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Ann Smarty writes, "Last week Rand posted a brilliant linkbuilding tip that involved taking SEO advantage of mistyped/ misspelled domains. Putting aside black / white hat discussion, I am giving the list of domain typo generators for your advantage. read more »
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Who: You!
What: Internet Marketer's Charity Party
WHEN: Monday, August 18th 8:00 - Midnight or ??
OPEN BAR! Light appetizers and good booze from 8:00 p.m. to Midnight
WHERE: Agenda Lounge - 399 S. 1st st. (right behind the conference center!) ( read more »
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For those of you who are buried under piles of work and don’t spend as much time as you like reading about what is happening in the industry, Mashable.com is on tour this summer. I was lucky enough to have the time to attend the SummerSmash Miami ev read more »
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If you run an eCommerce site, submitting it to coupon code directories is a wise promotional method you might want to consider. Building links in this fashion cannot help but build a successful campaign. read more »
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In October of 2006, when I [Mike Valentine] was first interviewing for in-house SEO positions, I wrote a series of articles on SEO job searches (listed below) and incorporated my own research on Salary ranges for SEO. read more »
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"I have been using Propeller for quite some time now, and have always felt propeller to be a great source for quality traffic and weighted link from a search engine optimization stand point. I did however always feel there was a lot of functionality read more »
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Loren Becker saying, A collegue and Search Engine Journal reader emailed me over the weekend, to let me know that the Yahoo Paid Inclusion (Yahoo Search Submit) feed for his business, and that of his competitors have been experiencing problems, and read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "A SEJ reader sent us the following SEO question, which which I decided to discuss with our readers: What is an orphan page and dead-end page? What’s the difference? How are they harmful for your site?" read more »
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Tamar Weinberg writes, "If you haven’t yet seen the Language Trainers Accent Game, it has won the “best viral marketing strategy of 2008″ (in my eyes). I was able to interview Dave, one of the brilliant minds behind the company and the game, and he read more »
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To ensure that search engines understand your website structure correctly you should control each page HTTP headers. Your server should handle all requests properly - by this you will both achieve better crawl rate and higher rankings. read more »
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While I’ve never been advocative of focusing on such an old and overused SEO technique as keyword density, keyword prominence is something you should always bear in mind. 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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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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By building in a required workflow, you can also build automated tracking systems to document any change made to the web site or link building activities, so that you can report back in time on those changes. Most development environments have somet read more »
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[...]Go as far to the back of the index as you possibly can, because that’s where the good bad stuff usually hides. You’re looking out for malformed urls, query strings (like ?=sessionid or ?first_page etc) [...]

Rich goes on to provide a case st read more »
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Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social media for support networks, feedback, counsel, research, conversation, and more. read more »
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Michael Gray writes, "Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!" He goes on to write, "... read more »
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KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
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We keep hearing about website internal duplicate content issues but many of us are sincerely unaware of the fact that that’s what our own website also suffers from. Why? read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche 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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From the official announcement: "If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms i read more »
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Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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John Carcutt - "Real SEOs used to go to forums all the time. As a matter of fact, I bet most Real SEOs learned the craft on those very forums. Now, Real SEOs post all of that hard earned knowledge on their own sites or friends blogs. Why give away t read more »
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Yahoo is finally taking the social route in fully connecting its Yahoo Network users across multiple Yahoo platforms in a Facebook meets Yahoo type setting, where users will be able to view the doings of their friends over a central Yahoo social map read more »
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