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How useful could Google Knol be for SEO? It's definitely useful, but think twice about the amount of time you will need to spend on it.

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* It is expected that many of these pages will rank quite well for a variety of terms with ext read more »
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Leaving the cost of an analytics program aside, below are some of the things a Search Strategist should look for in order to become adept in SEO Analytics:

-Data separation by organic search: To be able to truly understand how well your SEO campa read more »
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Sometimes the brightest people can come off as completely clueless and say the strangest things. This week’s winner goes to Aaron Wall at SEOBook about how a company could try to make money by limiting the number of people who can freely see buzz-wo read more »
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News of the document is spreading like wildfire with ideas on how to use it to every SEO advantage. You can even begin to see further manual reviews happening as well affecting a multitude of websites.

Nonetheless, what the main players are not n read more »
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What particularly surprises me about people within my industry (SEO) is how many search strategists or online marketers in general seem to place such a faith in Google’s search engine algorithm in being able to figure out every little thing about hu read more »
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Ask.com has finally thrown in the towel to fighting off the Google. They realized that they can’t compete under their current model. They decided to focus all of their energy on attractive married woman. No it’s not what you think its for, get your read more »
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Google Analytics has added three major features today, two of those features are related and the third is a standalone feature. Google Analytics users can now have the option of comparing their site's data to industry benchmarks. Analytics users can read more »
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After seeing the t-shirts from eVisibility, I had to offer up some of my own slogans that could be added onto more shirts all for some hilarious SEO Humor.

Here's one example (click on to read em all):

SEO Humor #1

* < Title>Awesome Pim read more »
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I ran across a hot topic on Sphinn titled “Google Showing Bias Towards .org TLDs” by The Google Cache and thought to take a look at how other sites/people are trying to run tests on what matters to Google. I am always appreciative to see people tryi read more »
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The main question is: At what point after crossing the rubicon into Grayhat SEO can you justifiably (or morally) limit yourself to various grayhat techniques and not go full swing into Blackhat SEO? read more »
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Per Wiep:

"Well, after seeing something like this, it’s getting more and more clear to me that it’s not possible for Google to draw a line anywhere.

The paid link line (what’s a paid link and what isn’t) is so thin, that one single sentence co read more »
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Any savvy marketer, blogger or SEO provider needs to understand the mechanics of regional search. For starters... read more »
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Mr. Google Search Sucks used the American citizenship booklet that they distribute to study for the exam to quiz his gf to see what things she did not know and ran the same questions through Google.

He used the Google and “I’m Feeling Lucky” to s read more »
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My thoughts on why SEO is still a 'soft science.' Mainly in response to Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land claiming that it’s the first birthday of the “Google Bomb Fix“ and how even a ‘well-respected’ person within the industry still makes anecdo read more »
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Increase your backlinks from unlikely sources. Take advantage of the other millions of non-English speaking Internet users. Here is a current list of 67 foreign language social bookmarking sites that potentially could send you traffic. read more »
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Kevin Gold at SMS recently read in the November/December 2007 issue of Revenue Magazine (pg. 32) that “Hitwise announced that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007.” Yahoo Search was secon read more »
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Google has surprisingly updated its PageRank early this year in 2008 breaking the every three month update it usually does. The last PR update was well known for penalizing a lot of sites that were selling paid links and a possible reason for the re read more »
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There are five main reasons why US Presidents still are not good online marketers in my opinion... read more »
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If you're looking to understand why Google will ultimately fail as a search engine in trying to keep a large emphasis on link juice, then read on. read more »
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Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club seems to be entering into the SEM field (both SEO and PPC) for many of its clients. My co-worker is already curious to see what work they’ve done and I’m sure at some point people will begin to do some competitive intelligence read more »
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Beyond the horrible name, this product may come to haunt Google in the long-run becoming a turning point its perceived status as an honest company into a monopolistic corporation similarly to Microsoft. read more »
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It’s a great feature that goes well for what I’d like out of my search engines personally, but then again, when I can still use the best search engine out there (Google), even though it’s still awful, with such programs as Stealther and AdBlockPlus, read more »
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Google has been trying to reduce the use of buying and selling links (for PageRank) since the last PR update by manually de-indexing some link broker websites along with dropping PageRank for some sites selling links. read more »
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