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Digg is getting better at targeting the professionals, it's simply the cost of doing business. However, how many innocent, people get caught up in their frenzy to keep the site empty of free wheeling capitalist pigs?

How many decent stories get t read more »
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Yahoo! Local is exciting because it can be identified as one weak spot where Google can quickly be dethroned. Of course, that all depends on how things play out — but I’m impressed by what I am seeing. With that idea in mind, here are three reasons read more »
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CNVI over at webmaster world has reported that google have
updated their guidelines regarding link schemes and in particular reciprocal links
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356&query=link+exchange&topic=&type read more »
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A viral linkbait is one that is designed with the aim of facilitating dissemination by visitors who come across it. It’s viral in the sense that its self-replicating and leverages existing social networks through the use of media like images or vide read more »
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We recently had some issues with content being scraped from our site and republished on a corporate blog. The company claims that since we are publishing an RSS feed, that opens our content up to be openly republished without permission.

I'm no read more »
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For your Web 2.0 sites, comes Web 2.0 analytics. Track anything, use in any formats and view in your own custom layout. read more »
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Yahoo explores methods to figure out a user's intent in location-based searches, and to identify the location of searchers, in a patent that was granted yesterday. read more »
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The Lisa compares Ask, Yahoo, and Google to see which search engine is truly the best at blended, or universal, search. read more »
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6 brand new wordpress plugins that will save you time and can be very useful on your blog read more »
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I'm sure by now most of us have at least heard that Google published a short video talking about some of the information the company collects. The difference between this and other Google efforts to talk privacy is that it was meant for mass consum read more »
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I may not read 400 SEO blogs every day, but I read at least 50-100 one day per week and these are the things that can make it a pain in the rear experience. Listen up! read more »
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Company says normal policy procedure -- not external hack -- resulted in Custom Search Blog temporarily hosting nonsensical message.. read more »
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Google mistakenly identified its own blog as a spammer's site. Hehehe... read more »
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Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn members to prove their mettle as marketers, by pushing Sphinn over 400 for the first time.

Sites like Digg show hundreds and sometimes thousands of votes because their members participate and exercise t read more »
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Still mourning the loss of the Supplemental Results label? Bruce Clay SEO Analyst Mike Terry explains how to get Google to reveal which results are supplemental. read more »
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Google is starting to act like your garden-variety monopoly, says Fortune's Brent Schlender... read more »
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It's no secret that Wikipedia ranks well in Google. But it's also no secret that Google will do what's in its best interest to compete. So now that Wikia is ramping up efforts to compete with Google, do you think Wikipedia's treatment in Google wi read more »
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If the site you are redirecting has anything shady going on with it, or if you are a well known SEO, make sure you do not discuss the redirect publicly or register your sites with Google Webmaster Central, otherwise Google might kill the redirect ou read more »
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An interesting tool that allows you to submit to multiple social bookmarking sites from one page. To make things really quick and easy use the FF bookmarklet and then CTRL+{click} yourself to individual sites of your choice. read more »
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I know I will take some heat for this one, especially as many will view this as some sort of personal attack against the SEO Community's Golden Boy. I feel, however, that since many people won't even recognize a spin job when they see one, that some read more »
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Out with the Google in with the M$. Kevin Rose just made a pre-announcement that they signed a deal with Microsoft and they will be serving ads on Digg from now on (in a similar deal to Microsoft/Facebook)... read more »
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Despite what some will say, email marketing is still an effective way to supplement your other online marketing tactics. But with so many people - especially decision makers and executives - using mobile devices to get email, a new challenge is eme read more »
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Back in May I wrote about a dozen or so Firefox extensions that make the browser an indispensable tool for SEO and website creation. I decided to go one step further and bundle them all together in one convenient download - the Firefox SEO & Webmas read more »
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Nice post on some techniques to cut down on duplicate content for wordpress users. read more »
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Stephanie Booth notes of Matt Cutts session at WordCamp 2007. I think bloggers who are new to SEO could benefit from Matt's tips. read more »
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