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Delicious: Yahoo's Missed Opportunity
Yahoo had a massive opportunity to unlock Delicious' full potential and create a searc engine based on user behaviour.  Would it have worked? Read more
Uncovering the secret of what PageRanks really are. Read more
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A great article from Vanessa Fox over at Search Engine Land detailing the new feature within Google Webmaster Tools which "enables site owners to specify up to 15 parameters that Google should ignore when crawling and indexing the site." Read more
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It may be bad form to submit your own stuff, but I dont care - this is a post I want the SEO community to read.Short view: I am not a special SEO and no, I am NOT a rockstar. We cant all be rockstars. Read more
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Ever posted about reciprocal links or other linking schemes in an SEO forum? You might want to re-think that strategy. A recent patent shows us that we're not paranoid when it comes to search engines lurking amongst us.... WHY they'd bother patenting… Read more
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So, you have picked out 15-20 people to start with. I am sure you probably think “I just need to add MrBabyman and all his mutual friends.” They must be active.” Well, this is the typical noobie way to go and if you post up on MrBabyman and all… Read more
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This list of the 30 free SEO tools you must know will be a mix of web based tools, stand alone software, and Firefox extensions. Read more
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Hi Matt, I am really pissed off at Google. out of the 4700 websites I launched last month, only 17 got indexed by Google. What really pisses me off is that all of them contain original content (by original I mean non duplicate, no way can any other… Read more
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Microsoft's tie up with Yahoo for search mirrors the path taken by another major search engine a few years ago.  Remember who used to provide the Yahoo search results? Read more
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So the will they? Won’t they? relationship between Microsoft and Yahoo! has dragged on like an Eastenders omnibus. However, the deal has finally been announced this afternoon. So, what does this mean to the search industry? Read more
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The digital marketing industry is starting to recognise you can no longer look at your different channels as individual silos. Understanding how your online mix fits together is something more and more people are looking at. But how do you go about it? Read more
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So, as Moore’s idea diffusion curve dictates Twitter is reaching the early and late majorities. Like Bebo, Myspace, YouTube and Facebook before them Twitter is reaching its maturity. We see the celebrity and mass market adoption of the media booming.… Read more
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There has historically been a lack focus, knowledge and tools around conversion attribution, but from a personal perspective I always found analysing this information incredibly useful to assess how each channel is performing. This data can then be… Read more
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James talks common tags and meta tags and draws an unsurprising conclusion.. Read more
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Running PPC and SEO campaigns in isolation from each other often means many learnings and advanced SEM tactics and techniques are being missed. This post looks at some of the ways your PPC campaign can inform your SEO strategy and vice-versa. Read more
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Over the past couple of years, a number of companies have launched human edited search engines (Mahalo, Wikia, Google SearchWiki to name but 3), and all of them have pretty much fallen flat on their shiny web 2.0 bottoms. No real surprise there… Read more
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Microsoft’s search engine Bing, announced today, is certainly different; it does things in new ways and brings a fresh approach to search. Whether this will create a seismic shift of users from that search monolith Google is another story and only… Read more
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Here are some ideas for headlines regarding article writing. These should be very useful if you write about writing. You can use them as they are or they may be a useful resource to spark more ideas. Read more
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Last week Matt Cutts made a post about how to connect your Linux computer to a Wii balance board using Bluetooth. This post happened to make the Digg homepage, however what was really interesting is the way he did it, which has exposed an exploitable… Read more
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Beyond knowledge, there are personality traits or inherent characteristics shared by the best leaders (across verticals). They are able to use their knowledge effectively, and implement, entirely because of these very traits. Read more
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If you only read six articles about SEO; make sure it’s these ones! Read more
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Great post from Ann Smarty, showing what you should be checking to see if you’ve been hit by a Google penalty. Read more
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Gain more followers on twitter using the basics of search engine optimisation. A guide to gaining more followers using search engine optimisation techniques. Read more
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Andy Beal looks for what’s really behind the recent changes to Google’s Suggest technology: Yep, that’s a sponsored result you’re seeing at the bottom of Google Suggest. Read more
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Google have made some changes to the Suggest by adding adverts. Looks like the board are looking for a little bit of extra cash! Read more
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