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Dr Pete shares a clever piece of code he developed to fight comment spam. Enjoy! read more »
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In Erick Enge's interview I could not help but wonder that the advice Matt gives seems to create a situation where Google was spamming (using off topic links). Last year I posted about a link I found within the official YouTube video gadget that was read more »
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Apparently Michael VanDeMar feels like my recent interview was an infomercial. What do you think? read more »
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Internet users searching for Essex County's official Web site using the Google search engine were being sent instead to a blog titled "Essex County," which has links to law firms across the nation, but no actual information about the county. read more »
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Just like a quarterback in the NFL gives himself lots of options with short, medium, and long passing routes, you should spread the field. This means building a site architecture and content plan that gives you the opportunity to score at all levels read more »
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I just received this SPAM from Joost :-)

"Most of you probably know my Greasemonkey script for Google Webmaster
Tools, that shows you the anchor text of that backlink, and the PR of
the page that link is on. I have now made that same script wor read more »
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Food for thought: Can computer algorithms detect intention? read more »
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Rand and Patrick sparked an interesting debate about no-following Wikipedia. See http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-dark-side-of-wikipedia#jtc40614

There are SEOs on both sides of the fence. and there is a Wordpress plugin to do what Rand suggests. S read more »
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Do you market by trial and error or do you have a solid game plan? read more »
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For those of you that wanted to learn more about me, but were afraid to ask. Tom asked some excellent questions. I am surprised I revealed so much ;-) read more »
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The wait for the Google phone is over ... sort of read more »
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You can promote your posts and at the same time help promote Sphinn! Add a Sphinn It! button with votes and comments counters to all your posts. read more »
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Learn how to protect your blog (and Google rankings) from CGI Proxy hijackers, comment spammers and email harvesters read more »
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Google has slashed ad payments to web publishers by up to 90%, and even closer to 100% over the last 4 weeks. The online ad industry is going absolutely berserk, and many of them are basically going bankrupt because the Google ad revenue is no long read more »
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In this post, as has been my practice on my blog, I am going to dive deeper and push the limits of current keyword research. Enjoy! read more »
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A simple test to tell if a link passes link juice or not. read more »
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A nice allegory answers the question. read more »
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...at least partially.
As an SEO tool developer I have a different perspective. read more »
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Conference goers get to pick the 40th presenting company at TechCrunch40. If we win that place I promise to share pictures of Jason's disappointed look ;-)Wish us luck! read more »
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Do you send bills to your potential customers in the hopes that they blindly pay for services not delivered/ask for? I hope you don't. I just received such a bill! read more »
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There is a type of security attack that is extremely difficult to fight: the distributed denial of service (DDOS). On the up side, you know you are doing really well when hackers try this on you. :-) read more »
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Letting search engines index premium/paid content is an excellent marketing strategy for anyone with content good enough to sell. How exactly do you get them to index paid content? read more »
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Buying established websites is an excellent link and traffic building strategy. Unfortunately it is usually expensive and out of reach of most bloggers. It is possible to find affordable deals? Find out... read more »
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What if Google linked ad testing with the Google Website Optimizer? Think about your ads as extensions of your landing page, as another section that needs to be tested in the same experiment. Instead of testing the ads only for clicks, Google could read more »
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We all know that search engines use keywords to differentiate documents, but do we understand why using keywords in the body of a web page is not enough to differentiate it when there are several million web pages with similar characteristics? Are l read more »
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