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Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool. read more »
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There are many examples of genuine disdain being expressed for SEO on LinkedIn. Why? Interesting read through (right now) 21 responses on why there is distrust or people have commentary on SEO practices via LinkedIn Answers. What do you think? read more »
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Li Evans writes, "What do you use social media for? Do you use it to gain links? How about power? Maybe to trick people into thinking you are someone else? Perhaps as leverage to con someone into doing something on another social media site for you? read more »
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The first site I got to the first of page of results for a specific keyword, I did so, quite by accident. When I designed the site I did so with PPC in mind and I included all the copy points that I knew from years of yellow pages ad design were nec read more »
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Shimon reveals some data which should help you gauge your CTR's based on the average in your vertical. read more »
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A very good summary of the recent SEO hoax as linkbait debate. I do not necessarily agree but it's a thorough overview. read more »
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Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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This is so cool! Click on any of love, hate, think, believe, feel or wish and see all the hopes, dreams and despairs of Twitter users scroll across your screen. read more »
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The best way to demonstrate the usefulness or power of Twitter is to show real examples. I started this experiment at approximately 5:20 PM EST on Monday afternoon. Within 1 hour, I had over 80 different replies that answered all of my questions and read more »
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If social media is about a new way to communicate and share online than one aspect of social media marketing is about finding the most effective methods for positioning their product or brand in this communication stream. read more »
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We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you woul read more »
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More on the Search Marketing Standards discussion. ProjectPHP asks for definitions of what standards mean, and Ian McAnerin delivers with some great definitions and lots of other useful information to continue this debate. read more »
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I had the privilege of attending Elite Retreat last week and somehow found myself seated between Andy Liu and Aaron Wall at the dinner table. Both are great classy guys and I definitely learned a lot from them. More to come on that later. For now, h read more »
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Some big changes are in the pipeline for Sphinn, which I'd like to discuss with you further and also talk about our existing functionality. read more »
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How Relevant is Google PageRank?
Does Google Monitor User Data?
How Relevant are Blogs to Google Listings?
What’s the Difference Between a Forum and a Blog?
Paid Linking and Google Tips read more »
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Every day more and more entrepreneurs are building successful businesses using the internet. There is an abundance of opportunity online and depending on the venture, there is often less cost and risk involved when compared with traditional business read more »
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Recently, SEO.com attempted to manipulate sphinn.com votes in an effort to get publicity. This is a breakdown of what they tried, how they got caught, and why it didn't work.
This article is the result of a poll I ran on whether they should be outt read more »
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What every client should read before engaging an SEO. read more »
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"Social media is hot. Everyone wants to be on Digg's home page. Link baiting, especially using things like numbered lists, imperative rules or controversial hooks is the SEM strategy du jour. There's just one—major—problem with spending so much time read more »
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SEO by the Sea takes a detailed look at a Yahoo patent application which describes a number of the ways to learn and understand the use of phrases in documents on the Web.

Longer post but worth the time to read for those interested in how search read more »
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Yahoo developer: "Dude, without the slash it looks way cooler!"

A red crab: "Nope. Stealing trailing slashes is a brain dead approach that produces crap and damages search engine rankings." read more »
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For the short term, it appears that Google has had the last laugh. Read this wacky index switcheroo case study from CapeCodSEO. read more »
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Search Marketing Expo

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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
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SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008