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What does your "About Us" page say about who you are and what you're about? Is it really that important? read more »
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Are you still measuring your SEO success by the rankings you obtain? If so, you need to stop—right now!
Here's why: Jill Whalen explains
Reason 1. Rankings are constantly fluctuating. You might check rankings one minute then check again a few min read more »
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It’s good to see folks in the search community challenging some assumptions behind PageRank, while introducing a new flavor of PageRank which replaces those assumptions with user data.

A patent application from Yahoo, published last week, takes read more »
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A nice little post with 5 suggestions that could save you a LOT of trouble even just implementing one of them. read more »
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Yet another robots.txt post? Nope, not really. I discuss Matt Cutt's recent "Remove content from Google" video, plus an uncommon approach that requires programming skills but rescues PageRank, and how it should work in a way that most Webmasters do read more »
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My feature in The New York Times taught me something about getting covered in mainstream, national media. Anyone can do it, you just need to make national-level news! Reporters, editors and journalists are constantly hungry for great stories to shar read more »
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Brilliant post from Google Analytics Master Avinash Kaushik's blog Occam's Razor. "I find that few people understand correctly how the Average Time on Site calculation is made This post is my humble attempt at explaining how Time on Page and Time on read more »
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Bill Slawski provides a follow-up post adding to last night's "Google on Reading Text in Images from Street Views, Store Shelves, and Museum Interiors"

*Improving local search, and showing images of the actual locations of businesses
*Providing read more »
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When a new visitor comes to your website for the first time an initial impression will be formed pretty quickly. A good first impression will drastically increase the chances of that visitor returning again. This list looks at 21 factors that will i read more »
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Some sensible information from Eric Ward about five of the many ways link builders hurt themselves. read more »
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Practical tips for developing leads that are not yet sales ready. read more »
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I had to get in on all the paid-links rants...

"My guess is that the toolbar PR penalty is just that — a lowering of visible PR in order to make a statement." read more »
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Don't be a sheep, think about why good SEO is good for your website read more »
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Dan Thies debunks a couple of SEO myths regarding servers and keyword density. read more »
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I know I will take some heat for this one, especially as many will view this as some sort of personal attack against the SEO Community's Golden Boy. I feel, however, that since many people won't even recognize a spin job when they see one, that some read more »
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I believe Danny argued that the name Sphinn is a variant of Spin, the spin.com domain being taken.

This can obviously not be the truth, and is just another example of how people in high positions try to fool those less fortunate in life.

Ther read more »
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Four part recap of the session I gave at BlogHer. It's introductory SEO, aimed at bloggers who are new to the idea of using search to drive traffic. There are no cat pictures. Sadly. However, Buffy is briefly mentioned so all is not lost. read more »
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These past few weeks I’ve watched how things played out in the blogosphere after breaking the story of Google’s new “unavailable_after” tag. I have to say that what I learned was extremely interesting and educational to me! I have been writing art read more »
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My recent article was read by about 6 people...hopefully, by Sphinning it, I can double that number:.)

The main commonality between SEO and Domaining is that in order to achieve excellence in both, a practitioner must develop an extraordinary lev read more »
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These are some hilarious but quite unfortunate search ads. You really should be careful using broad matching terms... read more »
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Nice bit of history here from Bill Slawski, illustrating and documenting how the Google Toolbar has changed and added features over time. read more »
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If your web site is backed by a physical store front, you may want to do things a little differently on your site than you might if you were web-only. Here are a few ideas. I only rant a little.

(Finally! I have written a post about something oth read more »
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Super awesome sophisticated web analytics tools like Omniture and HBX may be your worst enemy. read more »
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Flickr’s built-in social features, strong user community and growing mind share has transformed it into a viable platform for marketing your website or business. This article will explore Flickr in greater depth by providing a detailed tutorial on h read more »
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To write a completely authoritative guide on the nuances of StumbleUpon would take a week! This post outlines the most important features to understand as a beginner. read more »
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