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Google, the superbrand and top global brand is also listed on the Better Business Bureaus (BBB) list of businesses as having an "unsatisfactory record read more »
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There are a few different ways that misinformation occurs. The problem is that the internet amplifies each of these errors to dangerous proportions. read more »
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Don't let the title put you off - this is an outstanding article on the difficulties associated with doing SEO consultancy for small businesses. read more »
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A quick tip from DaveN about getting a link from your Twitter page. read more »
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Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The read more »
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In the first part of this series about B2B SEO, we spoke about an online strategy for B2B websites. We named some differences between B2B and B2C websites. We also determined the kind of content a B2B website needs. This article dives deeper into th read more »
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Tamar Weinberg gives another great post about how that "Everyone emphasizes that content is king. But does the amount of content make a difference?" read more »
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Donna Fontenot writes, "I’m done. I’ve had all I can take of the vicious, nasty, cr@p that has been going on in our little industry. Sure, SEOs have disagreed with one another from day one, usually on forums. That’s nothing new. Sometimes it got nas read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "Michael Gray gave Google the day off and decided to pick on women instead, or more specifically, BlogHer. Michael claims that the BlogHer conference is guilty of sexual discrimination. He's offended that there weren't any male s read more »
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Including solid warranty language in your client contracts serves two important purposes. First, it helps manage client expectations. Second, including a solid warranty limits your liability in the event that you can't get your client to the top of read more »
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The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.

Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out diffe read more »
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I don't know if this is here to stay, but I just noticed that all the external links from stories that haven't reached the front page yet are being nofollowed now. Great!

Hopefully this puts an end to the invasion of spam. I almost got RSI from c read more »
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Though I don't always agree with what GrayWolf writes, I find Michael very entertaining most of the time. Therefor this Sphinn :-)

"To those organizers I challenge them to look in the mirror and realize that you’ve now become the same evil and se read more »
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It shouldn’t be the be all and end all of Twitter, but lots of people are focused on getting as many people to follow them as possible.

Personally I would rather have a few people really interested in what I have to share than thousands who are j read more »
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To earn $125+ an hour in this field requires more than simply the ability to put a decent sentence together. It takes either exceptional talent, a good grasp of marketing, specialized expertise, or ideally, some combination of the above. read more »
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"Edward Lewis runs SEOConsultants.com, one of the more well known and trusted directories in the SEO space. When I first started learning SEO about 5 years back Edward sent me an email letting me know that something I wrote was incorrect. He was rig read more »
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There is an entire list of reasons that your site’s rankings could change. In fact, many site owners find their rank changes regularly when they’ve made any on-page adjustments whatsoever. Is it a coincidence that your rank fell after you tweaked yo read more »
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By happenstance, the site/property group owner, Tim, who is a staunch Republican, made a t-shirt on a whim that said "Don't Trust This Man" and had an arrow pointing to a picture of Barack Obama. He wore the shirt out to lunch one day and got a larg read more »
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Just finished reading Blogging Heroes by Michael Banks - great book, insightful commentary by top name bloggers... but I'm left wondering...

Do bloggers get the concepts behind monetization and the potential their traffic holds? I don't mean the read more »
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Just because conversions or rankings have declined - the copy is not automatically to blame. Let’s continue by looking at two other would-be problems that might detract from sales. read more »
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From Jill Whalen: "Blogs. They're the best thing since sliced bread. Everyone with a website needs one. Or do they?" read more »
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"A couple of weeks ago, Adobe announced that it was working with Google and Yahoo! on making Flash content easier to index in search engines. Google said it was using the search-engine specific Flash player that Adobe had made available (Yahoo!’s in read more »
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They Want Your Money, That’s Their Job. read more »
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If you’ve been around Twitter long enough, certain patterns start to emerge. People start to develop tweeting habits, and for better or worse, those patterns tend to stay fairly stable, at least in my experience. Some people are composite creatures read more »
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An in-depth explanation of exactly why the Google External Keyword Tool should not be relied upon for SEO keyword research, even though it now shows precise numbers. read more »
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