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(SNIP)The issue of bad neighbourhoods has been a frequent topic of discussions among SEOs for a very long time. It is widely considered that it is one of the ranking factors that can have substantial negative effect on your site. Google itself talks… Read more
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This article will lay out the exact process and a great example of how you should structure your ad groups and campaigns in general to make the most money promoting products with Google AdWords search network. Read more
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SNIP - There needs to be a massive amount of inbound links to a site for it to become one of the seo black holes. A working example of such a site is Wikipedia, who NoFollowed links and has had content pages steadily at the top of SERPs ever since. Read more
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Matt Cutts reverses his opinion on pages indexed in Google that are nothing more than copies of auto-generated snippets. Read more
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What’s the biggest myth in SEO? Rand, Aaron, Graywolf and other SEO experts give their view. Graywolf, as usual, says controversial things. Read more
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The ultimate goal of this exploration is to merely encourage a sense of understanding, fire up the imagination and hopefully stir the passion. When those in the SEO industry speak of ‘standards’ and pontificate the future, pausing to look at the IR… Read more
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X-Robots SEO Tool is a bookmarklet that can be utilized in either Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera on Windows and OS to find information vital to search engine optimization. The tool was built in collaboration with developer Cooper Harris and… Read more
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"SEO Rand Fishkin blogged about this phenomena a few months back and asked if a "Quality Deserves Diversity" algorithm exists at Google? I have observed this phenomena firsthand, and I agree that it exists. " Read more
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If you have read any of our previous articles on Pligg Spam you will no doubt already be aware that Pligg has had more than it’s fair share of spam related problems in the past. Pligg webmasters now face a potentially devastating new threat in the… Read more
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The number one Google Adwords frustration we face everyday is the inactive keyword phenomenon. Imagine spending hours of research, grouping and uploading, only to see that 90% of your work was fruitless.
Here are simple tricks that I have had… Read more
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Lee Odden writes, "Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community on… Read more
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Earlier this morning a colleague of mine was conducting a search and called me over to show me something interesting. Immediately below each of the sponsored search results (AdWords) were three separate variable names and values. The numbers that have… Read more
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A list of useful social bookmarking sites that pass Page Rank for link building, including their qualifying factors: PR, PermaLinks, DoFollow anchor text links, domain age, etc. Read more
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Most important Google ranking factors explained: the on-site and off-site level factors. Read more
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Ross Dunn writes a very detailed post about competitor analysis. Very important for those engaging in SEO!

Great post! Read more
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This tool detects paid links, placed with automatic link trading/selling systems such as Text Link Ads, Receive Links and other. Read more
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