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Day 2 of SMX Sydney started off solidly and finished with an unexpected twist before we headed underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the after party.

Any Aussie SEO's who didn't attend should kick themselves because of the opportunities they m read more »
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In an unexpected twist to the end of Day 2 at SMX Sydney Rand Fishkin and Danny Sullivan exposed a possible case of blackhat cloaking by Flightcentre.com.au read more »
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I've just spent 4 hours summarising 18 pages of notes for people who couldn't attend SMX Sydney and also because I don't think anyone else has blogged about it in any detail. Will do the same tomorrow for Day 2 of SMX Sydney.

Enjoy. Neerav read more »
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Today the Aussie Bloggers Forums have opened the doors to the public. You don’t have to be an Aussie to join the forums, all nationalities are welcome. Unlike other forums out there on the web, questions are welcome and you will find lots of friendl read more »
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Google have ruined Andy Beard's Christmas. Bad Google. Bad. read more »
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Mailing lists, IM groups, stumbles, forum posts...do these aggressive schemes to maximize social media traffic actually work? Tim Nash & "caring slaves" (researchers) pour over site owner provided logs. read more »
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Sick of providing free social media consultations? Sound familiar? I'm sure this isn't Australia specific. read more »
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There’s a lot of people very unhappy with Google right now, and rightly so. We gave them too much power, and it is time to take it back. This post gives you everything you need to STOP using Google today, completely. read more »
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How to manipulate RSS feeds in Yahoo Pipes to keep an eye on the things that matter to you in Digg, Sphinn and Pligg clones. read more »
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Who let those Sphinn misfits start a new blog - Brian fires off with a look at how disorganised our lives are becoming, and some ways to stay in control. read more »
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It appears that mommy bloggers got hit in the last week with another Google smackdown. Wendy is livid as the Google SERPS are still full of junk. read more »
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Loren Baker gives some nice tips on SEO friendly domain registration : Don't block your WhoIs, just register in your DOG's name, under a Mailboxes Etc. address... and other tips. read more »
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Meg starts on this rant attacking the often attacked partial rss feed and it only gets better ;)

Dear RSS Tease,

There’s a good chance I unsubscribed to your blog yesterday.

You see, I set yesterday aside to get on top of Google Reader, as read more »
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Having chanced upon appearing on the Alexa Top10 Movers and Shakers, I thought it worth mentioning it as a quite healthy source of traffic, however short lived. read more »
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Many of the blogs highlighted in the update just a couple of days ago seem to have reverted to their previous position. Now for anyone who might be thinking otherwise, there are still some obvious penalties on place for a few sites, but it is less o read more »
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Our good friend Andy Beard suggests that Andy Greenberg of Forbes "got it totally wrong when he wrote GOOGLE Scares The SEARCH Crowd." In many ways GOOGLE should be "worried about the BLOGOSHPERE reaction" to the PR debacle. read more »
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"For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans."

Most of t read more »
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I stumbled across this today, apparently this web developer was pissed about having to make more "SEO Changes" to his site ; hilarious! read more »
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Nice list of all those things you do that screw up your blogging. Don't think this about marketing? Blogging is one of the best marketing tools you can use online when done correctly. read more »
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The new split RSS feed statistics actually reveal data you have never had available before, if you look carefully and understand how a reader came to subscribe to a particular URL. read more »
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This is obviously a wildly popular topic, but the implications go beyond a simple number representative of PageRank. Advertising programs and new organizations make it a point to game the system of links and PageRank -- so it's interesting to see h read more »
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The Google God has been angered once again. Looks like some sites got the big green finger. read more »
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We've had several threads here on Sphinn debating whether Google will hurt a site for selling links. Now an official answer: yes. If you sell links, Google says it might drop your PR score, penalize you in the rankings or potentially ban your site a read more »
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Meg has been gaining tons of search traffic, however some of it she doesn't actually want. read more »
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Grab a coffee, in fact you might need a thermos as it is quite a long response to the apparent "public face" quality hit my site seems to have incurred over the last week.

I even reveal 2 links that send me over 3000 visitors per month between th read more »
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