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Tad Chef over at SEOptimise offers up a list of ways to change up your link building practices. I question his suggestion of maintaining a Facebook page over time since the links fro read more »
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Sage Lewis raised an excellent point in his post. How do we get the proper exposure with little overhead? Honestly there is so much written every day that it gets very old trying to figure out if anyone has actually come up with something new. So wh read more »
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Ask yourself “is it really worth it?” Is it really worth it to damage what could be a great reputation for playing the game fairly or are you OK with having that crowd of doubters who think (and maybe know) that you cheated to get where you are? I’m read more »
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Tad Miller of Search Mojo: Google came out publicly about using your individual search history to personalize its natural search results for your search queries over a year ago. But recent headlines about privacy of search data and Google’s new “tra read more »
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Kaitlyn Smeland of Search Mojo: Environmentalism has injected itself into the public discourse lately on a couple different fronts- not just in Marketing. The U.S. athletes who showed up in Beijing wearing face masks to filter out smog caused quite read more »
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Some time back we did a diagnosis of competitor’s links for one of our clients. Reading Debra Mastaler’s recent article on Search Engine Guide reminded me of the suggestions I made to help our client be more competitive. Debra notes in her post that read more »
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As one of the billions (I’m sure it’s billions now, right?) of people who rely on an Apple product every day, it was a bummer to hear that Steve Jobs may be sick again. I haven’t really followed the health of any CEO (except my own here at Search Mo read more »
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My prediction on Knols: not trustworthy for use in educational assignments. Also, I think it’s Google going overboard.

While Google is attempting to perhaps dominate yet another aspect of the internet, I’m not so convinced it’ll be anymore useful read more »
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Avelyn Austin of Search Mojo: I’ve always thought of myself as a optimistic person. For some reason, either side of the bed is the right side to get up on and life is constantly handing me lemons to make lemonade with my half full glass of water. So read more »
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Ashley Hopkins of Search Mojo: I recently read an interesting article on CnetNews.com regarding the future of blogging. According to its author, blogging is not a here today, gone tomorrow kind of medium; the author believe the technology is here to read more »
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Debra over at The Link Spiel asks Matt Cutts if the first anchor text link really is the only link Google will pass pagerank on. From what I can tell, he never really answers her question. Just one of those non-answer answers so he might not have to read more »
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Why do I love StumbUpon? Because I can just click a button and be connected to random websites I would’ve had NO idea were out there on the internet. I stumbled up on (ha ha) StumbleUpon (SU) sometime in 2007 (I think) and every so often I give up m read more »
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The top ten strategies... which is more legit? Which is more respected? Here are the top ten in no particular order. read more »
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Ya fer sure, Yahoo Sponsored Search throws Tad Miller a curve ball eh. Read his realization here, ok: With apologies to Bob and Doug McKenzie, sometimes the most obvious things are right under your own nose and you don’t even realize it. To my amaze read more »
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Janet Miller, CEO of Search Mojo, discusses the more often than not controversy on who has the line on ethics in blogging: I’ve been hearing a lot of talk these days about the ethics of blogging, and I find it very interesting that traditional socia read more »
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Ashely Hopkins of Search Mojo discusses how social media is projected to become a $7 billion industry by 2012. As advertisers tend to follow their audiences, it is only expected that they will have a sizable influence over these technologies within read more »
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Avelyn Austin posts about PPC and client relations: This week I set up a new PPC AdWords account for a prospective client. This time, of course, it was a little bit more challenging- I wasn’t allowed to look at the clients’ site… it won’t launch unt read more »
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Dave Zorn of Search Mojo discusses a major advantage of starting to utilize mobile search for your clients now is that you can get a jump on your competition and be established once more of the general population has access to the internet from thei read more »
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Catherine Potts comments on the Google Maps controversy and slightly expands on Ian Lurie's SEO workflow posting. read more »
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Search Mojo's Dave Zorn expands on a recent blog post by Tad Miller who "blogged about an article featured on Search Engine Land in which Danny Sullivan brought to light an annoyance which has been troubling online marketers for a while now: Yahoo a read more »
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Ashley Hopkins discusses her visit to Blog Potomac and how a company's approach to blogging can make a big difference on its reception in a world filled with very experienced bloggers. "Often times companies start a blog on a whim, without any clear read more »
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Tad Miller discusses feeling a great appreciation for rank checking software used in time saving automated reports, especially when it fails to work for a many, many days. read more »
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It’s the age old discussion (kind of) of what is appropriate and what isn’t when it comes to SEO. Ultimately, I guess, it’s the search engines (specifically Google) that will decide what’s appropriate and what isn’t. Or is it one’s peers? read more »
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On Tuesday, Lee posted a great article on the TopRank blog about “Extending SEO with Digital Asset Optimization”. Lee refers to “digital asset optimization (DAO)” as using other online assets, such as images, video, blogs, etc. to gain new visibili read more »
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I’ve recently started to incorporate Twitter into my day. I know, I’m late for the train. Right now, Twitter creeps me out a bit. I see half conversations of people I only know through reputation in the SEO community (half because I don’t always kno read more »
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