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The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, k read more »
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Lisa Barone writes:

[Looks around, makes sure it's safe to reveal secret squirrel SEO information.]

Okay, kids, it's July 3rd. That means it has officially been a month since the Give It Up session that occurred at SMX Advanced 2008. The embar read more »
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Michael Gray writes, "Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!" He goes on to write, "... read more »
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Adobe announced today that it is teaming up with major search engines - notably Google and Yahoo - to "dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs)." In a press statement, Adobe said that it is "pr read more »
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Ask.com... getting closer to core search or simply trying to increase the number of searches? Barry Schwartz gets to the nitty gritty... or not. read more »
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Back in 2007 the folks from 97th Floor released a promising Firefox add-on to help facilitate cross-submissions between social bookmarking sites. Unfortunately, development on this add-on stopped in October 2007 and it wasn't long before the add-on read more »
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Defense lawyer in Florida uses Google trends to show that client was not violating "community standards." Pretty clever, we'll see if it works. read more »
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Paige Filler guest posts with content ideas that everyone should take to heart. Not only does this article give great ideas, but it details the implementation steps that you can use over and over again to really make this technique work for you. read more »
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As Danny puts it, Yahoo's leadership has done a piss-poor job making people believe there's hope, he's stepped up and given it a swing. As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, Danny gives us the counter view on the company's future. read more »
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Chris Winfield writes... Yesterday I presented at SES Toronto along with Lee Odden and Dave Snyder on a panel called ‘Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?’ I figured that in order to show how Twitter actually works - it would be best to use read more »
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Dazzlin D - Don’t get me wrong. I know that “the world” (meaning the government and the marketing world, specifically) has tons of information on all of us, and I don’t really spend time worrying about trying to keep much of anything private. Still, read more »
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DazzlingDonna (Donna Fontenot) has put together a list of bloggers who routinely write about search-related topics. read more »
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A couple of weeks ago Search Engine Journal covered the controversy behind Google StreetView and their Google Armada trespassing on private property and filming homes and the happenings on such property despite obvious no trespassing postings. read more »
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Yes they are, and in some situations, probably essential. John Mueller from Google explains it all. read more »
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When Fark has the ability to send hundreds of thousands of visitors to a site every single month, I’m surprised that more people haven’t written about how to leverage traffic from the site. Perhaps the main reason is that people don’t understand Far read more »
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Seriously, if you're gonna redesign a site, it might as well be a cool one like WAN. You'll get a lifelong link, and Brent saying nice things about you. Plus, I'm gonna send you guitar hero so we can b*tch about Tom Morello being a guitar alien fr read more »
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Brent discusses why people need to be careful about what trade secrets they reveal on blogs and during conferences as it can have a profound effect on their own reputation and the reputation of the industry as a whole. read more »
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Robots from Vanessa over at Jane and Robot. Huge and awesome. 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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With the fast growth and uptime growing pains, debates about Twitter are plentiful so let’s settle it once and for all with a Twitter poll:Is Twitter the Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool? read more »
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An aweseome post by one of the final Twitter holdouts, David Mihm, where he owns up to the errors of his ways and describes how he came to see the light. read more »
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Personally I doubt that Yahoo will ever learn from anyone. Their last purchases demonstrate nothing but lack of maturity and understanding of the new trends. Of course, their new Yahoo!Search Open Platform could prove to be the new "hit" but still.. read more »
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Tony Adam writes "I have been inundated with communities over the last couple years and recently it has been almost the only thing I am working on lately. I have learned so much about managing volunteer groups, creating an offline community of web g read more »
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One of the best things about our industry, is how nice the people can be. This is a great example of just that, with a great lesson: instead of paying money for links, send gifts! read more »
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Today the new beta officially launched for users to have a chance to test it and provide feedback. read more »
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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
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