MAndy17

Whoa. This is big news for anyone who owns a domain, and certainly for folks who buy and sell them. "The California Federal Court decision should make it crystal clear to would-be domain name purchasers that true ownership of a domain name is not ba read more »
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How might a search engine verify page ranking results of a search algorithm with respect to the specific needs or characteristics of specific groups of users? read more »
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Rand lets off about paid links:
"This perfectly explains why you have to discount perturbances like paid links. Make it about the business, and the business owners and operators in the room will respect you. Make it about the lack of morality among read more »
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Dell has sold $500,000 of hardware using Twitter (from discounts/specials), and
Other people are doing more modest things like selling t-shirts.

The reason Twitter works for sales is, not only is it a communications tool just like a phone or em read more »
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At SEJ Ann given tips on How to Use Social Media for Keyword Research. read more »
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Andy Beard with an intelligent response to DaveN on the use of nofollow on blog comments. read more »
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Now that is an impressive round-up of opinion! read more »
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Yahoo Collaborates With McAfee To Secure Search Results. Bad news for the bad guys, but good news to know. read more »
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Different ways that different search engine technologies understand text relevance... Google says, “... keep things relevant.” So where is the line? And even more interesting, how can a machine define it if even we, humans, fail to? read more »
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We got logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, Cre8asite, the Search Engine Roundtable and others. All for our special moms! Happy Mothers Day! read more »
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As announced last weekend, Google is launching the mother of all data portability features. After Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Portability announcement, here comes Google beating the two social networks with its Google Friend Connect features! read more »
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Currently there is no recognized standard for assessing the skills and knowledge level of the search marketing professional. This not only increases the difficulty for employers to accurately identify the talent level of the professional workforce, read more »
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Why SEO needs to be bought and sold on quality of service - not price points.

Link beetle, anyone? read more »
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A great description of Online Reputation Management by Glen Allsopp. Glen also gets into high level details about process. This is a really good post to introduce people to the concept of Online Reputation Management. read more »
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At SEJ Ann said about Black Hat SEO and How to promote your website indirectly in Google. read more »
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How to use Flickr photos on your blog legally using the Creative Commons Copyright. Flickr is one of the best free resources for free photos, you just have to follow a couple of simple rules. read more »
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Creating networks of (interlinked) sites is a widespread tactic of PageRank and ranking manipulation. To own a lot of websites is perfectly OK but to own a lot of websites for the sake of “link juice” is not good (per Google at least). The line is n read more »
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Just as you’d say: “What the heck? What difference will a word or two make to enhance the power of a headline?” You’ll be amazed, how by simply adding a target + a specific, you’ll make your headline far more attractive in a matter of seconds. read more »
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Lengthy interview with Yahoo's Brian Gil about Yahoo! Local, local search tactics, reviews and ratings, and much more. "Do we spend too much time focusing on reviews?" Yep, we do..... read more »
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An excellent resource with some great reminders on how to get your blog to display fast. read more »
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Tad made a list of simple rules of blog commenting netiquette, they might not apply everywhere but they will help you not be thrown out at SEO 2.0 and in other places probably too. read more »
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...among other sites it seems. read more »
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Seems Dave got an answer as to why a site he was looking into got a SMACK DOWN!.... U guessed it...Paid links! Strange part it that the site owner said he stopped his involvement with them 6 months back and only recently got nailed. So we're grandfa read more »
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When launching a new website its best to think SEO from the beginning, but in some situations, you're going to want to cast SEO and search engines aside for core website marketing. read more »
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Ann Smarty brings the goods, brings the case study and educates, yo!

A movie poster is usually meant to:

* call to action - i.e. encourage to watch a movie;
* set expectations = find its targeted audience (e.g. people who prefer come read more »
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