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Despite recent and on and off going disagreements I have had with Doug Heil, he has been a good friend for years. One thing I appreciate about him is that you always know where you stand with him. Whatever you think about his opinions and statements,… Read more
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BlackHat SEO has a reputation, and it’s usually not a good one. Case in point: the recent SMX Advanced conference in Seattle apparently had a lot of blackhat emphasis this year, much to the shock and horror of some. But is it really as evil and bad as… Read more
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What good is a site if no one can find it? That’s one of the basic premises behind search engine optimization, or as it is commonly called, SEO. Websites that rank higher in search engine results pages get far more hits than those sites buried several… Read more
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In a recent interview with MIT’s Technology Review, Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google, shot down the idea of implementing natural language search capabilities at Google. In essence, he characterized natural language searching as not… Read more
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Over the weekend, Google quietly began rolling out a new, centralized profile system that will supply personalized information to each of the Google products that you use. Read more
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The New York Times had an interesting piece in the paper over the weekend, which talked about an upcoming battle between Microsoft and Google. The two companies are already somewhat of bitter rivals, but the battle is about to heat up even more, if we… Read more
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Can I register a .edu domain? Are the links more valuable? Why are some just spam pages? Julie Kent dishes out the answers to these questions on .edu domains. Read more
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"With a variety of options for measuring the success of your search engine optimization, and what tools are available to you, we’ve put together a list of our top five sites that provide free online resources to help you track the performance your… Read more
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Keyword research is a dynamic practice which can not be defined by one research product or one report. Here are some tips on keeping keyword research up to date and relevant for paid search and organic SEO efforts. Read more
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Following up on yesterday’s story about a massive malware attack on the “big three” search engines, which saw the manipulation of the search engines to rank malicious malware sites high in the results pages, it seems that Google has at least taken… Read more
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This computer science grad student is mapping the way the human brain works and applying it to technology that will eventually power a search engine dedicated to visual images. Cool stuff. Read more
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