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What do you generally wish to gain from image search traffic? Do you even care about it? Jane Copland brings up some first hand experience where image search traffic wins out over other sources. read more »
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How would a human differentiate between the original source for a piece of content on the web, and a syndicated or splogged copy? How would a machine, such as Google differentiate between original source and whether a piece of content is valuable to read more »
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What does powerful, engaging content have in common with the brutal intensity of a hurricane? Quite simply, they are both unstoppable, irresistible forces. read more »
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Did you know that Google played favourites (Canadian spelling eh?) for a long time? Its true! For the longest time, American companies were not really given a fair shake in the search results. read more »
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Google are now factoring in page download speed when determining the Quality Score of your PPC ads. Well done Google, this could help push developers of those really annoying, SLOW websites into improving their speed. read more »
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"Whatever industry your business is in your website will benefit from starting a company blog written by employees. As well as providing unique fresh content for your site this will open up opportunities in terms of networking and trust building…" read more »
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A retrospective piece from the froggers, they make a great point on what a good SEO Blog should be about.

"the angle taken by our blog is to comment on search marketing developments within the industry and provide search marketing advice to sma read more »
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Many have tried and none have finished but with the recent raves and rants that have hit the world of SEM I ask everyone where did we fail? And how can we move forward and come up with a true list of standards that if we abide by can call ourselves read more »
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A YouMoz poster presents a good question to the world of SEOMOz. I love it when people try and identify problems with the world and then instead of abusing the problem they present it to the owner. This would surely be a blackhater's dream links f read more »
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In light of several interesting discussions i have seen here lately. I thought this article would be a good refresher on libel and harmony between us all. read more »
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Social media has so often been connected with Linkbait in our industry that it’s almost become a truism that social media drives low quality traffic. read more »
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When I saw this article in my reader I couldn't believe it to be true, 1 in 50 visits in the UK was to Facebook. I would love to have those numbers for visitors. The numbers get straight to the point. read more »
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SlightlyShady gives a great look into a new keyword tool (for me anyway) Wordze. Included are screen shots, a review on the system in full. I particularly like the historical numbers it showed. read more »
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While the practice of legitimate sites selling links has, without question, been pretty much killed off in the last few months the art of buying your way to the top is still alive and well. This is an interesting mini case study from the UK car insu read more »
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With the recent increase in irrelevant post is there a way for you to see if there is a referring agent to poastoaster.com. I only ask this as there recently was a great post about this feature right here on Sphinn and I am sure many other places o read more »
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It can be tough to justify the expense of attending an industry conference. Rand helps put a spin on other ventures one can accomplish at the event. read more »
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If you're anything like me, chances are that by the time you’re reading this, you’ve probably already broken one of your new year's resolutions. But hey, that's okay, How about resolving to improve your search marketing efforts? Below are five areas read more »
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This is a quick check list of what to consider when reviewing the search terms you are promoting your site for. read more »
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Search Engine Journal has announced the winner of the Best Search Industry News Blog of 2007! read more »
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Mahalo has just launched several new features that entwine the human-powered search engine even further into social networking and online community building. read more »
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Facebook is it going the way of MySpace? Do we need to protect our clients information we provide for social marketing on this site? I can't wait to see how the respond to this one. read more »
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Self-examination is an important part of self-improvement, and that’s what this post is all about. read more »
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A wonderful correlation on the Grammys and Social Marketing. read more »
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A look into the keyword world and why keyword research tools aren't the end all solution. read more »
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Superpages.com adds a new new feature to help out with online order fulfillment, shipping and email marketing. read more »
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