BogglesMyMind

Interesting look at PPC that uses others trademarks read more »
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Johannes Beus of Sistrix revisited the "first anchor text" debate again last Monday and got some nice results in conjunction with image links. We translated his test results to English. read more »
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When link buying turns into genuine, valuable editorial content that people would be happy to find in a SERP, which content only indirectly affects the links you built... is link buying still problematic? read more »
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From the story: This is pretty cut/dry - we found a couple of cloaked redirects on Trulia’s site. It looks like they’re doing it simply to pump the PR of specific pages, and to get some good sitewide one-way links. 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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Simply put, Siloing is architectually structuring your website to get the Search Engines to recognize your site is about your targeted keywords. You want the Search Engines to consider you as the subject matter expert. read more »
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Best of The Web adds a local component, making a great directory an even better resource on the consumer level. read more »
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Who determines what is obscene and moral? The defense attorney argues that the community does and what better way to determine what the community sees as moral then to see what they are searching for from within the comfort of their own homes. read more »
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Barry Schwartz continues to report porn on Google over at Search Engine Land, via email to Googlers, via Twitter and Plurk and so on. But it seems that this is a battle Google is not winning. Why is this such an issue, because if a kid searches on h read more »
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Chris Bowers is trying to push in certain articles into the Google search results for a search on [john mccain]. His goal is to "Google Bomb" these articles into the search results before Labor Day.

What is interesting to me is that the site in read more »
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Patrick Altoft writes "What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about Linkbait

Lyndon Antcliff has become one of the most notorious linkbait experts after a recent high profile project involving a hoax story was publicly “outed”.

The fallout fr read more »
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Funny look at that classic result when you search for the google logo read more »
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Another great post over at Search Engine Journal by Ann Smarty, looking at theories behind Google Sitelinks. read more »
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Our common forward links tool finds those super authorities that a bunch of other authorities or important sites link to.

This follows an idea almost 2 years old, but never implemented by anyone out on the web.

Read how we do it! read more »
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Lisa Barone returns from SMX with a question: "But at the same time, I couldn't help but notice that this year's Advanced show seemed to lean a whole lot more to the grey/black hat side of things. I couldn't help but wonder: When did advanced search read more »
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Dave (the Gypsy) Harry trawls through the week's Sphinn submissions and sorts the wheat from the chaff, so the rest of us don't have to ;) Make this man a mod. Now! read more »
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Paul J. Bruemmer writes, "All complex systems can be broken down into manageable components or modules. SEO is no different; whether you have 17,000 domains or 10,000,000 products SKUs, the system for managing this load is always the same." read more »
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This week I watched "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and couldn’t help but realize how far I’ve come. No, not necessarily career-wise but …well… in pure years. read more »
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Just looking for a little help from my SEO friends... The wife thinks I should most definitely see Sex and the City with her this weekend because she went to opening night of Transformers and the last several Bond films with me... I think that's t read more »
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Google has a new, all blue, favorite icon. My life is now complete! read more »
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Loren Baker Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite years of building relevant and valuable links, and wanted some tips on building better links. read more »
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When use of the phrase "linkbait" first started to achieve critical mass, some dismissed it as nothing more than a fad that would be dead in a year. Some truly understood linkbait and tried to explain it while some of those who grasped it ran with i read more »
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This is what paid links were intended for, right?

The paid link debate continues... a probing question with a poll. Answer honestly and find out if you are in the majority or the minority of online marketers. read more »
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Glen from ViperChill has grilled dozens of SEOs and Online Marketers to get their most valued online reputation management tips. read more »
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