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Great post by Donna Fontenot that covers both prevention of and recovery from hacker intrusion, for blogs and other non-blog sites alike. read more »
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It is the chicken before the egg of the online industry.

Which comes first usability or SEO?

Designers and developers often take one stance on the issue, and SEOs another. I am not sure there is a right or wrong answer. Despite how many in our read more »
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Tamar explains in this post that you shouldn't be canceling your Twitter account yet..... Twitter & Plurk are totally different. read more »
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Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!
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Dear SEO Bloggers, I’ve been reading SEO blogs for quite some time and while I appreciate the input you offer up on a regular basis, I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend. It seems that more and more of your posts state your opinions or theories, as read more »
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Shana puts out an awesome post talking us through her avatar changes. read more »
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With all the great posts about link building that have been going around recently, Wiep's done the logical thing and compiled a post listing links to them all for your reference. read more »
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This is part three of a GREAT series on Plurk - this edition is one cliques, but I suggest reading Part I and II as well - I have been using cliques increasingly and they have a value... Check your Privates!! (lol) read more »
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Steven Bradley (aka VanGogh) Holy optimization Batman! Are search geeks no longer relevant in the world of SEO? Nothing of the sort my caped companion in ranking. Search geeks are still highly relevant and likely will be as long as search engines ex read more »
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I invite you all to hop on over to Donna's blog, grab a piece of cake and chat it up in the comments - it's a party after all.

MODS - this is a dupe... please nuke it ;0) read more »
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Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. read more »
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There are all sorts of metaphors and analogies you can use to illustrate various aspects of link theory, from the buckets full of link juice used to explain PR flow and sculpting, through to examples where Links=Votes.

Ken has devised a new analo read more »
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Tis' time for a story; Set in a far, far away land. So, snuggle up get cosy and I'll tell you how being a serial blogger has been the most financially rewarding move I have ever made.

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Step by step guide on how to completely clean out all signs of intrusion in your WordPress after you have discovered that you have been hacked. read more »
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Paige Filler guest posts with content ideas that everyone should take to heart. Not only does this article give great ideas, but it details the implementation steps that you can use over and over again to really make this technique work for you. read more »
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Three years of work and thousands of developers to produce the new browser. Many of us in the SEO/SEM/Search Marketing industry, as far as I can tell, have nothing but complaints about the browser thus far. The main issue: continually crashing. read more »
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For anyone who hates having to change their passwords because it means memorizing a new one, I built this nifty little tool that generates strong passwords with built in mnemonics. Please, feel free to share this with your family members who still i read more »
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Confused on high bounce rates on your main pages? Go Practice these 3 steps to Fix it. read more »
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Lately, there's been a lot of buzz about a new Twitter competitor called Plurk.
In my opinion this new micro-blogging platform has taken the conversation to a whole new level.
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Taking what little hassle there is out of installing WordPress. read more »
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Dazzlin D - Don’t get me wrong. I know that “the world” (meaning the government and the marketing world, specifically) has tons of information on all of us, and I don’t really spend time worrying about trying to keep much of anything private. Still, read more »
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"I invited 20 experts active in the Local Search Marketing community to participate in this study, with the goal of identifying the factors that would be most helpful for ranking well in the Google and Yahoo Local Search algorithms, as well as techn read more »
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DazzlingDonna (Donna Fontenot) has put together a list of bloggers who routinely write about search-related topics. read more »
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Authority. We all want it. Authority is sexy. Practically every blogger is chasing it in some way, shape or form. Authority brings power, respect, visibility, opportunities and loyal followers. read more »
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Kinda interesting as I was just whining about the double edged sword that is *Karma* - nice to see some activity from the developers

Plurkable - Many dedicated plurkers will attest the Karma system is cool but at the moment it basically just rewa read more »
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