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Jim Boykin & We Build Pages has evolved.... no more link buying. Explains a bit about why Pat, Rhea, Lisa & Quality Girl are there....

"Buying links passed the tipping point long ago… you must get over it, and evolve, or be ready to face what mig read more »
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Google SearchWiki — a new feature that allows you to move and comment on search results — has been out for less than a day, and it’s amazing to see how much confusion (as well as commentary) there is already developing. So below, some clarification read more »
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I wrote a summary of the helpful Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide for our SEO clients to use as they develop new pages or make changes to existing pages. Sort of a bullet list of Google's SEO guidelines. Maybe it will be useful to you read more »
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I disagree with this article, but thought it might provoke some good discussion. Eager to hear feedback. read more »
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Best Rick Astley Halloween Costume EVAR!
http://digg.com/people/Best_Rick_Astley_Halloween_Costume_EVAR read more »
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Watch out Googlers, they want your BRAINS!!! read more »
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SNIP - Should you avoid the program because of the tracking? Well, that’s a personal decision. Google already has plenty of people who voluntarily allow themselves to be tracked in greater depth in return for getting personalized search results and read more »
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Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. read more »
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Matt Cutts posted the following comment on his blog on September 24, 2008: "I wouldn’t be surprised if new PageRanks started showing up this weekend or so."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/traveling-light-posting/#comment-133935 read more »
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Hrmm... so what about all thos DNN, Joomla, TYPO3 rewrites i've written, do i have to change them back? read more »
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Perform SEOQuake functions in Google Chrome like Backlinks, Cache, Nofollow Highlight, W3C Validation, Whois Lookup etc. read more »
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From the post, "Let's put this to bed once and for all, folks: There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that." read more »
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I posted the browser stats from Google Analytics of SELand, SERoundtable and my personal blog, CartoonBarry.com at Search Engine Land. Chrome looked pretty impressive.

I encourage you to share your stats as well. So go to Google Analytics, cha read more »
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Now that Google Chrome is live, I [Danny Sullivan] spent some time looking at the search features within it, especially to see -- as I did recently with Internet Explorer 8 -- whether Google was going to try to stack the deck in its own favor. Like read more »
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Danny Sullivan gives us a summary of the new Internet Explorer 8. How will it deal with Microsoft's bias towards MSN Live and what of the new InPrivate feature, rumoured to block third-party advertising? read more »
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I'm doing a talk at Gnomedex about how search continues to be part of our everyday lives -- and the issues that come with it, such as privacy. This post looks at some of those issues. I'm hoping to spark some discussion that will feed into my talk. read more »
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Barry writes: "Philipp Lenssen's The World According to Cuil blog post inspired me to take snapshots of how Cuil, the new search engine, matches up the names of our industry, to pictures." This is actually VERY funny! :) read more »
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Danny takes a deeper look at the new search engine aspiring to compete with Google and the conclusion is inevitable:

"With the huge caveat that nine queries are far from letting anyone conclude anything, I still didn't come away with a sense tha read more »
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Can any start-up search engine "be the next Google?" Many have wondered this, and today's launch of Cuil (pronounced "cool') may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what appears to b read more »
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ShoeMoney says - "There was a post on the digital point forums from a newbie poster saying he had just purchased a list containing all attendees of the Affiliate Summit."

"I followed the link and downloaded the list… it contained names and home read more »
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Donna Fontenot writes, "I’m done. I’ve had all I can take of the vicious, nasty, cr@p that has been going on in our little industry. Sure, SEOs have disagreed with one another from day one, usually on forums. That’s nothing new. Sometimes it got nas read more »
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I don't know if this is here to stay, but I just noticed that all the external links from stories that haven't reached the front page yet are being nofollowed now. Great!

Hopefully this puts an end to the invasion of spam. I almost got RSI from c read more »
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The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a video interview created by Juliane Stiller of Search Quality Team. Juliane interviewed Matt Cutts about search spam for the German Google Blog. My favorite question and answer set was when was the first tim 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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Rob Snell tells his incredible story of how he was asked to testify in a congressional hearing on the impact of the Internet on small business. read more »
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