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David Harry covers a variety of patents Google have for social profiling - while illustrating the massive intrusion into privacy.

However, the suggestion is that this could be a way to monetise social media, but there’s no getting… Read more
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While designing and developing a website a web designer need to several tools to maximizing the effectiveness of the website. There are a wide range of different tools which is been presented here. Each of these tools is so important for a web designer. Read more
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Search Engine Land - here has been a lot of talk and speculation recently about eBay wanting to get rid of StumbleUpon
, but until anything happens I am not going to stop using it. With over 6 million users contributing to over 350 million… Read more
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Here are few tips on how to diagnose both on-site and off-site issues with Google Search and its advanced operators. Read more
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Exciting new features at SEOmoz, including an Index of the World Wide Web (30 Billion pages and growing!), the Linkscape Tool (extensive link data based on own index), a fresh design and a comic book. Read more
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"Economy through obscurity is as bad as security through obscurity. Unfortunately it’s precisely what a search engine, or rather our way of using it, has to offer to the majority of businesses listed ." Read more
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This is your chance to interview Google engineers! Feel free to ask anything to:

Matt Cutts
Adam Lasnik
Erick Tseng
Jeff Dean
Andrew Morton
Ken Thompson
Guido van Rossum
Taliver Heath
Colby… Read more
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Pretty sure we know which way I swing(big boy) - it’s all about the passion... What’s your bag? Read more
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Blog post contains an example of a (potentially) new video search result format I’ve begun noticing this morning. It may be old, and if so - apologies in advance. This is the first I’ve seen of these results though so i wanted to share with… Read more
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Peter Da Vanzo writes, "Link building is hard work. Have you ever tried to get people to link to your pure commerce/commercial brochure-web site? You know how tough it is out there. The link economy has become so established, we’ve even got… Read more
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From the page: "Sadly the future of SEO is mostly a topic for people outside the industry who grab attention by reinforcing prejudice. On the other hand we’re in the middle of huge changes taking place in the SEO industry or should I say… yes, what." Read more
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Michael Martinez: There are actually people searching for the expression “site navigation theory”. Somehow, despite my not having optimized for site navigation theory, they have found the SEO Theory blog. The fact that I have written about Web site… Read more
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Where I give Shel Silverstein’s "The Giving Tree" a modern spin. Read more
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ReadWriteWeb reports that eBay, finally acknowledging that it’s not going to integrate the social media site into its shopping platform, has apparently put SU on the auction block. Read more
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Google Webmaster Tool’s current verification process has always been someone awkward for webmasters to get working and share with their clients. Googler, JohnMu, said that Google is testing a new verification process for their Webmaster Tools. Read more
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Twitter finally did integrate search and I didn’t even notice. Did it happen in the recent Twitter redesign? I can’t say for sure but I wouldn’t doubt it. So where is it? Did you not see it? Read more
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Would you trust a social media friend with your money? Your home? Your significant other? Your children? Your life? Your answer to those questions will determine whether or not you feel that friends, as used in social media, are friends like you had in… Read more
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As an SEO consultant I make a point of recommend blogging to each of my clients. One question comes up every time. What will we write about? Read more
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Content is King and links are Queen. Together with a nice dose of marketing they make a nice little kingdom. But what if you have trouble generating new content on a regular basis? How can resource strapped bloggers and busy web site owners leverage… Read more
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Google is now rolling out Suggest to their homepage, but how does this affect SEO as we know it? Read more
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A short but sweet post from Lyndon that rings sooooooo true. So often I come across people who focus entirely on going ’hot’ with a post or getting tons of traffic, without considering whether it will generate links. Link building ain’t… Read more
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Rand Fishkin writes "This past week has been a particularly frustrating one for me, and I felt compelled to share more about the behind-the-scenes operations here at SEOmoz, particularly as it pertains to the blog and recent controversy surrounding… Read more
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So the Google-Digg deal that I predicted last week has been broken up. I asked for opinions from some of the most active SEO’s and SMO’s on Sphinn, a perfect intersection between search and social media. Will Google acquire Digg? Do you think it… Read more
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Yahoo describes how they might use robot programs to help identify emails, IMs, chat rooms, and Web sites where inappropriate activities take place. The document goes into detail on how a Yahoo robot might interact with others in a chat room, and… Read more
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Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer… Read more
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