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Jeff of Search Engine People about himself, prophecy, social media, search conferences, early computers in the eighties etc. read more »
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Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
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A programmatic solution to running and managing a network of micro-sites for link juice as explained during the Give It Up session at SMX Advanced and touched upon in SEOMoz's Whiteboard Friday Give It Up video.

Probably not the brightest idea to read more »
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Nice rant from Donna about the escalating costs of SEO conferences read more »
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Give It Up! - No more secrets time. In this session, our panel of noted SEOs all share some of their favorite and largely overlooked SEO tips. Then we turn to the audience for more sharing. Attendees vow not to blog what's discussed for the now trad read more »
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Is Plurk really a player in the big game with the likes of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter? Who are these Plurkers and should you bother with yet another social profile? 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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So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
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~40 photo examples of how ICanHasCheezburger and ecommerce are related - including photos and links to additional articles on each topic. Hilarious. read more »
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Ann Smarty has put together a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. read more »
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Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
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URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes daily all over the place as if URLs wouldn’ read more »
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It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social medi read more »
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Google search has certain commands that you can include with your search query, which allow you to “filter” their search engine results, which can help you get somewhat of a better idea of areas you might want to improve upon to help your blog rank read more »
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Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Not only do you have to write extremely compelling and informative content that makes visitors want to read every word and ultimately buy a service or product (which is hard enough alone), but you have to structure your writing in such a way that to read more »
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Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a 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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TheNanny612 didn’t think the duty of choosing an avatar would be a difficult one. After all, what is the big deal, really? An avatar simply is a picture to help members of Online Communities know who you are…. is that really such a big deal? read more »
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Hilarious: Back to future with Jason Calacanis. read more »
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I wrote this post last night. It talks about how American English has greatly influenced the way I write (I'm from the UK). There has been a lot of American phrases etc creeping into the UK so I'm interested to hear what people think about it. read more »
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You want to build a good relationship with your search engine optimization specialist. You need to know that your provider has integrity, knowledge, skill, and resources. Here is how I would evaluate an SEO were I looking to hire one. read more »
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Kate writes her first post at Youmoz sharing advanced tips on segmenting your analytics data to find all your broad match phrases! Sweeeeeet tutorial :D. read more »
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I really hate arguments over cloaking. Like really hate them. But Rand Fishkin recently did a chart outlining the degrees of "safeness" to cloaking that in turn riled up Google's Matt Cutts in comments there. So I wanted to revisit some of the thin read more »
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