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Yesterday Twitter sneakily unveiled a new user interface for both the “followers” and “following”. While I personally believe that their efforts could have been better spent on stabilizing their servers and working out those infamous “overcapacity” read more »
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It is a well-known and much lamented fact that twitter attracts spammers. read more »
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A great interview with one of the top social media experts, including a comparison of some of the top social media spaces and their users. read more »
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"Explore blog comments and discuss what can be done to turn them into real conversations... Via the Internet, you clearly have access to a huge inventory of information and knowledge. However that is not the most amazing aspect of the Internet. Mo read more »
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One of the first rules to consider is that the Internet has a kind of spirit to it, or maybe call it vibe. The original purpose of the Internet was to communicate and connect with people and information. read more »
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Growing need for the real time search engines. Users wants real time searches. Real-time searches are more valuable because it lets you know what’s happening right now on any given topic. Companies use it to handle customer services. News junkies us read more »
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Where I "mashup" the history of the web and the beginning of the Old Testament. read more »
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The main aspect to this update was to introduce a new ‘Dupe Detection’ system that users have been screaming for. Like some of the recent changes Digg has rolled out, this seems to be another really useful change that will only make the submission p read more »
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Jordan Kasteler (aka. Utah SEO Pro) tells the true story of a business which had their online reputation punked by a disgruntled employee, and ways to dig out of the ORM ditch with strong social media profiles. read more »
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Great post from Chelsea Blacker; 40 ways you know you work in search. read more »
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As the search engines get smarter and smarter the power of a single link can vary in many ways, so I’m going to try share some tests that I have carried out and some speculations about what type of link carries what weight. read more »
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Naoise Osborne compiles a bunch of tips and tricks from some of the best in the business to help you revamp your PPC campaigns and increase your CTR read more »
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"I want to discuss what I’ve realized is my bias against traditional PR and marketing- in an open-minded way, as one who understands those things still have value- and also discuss the divide between digital and traditional marketing, as well as web read more »
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Todd Mintz dropped by the Trail with a great guest post on dealing with your sales pitch - a must read for account execs and freelancers alike!! read more »
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SNIP - Use your content to your advantage. Pick out specific high-priority keywords and link to the appropriate pages. If your number one keyword phrase is “link architecture” and you have a page on your website that carries a PageRank of three, use read more »
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3 cool Greasemonkey scripts for early Bing adopters. read more »
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Eric Lander is interviewed and shares a number of interesting thoughts on Google, search, Twitter, and his latest venture. read more »
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Jane Copland compares SEO blogging to swimming, some nice similarities :) read more »
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Excellent keynote speech video from Tim Ferriss at San Francisco WorldCamp. read more »
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The comprehensive local SEO and search resources list. read more »
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Very often we have to deal with site (partial) duplicate content issues created by the site CMS, like:

Pagination:

domain.com/category/
domain.com/category/1

Sorting:

domain.com/category/pricing-high-low/
domain.com/category/pricing-lo read more »
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In my last article, 8 Key Points to Multiple niche Sites And Controlling Back Links, I cautioned that you need to be careful that a niche focus site might overtake the main site in the SERPs for a particular phrase. One question that came up in the read more »
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This is a clear contradiction and proff that even Google sometimes find it hard to make up their mind on best practice. Bad show Google. You want people to listen to you, you gotta make it clear what your policies are. Me for 1 would rather pay t read more »
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There are a lot of parallels between Google AdWords and SEO, and a lot of the beginner mistakes are the same for both traffic acquisition strategies. I figured it would be worth outlining some of the most common ones to help save you money on your s read more »
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A good little post from the Sam Nicolls the new guy over at SEOmoz.

A lot a marketers focus optimization efforts at the bottom of their conversion funnels. One effective way to examine conversion rates at the bottom of the funnel is to create a read more »
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