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A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
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Patrick thinks that Google is reducing the weight it puts on anchor text in setting rankings: it's not based on a huge amount of evidence, but it's an interesting proposition.. read more »
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Some nice, practical advice on how to manage competitive, high-volume keywords that can't be dumped even when the CPA is too high to fit ROI targets. read more »
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Rand lets off about paid links:
"This perfectly explains why you have to discount perturbances like paid links. Make it about the business, and the business owners and operators in the room will respect you. Make it about the lack of morality among read more »
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Will & the boys are running a competition to raise funds for the Burma cyclone appeal. All you PPC demons need to get on it now. read more »
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An interesting post that would get a Sphinn from me for the inclusion of an arse gag if nothing else (although that's not the headline they used). But it is worth reading for more than just that as it has some great info on why shorter URLs tend to read more »
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Charles Arthur of the UK's Guardian newspaper gives a really good overview of what Twitter is, how to get the most out of it and the various tools have grown up around it. It's great to see the MSM getting behind a site like Twitter, so let's give T read more »
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So is there such a thing as unethical linkbait? If so, what is it? Where does one draw the line? Or the link even (sorry!) read more »
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The Mozzers come up with some interesting things that Google should look at adding to their OneBox results... read more »
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Dear Danny,

I love Sphinn. And I really love Search Engine Land. But if the two are separate, why do you force me to submit something from SEL to Sphinn in order to comment on it?

There are times when I don't want to Sphinn a story (not becaus read more »
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Matt Inman (ex-SEOmoz) is featured in an article looking at using widgets to gain links. It (unintentionally) highlights how unclear the 'rules' around this are. And Danny, I'm sorry but how is this 'pushing it' when Mr Cutts himself praises the cre read more »
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We're not all the same! read more »
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Chris over at 97th Floor makes a compelling case about Google indexing and ranking a site that seems to be clearly in violation of Google's TOS on several accounts. Intrigued? Read on.... read more »
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TannerC thinks this site is a popularity contest. Rand disagrees. I don't. Sort of... read more »
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