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This is a guest post by Brandy Eddings. She is one of the brightest young minds in paid search and SEM. The is the owner of New Edge Media, an SEM company based in Texas. She is also speaking at Scary SEO in October. read more »
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On Digg, having something to say is only half the battle, knowing how to say it is the other half. This guides you to dissect the jargon, people and memes used in comments on a daily basis. Each section is broken down in detail to help you boost you read more »
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Kate Morris and Lisa Barone write "Idea so stolen from On365’s 21 Signs a Geek Girl Likes You. This is coming from a couple of the apparently few single SEOs. As I’ve said before, almost all SEOs are married! I realized this while stalking people be read more »
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Copyblogger says to be visible, don't worry about teaching people, just write what they want to hear. I'm not sure that's great advice. I think being like everyone else and telling people what they want to hear is exactly how you become invisible. A read more »
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Robots.txt has become a widely used method of controlling your site crawling. Thus it has become one of the first things I check when diagnosing on-site issues. While nowadays almost every webmaster knows its basics, some things still cause misunder read more »
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Stoney deGeyter asks the question, "When I only have about 65 characters to work with in a title tag (that which is visible on the search engine results pages), should I use any of that valuable real estate to display my company name?" read more »
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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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Jeff of Search Engine People about himself, prophecy, social media, search conferences, early computers in the eighties etc. 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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"One of the frustrations of doing SEO for large websites is the fact that Google makes it very difficult to see more than a small part of the search index. Even in Webmaster Tools, Google's index search is built on the same mechanics as its web sear 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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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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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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This time I will review mostly the ones that check the domain name availability dynamically and also provide you with some tips to advance your search. 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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"In addition to being smart, gorgeous, ridiculously talented, and pig kissing yummy, Lisa Barone is also one year older."

Happy Birthday! read more »
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It was only a matter of time before we saw one of the first TLD Management services get launched but who would have thought in less than 24 hours? read more »
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Basically, Yahoo! Buzz showcases the best of the best voted by us everyday people as instead of editors, the Yahoo! users get to decide what is the best story / video out there! read more »
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Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its t read more »
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John Carcutt wins the Search Engine Journal blogging contest, and donates $10,00 in prizes... "One of my best friends growing up recently moved to a remote area of Mexico to build and operate an orphanage. I plan on donating a majority of the prizes read more »
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While plug-ins for the WordPress blogging platform are in abundant supply, I try not to depend on too many of them due to the fact that I don't want to have to worry about them breaking every time a new version of WordPress is released. That being s read more »
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Across virtually every social network site, users scramble to be the first to break a news story. Inevitably, this leads to hundreds of duplicate story submissions and ends with one winner amongst hundreds of losers. But even if you weren’t the Wood read more »
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Whether it’s part of a local blog network or just a guy in Seattle writing about his neighborhood, hyperlocal blogs have arrived and proven they can attract and grow an audience of interested readers. As blogging continues to spread out to a mainstr read more »
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Best of The Web adds a local component, making a great directory an even better resource on the consumer level. read more »
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Barry Schwartz continues to report porn on Google over at Search Engine Land, via email to Googlers, via Twitter and Plurk and so on. But it seems that this is a battle Google is not winning. Why is this such an issue, because if a kid searches on h read more »
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