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If there is one thing that I can take away from the search engine analysis industry, it’s that cheap tricks are not the way to get far commercially. You might fool a search engine at first, you might achieve a bout of good rankings, a spurt of traff read more »
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There are so many ways to go about structuring the internal link map of a site. Optimising this can win you positions in the ranking results, but sometimes can affect your site badly. How worth while is spending time on this tactic? read more »
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I had no idea my Twitter messages could be read by anyone. That's a scary thought, but now that I know about it, I can use it to my advantage. read more »
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Hi Sphinners. My post is about bounce rate, could all you gurus, pundits and veterans please pull in for a mo and bring your experience to the table? I wouldn't mind a thorough discussion to bring light to this topic. read more »
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Concepts that spread can be divided into those that stimulate memory and familiarity in people, those that are a brand new experience to people, and those that are a balance somewhere in between. Titillating the senses sure helps. read more »
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Wall Street Journal predicts release of free Google web usage stats product, set to rival Hitwise and Comscore. Where is this product I ask? Emily Steel please respond. read more »
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A beautifully written post by Sandy, detailing the why, when and how of using humour in writing.

Humour is one of those rare things that has global appeal. While it is true that humour does differ from nation to nation (think dry British humour read more »
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For many years, Google has influenced the lives of their loyal patrons. That patronage, however, may have detrimental consequences in the long run, as privacy grows more threatened by the day. Will the end be true to Tim Berners Lee, and Google's cu read more »
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Yahoo are developing a distributed columns SQL database, roughly tens of millions of gigabytes in capacity. They claim it will lower their app development costs. read more »
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What do us optimisers do when we want to rank sites in foreign countries, or a range of countries? Besides using Google's country specification in Webmaster Tools, who do we optimise for? With limited time, who gets our best attention? We shouldn't read more »
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Yahoo! is nearly out of rope as they dangle over the pit of hungry shareholders, with Microsoft tickling their underarms with a feather. The weekend is the end of Steve Ballmer's ultimatum to Yahoo! to accept their unsolicited offer. read more »
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Inside the mind of a search marketing solutions architect... trainee. In a generous self-evaluation, optimistic Dylan Explains how he projects his industry jargon & status on to young ladies for lewd gain ;) read more »
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Spectators are scratching there heads over what Yahoo! has up it's sleeve. Aaron Wall and Loren Baker stimulate some thought as if in the race to be Yahoo's next senior strategy architect :) read more »
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StumbleUpon and Google have a lot in common, just how will this contribute to he future of search as a whole, how many different new ways of acquiring information or entertainment will pop up along the way, and which will prove the most successful u read more »
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Jim Hedger delves into what is a very hot search marketing topic at the moment. read more »
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