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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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Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w 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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Adobe announced today that it is teaming up with major search engines - notably Google and Yahoo - to "dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs)." In a press statement, Adobe said that it is "pr read more »
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Great post by Donna Fontenot that covers both prevention of and recovery from hacker intrusion, for blogs and other non-blog sites alike. read more »
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Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "... don't be so quick to let go of the traditional search engine optimization techniques in favor of the big Web 2.0 buzzwords. White hat SEO is evolving and is all the advanced SEO you need to rank well in the search engines an read more »
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Step by step guide on how to completely clean out all signs of intrusion in your WordPress after you have discovered that you have been hacked. read more »
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Michael Gray writes "Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their o 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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Whoa. This is big news for anyone who owns a domain, and certainly for folks who buy and sell them. "The California Federal Court decision should make it crystal clear to would-be domain name purchasers that true ownership of a domain name is not ba read more »
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Google’s primary data center crashed yesterday. What’s to blame? Linkbait. read more »
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Lisa Barone returns from SMX with a question: "But at the same time, I couldn't help but notice that this year's Advanced show seemed to lean a whole lot more to the grey/black hat side of things. I couldn't help but wonder: When did advanced search read more »
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Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and w read more »
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When this happens, the only thing that will keep you going is your passion for the topic. If you are truly interested in the subject, you won’t give up easily. You won’t stop. You’ll make time to write. It won’t be a chore. You’ll enjoy it. This hig read more »
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Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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In this informative article, TheWis describes how hackers have been able to break into wordpress blogs and steal links. He examines the technical issues, and even makes recommendations on how to prevent your wordpress blog from being hacked now and read more »
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I didn't intend to submit my 20 minute blog post that I wrote yesterday to Sphinn until I read some of the positive comments readers left me. People seemed to like the post...therefore, perhaps I should share it with y'all.

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Jordan McCollum writes, "Remember earlier this week, someone was trying to trademark the acronym ‘SEO’? A helpful little comment on our post on that news just pointed me to the 'enterprising marketer’s' response, posted Wednesday. And if you didn’t read more »
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IMO the only way to be secure for right now is to run the last build before 2.5 & update it with all security patches - then if you are worried about sites not accepting your blog because its under 2.5 - simply go into your header.php in your templa read more »
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I have to strongly disagree with Technorati's recent forced upgrades. I dislike strong-arming tactics like this, and think it's dangerous, for several reasons. At the risk of voicing a potentially unpopular opinion, I feel strongly that this needs t read more »
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Ah, youth. 13 years ago I started my company with a spare room in my house, a credit card (limit: $1500) and a computer (Pentium 75 mhz, Windows 95). If I'd known then what I know now, would I have gone into this business? I don't know. But here's s read more »
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I’d been sitting on an inbox with close to 10,000 items in it for months and was feeling more and more stressed by the day. Within 24 hours I had an inbox with no items in it (well momentarily) and have been able to maintain that ever since A number read more »
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Publicity is free exposure without having to spend thousands of dollars on advertising. Publicity has great staying power. When you are written up in a publication, the people who read that eventually pass that on to other people by giving either th read more »
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Everyone measures the success of their blog in different ways - but when it comes to measuring engagement, comments and trackbacks are what really count. read more »
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