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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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It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social medi 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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Digg was sending users to a hacked blog displaying hardcore porn, some of which was illegal. Oops Digg. read more »
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Funny look at that classic result when you search for the google logo read more »
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CNET News.com: Networked Insights obtains third-party social network data by mining public social networks (profiles, feeds, and the like), working with 3 external companies (reps declined to name them) that sell social data. Facebook is out of boun read more »
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At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Perf read more »
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"On the evening of September 2, 2007 my wife Aviva ran to my office in a panic. She exclaimed that Aviva Directory no longer seemed to be ranking for its own name in Google. I tried searching this, and sure enough, she was right. Even searching for read more »
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A generation raised on the free Web is coming of age, and they will find entirely new ways to embrace waste, transforming the world in the process. Because free is what you want — and free, increasingly, is what you're going to get. It took decades read more »
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A lot of great photographers are scared to put their photos online because it’s so easy for other people to steal their work. I totally understand that. I’m hardly a great photographer, and I don’t want people stealing my photos, either! But I do wa read more »
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Lyndon was kind enough to discuss the basics of his killer linkbait with me. read more »
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Huge news. Microsoft make an official bid for Yahoo. We've been here before with the rumors but now this looks serious. What do you think? Would this be a good move for both companies? read more »
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It's little bit better than Sociable 2.0 WordPress plugin is and up to date working with WP 2.3.2. Get social! read more »
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Jeff from SEODesignSolutions explains in depth how GoDaddy may not be the ideal hosting solution for many in SEO, making mistakes that cost Jeff 2 days worth of traffic after a hot post on Stumble. Yes ... they left his site down for 2 whole days! read more »
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"My somewhat sarcastic post “Avoiding the well known #4 penalty“, where I joked about a possible Google #6 filter and criticized the SEO/Webmaster community for invalid methods of dealing with SERP anomalies, reads like “Aaron Wall is a clueless dou read more »
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How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for "loans", "credit cards" and "mortgages" 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it? read more »
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Thinking of tapping into the Facebook crowd for some high-profile advertising? Take a look this list of 100 tools & tips to help maximize all Facebook applications & opportunities. read more »
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When link building, it's important to not only know WHAT is/isn't allowed, but it's important to know WHY, and how to avoid them. This is a guide to the common penalizations within Google, how they're detected, and how to make sure your own site doe read more »
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Dev Basu writes this excellent post on the "How" and the "Why" of using Yahoo Answers to Capture Long Tail Searches. read more »
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Slightlyshady shares the basics methods of content generation. read more »
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Site Verification Files and Meta Tags
Site Verification Best Practices
Subdomains vs. Subdirectories
Underscores vs. Dashes
Keywords in URLs
Moving to a new IP address
Proxies read more »
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Interested what you can track for your clients or your own site? Hopefully this gives you some ideas. read more »
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Don't know why this wasn't sphunn earlier. This is an excellent plugin to defend against comment spam but with thoughtful flexibility. One benefit outside the obvious "spam prevention" is that it trains borderline spammers how to behave on your blog read more »
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There are an unlimited number of ways to obtain high-quality backlinks. You’ve probably heard about many of them, including social bookmarking, linkbait, guest posting, directory submissions, press releases etc. Thankfully, we won’t be talking about read more »
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