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I deliberately refrained from displaying the feed count in order to determine how many people will subscribe even though there is a lack of input from other information consumers. I didn’t guest post, advertise or provide incentives because I wanted read more »
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John Andrews call for Sphinns in return for a link -- while jokingly done -- still raised a serious issue. Should a post get pulled if Sphinns are bartered or pulled? Can search marketers figure out the right way to treat the issue, which in turn mi read more »
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XMCP/Shady hits it out the ballpark with a great look into the world of porn promotion and SEO, showing how they've become Google-independent, while still leveraging it for the long-tail. Some topics Shady covers:

Why Is the Pornography Marketin read more »
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The great white north won't be the same, but Seattle just got more interesting.

Todd 'The Oilman' Friesen writes a great post about an exciting career change.

Congrats Todd! read more »
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Marios Alexandrou has a great post revealing some interesting patterns about Sphinn. A whole lotta work went into this post ... and it shows, hots by day of week, hour of day, how many sphinns necessary historically, and so much more.

What a grea read more »
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Ok it is a cute play on words I admit... I couldn't resist. And of course Sebs post has all the makings of a GB.

Sebastian's Pamphlets - Dealing with spamming content thieves / plagiarists -- Hey, outing content thieves is way more fun than filin read more »
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While there are some social media authority blogs already out there for some time, I noticed that recently there seems to be a kind of explosion. So I want to share 11 new social media blogs that are really a must read in no particular order. read more »
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As of this writing, just under 72-hours after it began the freebie niche has sent over 10k visits to my site. This is digg and stumbleupon amounts of social media traffic here, but what differentiates it is that over 100 different sites sent traffic read more »
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Search Engine Roundtable report on the new Google Webmaster Guide for Newbies which gives you basic information about Google Webmaster Tools, from the dashboard to site diagnostics and more. read more »
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Nick Wilsdon gives us the low down on how to be a more efficient twitter user, how to avoid it ruining your productivity & still be part of the conversation... read more »
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Debra Mastaler's conundrum in the current link building environment: "link far out and stick it to the man," or something a bit more pragmatic. read more »
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Joost provides some nice examples on how this new tag can be used. read more »
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I think The Guru ultimately wants us to increase the bonus Matt Cutts gets each Christmas so that ours are bigger too.

I wonder if he has read Shoe's latest... read more »
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If you’ve ever been to search engine conference and attended a site review session chances are you’ve heard panelists mention duplicate content penalties and filters. For “normal” people these problems are real, however with Google a double standard read more »
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Neil Patel talks about paying it forward when it comes to taking care of the tab for others. And who knows? That $30 dinner could land you a huge contract. read more »
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Graywolf exposes the potential Gray Hat techniques that Match .com is employing! read more »
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Advanced search is the ugly child of interface design -always included, but never loved. Websites have come to depend on their search engines as the volume of content has increased. Yet advanced search functionality has not significantly developed i read more »
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A little SEO Humor: This is for 'stihs and giggles' only read more »
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Stephan Spencer shares some quick and good advice about "Deconstructing Google Snippets", and discovers that the official Lord of the Rings web site is keyword stuffing! Ha! read more »
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