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As John Andrews writes, bait and switch is the practice of offering something attractive to draw an audience of consumers, to which you then sell an alternative. Has Google just done this to us with Chrome/Chromium? read more »
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Did you notice those guys with the "Greedy, Link Sellers, Drunks, SEM SEOs" signs outside of the conference center at SES San Jose? :>> [PHOTO] read more »
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33 Reasons Why You Should Go to the IM Charity Party at SES San Jose read more »
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Tom Critchlow gives us another clever and ethical linkbuilding technique. The basic principle is to find link leads by searching for pages or sites which used to offer a service and no longer do. read more »
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It’s okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there read more »
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Far far away in cyber space....the Jedi's (white hat SEOs) and Siths (black hat SEOs) are fighting for the best rankings in the mighty Googletrons results pages. In the first series of SEO Wars we see the mighty Darth CloakMaster (Fantomaster) take read more »
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The 302 Hijack has reared its head again. Search Google from "gmail.com" (no quotes). read more »
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Barry writes: "Philipp Lenssen's The World According to Cuil blog post inspired me to take snapshots of how Cuil, the new search engine, matches up the names of our industry, to pictures." This is actually VERY funny! :) read more »
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Recent story of an ECommerce website that discovered problems caused by XML site-map software. The new site-map generated appeared to impact Google indexing in a few hours and raised the issue that default priority settings may not be appropriate fo read more »
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This post covers Rand's SMX Advanced "Give it Up" presentation in detail. It has some extremely juicy link research queries, local ranking tips, and buzz tracking information. Excellent, nay essential, stuff! read more »
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"There are lots of posts dedicated to showing you wordpress plugins that enhance your post functionality and add features but not many that focus on helping you clean and maintain a secure and orderly backend. I’ll include a few you may have seen be read more »
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Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer t read more »
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3 nice tips from Gabriel Goldenberg on how you can make use of Archive.org read more »
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This is a guest post by Brandy Eddings. She is one of the brightest young minds in paid search and SEM. The is the owner of New Edge Media, an SEM company based in Texas. She is also speaking at Scary SEO in October. read more »
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Donna Fontenot writes, "I’m done. I’ve had all I can take of the vicious, nasty, cr@p that has been going on in our little industry. Sure, SEOs have disagreed with one another from day one, usually on forums. That’s nothing new. Sometimes it got nas read more »
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Sephy raises some important questions - like where did 759 bugs disappear to in 24 hours or so, whatever happened to supporting old versions of Wordpress, will post revisions bloat your database to an unmanageable size, and the fact that turning any read more »
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"Edward Lewis runs SEOConsultants.com, one of the more well known and trusted directories in the SEO space. When I first started learning SEO about 5 years back Edward sent me an email letting me know that something I wrote was incorrect. He was rig read more »
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Edward Lewis of the SEO Consultants Directory discusses the abuse of auto-voting at Sphinn and it's negative impact on the system as a whole. read more »
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David Harry takes a step back and sees the light. What are you doing in social media, and what are "they" doing in return for you? read more »
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Jane Copland takes a look at things which could, and definitely could not, be linkbait. read more »
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Pat with a great article: " I don’t believe Google is just fighting for YouTube revenue.

I believe Google is fighting for an entire new ad revenue sector and for the survival of YouTube’s dominance.

Google allowed an entire internet advertisin read more »
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Here's some fun for your late afternoon/early evening reading. Screenshot of what Twitter would look like during a zombie attack. :-) ProBlogger's Tweet at the bottom is awesome! read more »
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Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who have children in Google’s day care facilities. The purpose was to gauge their reaction to the company’s plan to raise the amount it charged for in-house day care by 75 pe read more »
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The Sphinn team are happy to announce the launch of our very own blog! The blog will be used for announcements and discussions regarding Sphinn, keeping the frontpage clean from clutter. We'll also be launching a Sphinn Weekly post, giving a round-u read more »
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Where I make a sociological-based argument theorizing that Doug's typical course of blog commenting is actually good marketing and branding for his business. read more »
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