AndrewGirdwood

"I can promise you that even in highly competitive markets, with a little creativity, there is still a lot of low hanging fruit of opportunity in this area." read more »
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Mixing up Korea with the United Kingdom? Google having to run AdWords instead of organic geo-targeting. Double serving? Spyware via Google. The worst SERP we've seen in a while! read more »
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If you're using adCenter Analytics, or know someone who is please point them to this post - we're gearing up for an beta refresh and would like some input from our customers.... read more »
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Often there are simple reasons why a site drops out of the index. Anything from duplicate content to your server being inaccessible can cause problems... learn how to find it and fix it. read more »
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A few more photos of the Google street view cars. This time in Edinburgh - a couple of close up photos giving more of an idea of how their setup work. read more »
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Today AdWeek ran Scott's open letter to the CEO of WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell. Inspirational food for thought for all post-click marketing followers and fans:

"For most online marketing initiatives, you can now prove the quantitative value of gr read more »
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Google has added a new feature to the external keyword tool, they have added approximate search volume numbers. For example, I conducted a search for SEO and the results returned showed columns for "Approx Search Volume: June" and "Approx Avg Search read more »
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Google keyword tool reporting numbers, not blue bars. It has changed back but have screenshots - is this a Google blunder or a sign of things to come? read more »
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Twitter may buy Virginia-based Summize, a Twitter search engine, says Jason Calacanis. A source close to Twitter says that the two companies have been in discussions around a merger over the last couple of weeks, but won’t comment on whether an actu read more »
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The Sphinn team are happy to announce the launch of our very own blog! The blog will be used for announcements and discussions regarding Sphinn, keeping the frontpage clean from clutter. We'll also be launching a Sphinn Weekly post, giving a round-u read more »
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Being an internet marketer doesn’t mean sitting at the beach like you see on all those “Make a thousand Dollars in 20 days” websites… Being an internet marketer means that you need to do your work on a daily basis. You simply can’t be lazy, this is read more »
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Another excellent chat by EE. We learn that Yahoo sometimes ignores the NOINDEX tag, is relying less on links in its algorithm today than before, and that social sites like del.icio.us can impact the Yahoo algorithm. (and more!) read more »
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First Adwords, then Ad Planner and now the Google owned instruction Manual Blog for eliminating your traditional Advertising agency. Think we are kidding? This their first post.

The main site for the Google Traditional Media Blog reads like a man read more »
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Discussions and debates on the viability, necessity, and effectiveness of conversational aka social media marketing continue to roar across the Social Web. read more »
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Using unique facts, charts and statistics is a great way to create SEO content. It can give you an excellent starting point for blog entries, page content and articles that aren't boring and actually hold your reader's attention. read more »
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The video of "You&A With Matt Cutts," a session at SMX Advanced where Google's Matt Cutts took questions from the audience on a wide variety of topics has been posted on SEL. Additionly, recaps of the "Give It Up" session have now been posted as the read more »
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Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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A blogger has been fined when his post was Googlebombed and comments from users upset a group of authors. He pleaded guilty... read more »
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In this interview - the co-founder of YouBundle.com discusses the future of the search market in which machine results from google will be trumped in relevance by hand picked results by self-appointed and community verified experts on the result. read more »
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The web channel was initially regarded as an infinite warehouse without the costs of shops or space constraints, but customers’ early enthusiasm for clicking through many pages of turgid descriptions soon waned. Dimensional navigation and richer ima read more »
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As regular readers may notice, the Tamar Social Media blog has been a little quieter over the past three weeks. The reason behind this pre-summer lull isn't that we've all gone on lovely hot holidays, it is mainly due to my wife and I having our fir read more »
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Danny Sullivan says: "Google's finally added a privacy link to its home page, explaining in 613 words why the company apparently can't have more than 28 words on its home page." read more »
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Privacy International is seeking more information from Google - odds are the search behemoth won't be giving up technical data any time soon. After seven days, the group says they'll refer it to the Privacy Commissioner, which could mean the suspen read more »
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Nice rant from Donna about the escalating costs of SEO conferences read more »
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Lisa Barone writes:

[Looks around, makes sure it's safe to reveal secret squirrel SEO information.]

Okay, kids, it's July 3rd. That means it has officially been a month since the Give It Up session that occurred at SMX Advanced 2008. The embar read more »
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