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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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Here we go again. SEO guidelines or advice that sucks, is not true or is just poop on a page being published on a big popular website. read more »
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Another great post from SEOHack offering definitive SEO Standards. I think they should be adopted and we can put this issue to bed. read more »
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Some industries appear to lend themselves better to blogging than others. In our field I’ll always have far more blog post ideas than I do time to write. But what about more challenging industries? read more »
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So Microsoft adCenter is the only one of the 3 major paid search platforms that does NOT report on revenue read more »
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The topic: Search 3.0, Search 4.0, and Beyond. To cover this -- surely not, 4.0?? we're still hearing complaints about Web 2.0! -- Danny will have to cover 1.0 and 2.0. This is straightforward stuff for experienced search marketers, but brand new to read more »
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Nice list of less popular Firefox Extensions that are helpful to SEO projects. read more »
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Previously, Google would display three local search results in the OneBox area, with at star rating and a review snippet. Now Google returns 10 local results listed A-J. read more »
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Interactive agency Digital Axle sent out pitches to a number of bloggers this morning promoting a “viral video” that I wanted to share. Mind you, I’m not going to share the actual video because it’s sick, racist and violent. read more »
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Keyword density says something about words in a document in relation to the document itself. It doesn’t help you to compare and thus sort or rank a set of documents. read more »
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The Internet Marketing Ninjas instructional program including videos and tools conceived by Jim Boykin of We Build Pages, has officially launched. read more »
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C’mon Google WTF how can you possibly say that Wikipedia deserves to above Delicious for the search term [delicious] read more »
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Everyday I am amazed by the countless number of pointless tags that are inserted into the header of a website. read more »
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Inbound links can carry many different meanings beyond just a top ranking. This week's infographic explores three different perspectives on the value of an inbound link read more »
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Google has and will continue to penalize sites that flagrantly buy and sell links. If you are buying or selling links: do it covertly & do it under the radar. However, in many instances there may be a better option that trying to buy a link from a s read more »
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We recently had a Digg submission go Hot. This is the first one that I was personally involved with. Given that I didn’t have anything better to do on a Sunday afternoon, I thought that it might be fun to Chart the # of Diggs and resulting traffic t read more »
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Search spam, using techniques that manipulate the search results, is becoming more dangerous each and every day. Some search spammers go as far as hacking sites to inject link spam into unsuspecting web pages. And some go even further by polluting t read more »
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Its true … some of Digg’s functionality appears broken at the moment. Fortunately, its not critical functionality, so we will survive. It is a pain however. Accordingly, in the remainder of this post, I’ll identify the problem, show the symptoms, di read more »
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SEP’s first crossword puzzle, with a heavy slant towards the Sphinn community. read more »
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Title says it all. As I become more and more immersed in the world of SEO and search marketing I am noticing that it is creeping into every aspect of my life. The following are by no means comprehensive of search taking over your life but they are s read more »
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