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Google is displaying images in the SERPS for certain searches. However, the new images are only appearing for a very narrow band of searches. Something I've never seen before. Interesting. read more »
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Matt Cutts has issued a warning on twitter to those who lie in their reconsideration requests to Google:

"Don't lie in a reconsideration request. Just don't go there at all. Makes Matt *angry*! Matt smash spam!"
https://twitter.com/mattcutts
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I'm continually amazed at how people go barreling into social media sites like a bull in a china shop and then wonder why they aren't well received. They hear social media is changing the way people do business and they make the mistake of thinking read more »
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Article about Google Living Room View; feature in maps) read more »
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Adam Audette explains the concepts of designing optimized site architectures for efficient spidering by search engines. read more »
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The Dallas Business Journal recently ran a story on one of our clients, Wasp Barcode Technologies, describing how they went from spending enormous amounts of money on PPC to focusing more on traditional SEO and link building. The strategy paid off - read more »
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Ann says "Yes, I know there are much more great FireFox plugins but I am sharing only those I am using myself and find really useful." read more »
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Google's search-within-a-site feature launched about 3 weeks ago. Discussed in-depth at SES New York. Today: NY Times. So why post old news? Ann Smarty (SEOSmarty) is quoted in NYT article! Very cool.

So are Pinny (Ice, Ice, baby) and ARKG's Ala read more »
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Tim Nash reveals in a local study that SEO firms which target local businesses are not in fact getting that many local clients. read more »
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Different from the hidden links injection reported earlier this month, this one involves the attacker creating a new physical directory in your Wordpress installation, and populating it with HTML files that then use Javascript to redirect visitors t read more »
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PR sculpting seems to be "all the rage" at the moment. Tracking the conversation back seems to get me to an article by Dan Thies of september 4th last year, pointing back to an interview with Matt on SEOmoz. It's been a whole load of buzz lately, co read more »
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In this post, I want to talk about the most often overlooked aspect of what is required to write content with strong potential on Digg (and the same principle applies to StumbleUpon, Reddit, or any other social media service you can imagine). read more »
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SEO Book.com - Lets take a look at a typical Mahalo page
mahalo.com/Best_Computer_Speakers
That page has a #1 ranking in Google with 0 unique content and 0 value to the searcher (according to Google's above guidelines).

How can Jason Calacanis read more »
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Internet marketing is about lots of little things, not one big one. This list is half-list, half-procedure. If you go down these items in order it might give you a decent internet marketing plan for the next few months. If you have others, post ’em read more »
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Loren Baker offers 9 tips on using LinkedIn & Facebook to maintain a well balanced network that will help you connect with your colleagues online and help to brand yourself. read more »
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There are lots of different people out there calling themselves SEOs. Some of them are actually really good. But, for today, let’s take a look at 11 sure fire signs that your dealing with a bad one: read more »
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Shimon Sandler interviews Chris Winfield at SES NY in regards to Social Media Optimization. Great 4 minute interview. read more »
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Google Analytics has quickly become one of the most popular analytics software available. Additionally there are numerous resources available which deal with configuration, implementation, analysis, and reporting. Manoj Jasra provides a list of some read more »
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Search Engine Land - Search marketing is the ultimate seductress. It lures you in with the promise of an interesting, exciting career that can actually pay the bills, but soon you’re regularly pulling 12 hour days with no vacations. There’s intense read more »
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This is my second natural SEO post attempting to foster FUD-free approach to search engine optimization. This time it’s about two most overused (but still effective if done wisely) link building methods: reciprocal linking and interlinking. read more »
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Mike McDonald had a nice chat about social media platforms with Brent Csutoras and Todd Malicoat of Stuntdubl at SES New York. Malicoat expresses his endorsement of Facebook, while Csutoras praises Twitter. Csutoras refers to Facebook as “toy” and d read more »
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Gab shares an incredibly sneaky method for disguising text links. With the recent leak of the Manual Review guidelines, it became obvious that perhaps Google's reviews are not as advanced and omnipotent as it was once thought. This trick seems like read more »
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I'd vowed to give Twitter a month to win me over. That month has ended and Twitter wins.

Now that I've had time to really dive into the service, experiement with it and learn some of the finer details; I figured it's about time I wrote a Seach En read more »
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Every website owner hates getting their site’s content scraped and re-purposed.

Set things up on your site to take advantage of these spammy scrapers and gain some SEO benefit. Here’s how. read more »
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Sebastian’s TWISTED sense of humor...priceless. BTW, I knew nothing about this fictitious panel discussion with Danny, Barry W, and some red lobster. read more »
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