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In memory of our friend and one of the founders of IMBroadcast.com Leif Nissen, who has left us, but at the same time will always be with us. read more »
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Ann Smarty writes about using Blog Carnivals to build links and engage your community. Often forgotten as a link building tactic, especially for clients, carvnivals can build niche connections, links, and establish authority in one's industry. read more »
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Jeff Quipp and Search Engine People announced this morning the purchase of the well know Search Marketing Blog/Resource SEO-Scoop.com. Never fear, Donna is still there and sounds like they have big plans. read more »
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Do you check to see if a site has been flagged for distributing malware? In an effort to not only protect your site from linking out to bad neighborhoods, but also to protect bad neighborhoods from linking to you, I suggest that before you link out read more »
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There's a beta release coming out tomorrow morning in more than 100 countries, so I've tried to collect as much information as possible tonight to help us all prepare for what will clearly be a busy week in the search industry. read more »
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If you did not get to this years Google Dance, Ross Dunn has the whole thing on Video. Take a look to see what you missed! I don't think he left out anything at all. Everything from the Huge Rock Band Stage to the T-Rex. Oh... and watch to the end t read more »
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Josh Gampel does a nice job of examining the effects of the Economy on job searchers and companies doing the hiring in the search marketing field. read more »
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Google likes spam. Sounds surprising? Well, actually it does! Of all the spam that is generated, Google seems quite comfortable with 5% of the lot read more »
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For those of you who are buried under piles of work and don’t spend as much time as you like reading about what is happening in the industry, Mashable.com is on tour this summer. I was lucky enough to have the time to attend the SummerSmash Miami ev read more »
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Here is Joost's guide 'how to provide usable WP-SERPs', titled
"Make WordPress' search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. read more »
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"I have been using Propeller for quite some time now, and have always felt propeller to be a great source for quality traffic and weighted link from a search engine optimization stand point. I did however always feel there was a lot of functionality read more »
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The biggest list of SEO tools. Ever. read more »
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In link building, sometimes marketers lose their focus or get over aggressive, and spend too much time contacting every single site within their niche, hoping to get a link or a buzz generating blog post about their product or service. Sometimes it’ read more »
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Both Google and Yahoo in coordination with Adobe is finally making it easier for webmasters to make Flash contents on their site searchable by search engines’ crawlers. 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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Regular and frequent visits by the crawler is the first sign that your site appeals to Google. Thus the most efficient way to get frequent and deep crawls is to develop a website that search engines see as important and valuable. read more »
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As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? read more »
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This article focuses on an underlying message from Michael Gray's SMX Advanced presentation -- Is sculpting Google PageRank worth it? This post then goes on to introduce five safe and simple tips to get started with PageRank sculpting. read more »
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I’ve been sitting the whole day downloading, installing, testing and uninstalling applications and in the end narrowed my list to only 3 tools I found really useful (most of the tools I came across either didn’t work or focused on rather outdated an read more »
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John Carcutt - "Real SEOs used to go to forums all the time. As a matter of fact, I bet most Real SEOs learned the craft on those very forums. Now, Real SEOs post all of that hard earned knowledge on their own sites or friends blogs. Why give away t read more »
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Loren Baker Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite years of building relevant and valuable links, and wanted some tips on building better links. read more »
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Should help a lot of people :) read more »
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Ann Smarty asks the question, "I for one do backlink research almost daily. Why is that so essential in SEO to know how to properly analyze backlinks?" Ann examines ways to explore the site’s backlinks using link: operator in Yahoo." read more »
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Reilly O'Donnell walks through data that shows SEO jobs have had explosive growth over the last four months despite the current state of the economy and also discusses SEO job trends over the last several years. read more »
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If you haven't read the 2007 edition, because you've been waiting for this, now is the time, and yes it's still free. If you've already read the 2007 edition, don't get too excited, because not very much has changed.

Sorry if you were expecting s read more »
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