DazzlinDonna

Oh no, it wasn't an SEO Chick who titled that...nuh-uh, it was Google! Oh yeah. Google in all their relevant wisdom, made that remark. Go ahead. Read it. Tsk, tsk, tsk... read more »
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Paige Filler guest posts with content ideas that everyone should take to heart. Not only does this article give great ideas, but it details the implementation steps that you can use over and over again to really make this technique work for you. read more »
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WebGuild spanks Google for charging Google Checkout users 20 cents every time they use the service, and 20 cents every time they cancel an order. They then go on to outline various other ways Google Checkout either puts its hands in someone's pocke read more »
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Great illustration of the interaction and interdependence (is that a word?) between the various factions of search marketing, with a touch of humor thrown in as well. Would be great for getting corporate honchos to understand the necessity of each read more »
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[From the post] Building a Social Media profile can be a lot like working a room at a face-to-face networking opportunity. You have to show up, be seen, and be up for a little interaction: the eye contact, the firm handshake, a little humor, low on read more »
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Not only is this an entertaining video, but the reasoning behind creating this off-topic link bait is interesting as well. It's a link building topic that should be explored even more, and this is a great way to kick off some discussion.

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Nice chart comparing the strengths and weakness of SEO vs. PPC. read more »
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Explains why (and when) we see sitelinks at #60, what the penalty is likely to be resulting from, and what it may mean for the future of that site. Definitely worth keeping this information tucked away in the brain for possible future needs. read more »
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There are numerous stories about wayward crawlers deleting and changing content through submitting forms, and it's about to get worse. Googlebot is about to start submitting forms in an effort to get to your website’s deeper data. So what's a web d read more »
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Earthlink, in conjunction with Barefruit, using servers vulnerable to a malicious Javascript attack, created a problem in which attackers crafted special links to unused subdomains of legitimate websites that, when visited, would serve any content t read more »
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Google will sell Performics. Hooray! read more »
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Danny does an incredible job of putting together charts that analyze the Google management changes over the years. Wow. read more »
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As a follow-up post, eKstreme crunches more numbers to reveal that Digg's attempt to introduce diversity into the algo to reduce effects of power users backfired badly. Power users have more power than ever now. Don't believe me? Go look at the nu read more »
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Kalena worries that a new SEM rating site may be asking for trouble, but rating sites exist in many industries. I tend to trust the SMS gang to be able to pull this off, but Kalena's concerns are certainly valid. Do you think this SEM review site c read more »
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Once again, eKstreme comes through with hard data, as his Social Alerter tool analyzed those lucky stories that got submitted more than once and went popular more than once on Digg. Very interesting to see the numbers crunched like that. read more »
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Google employee says "Webmasters who rely heavily on bookmarking their own sites to gain traffic will likely see a drop in pagerank before the end of 2008, and we will be working closely with two major social bookmarking sites to find a solution tha read more »
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For political campaign managers, there's still a strong goal for traditional "offline" marketing to get donations, volunteers, etc... But, Search Marketing, which accounts for Billions in revenue is still looked upon as not that important. And the S read more »
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Aaron Wall gives insight into what we can learn from leaked internal Google spam guidelines. read more »
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OUCH! Hard data proves that the recent Digg algo change had a HUGE impact on the chances of getting a story to go hot, and that impact justifies the initial outrage that ensued. Totally great to see actual numbers for things like this. read more »
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What happens when you ask some of the world's foremost link building experts to dish out one of their most guarded secrets to the world in a single collaborative effort? They respond! read more »
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I debated about submitting this because it's a home page and not a post/article, but I decided it was cool enough to warrant the submit. Think of this as WordPress Theme Design Made Easy. Very cool. read more »
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Great list of link building tools by Link Builder Extraordinaire, Debra Mastaler. Some here I never heard of before and can't wait to check out. read more »
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I'm hoping to open SEO Scoop up to many guest bloggers, especially those of you who may be just getting started. If you want your name to become a little more well known, guest blogging is one way of achieving that. I'm not saying that guest blogg read more »
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Jen's great Twitter series now at Part 5, detailing how it can be useful in the Real World. read more »
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I'd vowed to give Twitter a month to win me over. That month has ended and Twitter wins.

Now that I've had time to really dive into the service, experiement with it and learn some of the finer details; I figured it's about time I wrote a Seach En read more »
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