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Good summary of the Bing Webmaster Guideline whitepage. If you know SEO already, it seems there are only 3 things you have to pay attention to when optimizing for Bing. Read more
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Cli.gs URLs Hacked Forwarding to lansner.freedomblogging.com.
Cligs, a URL shortening/forwarding service has been hacked where several users have been reporting their older created forwarders were all going to 1 single location. Read more
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Nice post on quick, free ways of comparing multiple link profiles at a high level. Read more
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Now, Google is obviously well within their rights to set whatever kind of guidelines they want, it’d just be nice if they bothered to adhere to them as well. Read more
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Lisa Barone writes, "Earlier this week there was a lot of buzz about the new Google Profiles. I tried to ignore it because I find the idea of gift wrapping your online thumbprint and then hand delivering it to Google completely absurd. But people were… Read more
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"You couldn’t pay your mortgage and your house was foreclosed on? Don’t worry, it wasn’t you, it was the recession. You lost your job and now you’re stuck at home cruising Twitter ’looking for a new one’ all day? Don’t… Read more
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On the journey from HTML to SERP, a Web site may face a number of potential pitfalls. Pinpointing the obstacles on the path was the focus of the first Jane and Robot meetup in Los Angeles last Tuesday night. Read more
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With the ever growing popularity of blogs and social voting / bookmarking sites, you may wonder if good old ‘web 1.0′ forums are still worth the effort. My immediate definite answer is “Yes” and here are my points: Read more
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Dave Freeman on the latest Google update and what it means for searcher behavior. Read more
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Jon Myers opens his Searchcowboys account with a blasting post on Universal Search Video Results.

Online video is going from strength to strength in 2009. There has been a lot of talk about it over the last few shows I have spoken at.… Read more
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Bill Sklawski writes, "A newly published Yahoo patent application gives us some ideas on how it might extract keywords from the URLs of pages, and ranks them, as well as using information uncovered in the process to determine which pages to crawl first… Read more
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"Xenu is a highly valuable tool (that’s another great exception from the rule: it is both free and awesome). Let’s see how we can use it for SEO purposes" Read more
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Before Google Universal, users viewed search results one vertical at a time but that trend is changing..... Read more
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I love them, I do, but will Ask.com ever get it right? Read more
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In a move which can only be described as genius, ToysRUs have managed to de-index the URL Toys.com by forwarding the entire domain. Toys.com previously dominated the SERPS for the keyword "toys", holding 1st, 3rd and 4th place. Read more
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Jill Whalen at Search Engine Land:

It seems that once a year for the past five years or so, a search engine representative will stand up at a conference and announce that they are now indexing Flash. Website designers jump with glee, and… Read more
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According to Lisa Barone, you can get more than just links from social media. You can also get really great content. And one of the best places to find free content is on Flickr. Read more
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A lot of great photographers are scared to put their photos online because it’s so easy for other people to steal their work. I totally understand that. I’m hardly a great photographer, and I don’t want people stealing my photos, either! But I do… Read more
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This is definitely worth a read for those who don’t have the funds to distribute PR through the Big Boys. Read more
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Learn some tips on how prevent duplicate content using .htaccess file. There are 4 problems where you can use 301 redirect to solve duplicate content problems and improve you PageRank. Read more
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Does the order of keywords in the url matter? Read more
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SEO for Small Business Owners-help small business website owners better understand what SEO tasks they can safely tackle on their own and which are best left to the pros Read more
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According to Barry Welford, there are several places where punctuation and SEO are related, from URLs to title tags. A very good, detailed post. Read more
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Delicious has long been known for their outward dislike for search marketers and even went as far as to nofollow the ENTIRE site a while back to deter any potential use of Delicious as a marketing tool. Read more
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Twitter is slowly introducing a search box on the twitterpages. Some have it, most don’t. What’s surprising is that the search itself isn’t working as it should or could. Read more
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