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Meta description testing wrap-up article - bringing us one step closer to a definitive answer, yet leaving the debate raging in some circles... Read more
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Alan does a good job of laying out the two sides of the coin. A good read for folks confused about the relative importance of W3C compliance as it relates to SEO. Read more
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Lisa Barone gives an excellent rebuttal to advice given by Robert Scoble to small businesses to ignore SEO. 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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The most obvious thing was the ability to real time spam Google’s results. A quick search for [Sphinn won't allow the word] showed the real time results at the very top of the SERP, right under the news results… Read more
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Bas van den Beld writes, "In Europe, SEOs are wracking their brains over what Google is up to in the UK. The Twitterverse has been buzzing over the last three months about Google’s strange search results, and many bloggers have addressed the problem… Read more
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A guest post on the Trail from Jon Stevenson looks at tighter targeting of niche terms to ensure higher conversions (and limit the needless competition) - SNIP - "Another benefit from niches is that if the information is good the users will link to it… Read more
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Just as the title says.  :-D Read more
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What is a discovery? You discover a page when you are the first to submit it to StumbleUpon. You can see the member who discovered the page as well as the date when it was discovered to the right of the submission page... Read more
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Tony Adam takes a look at a recent Reputation Management article and writes about the true importance of Rep-Mgnt. Read more
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Ruud Hein interviews Michael Streko regarding Check User Names now KnowEm. Read more
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Michael Gray (@graywolf): Rule Number one of operating a web 2.0 user generated content website, if you don’t have someone involved in your development process who thinks about how to abuse the system, and put steps in place to prevent it, someone… Read more
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I always finds Edwards posts so well researched, that I am always in awe with what he comes up with.

The post is about getting your domain branding present in your tweets and avoiding the brand visibility loss that follows due to twitter… Read more
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It’s a RIOT! Huge work saver to check social media profile availability of on many sites? Or-easy research for bad guys to hijack reputations? Either way, used to involve labor intensive research process. No longer! Now a quick scan is available… Read more
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Hot on the heels of the announcement by Google and Live of a new tag attribute for links, Joost De Valk creates plugins to support this for Wordpress, Magento and Drupal. 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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If I’m on Twitter THAT much, I must not be working. I don’t want my clients and business partners seeing me rank as a top Twitter user. Read more
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I always look forward to Tamar’s yearly roundup of the best in Search, Social Media & Internet Marketing...

"Today is my birthday, and I decided to give you all a gift that few of you have been highly anticipating for a few months now. " Read more
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A great article by Julie Joyce on how you can use Twitter to attract links and build brand. Read it and tweet! Read more
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Is Google going to kill all the "suspected" links that coem from social Media?

Are they gonna stop buying traffic from social media sites?

How is this gonna affect the community?


Check graywolf’s post… Read more
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Lisa Barone writes... You’re getting soft.

You’re sticking to what was once big and you’re not moving beyond that. You’re not hungry.You’re not forward-thinking. You’re out there sitting in the pit of fake celebrity and you… Read more
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Many sites are blocked in some countries - if you are located in the USA, you are probably unfamiliar with this problem (unless you are trying to figure out how to access blocked websites when at work, which I am sure you aren’t). Read more
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Many SEO newbies, or new businesses starting out online, come to SEO blogs such as this looking for some quick and easy solution that will vault them to the top in the results. Unfortunately, there are very few hard and fast rules in SEO, and no step by… Read more
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Streko’s 2008 Top 20 People Who Didn’t Suck (or at least not a lot) - "Cause lets be honest, we all kinda suck every once in a while." Read more
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"In the beginning, everybody wanted to be on Google and would happily spend $15 or $20 per click, anything to build traffic. But not anymore," says Avi Wilensky, president of Promediacorp, a company that helps businesses with their search marketing… Read more
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