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Really terrific article from Darren Rowse/Problogger on the value of your opening line, and how to make sure you get it right. read more »
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Joost's on a roll today. Here is a list of his 8 must-have WordPress SEO plugins (several of which he has also written). This dovetails with his "WordPress SEO Guide" and should be bookmarked by anyone carrying out WP optimisation. read more »
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Breadcrumbs are a great utility, both for usability and SEO. They allow people and search engines to easily determine the structure of a domain. Good reasons for Joost to add them as an action point in his WordPress SEO guide. Now he gives us the pl read more »
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One of the problems with working on Small Business SEM is content development. So far we know what keywords we are targeting, who our link market is, and how to gain those links. But in order to target a large range of the long tail keywords, we do read more »
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Eric Goldman and Mark J Rosenberg speak out on the common myth of domains = real estate, as well as SEOs' legal duties to clients and whether kw research = intellectual property. read more »
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Finally six months after its launch, Yahoo! Buzz is now open to the public. The announcement follows several months of beta testing the service to selected sites, including the SE Journal. Yahoo claims that Buzz now has around 5 million users and si read more »
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"Yahoo Buzz is now open to all publishers and web sites. Yahoo announced that any Yahoo user can now "buzz up" any content from any publisher on the Web." read more »
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Kate Dickman: Well today I noticed a new site ranking for my name. The page description made absolutely no sense but I was curious to see what it was.
..... Here you have a strange unidentifiable site that shows up in the results only to lead you read more »
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Good roundup post from Ann Smarty with Firefix extensions to help you get more out of Yahoo Site Explorer. read more »
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This is a post I wrote about my failed attempt to get my SEOmoz profile penalized in Google for keyword stuffing. My profile still ranks #1 in Google for [World's Greatest SEO], despite the fact that I repeated that phrase back-to-back, like 250 tim read more »
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Ever pulled your hair out because you can't track certain kinds of conversions -- such as Flash movie clicks and PDF downloads -- in Google Analytics?

In this post, Roger Gilliam explains 3 tested techniques, with detailed code examples, for leve read more »
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As regular readers will know, we keep a close eye on Facebook's active user figures on a regular basis round here, to monitor the movers and losers in the world of Facebook. Well, whilst updating the figures this morning I noticed they'd taken quite read more »
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The mainstream media are paying more attention to outbound linking, starting with a 4 week trial of "linking out to external sources from within the body text of its news articles" on the BBC. read more »
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Find out who the top 100 A-List bloggers use to host their websites. read more »
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Bringing the ease of blogs and blogging to social networks.

"With Six Apart's recent release of Movable Type 4.2, that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking platform.

web pundits have read more »
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Brian Carter makes a hilarious break dancing video of Brian Chappell & I. Great for a laugh, hope you all enjoy as much as I did. read more »
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It's fairly self-explanatory: If you had to sum up SEO to a newbie in once sentence, what would you say? read more »
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"First things first. No matter what we'd like to believe, there is no such thing as the perfect pitch. One person's spam is often another person's breakfast."

Key points to consider when pitching bloggers as well as strategies for making the conn read more »
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Another strike in the ongoing battle between PR firms and SEM firms. read more »
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"How much of why we are doing what we do should we feel obligated to tell the client, and when is it best to just say nothing and do our thing?" This could be a very interesting discussion and we all may be able to give hints to each other in thes read more »
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Forget Google Zeitgeist, Trends and Adwords Traffic Estimator as well as the Keyword-Tool. Google Insights for Search is the new killer keyword research tool we will work with daily and gladly. read more »
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Sugarrae writes "Let me start off by summing up this entire post in one sentence for those of you busy actually doing some productive sh*t today (which I usually am):

This “community” is f**ked and way too wrapped up in its own communal and delud read more »
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Uncle Peppers talks about how Sphinn has taken the fun out of being an SEO blogger. From regurgitated headlines to pointless topics, the SEO space has become completely clogged. This isn't the fault of Sphinn, but it just shows the severity of it al read more »
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What is the single most important factor in the success of my blog? Why? How to make your blog trustworthy enough to get 1000 subscribers after one year of part time blogging. read more »
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Stoney deGeyter asks the question, "When I only have about 65 characters to work with in a title tag (that which is visible on the search engine results pages), should I use any of that valuable real estate to display my company name?" read more »
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