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Cool Cartoon over at SEORoundTable... Read more
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Please visit and fill out the poll on SEO Round Table. Read more
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Google @steverubel is dead - If you work at a PR firm and don't understand SEO then it's dead.. trust me i work at a PR firm.. (no comment) Read more
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Within a week or two, the voting model will end at Sphinn. Stories can still be submitted, but editors will consider those in addition to others they find. Why? Rather than build community, voting -- an activity which is also in decline -- seems to… Read more
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Ruud Hein discusses why the removal of voting from Sphinn is a spectacularly bad idea Read more
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Great post on Search Engine People about 3 things you need to know. Read more
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Sing it brother Barry! I have been on a major bitch fest (privately) lately about the 'state of the industry'.. this fits well. - SNIP - The topic is on too many newbie SEOs taking the SEO advice given on forums, blogs, news sites and here at face… Read more
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So, over he last few years I have been endlessly peeved when people speak of Toolbar PageRank in the same breath as actual PageRank. You know, 'PR is useless' stuff. Thus my quest to sort that once and for all.. read on and pass it forward! Read more
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An in-depth case study on how WordStream leveraged infographics to build links from highly authoritative sites while generating enormous traffic (and even some leads and sales!) via social media. Read more
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boo! FaceBook! HOORAY BEER!(brought to you by RedStripe) Read more
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Now when you are logged in and visit your neighbors page you can see which of your connections follow them, "Also followed by".  Useful in understanding who knows who in your own little twitter world. Making talking with your other connections with (or… Read more
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That’s really what our mission is or should be in the search industry.  To make clients more money.  Whether they monetize leads after someone fills out a lead generation form, they monetize leads after someone signs up to attend an event, or they… Read more
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Ben Cook gives some qualified observations of Lazy user behavior habits for twitter on Search Engine People. (i.e. ask twitter instead of googling it yourself) Read more
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Just over a year ago, Bing decided to launch a massive advertising campaign aimed at creating a viable alternative to Google. A year on, we take a look as to how successful this campaign has been Read more
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You won’t win fans if you’re not communicating with people.  Ask questions, reply to their tweets, say thank you, converse.  Interest in you will start with you showing interest in others, so that means you become the initiator.  You can’t sit… Read more
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Last week, Matt Cutts made reference to not being a "craphat" on Twitter, which opened up a can of worms about whether blackhat means craphat, blackhat means illegal and why he made up that term at all. He didn’t – it’s my term, which I used… Read more
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I think as more and more SEOs use Bing and google webmaster tools... we are creating our own "rap sheet", the crimes committed before we submitted the site hopefully will not reflect on our "record". Read more
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With an ONline business, search is the FIRST place to start, but Organic SEO is a Long-Term investment, have other options. Read more
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Don't Think of it as "people are going mobile and not searching anymore".Think of it as "finally decent bandwidth on my mobile device and the applications integrating search into my phone... "do i use my mobile at home or work to search?no... Read more
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If your reporting isn’t set up to show that ROI, the profitability, then you have no way to prove it.  When you meet with your clients, you’re meeting with the budget shot-callers. You know what you’ve done; the shot-callers don’t. Time to… Read more
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An interview with Dana Lookadoo... it's on Wordstream.. but it's Dana and she is a #goodegg. Read more
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I’m an internet marketing professional presently involved at the highest levels of discussion within our industry community as it relates to “independent” 3rd parties who claim to provide information, ratings or reviews of companies within our… Read more
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Google announced that you can now combine all of your content type sitemaps into one file. This isn't such a great idea and here are 4 reasons why you should still keep them seperate. Read more
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My latest offering over on SEJ - I felt there was too much 'LSI' crap and not enough discussions out there on semantic analysis and how SEOs can better understand/use the concepts in KW research and content development. So here it is. Oh and a ton o… Read more
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Interesting..... Let the theories begin! (just don't cite recently released patents that are 6yrs old hehe) Read more
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