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Search Engine Journal's Loren Baker announces the new design and flow of Search Engine Journal Read more
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Getting coverage for your business in mainstream media can be hugely beneficial in bringing a swathe of new visitors to your site, and building inbound links from the media and from all the other people who comment on it. Read more
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Superb post from Chris Garrett on the real route to better Google rankings 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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An extremely informative post on customizing the Thesis Wordpress theme with hooks. "Users who don’t know CSS or PHP have more control with the new thesis them than with any other theme I’ve ever seen." Read more
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"This ’single keyword’ approach is often useful but it misses the big picture: To be profitable, most websites will need to be successful for hundreds of thousands of keywords. Read more
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Streko’s got a hilarious survival guide - if you’re going to SMX, you’ll have to read this!

Remember, don’t ask crazy people for directions! Read more
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I wanted a way to give my community members more exposure than just a link to their website. I figured the best way was to give you the ability to showcase your profiles in addition to your website link at the social sites most common in my community.… Read more
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Michael Gray refutes the post last week by Google, entitled Demystifying the “duplicate content penalty”. In his opinion you really can hurt your site with duplicate content. He gives some examples where you may want to pay close attention to this… Read more
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Great little URL shortening service found by Donna that has some very nice extras built in, not the least of which is that it has it’s own analytics package built into it. This is truly something all search marketers can use. Read more
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Do SEO’s Really Need Clients? One question that has provoked a valid argument in my mind based on a question an acquaintance asked me a few days ago is, do SEO’s really need clients? Read more
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Another must-read list of WP plugins from Graywolf Read more
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In this post I discuss how Web 2.0 companies that focus on real estate are beginning to dominate over old school brand names. Read more
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The mainstream media are paying more attention to outbound linking, starting with a 4 week trial of "linking out to external sources from within the body text of its news articles" on the BBC. Read more
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Most PR folks don’t read blogs and certainly don’t understand them. All they see is a Google alert with their clients name, and rush to put out a fire. Down the road they may try to bring those bloggers into the fold, largely relying on word of… Read more
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Great post from Jill Whalen, looking at six common SEO issues which effect a website’s performance. Read more
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When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm] Read more
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A site can’t be created in a minute; even if you prepare content beforehand, you need time to carefully upload it, settle all technical issues, make sure everything is working fine, etc. The best way to handle this properly and avoid screwing up… Read more
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In July 2006, SEOMoz released their now famous page strength tool - a better metric to quickly assess a site / page’s relative importance and visibility.

Today SEOMoz released a new, improved tool to evauate websites, the Trifecta. Here… Read more
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Twitter has killed its outbound SMS services outside of the United States, Canada or India, and with it a potentially highly lucrative business model in Europe. Read more
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Though I don’t always agree with what GrayWolf writes, I find Michael very entertaining most of the time. Therefor this Sphinn :-)

"To those organizers I challenge them to look in the mirror and realize that you’ve now become the… Read more
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Lisa Barone offers up some tips about things you should take into consideration when choosing a domain name for a long term, quality website. Read more
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Link development, before search engines polluted the process into a currency for search engine rankings, was all about promotion. Links were simply a natural side effect of promoting your website. And one of the most tried and true methods of promotion… Read more
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While WordPress is one of my favorite CMS platforms, out of the box it isn’t search engine optimized. Combine this with people who aren’t SEO aware, and publish a blog, and you almost always end up with an implementation that’s sub-optimal. Here… Read more
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When Google Reader’s team came back on Monday, they found more than 70 complaints in their public forum. Given Google’s fine reputation dealing with their users privacy people were expecting a quick fix and some kind of apology, but the… Read more
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