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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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"Edward Lewis runs SEOConsultants.com, one of the more well known and trusted directories in the SEO space. When I first started learning SEO about 5 years back Edward sent me an email letting me know that something I wrote was incorrect. He was right… Read more
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Another excellent post by ViperChill providing a list of important resources for improving other-then-SEO skills and thus making a complete web marketer. Besides SEO, includes resources on PPC, affiliate marketing, web design, copywriting, domains,… Read more
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Advice for bloggers who have removed the nofollow attribute from their blogs. Don’t get stuck with large amount of spam, and let people know with some cool icons. Read more
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Here’s a free script for analyzing spider behavior (you’ll need some entry-level command line skills to run it). It’s mighty handy for log analysis - do things like list all 302s, 404s, 500s, or any other status code segmented by user… Read more
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Digg, Reddit and all the other so-called “social media” sites can be a great way to get your message out to millions of people, but with so many voices out there screaming for attention it’s hard to be heard sometimes–even if that 400,000-word… Read more
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David Harry takes a step back and sees the light. What are you doing in social media, and what are "they" doing in return for you? Read more
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Debra Mastaler ask Matt Cutt’s if google counts the anchor found in a second link on a page. She tells Matt that if the question is one of those that hits too close to home - well - a general statement like "excessive reciprocal links" would be… Read more
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Google breakdance anybody? Read more
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Search Engine Optimization is all about optimizing your blog to position it higher in the Search Engine Results and thus increase overall visibility. It’s one of the most, if not the most, important aspect of blogging.

Here’s 15 of… Read more
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Rebuttal to Louis Gray’s post that links are declining in traffic importance plus some stats on link opportunities for top blog sites Read more
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8 practical tips to transform your content licensing business Read more
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Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal takes a dive into determining what a link is worth, and invites readers to participate in a poll asking what they would pay for a quality, permanent inbound link. Read more
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Hehehehe. Some very light, quick, and funny reading about everyone’s favorite social networking tool. ;-) Read more
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Lee Odden Guest Post: Contributors: Brian Solis, Neil Patel, Chris Winfield, Mike Moran, Rohit Bhargava, Jeremiah Owyang, Muhammad Saleem, Jason Falls, Other sources: Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, Charlene Li, Andy Hagans, Pete Cashmore, Chris Brogan,… Read more
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"There is plenty of talk online about blogging being an excellent opportunity for the average person to make money online, and I know many Blogtrepreneur readers are bloggers themselves. In general, I agree that there is money to be made for the blogger… Read more
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This is the third article in the four-part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress". We are taking a look at 77+ quality and usefull WordPress Plug-ins, which have been very handy and saves us lots of time and effort to run our blog the way we… Read more
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Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick has turned the company into double the online advertising juggernaut that it once was, with a total advertising market share of 69% according to Attributor’s study. Read more
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Video interview with Rich Pearson, VP marketing of Attributor, a company that enables publishers (like AP, Reuters, Condenet) to turn copied content into a lucrative content distribution strategy. Read more
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Anti Link building 101 - why simply build links when you can tank your competitors links as well? A must read.

Dave Naylor - This is cool I used to have a vertical directory and just got a cease and desist from insurance.com, 2 things jump… Read more
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Ian Laurie (SMX West Search Bowl team) wants Rand Fishkin go into the light, um, I mean have a Mac. If enough people donate $2.00 he’ll send Rand one, otherwise he will donate the money to Habitat for Humanity.

Full disclosure: Ian is… Read more
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"Content is king." If you’re like me, you’ve heard that phrase more times than you can count. And for the most part, it’s true. Truly unique content can make or break your link development campaign. If you have it, you’ll find… Read more
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10 reasons why publishers (and bloggers?) should focus on turning republished content into links instead of going down the DMCA Takedown path. Read more
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