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Guestwhore Michael Streko gives a few tips to those of us too unlucky to not be at SMX West on how to make it feel like we're there. read more »
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A generation raised on the free Web is coming of age, and they will find entirely new ways to embrace waste, transforming the world in the process. Because free is what you want — and free, increasingly, is what you're going to get. It took decades read more »
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Google has just updated the sitelinks and it is the biggest update ever, hundreds of thousands of new sites have got them. read more »
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No, I’m not talking about black, white, blue, grey or any other coloured hat you might wear whilst doing SEO, but instead I want to talk about how Search Engines are really very much like fashionista’s. To explain this a little better, let’s look at read more »
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"There are a lot of similarities between the online and offline worlds (there are also a lot of differences), but if you try and keep things simple and apply everyday logic to your website, hopefully you’ll be able to create a location that people w read more »
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I've done a lot with adwords and adsense and I'm pretty sure that one of the "other" factors is how much money they're making on any given search term, vs how much they think they can rape their traffic providers and advertisers per click so they ma read more »
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Much has been written about trying to gather more subscribers. A lot less time has been dedicated to examining why we should be pursuing this goal. It’s assumed that subscribers are worth their weight in gold, but are they really? read more »
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Paid search doesn’t need to be complicated. As far as Google and Yahoo paid search account architecture is concerned, simplicity is king. read more »
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From SearchEngineGuide: This matters a LOT to our hotel clients. I suppose we'll see how many Sphinners have hospitality gigs. read more »
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As I have noted in previous posts, the majority of my friends and family don’t really have what I like to call a “firm grasp” of what I actually do for a living...So, for my New Year’s resolution I decided I would just start lying.

“Yes, we do p read more »
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Donna, I admire you. You sure do have some stamina, the way you've had them Louisiana lips of yours puckered so firmly to Google's evil ass this long.

They're in the wrong to make you (or anyone else for that matter) jump through hoops like that. read more »
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The Local SEO blog talks about new ten-pack Google Map / Local results. read more »
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I’m not a domain expert; I’m an online marketer that over the years has built a portfolio of domains and follow the market here and there. My speculation for 2008 is ... well, you can read the article to find-out. read more »
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I discovered recently that there are a couple ways that Google can serve ads on budgets that have exceeded their daily limit via expanded broad match. This also opens up the ability for your ads to show up on some of your negative terms. 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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Creative content creation and promotion approaches to optimizing not only small business web sites, but any web site, using a holistic approach to SEO. read more »
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Think you're a pretty good blogger? I did too until I read these 31 pieces of blogging advice. read more »
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Search marketing is becoming mainstream (as opposed to sidestream, I think), but I still find people drowning in that stream. They forget that search marketing is more about marketing than search, because the search technology piece seems so new and read more »
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Mike Grehan questions why, when Search Engines have advanced so much in recent years has the field of SEO remained fairly static. It's a call to action for SEO only firms to realize that they need to do more than just SEO if they want to have long read more »
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DoshDosh answers his fist Friday Advice Column Question on his Blog. "What should you know before you start Blogging?" read more »
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An interesting perspective from the PPCHero Team on their selection of the top Paid Search Blogs of 2007. They also provide some insight into the content and strategic direction that each of the blogs provide its readers. read more »
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The user experience, both on and off-line, sometimes blend together. This is usually overlooked by web site designers who haven’t had the experiences or training to understand the ramifications of every element they put on a page.

Sometimes the read more »
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My big issue with hyping social media is that most things that are popular on social media sites do not actually build credibility, and that you are going to have marginal success building your brand if you start by focusing on these broad third par read more »
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Tech bloggers (and I put myself squarely in this group), I am sorry to report that many of us have become lazy - really lazy. So, with this in mind I offer a challenge: in 2008 let's strap back on our thinking caps and get our blog mojo back. Let's read more »
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Dave Naylor, well known for SEO, published intriguing stats illustrating how PPC ads aid organic conversions...FASCINATING stuff. Thanks to SEOBOOK for linking to the original post, which is how we found it. read more »
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