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Writing the Search Biz column is challenging because of the diverse group of stories that get collected every day. Today there's an unusually large number, however, there are basically three broad themes: Google and the company's legal challenges, Y read more »
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Are there enough connections between email spam and search engine spam that exploring and understanding how they might be related may be helpful to search engines in fighting search engine spam? read more »
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Radiohead received widespread press coverage for their decision to allow fans to pay whatever they liked for their album, In Rainbows. Their recent decision to allow a remix album to be released should also be applauded and shows how a band can reta read more »
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It is no secret that human review has been playing a bigger role at Google over the past couple years. And we are emotional beings... no matter how logical the guidelines may be, emotions cause human errors. But not all sites that get penalized are read more »
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The auditorium is packed with spectators there to cheer on their favorite contender! In one corner, weighing in as the largest search provider the world has ever seen, with creative genius that seems to never falter, and a “the sky is the limit” de read more »
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Just a quick post to followup on the April Fools post update that I did yesterday. While in general I find the day to be a distraction more than anything else (I’m sure many of us spent more time filtering pranks than doing much else yesterday) it i read more »
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You might have the greatest content on the web, but do you find that your audience simply isn’t growing the way you planned? You may unknowingly be sabotaging the growth of your website. We take a look at 4 things that put your readers off returning read more »
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The Google Algorithmic manner of ranking and serving relevant online and indexed documents to specific Google queries has been a mystery to many over the past decade, with search marketers and mathematicians working to expose the way Google ranks si read more »
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Just after midnight last night (as it ticked over here to 1 April) I posted that I was launching a new ProBlogger service - PayPerTweet - a service that pays Twitter users to Tweet about products, services and websites.

Of the 100+ commenters to read more »
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twitter-etiquette

In case you are living under a rock….

Twitter is just another one of those social platforms that you didn’t want to grow attached to but knew you would. It has become unavoidable at this point. If you don’t tweet, I bet at le read more »
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Twitter brought me a really special gift a month or two back, in the shape of Grace Nikae. She’s a concert pianist who is exploring the use of social media to build relationships with her audience and fans of music. In imagining how I’d advise someo read more »
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Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick has turned the company into double the online advertising juggernaut that it once was, with a total advertising market share of 69% according to Attributor’s study. read more »
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Google Israel went black on Thursday to celebrate Earth Hour and today in the United States, Google has gone black here in a global effort to remind cities and people to turn off their lights for one hour and spread the awareness of energy conservat read more »
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Do you write fiction and aspire to be the next Raymond Carver or Paul Auster? Are you hoping to one-day land a book deal with a large publishing house? Being a published author is an admirable dream, but you can look beyond publishing houses and eve read more »
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Like to congratulate John Andrews for reaching the mark of 300 Sphinn's for a single article. read more »
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I have lines in my blogging sandbox I’ve drawn that I will not cross when it comes to choosing my blog’s content. I won’t blog about rumors. I won’t cover scandals. I won’t promote “scams” that use WordPress to rip off naïve people. I won’t write co read more »
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Search, as the work horse of the internet, has delivered much. Though search as a problem is far from solved, there are many advantages that accrue from the imperfection of search engines. Firstly, there is this new skill that one gets to hone in id read more »
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I’ve had my Twitter account for about a year, now, but I didn’t really “get it” at first - mostly because there weren’t very many tweeps (twitter/peeps) on there that I cared to tweet to, or with. It wasn’t until November that I saw more and more tw read more »
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We all want our sites on the big search engines like Google and yahoo, but have you thought of tapping into the Chinese market?
China has more users than USA and the 3rd largest search engine site in Baidu.com.
BTW i give instructions in English s read more »
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One way to add depth to the posts that you write on your blog is to include the opinions of others on the topics that you’re exploring. The way that I see it is that when I write a post with just my own thoughts in it it can end up being a little on read more »
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I was just reading comScore’s study into US national Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) search activity. Their findings revealed some major changes, and staggering numbers, among the top sites in 2007, mainly due to new, strategic partnerships. read more »
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We all have all heard of stumble exchanges sites and off course this is where people can trade stumbles. Some times people don’t actually stumble back but say otherwise and before it was hard to know if they really did stumble you, until now…. read more »
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My logic is that people subscribe to blogs that they think will enhance their lives in some way in the future.

Many bloggers create a sense of anticipation on a blog quite instinctively - but there are numerous things that you can do quite intent read more »
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Writing and promoting unique content on your own blog is great but there are times when you can leverage more authoritative sites within your vertical by republishing the same content to in order get an even higher lift the second time. read more »
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The forthcoming US Elections have dominated the news for the last few months and that trend looks set to continue throughout 2008.

With the mainstream media beginning to recognise the importance of social media to the candidates involved, we deci read more »
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