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In the realm of web statistics, there are three numbers that are great to use if you want to tell lies. They are:

- RSS subscriber numbers
- Facebook app install numbers
- Follower numbers on Twitter, Friendfeed, Tumblr, or some other social me read more »
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Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who have children in Google’s day care facilities. The purpose was to gauge their reaction to the company’s plan to raise the amount it charged for in-house day care by 75 pe read more »
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Last week, Tiger Woods staged a tremendous victory in 5 rounds at the US Open. Because of his knee, Tiger had his back to the wall a few times, but delivered in clutch fashion every time he needed to. This got me thinking about how Tiger would man read more »
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This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give everyone a chance to have a say. read more »
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Good SEOs are not cheap but the rewards for an online business can be astronomical. Many businesses understand this but there are still a bunch of companies out there that try find the cheapest SEO provider available rather than paying a bit more fo read more »
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Ah, Average Time on Page and Average Time on Site - what strange metrics. They sound so simple, but as I hope to point out in this article, both must be treated with caution. Due to the way Time on Page/Site are measured, there is a certain amount o read more »
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The SEO Services market is raging hot and has been for several years. But being an industry without standards we have done a fairly poor job of defining what constitutes SEO services. If you were to ask a dozen industry people today, “What kind of S read more »
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Yesterday I asked the question whether you could trust a media blogger, looking at my own account of Adrian Monck's recent book launch. The answer, that I hoped people did trust my account, and that I expect I have a much stronger relationship with read more »
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Here are some sure-fire steps to writing a popular blog post if you’re lazy and have no ideas of your own (I’ve probably used them a few times) read more »
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Search engine marketers often center their work around the concept of a conversion funnel. The concept is simple with the first step being to fill the top of the funnel with people that have a broad interest in a product or service. As people move t read more »
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Every now and again you'll come across someone that says search engine rankings aren't important. What most of these people are really trying to say is that rankings make a poor measure for success. I agree that other measures such as organic traffi read more »
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Everything has been diced and diced again, and the way news/information can be received is totally customizable. And, within those fragmented networks there exists an array of niches and topics even more diverse. read more »
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Sure it is fun to discover techniques that could or could not get you in trouble with Google, but do we all need to race to the WP backend to out them? read more »
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Fun interview I did with Mark Dykeman read more »
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When discussing SEO with clients and potential clients SEOs sometimes neglect to emphasize that they need to tell us about any changes they are planning for their site. Whether they believe the changes have any SEO ramifications or not it is imperat read more »
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Ever wonder why Google ranking change so much from week to week, day to day, hour to hour? I know I have pondered that myself on a occasion. We I think we might have discovered a major piece of the puzzle with something called Google Previous Query. read more »
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There are different types of crawlers. Search engines and spammers are not the only people out there crawling the Web. Other tools crawl your sites for a variety of reasons. Each tool is built around a unique set of assumptions and not every crawler read more »
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Well, I got another SiteProNews email from a very questionable “SEO Tool” company today. As an experienced SEO I can see through the dubious sales pitch but many small business owners or inexperienced SEOs can’t. read more »
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Believe it or not, it’s been nearly a year since Google launched Universal Search. Given that, how has your marketing changed over the last twelve months? If it hasn’t, it should. Let’s take a look at why. read more »
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Are you disappointed with the fact that, no matter how hard you try, you can never seem to get things done in a productive manner? If so, then acting now is the way to go because you can rest assured that things will not exactly get better if you ju read more »
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The average Joe is discovering the ability to write content for web publishers. If they only realized how much more their content was really worth. read more »
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As any good search engine optimization company knows, in search, more so than any other medium, you have a very short window of opportunity in which to engage your prospect. The only way to get a solid competitive advantage in this arena is to utili read more »
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Yet another Sphinn-winning blog has posted a ridiculous attempt to justify the use of rel=nofollow on internal links. The “buckets with holes” metaphor has become popular among Nofollowers trying to explain why you should shoot yourself in the foot read more »
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Crawl pages have found a lot of uses through the years. Spammers use them to get their spam indexed. A lot of Web sites adapted the crawl page format to HTML sitemap structures (incorporating appropriate page design to make the sitemaps look like th read more »
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There’s a problem with presentations by web agencies done for clients, and it leads to the problem of overly complicated interfaces on the web. read more »
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