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So client education aside, what's the absolute best tool for conducting research into the backlink portfolio of your site? Should you go with Google Webmaster Tools or Yahoo Site Explorer? Let's start by comparing the numbers... read more »
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Back in November Mashable presented their Open Web Awards and invited Collective Thoughts to be one of the Judges. The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing w read more »
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There are millions of blogs out there, and getting noticed amid the cacophony of such a noisy and active crowd is the key problem for any new blogger.

In the face of such overwhelming odds, how can you differentiate yourself? How can you get noti read more »
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Let me paint the picture for you. You spent the last 8 hours perfecting a killer linkbait. You're proud of your work. You think it's going to do well on Digg, it collects some votes...a few hour later, you receive an email from someone claiming that read more »
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TechnologyReview has published an interview with Google's Director of Research, Peter Norvig, where it's acknowledged that the search giant hires individuals to look at search results pages and provide their judgment about the quality of the results read more »
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Andy Beard is now just 1 of 2 Sphinners that have produced 100 Sphinns! Way to go, Andy (and DoshDosh, for setting the mark)! read more »
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Tom discusses in some good depth one of the most important elements to any SEO firm ... Account Management. It may be easy to get business, but the real challenge to growing is in keeping existing business first ... then securing new clients.

Gre read more »
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Here’s a friendly heads up by way of a Season’s gift to our esteemed readers, offering a sneak peak behind the scenes of what’s brewing in the sinister clandestine developer labs of modern bad ass Black Hat SEO: Mosaic Cloaking is essentially compon read more »
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Microsoft explains why they indexed billions of Google Ads and what they did to fix it. read more »
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For edition 31 I bring you two women from two entirely different spectrums of the online universe. One woman I've come to greatly admire and respect, not just for our love of a TV Hero who wields "Mr. Pointy" (hey now, get your mind out of the gutt read more »
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Brian is now convinced that his site is on autobury read more »
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Webgeek provides some very simple steps to improve your Technorati authority which should result in increased visibility and traffic. read more »
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“If you are drawn to write on a broad variety of topics (3-5) even if there is a remotely common thread, are you better off doing it on a single blog or creating several niche blogs for each one?” I recently posed the this question to a round-table read more »
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Follow these handy tips and ensure your Google stats never hit double figures. read more »
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Statcounter has regained its status as a PR10 site.
Looks like they managed to lift the pagerank penalty. read more »
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This is an extreme case of a lingering problem with the AdWords system. Although Google has a double serving policy that allows only one ad for any domain to be displayed, it's very easy to work around that policy by using a different display URL. read more »
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SEObook gets it's first update since November 2006.

Topical updates include:

Google PageRank
Google Supplemental Results
Google Filtering & Google Search Result Re-ranking
Ranking Search Results by Re-ranking the Results Based on Local Inte read more »
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It’s been a long standing assertion amongst the A-list members of the SEO community that PageRank does not equate with ranking: Too many low PR sites hitting top spots in the SERPs, outdoing their high PR competitors, it’s really hard to come to any read more »
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The big news in the blogosphere lately has been the announcement that Google is going to once again screw over their publishers to cater to their advertisers. Naturally that’s not quite how they put it but it’s pretty obvious that’s what they’re doi read more »
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Some problems with user privacy confirmed with some Facebook app developers, but resolved. read more »
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Andy Beard discusses the reaction of Techncrunch

Techncrunch in a state of confusion inadvertently admits to selling Page Rank. Andy discusses the sequence of events that lead to this admission, and Google's role in the confusion. read more »
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Andy Beal with some quotes from Scoble going through Apple Hell on how Apple really needs to embrace Social Media as they expand into the mainstream. read more »
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Thoughtful review of a new site that will add to the decline of blogilization (or the improvement of it depending on what side of the fence you are on with Pay Per Post). read more »
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Cultivate the habit of non-finishing. Not every project you start is worth finishing. Sometimes we get into it and realize, “This is a waste of time.” Fine, then give yourself permission to quit. read more »
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This post is an exercise in free association...I have no better way to describe it:.) read more »
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