whatever they are… Read more
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Tim Nash reveals in a local study that SEO firms which target local businesses are not in fact getting that many local clients. Read more
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The Dallas Business Journal recently ran a story on one of our clients, Wasp Barcode Technologies, describing how they went from spending enormous amounts of money on PPC to focusing more on traditional SEO and link building. The strategy paid off --… Read more
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In this post, I want to talk about the most often overlooked aspect of what is required to write content with strong potential on Digg (and the same principle applies to StumbleUpon, Reddit, or any other social media service you can imagine). Read more
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