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The SEO Guru discusses the more "little known" effects of losing page rank... lol ;-) read more »
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Following my recent rant about the Web 2.0 sites I dislike the most, I felt it would be a good idea to discuss the nature of social media itself - and break it into chunks that allow you to really understand one of the most successful social media w read more »
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Sick of all the Web 2.0 hype? So am I... read more »
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The phenomenal follow up to his first post on SEO empire building... a look into the reality of link building "brick walls", and the resource allocation required to break through them... read more »
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There's a lot of dogma that surrounds giving away "what you know" as part of your front end. However it's not all it's cracked up to be. Many people who attempt to give away information as a front end will ultimately fail. Here's why... read more »
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Just to keep it super consistent, here is the follow up to Why You Should NEVER Offer Paid Blog Reviews. There are some great bloggers who offer paid reviews, which I think you should take advantage of... but you must know the pitfalls... read more »
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This is a controversial topic that no doubt people will strongly disagree with - however- there's some very legitimate reasons why you should NOT offer to do paid blog reviews... read more »
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With the recent launch of Blog Rush, it's clear that a few will benefit enormously... but like all things... most won't. Here's a list of common mistakes I'm already seeing with Blog Rush and how to avoid them... read more »
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This unusual communication strategy has been mastered by many "Gurus" who dominate the niches they operate in. read more »
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Google has launched an Australian Election Portal. It allows you to follow party arguments on youtube, look at your local electorate using Google Maps and more. I imagine Google is using this as a warm-up for the US election in '08. read more »
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With Google's recent acquisition of Postini, I was motivated enough to get close to the eye of the storm and take a photo. This is what it looked like when the negatives were developed... read more »
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Over at WordPress support, it isn't all that unusual to see folks wondering how to exclude certain posts from their front page. I typically suggest they grab a "category excluder" plugin and add the posts they don't want to see to a certain category read more »
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SEO Roundtable has tested out the new "Chat with Adwords account specialist" feature - reporting that the response is speedy. I am yet to be convinced that Google really wants to help advertisers, and that this feature will do little more than provi read more »
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An advertising genius known only as Mr. Subtle has let you look over his shoulder as he turned a meaningless piece of branding into a direct response master work. read more »
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Are you making mistakes in how you allow people to syndicate your RSS feed? Is your RSS feed building you deep links every time you post? The folks at Smart IT consulting have written a great article on how to gain every advantage possible with your read more »
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There's been a heated debate recently about the viability of Facebook as a business building tool. My response to this has been to analyze Facebook's Demographic, Marketing, and Traffic factors. read more »
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Apparently there is a new king of Social Media. His name is Sid Goneth, and it looks like he's intending to take on well known Web 2.0 site Squidoo... read more »
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After a recently heated debate with Matt Cutts, SEO Legend Mike Martinez gives some insight into the potential pitfalls of using internal 'NoFollow' tags to manipulate your Page Rank. read more »
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