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Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
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Some insights into the data that SEOmoz revealed today about what their sources for the Linkscape tool are, and what those sources reveal about things behind the scenes. read more »
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the Link Spiel - Your link marketing plan is a valuable piece of information and should only be seen by the people you contract to do your work. Don't let it become a piece of information passed around assembly line style. Protect your competitive l read more »
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Matt Cutts posted the following comment on his blog on September 24, 2008: "I wouldn’t be surprised if new PageRanks started showing up this weekend or so."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/traveling-light-posting/#comment-133935 read more »
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After what seems like forever writing and blogging for Bruce Clay, Lisa Barone is moving on to pastures new...


I hope your new venture still sees you writing online somewhere. The old place just won't be the same without The Lisa. read more »
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Michael Martinez: Out of nearly 1600 query expressions that have brought recent traffic to SEO Theory, I have selected ten to discuss in greater depth. I chose these ten expressions for one or more of several reasons: the visitor counts were high, o read more »
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While I liked the fact that my WordPress login and registration pages were seamless with the rest of my site design wise due to a plugin, that ugly non matching user profile page was driving me nuts. So I enlisted Joost de Valk's programming skills read more »
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David Naylor does the Calcanis dance, saying "I Quit!", but of course he then mentions he'll be back later. His frustration with whatever Google glitch / penalty / error / ban is affecting his blog's indexing has prompted him to throw in the towel. read more »
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An outstanding professional and positive message from Michael Gray. Honestly, my hat is off to him for this post. I spoke against him, publicly on sphinn, but now, I'd like to publicly praise Michael Gray. Good job!!! read more »
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Augusto Ellacuriaga: Google recently issued an official opinion regarding duplicate content in an article titled Demystifying the “duplicate content penalty.” They emphasized the fact that some techniques will not cause a penalty, but instead may af read more »
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Yesterday QualityGal gave a few thoughts on the recent comments about Michael Gray’s take on Guy Kawasaki accepting a camera for the review…and how they feel Google should treat this (the ole paid link debate stuff). read more »
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Mike Dammann: Everyone I network with uses wordpress. Sure, there are some Typepad and Moveable Type users here and there, but Wordpress is the search engine friendliest, easiest to install and the plugins are great.

Wordpress is by far the best. read more »
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Tynt is out as a private beta service, and it's allowing anyone to get an account and start marking up sites. The trouble is, URLs are being indexed and webmasters have no ability to block or opt out of this "contextual relevance and dialog" servic read more »
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Going green or offering ecofriendly products is great for the Earth and developing a niche for your business; it’s also a great way to build new links to your company website. Loren Baker points out a handful of ways to attract links and attention read more »
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The author is relatively new to SEO, but has created a summary (in a well organized PDF) of link building tactics and ideas from various SEOmoz posts over the years.

If you decide to read only one Youmoz post this year, make it this one. read more »
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As twitter folds under the mighty pressure of Matt Cutts Google by removing the ability to get link juice from your profile link,Did Twitter stop the bots ..NO read more »
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A High Rankings Forum member who has been working on a yearlong SEO agreement is now facing new management with his client and they're requesting a refund for services (mostly because some project deliverables weren't actually delivered). Should thi read more »
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SEOs unite! The SEO Code of Ethics Effort is underway!

Do you provide SEO services and serve clients or represent a company that does Search Engine Optimization and/or Social Marketing? Are you interested in being part of an effort to discuss bes read more »
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Deb Mastaler questions the value of "fast, easy" links, and offers a playbook for article marketers: "Perhaps a better approach would be to add new, low-cost angles to old ways of linking. Find a method you've used in the past and expand on the tech read more »
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During my trip to San Jose for SES I [David Snyder] was privy to such a moment in history. A moment where a legend, a mythical creature was born. Our industry from this time will forever know the name, SEO Champion.

Below find an Oral History of read more »
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Its no secrete that the reputation of the SEO industry isn't as many of us wish it to be. The term "snake-oil salesman" has been used few times to describe our industry, unfortunately.

It might be therefore we see some responsible SEO companies f read more »
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Seth Godin has an article today called ads are the new tip jar, where he advocates clicking on Google adsense to help bloggers get paid for their work. Michael is right - this needs to be discussed more as to why it's a terrible idea. read more »
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What are employers looking for? What do you think is more valuable - PPC or SEO? Are employers looking to see if you've gone through SEO training? Where can you find a job? read more »
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For years there has been dissociation between Translation/Web Globalization companies and Search Engine Marketing (SEM)/Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firms.

That gap finally seems to be getting closer, yet very few companies really understand read more »
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Another rant from David where he talks about how "SEO is dead, ranking is useless and other fairy tales".

In his usual style David goes through gripes about SEO in a step by step, methodical way.

"Well peeps, it seems it’s that time again an read more »
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