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Ever wanted to find a webmaster but there's no obvious contact page or details on the site? Here's a comprehensive guide to tracking these elusive figures down! A great guide read more »
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A look at what needs to be considered when planning a foreign language strategy in SEO read more »
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As many top social news users spend more and more time on reddit, the traffic seems to be following them. read more »
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A great article about Microsoft Browserank, a pagerank alternative from Microsoft.

Although I am not in alignment that Google doesn't use any user behavior data as the article implies. read more »
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This collection of tools will give you everything you need to get started or improve how you're working with RSS. read more »
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I don't care what you think about Toolbar PR, you know you're gonna check it... read more »
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A recent study revealed that ONLY 15% of Fortune 500 companies communicate with consumers via blogs. This number was lower than I expected, at least as far as Fortune 500 companies go. It is not surprising to me however with regards to businesses in read more »
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Discusses your options for handling low CTR% keywords, and a diagnostic list of reasons why you may have low CTR - with recommended actions for each. Also, when is low CTR% a GOOD thing, and what do you do with poor converting and negative ROI keywo read more »
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We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol read more »
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How to optimize for multiple word order search phrases. From the post:

Determine Relative Traffic Levels
Make the Higher Traffic Phrase Priority One
Optimize on the Page (& Site) for the Different Phrase Ordering
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Complaint sites continue to litter the SERPS for a number of major brand names and the problem is quickly growing out of control. This morning, Loren Baker introduces us to an open discussion on how to combat these negative brand influences. read more »
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Wil's wheels are turning, he's got some good thoughts going here......
Here’s the problem…the ad for a CMMS/EAM software appears to be BEHAVIORAL, yes I said it. I was logged out of my account when the ad showed.

I only visited that site because read more »
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Could this be it? If you’re on top of the tech news, you know that Digg has been on sale for over 6 months now - actively looking for buyers to take on the social media monster.

In the latest round of rumors, Google is set to buy up Digg for $200 read more »
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Michael Martinez
"There seems to be a growing misperception in the industry that I must have parted with Rand Fishkin on bad terms or something in 2006 after blogging for SEOmoz for almost a year. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and after read more »
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Sometimes duplicate content problems are not at all easy to find and here’s a classic example. A group of recruitment websites leaking their staging server URLs into Google’s, Yahoo’s and Live’s index. In live’s case, the problem is quite severe wit read more »
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After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. 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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A great article here from Michael Gray (GrayWolf) on the borderline hypocrisy that Google practices when dealing with paid linking and search. Worth a read as it contains some solid examples as well. read more »
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| Collective Thoughts | Today, we’re going to have a little fun with it. We’re going to take the web 1.0 metric of time on site and go a little more touchy feely with it for a web 2.0 world. Trust me, this will be fun. Here is a list of my top 10 fa read more »
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"I invited 20 experts active in the Local Search Marketing community to participate in this study, with the goal of identifying the factors that would be most helpful for ranking well in the Google and Yahoo Local Search algorithms, as well as techn 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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So you've got a new website, great you're now a step ahead of those without one but a small hop, skip and a jump behind those who have been online for a while. What can you do to catch up with those who already have plenty of traffic, links to their read more »
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A fun post comparing SEX and SEO ... the differences and the similarities. It can't be all work! 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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Sometime I found that our Boss or Clients defined the targets of conversion the websites for every month and we work hard for achieving that target. But sometime due to some of reasons we can’t achieve the targets. Here I want to share 6 reasons whi read more »
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