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"No, Seth, it doesn’t take 10 years to become a success."

I follow Seth, I have his books, but I don't agree with everything "anyone" says, SEOblackhat.com echoes my thought. read more »
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Forget Google Zeitgeist, Trends and Adwords Traffic Estimator as well as the Keyword-Tool. Google Insights for Search is the new killer keyword research tool we will work with daily and gladly. read more »
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"There is an excellent paid only WebmasterWorld thread on the topic of why would the best SEOs decide to take on client work, as opposed to building out their own ideas and cashing in on those ideas. The rational is, if they are the best, why not ma read more »
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"I’m not bored with what I DO every day, actually, nor am I bored with the industry in general. I am simply bored with writing about it, because the online space is becoming incredibly cluttered with people who seem to know absolutely nothing about 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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The dragons were keen to invest in an online diamond website's potential due to its high search rankings in Google. read more »
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Fake Social Media Profiles - Good, Bad or Ugly. I think Michael Gray really hits the nail on the head with this one. I guess as with so many other things it really comes down to the intent. read more »
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Concentrate on publishing information which will solve peoples problems, which will naturally create the search phrases that no one else will be competing with. 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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Recently the SEO industry is buzzing around a relatively new term, advanced SEO.

Advanced SEO is not yet clearly defined but many people already seem to agree what it is. My personal impression as to this inherent definition is: Advanced SEO appe read more »
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Our statements, along with many other intelligent voices, claim that Flash is not off the hook yet as a search engine-unfriendly technology.
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Definitions make us lazy. They confine us to a specific way of thinking. More often than not they stop us thinking. Such is how I feel about the term “linkbait”. I love the concept of linkbait, I just feel the label which signifies it is a bit of a read more »
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The guys over at the conversion rate experts (aka the squirrel guys due to their fantastic website optimiser piece) have just re-launched their site and have a new blog. Add to your feed reader now! read more »
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Gab Goldenberg releases a brilliant Wordpress Plugin to maximize the effect of your internal anchor text.

"So: You can rank like Wikipedia, without being Wikipedia. Ok, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration, but the tool should help you improve your read more »
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Across virtually every social network site, users scramble to be the first to break a news story. Inevitably, this leads to hundreds of duplicate story submissions and ends with one winner amongst hundreds of losers. But even if you weren’t the Wood read more »
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Are impressions more important than relationships with social media users? Many of the branding and social media strategists raised their hands in agreement when asked if their motives were to build relationships. read more »
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"I used to hear this question from prospective clients around 3 years ago whilst heading up the SEO department at a London based marketing agency. The question was usually asked by SMEs, in the belief that either Google recommended the agencies in t read more »
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These are some really good tips regarding how to get more fans on social media. read more »
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I’m 50 years old. I get the whole social media gig. It’s like Woodstock on the ‘Net, where people gather together for several minutes, days, weeks, months and years to hang out, talk, share, listen to music, run around naked and slide in the mud. read more »
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Quite a few stories I feel like desphinning because of disagreeing with the post, just like agreeing with a post makes me sphinn it. But then I wonder if desphinning is being seen as a vicious attack here. read more »
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Lately, there's been a lot of buzz about a new Twitter competitor called Plurk.
In my opinion this new micro-blogging platform has taken the conversation to a whole new level.
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Matt is at it again asking web folks to step up and help Google where they can't do it themselves. Nice volley of words between Michael Martinez and Matt Cutts too. ;) read more »
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A list of who Matt Cutts follows on Twitter and what each person does. read more »
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Great example of about every single social media rule on Digg completely broken..

I believe everyone should get into social media and become a Digg and Reddit user... Right after you read a few articles from the Social Media column on SEL.

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Google’s primary data center crashed yesterday. What’s to blame? Linkbait. read more »
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