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"Economy through obscurity is as bad as security through obscurity. Unfortunately it’s precisely what a search engine, or rather our way of using it, has to offer to the majority of businesses listed ." read more »
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It's not always easy to excel at organic ranking analysis. This piece walks through key angles any online marketer should consider, including keywords, pages, search engines, traffic data and rankings. read more »
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"Business blogging is not always easy." Here's some great ideas for 50 business blog posts. read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "I come home from Columbus to start another chapter in my own life: I’m now open for business as an independent search marketing consultant and trainer. At the same time as I begin my own consulting and training business, I’m also read more »
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The 2008 State of the Blogosphere is being released in parts and makes for some darn fine reading. The five parts are being published one a day through the end of the week. Today is Tuesday so that means we've seen two: Who are the Bloggers and The read more »
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Dave Snyder writes "Before I got into SEO and SMO I was a teacher. It was a way tougher job than I have now. I taught crazed 7th and 8th graders to write. Not just write, but write for standardized tests. Which meant quick, informative pieces, that read more »
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Organic search engine optimization expert Rhea Drysdale will be joining Jim Boykin's We Build Pages team as SEO & Social Media Coordinator.

Congrats to Rhea and the WBP team! read more »
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A Viral Marketing Glossary that gives actual definitions of the "buzzwords" that get thrown around a lot when talking about viral marketing. read more »
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"Last week there was a bit of a brouhaha over Google news incorrectly giving the wrong date for a news story. In that particular incident Google news picked up a 6 year old story about United Airlines filing bankruptcy which upset the stock market f read more »
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Hamlet Batista wrote a useful post last week on using applications to build links. My first online job was in the shareware industry so this is a familiar technique for me. Here are a few notes to add to the conversation Hamlet started. read more »
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There’s a heated discussion on Twitter today following the move to take away link juice from bio links on profiles. What do you think, is this unfairly punishing active users? read more »
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You see, the media has only one focus - large, metropolitan areas - because the threat of mass extinction is just irresistible I guess. So, if you don’t live in New Orleans, but you are in the same hurricane path as the city is, then you will be ign read more »
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One of the easiest things to do in SEO is to poke holes in someone else's SEO strategy. I proudly admit to having done this on countless occasions when someone asks me to look at their site and give my "expert opinion." It's very easy to take a look read more »
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The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, blogs, and social news and networking sites tend to share online content with more people, more often than those that do not. This means t read more »
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Is purchasing multiple keyword-targeted domains an ethical practice? Kurt Krejny considers the risk vs. reward of this tactic, what his current findings of it are, and what could happen in the future to sites that do this. read more »
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SEOs come across this problem very often: what is the best way to get rid of lots of website pages without loosing rankings or getting into any sort of penalties? The problem may be associated with:

* moving the site to a new domain;
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These 30 "intermediate SEO" tweaks take one minute each and can increase profits significantly. They're "quick and clean" on top of that, they're no "SEO tricks". read more »
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Alex discusses an interesting idea for managing enterprise new media clients and how the payment on results model extends to large multi-national clients. read more »
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Betcha those guys at eHarmony would have never thought of this dating advice! Thanks for the tip, Google! :) read more »
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Complaint sites continue to litter the SERPS for a number of major brand names and the problem is quickly growing out of control. This morning, Loren Baker introduces us to an open discussion on how to combat these negative brand influences. read more »
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Tips on why Paid Search should always be part of your overall marketing campaign. read more »
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Great list of categorized articles by Melissa Fach at SEO Aware..."These are articles I have bookmarked, blogged about, adding to favorites and sent to clients. Great articles by some very smart people." read more »
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There was a recent study on popfail which showed the last 500 stories to hit the front page of Digg. An impressive 1/3 of the 500 were controlled by 10 users. Of those 10 users many are recognized in the SEO industry. read more »
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Dan Zarrella writes "I made some changes to my sidebar and I noticed that I’ve started to build up a decent number of posts on my weird take on history, sociology, psychology, memetics, viral marketing and social media (I like to call it protoviral) read more »
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Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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