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Big SEO merger...Covario Inc., the leader in enterprise class search advertising software and services, announced today that it has acquired Netconcepts, LLC, a Madison, WI-based solutions provider, specializing in the management of search engine… Read more
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Have you launched a new Search Marketing consultancy, looking to build the PR of your agency or looking to boost your personal brand? Here are 10 well read SEO & Search Marketing blogs that openly accept guest posts. Contributing to these… Read more
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Since November, it appears that LinkedIn has now started placing nofollows on public profile page links...except usage is inconsistent, even with examples of profiles where some of the links within the profile are followed and others are nofollowed. Read more
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Donna Fontenot (aka @DazzlinDonna) explains how you can get an idea of the scoring Google applies to your pages by analyzing their crawl frequency, introducing "CacheRank". She even recommends nice tools to get the job done, if you can't be bothered… Read more
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There are literally thousands of SEO tools out there. Some paid, some free, some good and some not so good. There is one tool that is often overlooked when it comes to SEO, yes, search engine optimisation, and that’s AdWords. While most people see… Read more
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Google Keyword Tool provides a valuable insight into data, but doesn’t always connect all of the dots. This free Google Keyword Annualizer tool helps to connect some of those important dots and provide an extra layer of data refinement. Import the… Read more
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The divisiveness of the SEO industry has reared its tenacious, albeit link-baiting head again in recent weeks. Apparently as contentious as politics and religion, SEO tactics should not be discussed in polite company; especially the company you keep… Read more
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Great decision chart to help explain the logic and decisions behind handling duplicate content. Read more
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Excellent, excllent review by Stepahn on this topic - if you’ve been following it, read this. If it’s new to you, read this. If you’re serious about seo, read this. Read more
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Attribute-based (a.k.a. faceted) navigation systems make it easier for users to filter, sort, navigate, and buy. But this user benefit could cost you big-time in your natural search marketing performance if not SEO’d correctly. Read more
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GrayWolf: Ask any advanced SEO to describe what they want in a link and you’re likely to get something like this …

“A keyword rich link from a well linked/important/popular page on a trusted and authoritative website, that is… Read more
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Stephan Spencer dishes out a very thorough write-up on the different types of redirects. Read more
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"In addition to being smart, gorgeous, ridiculously talented, and pig kissing yummy, Lisa Barone is also one year older."

Happy Birthday! Read more
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Web Analytics Optimization is important too! Web Analytics are very valuable but it’s so easy for them to become useless if your not tracking what you want. Maybe your a small company and you get all excited that you have 100 visits in a day, but… Read more
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Since Google posted on how their search quality stuff works, Barry Schwartz figured he would take the webmaster view and tell you what webmasters and SEOs have been seeing from Google’s search quality as of late. Read more
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Several weeks ago at SMX West I had the pleasure of meeting and having lunch with Brian White from Google. Brian works on Matt Cutts’ web spam team, tirelessly working to make Google’s search results the best they can be, ensuring the best… Read more
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A little image search experiment, via my Mozzer friends, demonstrating some variations between Google, Yahoo, and MSN, going from one algorithmic extreme to another. Read more
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Google will sell Performics. Hooray! Read more
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When you are strapped for ideas you either hope an idea will come to you eventually in a random moment of inspiration, or you delve into your RSS feeds to try to find something that sparks your imagination. The Word That Ensures 100% productivity is... Read more
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In February of 2008, 3000+ search marketers answered 52 questions about themselves, their work and the search industry via a survey on SEOmoz. The following data and analysis comes from SEOmoz staff members Nick Gerner, Rebecca Kelley, Jeff Pollard and… 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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LinkedIn launches their company pages that have been in alpha stage. Take a look and compare the new to the conceptual. It will be interesting to see these develop and hopefully they’ll bring in a few more of the features from the conceptual pages. Read more
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With Flickr’s recent change of adding nofollows, be sure to check out the links that, at least so far, are still nofollow free. Read more
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Great list of link building tools by Link Builder Extraordinaire, Debra Mastaler. Some here I never heard of before and can’t wait to check out. Read more
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Of course Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo has been the big news of the day. Not to get ahead of ourselves, but cast your vote now for suggested names on the combined search efforts. Read more
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