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Some companies have spent thousands of dollars on SEO only to see no results. Why? The SEO recommendations were not or could not be acted upon because they didn’t follow the lessons of the Five Rings. The Five SEO Rings will help make sure your next read more »
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Michael Martinez
"There seems to be a growing misperception in the industry that I must have parted with Rand Fishkin on bad terms or something in 2006 after blogging for SEOmoz for almost a year. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and after read more »
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I personally feel if a Google Bomb was actually kept quiet on keyword that was not currently “watched”, done through a diverse set of website and out of the blogosphere/news it would still work, until it was eventually brought public. read more »
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Microsites are popular among many big brands to promote new marketing campaigns but they tend to be dead weight when it comes to SEO. read more »
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How bout it Google why not put your money and the traffic where you mouth is, and list some actual websites that have the content you say you are looking for, instead of sending everybody to wikipedia read more »
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This is pretty funny, "ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ" read more »
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So you want to get back into Google? Confused on when is the right time to send a reconsideration request to Google? Google has a nifty video on the topic now: read more »
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Far too many traditional advertisers still don't understand the importance of search marketing as evidenced by recent article in AdWeek discussing how large ad agencies market themselves. read more »
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You ever wonder what Google thinks a good SEO does. Well now you have to wonder no more. Google has recently updated its help center article to include what to look for in a good SEO along with what type of SEO scams to look out for. read more »
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This here jam goes out to all the marketers who want to lay some search industry knowledge on their peeps at the water cooler. read more »
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I was saddened to hear one of my favorite comedians, George Carlin, passed away Sunday. Clearly he touched many people. A quick look at Google Trends shows searches related to him have spiked up as well as for his famous "seven words you can't say read more »
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One of the many things I learned from watching HBO’s The Wire is that if you give your potential clients a taste of the good stuff they’ll come back for more. Even better, you create converts. read more »
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Seriously, the entire Firefox+Google love fest is a joke. Let's revisit a little history here. Google fought and fought to pressure Microsoft so that no search provider was the default in Internet Explorer 7, arguing this was the best for consumer c read more »
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You can test keywords, swap out creatives and generally over-optimize until you’re blue in the face, but if the page that people show up at post-click doesn’t deliver a compelling useful experience, it’s all a waste. read more »
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According to WPN News, Google is announcing a Help Center for the NoFollow attribute. You can find it here: What is nofollow and why was it created? read more »
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Microsoft has said that between "2 and 10 percent" of site searches lead to a 404 error page. The company thus decided to create what it's calling the "Web Page Error Toolkit." read more »
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It never ceases to amaze me how people find Web sites through the most obscure queries. You can do all the keyword research in the world and conclude you’ve never every logical phrase and expression people would use to find content you create and th read more »
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Some advertisers are detecting if Google's AdBot is checking the destination URL and sending the AdBot one page and the actual end user (the searcher) a different page. read more »
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Title says it all. Interested to see where this goes. read more »
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What we see at Twitter today is a very useful and popular service, but one with very complex underlying technical challenges to overcome. read more »
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So, for the third day in a row Twitter has taken a crap on me. What’s the deal here? I understand that sites go down on occasion but three days in a row is freaking ridiculous. read more »
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Jaan's suck-up post for the year. He will soon be back to being the mean green machine. read more »
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You may not have 1,000 inbound links today but you can have 1,000 inbound links tomorrow (I am using “tomorrow” figuratively). Impatience and greed have derailed many optimization campaigns because people tried too hard, too quickly to get links. read more »
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US Senator, Joe Lieberman, asked Google's Eric Schmidt to remove terrorist videos, including those of Al-Qaeda, to be removed from YouTube. In response, Google has removed some of these videos. read more »
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Steve Ballmer was egged today in Hungarian University of Economy. read more »
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