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Scott Hendison discusses the evolution of linkbuilding and makes the strong case for linkbuilding Darwinism...if an SEO doesn't evolve his/her link-thinking away from the traditional sources of links (now much devalued), they won't be able to acheiv read more »
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Google's SSL cert is expired ;) heh read more »
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Lisa Barone understands the importance of making the connection between the writer and the reader.
Here she responds to my Dandelion post with flattering detail, although I have never been called that. :-) read more »
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Let's say some dev team with no SEO knowledge executed a site migration.

They didn't keep the file naming structure
They didn't 301 all old urls to new correspnding pages
Some pages linked from the home page are not even indexed
The site comma read more »
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Matt Cutts wrote a somewhat controversial post about a CEO black-hat who is now in prison. He suggests that companies who are willing to employ black-hat SEO techniques will be more likely to engage in cutting corners elsewhere, possibly legal corne read more »
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Marshall decided to make a list of the Top 10 Objections to New Online Tools and What You Can Say in Response. He surveyed my nearly 1300 friends on Twitter and got all kinds of thoughtful replies. read more »
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Do you like to post one article at a time or blast out many related posts to get the excitement going? read more »
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Link Baiting is the search engine optimized version of Viral Marketing. A few technical changes can turn a viral campaign into a well organized link baiting campaign. read more »
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On the heels of Caroline's amazing post at http://sphinn.com/story/12535 ProBlogger offers us 11 Tips for Getting Your Comments Noticed on a Popular Blog.

"In this post I’m going to suggest 11 tips for leaving tips on blogs that not only get not read more »
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From the page "If you look at my Google Reader trends you can see that Sphinn's "Hot Today" RSS updates more often than Search Engine Land and the prolific SERoundtable. In fact, Sphinn is clearly more than %50 "faster" than Search Engine Land on up read more »
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Social media marketing, and using social media agencies, is another tool in the toolbox for smart marketers. The new tool no more replaces advertising or PR than a new wrench replaces a screwdriver or a hammer. But depending on the job you need to read more »
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Social Media helps a lot in bringing in traffic - its one medium that doesn’t distinguish between an established blog and a newer one. Bring it on your side by displaying appropriate buttons prominently that entice readers to click. Hiding the Digg/ read more »
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People are talking: Carbon offsets, plug-in hybrids, species extinction, debt-for-nature swaps, urban sustainability, permafrost meltdowns, carfree days.

Links to Green Communities and Social Networks, so that you can join in on the conversations read more »
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The folks at SoloSEO have come up with a new tool that allows you to measure the success of your content strategy.
"IndexRank is a new metric to summarize the indexing rate of your site. If you constantly add content to your site, big or small, you read more »
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Aaron Wall case-studies how many websites which RANKED FOR YEARS got KILLED BY a GOOGLE engineer within days of being mentioned on a popular SEO blog. read more »
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Aimclear just released an interesting blog slide show on his site. I like the position Marty takes about getting a feel for each individual blog, rather than having your eyes glaze over from yet another RSS feed (yes, even full feed doesn't quite c read more »
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Google’s vision — “Social Will Be Everywhere” — is more compelling than anything Facebook could possibly devise. Who wouldn’t prefer the unlimited freedom to take one’s own trusted circle anywhere on the Web, as opposed to the cramped confines of is read more »
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From the page:- "I consider what they're doing as deceitful in the very least. Why else would they have used trained monkeys to manually search my blog and manually reduce the ranks of specific pages? In case you're wondering, I have the Google IP a read more »
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Why can't every article on social networking be like this, sigh! If you like your online reading to consist of no more than a 300 word blog capsule post, this is not for you. A nice overview on the history and definition of social networks. read more »
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Certainly one for the water cooler, and as the author suggests, this is pure speculation and not based upon a shred of fact. read more »
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You really should not read this article. Please don't! I warned you. It's partly about how gay musicians can help your marketing efforts. read more »
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Marketers are realizing the explosive power of linkbait and viral marketing which has to do basically with two variables:

· content creation, and
· networking

Both of which are easy to categorize as “Social Science” because they have to do wi read more »
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from the page "My marketing knowledge was expensive to acquire, but everything else was good enough to compete for cheap or free (at least in that market at this moment in time)."

Aaron Wall is so good, he manages to extract maximum information f read more »
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I thought I would write an amazing post with all my secrets to make it to the Digg homepage on your first try... read more »
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Short and sweet, here's the update;

Yahoo! Search Blog: Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Update

Over the last few days, we've been rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be compl read more »
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