Ammon

Within the industry we know what techniques are white, grey and black but trying to prove it to a court when the Google Guidelines are so vague would be quite a difficult task. read more »
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Ok so recently I have been looking at a few positions throughout the search results read more »
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There is a way to build SEOmoz's Linkscape tool without crawling, and I show you how. If I'm wrong, SEOmoz must disclose the Linkscape User Agent, and I explain why. read more »
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SEO Is an art form that's evolving. Here's David Harry's take. read more »
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A thorough, but still deep enough, explanation 'for dummies' of what meta descriptions are and how to write them. read more »
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Twitter have released their most detailed list yet on what they consider spam. Commercial or promotional Twitter users take note, these activities can get your account suspended or banned. read more »
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Social news traffic: Mixx is the fastest growing, Digg still the biggest, Sphinn is not bad at all for a niche community with targeted traffic. read more »
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Laura Callow writes "I actually tried to find some info on this topic as a research basis for this post. Nearly every article or post I found was more an explanation of what SEO is than a definite explanation of how it can be of benefit. (Please not read more »
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"Character types, modified to account for the effects of social media and related technologies on interaction and communication, and taking into account users' communication styles, relationship preferences, and sense of self and self image, could b read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "It is quite natural a header div is one of the most important on-page elements and thus it is in constant focus of SEOs’ attention" read more »
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Fresh Egg are opening up the seminars and training to non-clients this time around to offer a one-day workshop seminar on SEO, to be held in Brighton UK in early October.

Lee Colbran and I [Ammon Johns] are among the speakers for this all day eve read more »
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Automatic Match is Google’s new feature that allows AdWords managers to receive clicks in their PPC campaigns without the need to select specific keywords. In two previous posts, Jim took a somewhat negative shot at Google’s “Automatic Match” featur read more »
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Where I make a sociological-based argument theorizing that Doug's typical course of blog commenting is actually good marketing and branding for his business. read more »
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Jim Boykin's SEO Class in Edinburgh just finished - but you can get an overview of what was covered here. read more »
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Brent Csutoras shows us 5 Wordpress plugins you are just stupid not to use. read more »
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Taking tactics straight from the battlefield, a detailed look at how to defeat larger and well funded opponents. Signatories of the Geneva Convention look away now. read more »
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Here at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Scott has enjoyed talking with many marketers who are working hard to improve their landing pages.

After hearing a number of case studies from different vendors as well, each hawking their own special methodologie read more »
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There are a number of great keyword research tools out there (paid tools and free tools, too). Many times, however, I really wonder if I’m doing enough work to get into the mind of the customers. Here are 3 ways you can learn what the customer is sa read more »
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I'm continually amazed at how people go barreling into social media sites like a bull in a china shop and then wonder why they aren't well received. They hear social media is changing the way people do business and they make the mistake of thinking read more »
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If you missed it doorway pages aren't what they used to be and I've got the details... read more »
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Bob Massa's excellent post on a rarely talked about topic where he does an excellent job explaining what most SEO veterans know instinctively (when and how the campaign is making progress) but might find hard to quantify. read more »
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Very interesting. Maybe we need to change our ads to yellow backgrounds too. Thanks! read more »
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| Online Marketing Blog | Many readers of Online Marketing Blog are bloggers themselves and I’m curious about others’ experiences with business blogs that have either failed to meet expectations/goals or that were simply abandoned. Equally as intere read more »
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A story about an event that's been held in Brighton? Where's the value in that?

Well, the value is in the links. The story is backed by links to some tremendous resources, and most especially the PDF handout that was given to all attendees of t read more »
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Imagine knowing what Rand is actually up to at SEOMoz whilst the rest of the team actually do the work. Perhaps you can shadow our very own Ammon Johns and work out how he has become a ‘Level 8 SEO’ and use all his knowledge! Imagine knowing the bud read more »
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