BenjArriola

I posted the browser stats from Google Analytics of SELand, SERoundtable and my personal blog, CartoonBarry.com at Search Engine Land. Chrome looked pretty impressive.

I encourage you to share your stats as well. So go to Google Analytics, cha read more »
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Eric Ward examines the client who views link building as a purely SEO function, that is, they are interested in adding or creating content just to appeal to search engines. read more »
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Twitter has so many benefits and the opportunities you can find on Twitter are endless. It isn’t going anywhere and with over one million users, everyday that passes before you join is a missed opportunity for you.

Stop asking how and why. St read more »
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A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
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An interesting question is what someone should look for in a potential link developer and how to go about finding them. Rae lists (and pretty much answers) several must-ask questions for link development job interviews. read more »
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Ann Smarty loves playing with visualizing tools because they allow her to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time she has compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics. read more »
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Danny takes a deeper look at the new search engine aspiring to compete with Google and the conclusion is inevitable:

"With the huge caveat that nine queries are far from letting anyone conclude anything, I still didn't come away with a sense tha read more »
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Ray "Catfish" Comstock just released footage of his presentation given at the Online Marketing Summit last February in San Diego. The presentation covers subjects ranging from Google Webmaster Tools, Site Links, Robots.txt, Canonicalization to capit 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 computer-implemented method for displaying advertisements to members of a network comprises identifying one or more communities of members, identifying one or more influencers in the one or more communities, and placing one or more advertisements read more »
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So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
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Test results proving Googlebot really has been effectively upgraded to include parsing of flash to find links. Let the flash bombing begin. read more »
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However i was not able to attend Google webmaster chat last night … seems like m lazy now a days … but here are some of the takeaways, myths and questions left after JuneTune … read more »
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Recently I figured out that of all sites out there, YOUTUBE is cloaking. Yes, the same YouTube owned by Google. They are cloaking their "mature" videos so that the spiders are caching the real version, but a real visitor is forced to sign up.
In th read more »
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Kind of tricky since I was going to disagree right away, until I read the whole story. Makes perfect sense. read more »
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I normally don't sphinn my own stuff but I thought everyone would think is funny :) read more »
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Ok. it's still Alexa, but they're now getting data from more than just the toolbar. Will Alexa stats now be more meaningful?

Alexa will now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entir read more »
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After my "How I gained Over 1000 RSS Subscribers in 4 Weeks" and "How I gained over 2000 RSS and Newsletter Subscribers in 7 Weeks" articles, I have received more than a few suggestions from my readers to write a step-by-step guide explaining exactl read more »
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It's been 6 months since Google has penalized many web directories. I have no problem with mine being one, that is accepted, but the fact that Google has also penalized non directory related folders is something that makes me wonder.
How far should read more »
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Loren Baker writes, "I’m not a big Internet Explorer user but today I’m using IE as my browser of choice. I noticed that when I launch Skype and IE, Skype highlights phone numbers on web sites in the browsers for calling via SkypeOut." read more »
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I am not sure if I'd agree to this but what the site is saying seems valid. But I just grew up knowing that valid W3C code is required to rank high. Is it really needed? read more »
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Guestwhore Michael Streko gives a few tips to those of us too unlucky to not be at SMX West on how to make it feel like we're there. read more »
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It's 1:00 am, and I just killspammed 16 Sphinn accounts. After an enjoyable night hanging out with fellow Sphinners like Jeff Quipp, Michael Dorausch, David Wallace, Lisa Barone, David Mihm, and others at SMX West, it kinda stinks to get online and read more »
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Everyone has their opinion. Some people think this is a good thing, but others may see this as a bad thing if this deal pushes through. If you want to take a peek into the possible bad side, read on. read more »
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