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The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, k read more »
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Many webmasters come across one common dilemma: is it worth focusing efforts on one huge brilliant copy or is it wiser to split it into several related copies. read more »
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Give It Up! - No more secrets time. In this session, our panel of noted SEOs all share some of their favorite and largely overlooked SEO tips. Then we turn to the audience for more sharing. Attendees vow not to blog what's discussed for the now trad read more »
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Lisa Barone writes:

[Looks around, makes sure it's safe to reveal secret squirrel SEO information.]

Okay, kids, it's July 3rd. That means it has officially been a month since the Give It Up session that occurred at SMX Advanced 2008. The embar read more »
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A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
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Stoney degeyter writes, "When providing SEO advice on the topic of website design, we often warn against placing important content into images. This is because search engines can't read images like a person can. To them, an image with text is just a read more »
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A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
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Ann Smarty has put together a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. read more »
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Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
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Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. read more »
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Jenn Osborne defines the key elements that make a site, a community. Starting with this definition and principles, it should be easier to build a community for clients or yourself as a result. read more »
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Very often with large dynamic sites webmasters just can’t do without pagination. Apart from usability here they come across another serious issue: duplicate content.

The thing is that all pages normally have identical titles and meta description read more »
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Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "Though the conversation on Twitter is often about how unreliable Twitter is, people are still flocking to the service. But I don't think they're doing that because Twitter has brand itself as a failure. People have stuck by Twit read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes, "So, you are the marketing manager of your firm, and you've finally decided to pull the trigger and hire the search engine optimization company that you've been talking to for months. The budget has been cleared, the SEO fir 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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The San Diego Union-Tribune is the latest major newspaper to launch a local/social network, and sites like this can offer a great opportunity for business owners to network locally with potential customers. This post includes a fairly detailed look read more »
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Digg has been rolling out the changes over the last week or two and today a few lucky users, including myself, got access to the beta recommendation feature. read more »
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I really hate arguments over cloaking. Like really hate them. But Rand Fishkin recently did a chart outlining the degrees of "safeness" to cloaking that in turn riled up Google's Matt Cutts in comments there. So I wanted to revisit some of the thin read more »
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Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
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Li Evans writes, "Inherently Flash itself still has optimization drawbacks. So Google's saying they can crawl buttons, urls, etc. in Flash, but that doesn't mean that Flash offers the best way to be optimized for the content you are trying to presen read more »
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OK, I’ve had it with link building; I’m done. Tossing in the towel. Waiving the white flag, no fight left in this link ninja. Google, you win! read more »
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