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SEO’s, SEM’s and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -what read more »
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Jeff of Search Engine People about himself, prophecy, social media, search conferences, early computers in the eighties etc. read more »
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A programmatic solution to running and managing a network of micro-sites for link juice as explained during the Give It Up session at SMX Advanced and touched upon in SEOMoz's Whiteboard Friday Give It Up video.

Probably not the brightest idea to read more »
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URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes daily all over the place as if URLs wouldn’ read more »
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It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social medi read more »
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Julie interviews Ruby on Rails extraordinaire Tony Spencer on SEO and Ruby on Rails compatibility, issues, and is it spider friendly? Great interview with some keen insight for PHP, Ruby programmers as well as technical SEO's. read more »
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Not only do you have to write extremely compelling and informative content that makes visitors want to read every word and ultimately buy a service or product (which is hard enough alone), but you have to structure your writing in such a way that to read more »
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Matt McGee offers us a chance to collaborate and write a blog post on his site. Join the GroupThink Tank. Submit your favorite SEO tools. read more »
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People don’t want to believe the truth when it comes to social networking sites. There are two ways to get an article to the front of digg. The article must either be from a website that has a well established reputation with Digg users, or the subm read more »
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If you're into social media, here's a great place to network with some of the power users of each network. As their slogan says "Go there to Vote. Come here to hang out".

The site is now officially out of beta, so any and all can join. If you're read more »
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A list of 25 websites that every seo should know in 2008 read more »
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Andy Beard, founding father of the DOfollow movement of holistic linking, offers a brilliant breakdown of how Google's NOfollow position RUINED social graph data. This is a must read folks. read more »
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What's in your SEO Toolbox? David shares SearchRank's list of must-have SEO tools including Keyword Discovery, SearchStatus, ClickTracks, Ranking Manager, GWC and Bzzster. read more »
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Jeff looks at taking over the SERPs without burning out the user with over saturation by varying Titles in your Social Media promotion efforts... interesting stuff...

Search Engine People - Just a very quick post today, about a quick and simple t read more »
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Excellent post for those in the industry and people who want to be an Internet marketer. read more »
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Slightlyshady shares the basics methods of content generation. read more »
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Like many of its bretheren, the Socializer relys on finding a direct post URL to the 50 or so sites that it supports.
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I'm going to go out on a very wide and stable limb here and say that nothing any of us create should be on citeulike. My wif read more »
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For a few years now, companies have heard that blogs are great tools to better reach and understand their customers. But at some point, the rubber needs to meet the road, and actual bottom-line results need to be examined. So are any companies act read more »
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Every search marketer knows that the higher you rank on the search engine results page (SERP), the more clicks you get to your site. What is not obvious, except perhaps to paid search marketers, is that it is possible for sites ranking slightly lowe read more »
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Where John convincinly sets forth the argument that the answers to some relatively common SEO questions are situationally dependent and the best answer depends on objective reason and logic, and not a preconceived idea of what has to be done in that read more »
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Trends, buzz, what's hot -- knowing this stuff is a must for online marketers. Mason at SmallFuel shares a big list of web sites where you can see what's hot in a variety of industries. read more »
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The phrase “search engines love fresh content” is used hundreds of times every week by people answering beginners questions on SEO forums. Can you really get higher rankings just by adding new content to your static site? read more »
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The Mad Hat vents his spleen on the recent bust up between John Andrews and Rand Fishkin over the notorious SEL Wired post. read more »
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10 Steps to the Perfect Recipe of making a name for yourself in Social Media. 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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