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Does Tory Johnson, contributor on ABC's Good Morning America, know her stuff?

"Submit your site to all of the search engines so your content will be indexed. Focus on reciprocal links..." read more »
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The best goals you can set for yourself are SMART goals. SMART stands for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely. read more »
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WTNH News Channel 8 weatherman Geoff Fox's site disappears from Google's index apparently after a hack job.

Geoff writes: "Holy crap. Google has blacklisted me. I've already filled out a form, begging to be reconsidered, though I don't know what read more »
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"Does it work to pay bloggers to say nice things about your crappy lead-generation website? I would think a good PPC campaign would be a more effective way to reach customers, without losing credibility in the marketplace." read more »
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Vanessa Fox: Search engines aren't as smart as you think. They won't make the connection between a site about [houses for sale] with the query [real estate]. read more »
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"there's absolutely no bubble in technology" - 2007, Peter Thiel (co-founder/CEO of PayPal, early investor of Facebook) read more »
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Want your voices heard on the paid links debate? Post in this thread. Currently, Maile Ohye and Matt Cutts, I assume, are keeping their eyes on it. read more »
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Is Google compromising the growth of democracy in the middle east to protect its business? read more »
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Vanessa Fox elaborates on Matt Cutts' new video. read more »
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Kalena explains that Google's "paid link guidelines were actually updated back in July, not this week as some have claimed." read more »
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There is a whole new set of Google gadgets that Google UK is releasing today.

Google UK hooks up with Retail Bulletin, Comscore, Hitwise and the IAB today to launch a new iGoogle TM tab. read more »
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Bonnie Brown worked as a masseuse with Google Inc right from the early days, and struck gold when Google went public in 2004. She has now revealed her book project titled “Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google” and is looking for a publisher.

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One of the most critical parts of setting up and managing a PPC campaign is of course keyword research. This topic has been beaten to death countless times and everyone has their own methods and tools for researching keywords. What I want to discuss read more »
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"all of these options are "Google compliant" and are viable alternatives to my beloved TextLinkAds." read more »
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Why do you need a blogging identity? How can you find your own identity? Which bloggers out there have unique identity worth studying? read more »
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Twentysteps' reponse to Matt Cutts' recent post: "Why is Matt baiting Aaron and the SEO community at large via his personal blog?" read more »
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A cool tool that lets you compare Yahoo and Google results side by side. The interface defaults to UK results (see below) but There are several international versions (e.g. SearchBoth.com, SearchBoth.cz, SearchBoth.fr).

Looking at the UK version, read more »
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"Your keyword analysis should start with the marketplace." read more »
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"One thing I have always known about myself is that writing is like breathing to me. I can’t really be without it. So, writing is one thing I’ll be spending a lot more time on." read more »
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Donna Fontenot explains how joint ventures work, how joint ventures can expand your reach, and how even the little guys can forge joint ventures to tackle something big. read more »
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Caroline explains in detail how thanking your stumblers can lead to "a constant stream of new Stumble friends, subscribers, thumbs up and traffic." read more »
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Injected post(?):

"Hiho guys,

this blog was in text/plain yesterday. Also a friend and I took a look in the wp-config.php. There is all the DB data we need to login here.

So little change of the md5 hash and all was fine to login.
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Every now and again I give readers an update on how I’ve been making money through blogging over the last few months. read more »
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Marketers must determine if an online registration is really a sales lead. In my opinion, just because someone downloads a white paper doesn't mean they should be contacted by a sales person. read more »
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Wendy Piersall wonders, "Will Yahoo ever become the traffic driving force that is Google?" read more »
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