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Do SEO’s Really Need Clients? One question that has provoked a valid argument in my mind based on a question an acquaintance asked me a few days ago is, do SEO’s really need clients? read more »
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Mark Dykeman writes "I’m going to stick my nose into the Feldman/Israel situation. Sort of. Actually, I’m going to suggest a better use of everyone’s time. It would be for a charitable cause and it would promote social media to boot. Everyone wins." read more »
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Stone deGeyter writes "There are a lot of little things that can junk up your code, but, for the most part, the search engines don't really care. It doesn't matter to them if your HTML validates or if you keep your code "clean" or not. When it comes read more »
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Rand Fishkin writes "It's been a big month for false positives and getting caught with spam, and I've never been one to break up a theme. Short post, but an important one that every dev team should be aware of." read more »
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Dave Synder writes "I am a slave to writing about things that I see and do in my everyday SEO efforts or searching. To me theory often fails to show value in terms of dollars. And I am in this business to make dollars." read more »
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Chris Hooley's SEO Superlatives Poll is Officially OPEN! read more »
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Mike Moran writes "Is search marketing old enough to have a good old days? If it is, then I remember them. Ah, the days when you could fire up the Overture keyword tool to see how many searches were done in the U.S. on Yahoo! for a particular keywor read more »
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Dan Perry writes "Dave Pasternack wrote a MediaPost column today that outlines his opinion of why the “In-House vs. outsourced SEM” debate is ridiculous. It’s not surprising that he’s taking the side of agency, because that’s where his paycheck come read more »
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A DigitalPoint Forums thread asks if Google "hates" .info or .tv domains? The answer is simply no. This question was brought up at least three times last night in the Google Webmaster Live Chat event, which I documented and not only did Google's Mat read more »
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Marty Weintraub writes "So, I decided to wrap up SES Toronto 2008 with a seminar on accessibility, usability and SEO. First up was Jane Matz Hayes, an Information Designer at Web Feat. Jane got us all started with the concept of “findability,” which read more »
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Danny Sullivan writes "My wife, Lorna Harris, has been busy the past few months with a project she launched in beta last week: Boudica.com, a social news site for women.

Years and years ago, when we were both doing internet marketing, we got the read more »
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Hi, my name is Tim...and I'm an SEO. I’ve been working for a small web marketing company for a few weeks now. I had a fair bit of writing experience before I got this job, but the world of online marketing and SEO is totally new to me. read more »
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Lisa Barone writes "The Dangers Of Creating Your Site Entirely In Flash. I love jeans. I also love Web sites. Imagine how much I love Web sites that sell jeans! Because it's Wednesdays and I'm on a bit of a sugar high, I thought it would be fun to c read more »
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Mark Dykeman writes "Growth of the entire social media market is every content creator’s best hope for success. That means that bloggers in general need to continue to provide content on an ever-widening and growing field of topics and interests.
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Stoney writes "This is a continuation of the questions I was asked during a webinar presentation on website architecture. Before and during he presentation I was submitted over 70 question and each week I've been answering a handful of them. You can read more »
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Jim Tobin writes "I got an email on Friday from Christina at the Advance Guard pitching “Coke Tags” as a new social media marketing effort from the Coca-Cola Company. The whole experience, from pitch to this blog post, provides lessons in social med read more »
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Andy Beal writes "It seems Digg can’t avoid rumors that it’s up for sale. The social news site has been the subject of acquisition rumors for more than two years now.

According to ValleyWag’s rumor, Google is the latest company sniffing around Di read more »
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Andy Beal's picks from today have a healthy balance between rumor and fact. Check them out. read more »
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Since I’ve started working at a social media agency, I’ve been a lot more aware of the kind of role social media and other new media plays in other aspects of our society. For instance, I recently watched a great episode of South Park, (one of the m read more »
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MysteryGuest gives us a guest post over at SEOMoz talking about Sexism and Social Media. Good conversation starter :) read more »
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Glen Allsopp "With the new focus on a future of full-time blogging, I’ve been working hard on the look of ViperChill and on the look of another blog that I will be officially launching sometime next week.

I’ve designed three websites from scratch read more »
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Brent D Payne joins the was SMX Advanced too black hat with "Here is my two perspective on the heated debate regarding SMX Advanced 2008.

There should be a session dedicated to blackhat SEO tactics and I believe it's important to address in an ad read more »
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I came across a great post on a blog that I read of a respected online marketer, Jemery Shoemaker, known as Shoemoney. Being in the industry and associated with many other greats he had a guest post from Brent Csutoras that made a ton of sense.

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Hamlet Batista writes "I promised everybody that I’d be posting my presentation slides from my talk at the SMX Advanced Bot Herding panel, so here they are!

First, let me say that I was very excited to be speaking at a major search marketing conf read more »
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Stoney D writes "When a website goes into development most of the attention is usually paid to the design elements. That's obviously the most important thing, right? The images, the layout, the colors, the navigation, how the user will interact with read more »
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