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The President of Advaliant, Jivan Manhas, talked to Jeff Molander on two different occasions. During the first interview, Jeff talked about the lack of innovation in our industry as well as how performance marketing is perceived by traditional media read more »
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This post was probably overlooked by many because of SMX in California. It raises questions about the history and future of search, the problems and challenges that come with volume and individuals who try to game the system. Problems, which will pr read more »
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A detailed questionnaire for webmasters to ask themselves about their own website. It is unlikely that you can answer all of the questions with yes, but it shows you where you stand today and where you could potentially improve on in the near future read more »
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Essential information and questions people have to ask themselves before they engage in affiliate marketing. Along the way were also some urban myths debunked and some tips provided. read more »
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DoshDosh was asked, "How can you Measure the Success of your Blog?". There are many ways Bloggers to choose to measure success.... Find out what way Maki measures his blogging success. read more »
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A case study of a bad example of how a security breach was handled by Google and a lesson for everybody else about the importance of having a plan in place if the unlikely event does happens, because there is no such thing as 100% security. A subjec read more »
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It has been an interesting week for blogger faux pas. Search Engine Land found itself taking flak for its sensational post about obtaining links from Wired’s wiki. Meanwhile, Gizmodo suffered at the hands of its peers for its CES television monitor read more »
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The best SEO research and analysis tools of 2007, both paid and premium. read more »
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It was time to write about bugs and usability issues of various non-search related tools and services by Google. But it is more than a rant or bug report, it also provides ideas and suggestions for general improvements. read more »
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Multiple touch-point tracking and analysis provides the basis for a possible solution for existing channel conflicts between an advertisers different on-line and offline marketing campaigns and also with affiliates who promote the advertisers offer read more »
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SEO 101, the fundamental steps a business has to take to be successful promoting their site via organic search engine optimization. This is a high level overview for marketing executives and internet marketing strategists and not a technical referen read more »
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This issue came up during the SEO Design and Organic Site Structure session on Wednesday at PubCon 2007. The answers by the panelists were not 100% satisfactory. Here is a much more comprehensive look at the problem and the four possible solutions t read more »
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How much stuff from Wikipedia ranks in the top 10 of the SERPs? What kind of stuff ranks in the top 10 of the SERPs and what does not? What is junk and what is quality content and how can a user and/or search engine engineers determine, which of the read more »
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Carsten on PageRank

Take away: "If you saw a PageRank™ drop as a direct or indirect side effect of all this, you will probably be affected by the things that are likely to follow, but so is your competitor, if he was affected by the recent PageRa read more »
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Tips and suggestions for podcasters or businesses who consider launching a podcast. Learn what to do and why, on-line and offline. read more »
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A comprehensive guide for podcasters to setup their podcast, submit it to iTunes and other directories and integrate it into their blog. Additional resources to audio editing, content, related conferences, books and tools that make things easier or read more »
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Straight forward definitions of each term and practical examples to illustrate each of their functions and skills. It is a modern definition and admitted, the meaning of the words changed over time. Something different that is only to some degr read more »
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Search engine optimization professionals are often treated as if they have the plague and the misconception that SEOs do evil stuff and spam the search engines (e.g. optimization = spam) is wide spread like the misconception and prejudges that lawye read more »
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Two part article about the "Are Paid Links Evil" panel at SES San Jose last week. It spells out in many words what Graywolf did in a view on his PowerPoint presentation, which he presented at the panel prior the discussion. read more »
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What are the benefits and disadvantages of CPA for paid search. Does it make sense for Google and others to replace PPC with PPA? An objective analysis of the subject. read more »
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