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Theres always confusion about the landing page quality score and factors affecting these. PPC HEro takes a look at these in some detail. read more »
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Running a search query for Plurk: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=plurk&meta=

Guess what the second result is? The Redeem Friendship link to Probloggers Plurk account!

Screen shot on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21963003@N04/25 read more »
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Use Shared Items in Google Reader? Dont always trust what you read. Mashable highlights a potential bug that could be used to edit and change the shared stories. read more »
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Google being taken on by Lastminute.com in the UK courts over recent change to their adwords trademark bidding policy. read more »
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There has lately been a furore in the UK in the way google has changed the trademark policy on Paid Search. Recent Articles include one at SEO Chicks (http://www.seo-chicks.com/502/the-lift-of-brand-trademark-on-googleadwords-is-google-getting-greed read more »
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A webmasterworld thread inspires the SEO Round Table to question Googles Organic Search Results - "Search for flight results in the syntax of flight from A to B"

Dodgy? Or just the way the Algo picks it up? read more »
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Can you tell what the status of an industry as a whole is? Can you predict financial issues by analyzing search data?

Hitwise seem to think you may just be able to. Excellent deductive article on the US housing market... read more »
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Form the story: WASHINGTON: You may soon be able to chat with your Facebook and Orkut friends even without an Internet connection, for scientists have developed an application that may make it possible to network, chat, or share files without Intern read more »
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There is nothing better than a rant, unless its an intelligent rant, and a Google focussed intelligent rant beats all.
From the post:

Once people started going "ga ga google", the perception became that Google is the best, which quickly eroded read more »
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smarty's back. we finally recover our social ninja. thank god i didnt call the police. read more »
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Jason Gambert - the guy who tried to trademark SEO has now posted and official response to the recent story that went hot http://sphinn.com/story/39290 read more »
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Yahoo and Google, the world's two biggest search engines, have announced a two-week experiment that will see them share advertising space. read more »
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Right so I was asked to get an example of Universal Search - so I thought that should be easy - typed in a range of keywords and nada.
SO clicked off to googleblogs example: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/universal-search-best-answer-is-s read more »
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It seems that this guy just cant keep out of trouble. read more »
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Sometimes google maps picks up the weirdest things. read more »
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Marketing Pilgrim discusses the latest Nielsen shock study: 24% of Internet users don’t know how to find google. read more »
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SEObook discusses 5 reasons why the acquisition of doubleclick and the introduction of Ad manager means huge news on the display scene. read more »
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Remember Searchme?

What the hell are they up to? read more »
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An interesting take on what the searchbox in Google SERPs could mean and how it may not shape up as a user experience. read more »
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Jenifer Slegg shares a pitfall in pixel tracking in Emails - not only does this raise the issue of loyalty that she concentrates on, it highlights the problems with tracking email activity, and how and why metrics could be way off. read more »
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Working with small business owners with little or no knowledge of search marketing can be a bit hard, simply because the language SEM's speak is so different.
I looked at SWOT as a tool to simplify the first glance at strategy development, which w read more »
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I often tell friends and family I am an SEO. And I invariably get asked whats an SEO.

I have tried to explain in many ways, always with hilarious results. Very often close to Rebecca's story http://www.seomoz.org/blog/apparently-i-work-for-googl read more »
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Yahoo confirms a question many people were wondering about Yahoo Local and Yahoo Shortcuts. (See related post as well http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/the-no-1-thing-i-learned-at-smx-west-and-other-things/1091/) read more »
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A very short post on why Yahoo isnt the best option for site search.. read more »
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Why is Sex important to SEO and Blogging?
An old marketing trick? read more »
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