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A Happy New Year to all our readers! May your business ventures be successful and may health and well being your life and that of your loved ones! So why not start making it happen by getting a free .com, .net, .org, .info and/or .us domain? read more »
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The last thing you need is to wade through a hundred search engine results on a display screen the size of a postage stamp! With Boopsie's smart prefix search all you need is the first few letters. "Harry Potter" - In Boopsie, that's "ha po." Instea read more »
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GoogleTrophies on a Link Monkey Safari - slashing link selling sites' PageRank left, right and center. See what may be behind it - and the new opportunities it opens for you! (Cartoon) read more »
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Determined to sell more television ads, Internet search leader Google Inc. is sharpening its focus on the medium with demographic data from the influential Nielsen Co.
Under an agreement to be announced Wednesday, Google will pay Nielsen an undiscl read more »
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With our fantOons series of SEO cartoons now into its third year (hurray!), we’ve decided to set up a basic shop over at CaféPress where you can purchase your Dr Search favorites on t-shirts, mugs, steins, wall clocks, tile coasters, mousepads, base read more »
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How Google's paid links policy makes Al-Qaeda go ballistic. (Cartoon) read more »
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News from the bleeding edge: How Google kick started link fraud. (Cartoon) read more »
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Not buying paid links. Never. Honest!
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Yahoo Inc would be worth far more to shareholders if it broke up its Internet businesses or embarked on a major overhaul, including a departure from Web search, but management is unlikely to do either, according to an analyst note issued on Friday. read more »
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Stop press! Here’s a kick ass list of 300+ live social bookmarking sites, including reviews and an outline of their respective features such as topical focus, available (or required) toolbars, bookmarklets, tag policy, and more. read more »
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Operating in (aka: gaming) the social network space, going for effective link building via forums, blog comments, wikis etc. will typically involve setting up slews of different personas and identities - for most of which you’ll need an operative e- read more »
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Cripes - they ARE becoming obnoxiously all-pervasive, aren't they? :) read more »
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For the last 2 days Netscape social bookmarkers have seen their postings and comments disappear into cyber space, making the Nutscape experience very frustrating. While NS has now acknowledged the problem and is working on it, subscribers are sorely read more »
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Watch Dr Search explain about hares, hedgehogs, Google and SEOs. read more »
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Seems that reverse or upside down SEO as a means to capture seriously underestimated traffic may finally be discovered as a hitherto neglected powerful source of revenue.
So how about you? Are you going to leverage this highly innovative SEO strate read more »
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Alex Goad of Net Frontier Marketing takes exception to a slew of Google antics, publishing an activist piece you are encouraged to read and adopt in support of the "No to Web Apartheid" movement that seems to be gaining some steam now. read more »
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Converting MySpace into a phishing botnet, as discovered last month - "a leap in the evolution of bot architecture", daisywheeling IPs assigned to an attacking domain, deploying an essentially bullet proof multi layered virtual network. This article read more »
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Ever considered the costs of campaigning in social networks? Is it really worth your valuable time? Here's a cool online tool that calculates an estimate of your ROI when recruiting staff and assigning a budget for working the social networking site read more »
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Not that it comes as a particular surprise, but this recently launched service will actually - and quite openly - pay for your votes on social media and offer advertisers an opportunity to game the networks. read more »
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Critically discusses the recently launched Buy Blog Comments link building service and why it seems to be sorely lacking in viable SEO prowess. read more »
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