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Rand Fishkin's take on Google live chat session: "Rather than attack the content provided by the Googlers directly, I thought it would be more valuable to provide the answers from Google alongside the answers I would have given. Hopefully, in this f read more »
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Curiously Google has blocked most Google properties from the product. Do a search for Google.com and you get nothing. Same for YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, etc. read more »
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How might a search engine verify page ranking results of a search algorithm with respect to the specific needs or characteristics of specific groups of users? read more »
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If you host your blog on Google’s Blogspot or use Blogger; you are giving Google the right to control and access your content and information. Even shut down your blog when they see fit to do so. read more »
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And would you agree that Onsite Search Engine Optimization will soon be History? Please share your thoughts! read more »
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How to build branded search demand by advertising on the sites that share the most common links/traffic. read more »
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The Yahoo patent application introduces the idea of a search category commercialization index, which could be calculated by looking at two or more metrics: (1) Number of searches within the category; (2) Number of total advertisers in the category; read more »
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Witty post explaining XSS security hack. read more »
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Google has proven that they can monetize conversations with GMail and GTalk. Should we be expecting a test of AdSense on Twitter anytime soon? read more »
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Do you think that Google (e.g. -30, -950, -60, etc) penalties really exist? Have any of you experienced such a penalty with your website? read more »
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If we look into hotlinking from an SEO perspective, are there any benefits in getting your images hotlinked by another website? Would hotlinking be worth as much as regular links?

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Despite the clamour as of late from from those who insist that Search engine optimization is dying, on the contrary, SEO in fact is evolving. The umbrella of search engine optimization services have become a synthesis of analytics, usability, web de read more »
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As announced last weekend, Google is launching the mother of all data portability features. After Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Portability announcement, here comes Google beating the two social networks with its Google Friend Connect features! read more »
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Currently there is no recognized standard for assessing the skills and knowledge level of the search marketing professional. This not only increases the difficulty for employers to accurately identify the talent level of the professional workforce, read more »
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Subdomains or Subfolders? What’s better for a blog/forum/etc: a subdomain (eg. http://jobs.searchenginejournal.com/) or subfolder (eg. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/)?

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Google will read almost anything — or should I say almost any file… Because the world wide web isn’t just about web pages written in HTML (Hyper-Text Mark-up Language), Google will happily read (and, if deemed appropriate) index a number of file typ read more »
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An anonymous aggregation of "public and semi-public" keywords from across the site, Facebook Lexicon does not provide actual statistics as to how many times a keyword or two-word phrase appears, but like Google Trends, it shows spikes and trends in read more »
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SEORipOff.com - a complaint site where companies who have been ‘ripped off’ by an SEO firm can blast the company they contracted. So what are your views on SEORipOff.com and how do you feel niche service review or complaints sites fit in the busines read more »
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Google keeps strengthening their control over search and the web. They can easily use usage data to automatically flag websites for human review. Does Your Site Look Good to Google's Relevancy Algorithm? read more »
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Let’s say you are setting up your keyword rich links to point to a subdirectory. Should the link point http://www.somedomain.com/subdirectory or http://www.somedomain.com/subdirectory/
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Knowing what one should do and actually doing it are two extremely different things. Consequently knowing SEO strategies is only one piece of the pie. A much larger piece is acting upon that knowledge. read more »
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Google has been working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s program for just about a year to come up with software that will allow the NCMEC to automate the once-manual process of identifying victims and suspects in images read more »
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Social Networking 1.0 (i.e. forums) was a wonderful place where you could not only meet up with other professional SEOs, but webmasters and curious onlookers alike. There is still a hidden value to remember that is potentially important to your futu read more »
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Always be on the lookout for something fishy. As SEO gets more competitive, cloaking will be more and more sophisticated. A strange search result; an odd referral keyword; off-topic adsense ads; being banned… these are all things that may tip you of read more »
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Microsoft's Live.com search has been seen embedding videos in their main index search results. The videos appear at the top of the page (unlike Google's universal search, which still, in most cases, is putting them lower on page 1 or 2 for many sear read more »
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