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Collective Thoughts interview with MyBlogLog - good read for their current and future plans of the popular user tracking service. read more »
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Changes promised by Google engineer Matt Cutts have been implemented... for the most part, anyways. read more »
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Technical and design issues which might affect Google and other search engine rankings. read more »
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Tad gives us the 15 most important differences between SEO and SEO 2.0.

"They are 15 because 10 were just not enough..." read more »
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Microsoft has announced the introduction of mobile display and text advertising on MSN Mobile in the U.S., starting today. Microsoft has previously offered mobile display advertising in Belgium, France, Japan, Spain and the U.K, but not in the U.S. read more »
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Yahoo tries to increase CTR the way many smaller publishers have done in the past. read more »
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I recently released a video post which explained some of my reasoning for stopping to use AdSense as a means to make money from ProBlogger. In this post I’ll explore some of the reasons why bloggers should consider using AdSense as a way to make mon read more »
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7 Link building and SEO professionals have shared their thoughts about nearly 40 different factors that might (or might not) influence the value that search engines can assign to a link. These opinions have been bundled into one document: The Link V read more »
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Observations and suggestions for traffic brought on by social bookmarking. Does bounce rate effect all the search terms for your site? Also a brief discussion about the use of Google Referrals 2.0 read more »
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I was thinking about some possible new strategies the other day to leverage Twitter to drive a lot of traffic, followers and hopefully $$ back to you. These are not tested, and if someone has tried it I would love for them to post in the comments wh read more »
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Patrick Altoft takes a look at the essential skills required in the competitive SEO marketplace. read more »
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A great panel on Link Buying including speakers Rand Fishkin, Jim Boykin, John Lessnau, and Aaron Wall. read more »
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Mark Laymon of Collective-Thoughts address the similarities of how social media marketing is like a fishing tournament with an emphasis on the social voting sites. read more »
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This is designed with business blogs in mind, but can be adapted for any type of blog. A very useful outline of a business plan for a blog. read more »
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Facebook has sold a $60m (£29m) stake in the business to Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire behind mobile network 3, as the fast-growing online social network looks to break into the Chinese ad market. read more »
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Small business survey results: 20% of those surveyed claimed that SEO was by far their "most effective" online marketing tactic. read more »
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Ah, sweet Mary, mother of Jesus, a plugin after my heart. Go ahead, get it. You know you want it...! (do not censor, this is a legitimate plugin) read more »
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Sphinn now has a handy save button on each Sphinn. Pretty slick - now I can have my own SEM version of del.icio.us, and even see what other people are saving. read more »
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This is from my personal experience, when I initially make a stumble I usually expect to see a traffic range from 100 – 5000, depending on the topic of course. A lot of other people have also seen these kind of figures from a simple click of a butto read more »
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The different search engines branded on the web seem to be developing personalities of their own. How you may ask? read more »
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As seo is a constant moving industry it’s important to stay in touch with “what’s new” in seo. So I have detailed how I spend my first hour of every weekday - are you on the list? read more »
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Matt Cutts and Seomoz.org are really struggling for ideas by the looks of it, just look at ... read more »
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Download a nice free plugin for wordpress that counts the number of times your blog or blog posts have been submitted to social bookmarking sites.. read more »
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I have always been taught and read many blogs that you should never judge a websites traffic performance based on the data collected by Alexa. Why? Well Alexa only registers traffic that has downloaded and used their very own toolbar. So in theory t read more »
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I'm pleased to announce that Sphinn is now out of Beta testing . New features have been added and most bugs squashed. read more »
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