NickWilsdon

So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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You want to build a good relationship with your search engine optimization specialist. You need to know that your provider has integrity, knowledge, skill, and resources. Here is how I would evaluate an SEO were I looking to hire one. read more »
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Humorous but really insightful post on how to track offline conversions using various methods like store finders, phone numbers, coupons, etc. read more »
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I really hate arguments over cloaking. Like really hate them. But Rand Fishkin recently did a chart outlining the degrees of "safeness" to cloaking that in turn riled up Google's Matt Cutts in comments there. So I wanted to revisit some of the thin read more »
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Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
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Great post by Donna Fontenot that covers both prevention of and recovery from hacker intrusion, for blogs and other non-blog sites alike. read more »
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Lee Odden writes, "The “two is better than one” philosophy might work when it comes to getting a second opinion from a doctor or a mechanic but with SEO, the last thing a company needs is two agencies stepping on each other to make on-page optimizat read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
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For those of you who are not advertising on facebook already (and even if you are) and want to give it a try, now there is a completely free way to test the waters. read more »
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Looks like Google and Adobe are working together to get Flash content indexed... read more »
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Google doesn't have anything called TrustRank. Yahoo does. read more »
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Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool. read more »
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The implications of this cross pollination concept are this; to gain a foothold in the world of social media, you do not need to be an expert in all the major sites to begin. Choose 1 popular social media site to begin (Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Pr read more »
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Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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Viperchill Gives us an insight into how Ebooks are profitable and easy to set up. An excellent introductory post fro those considering this strategy of making money online. read more »
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Brian continues on in his "comical" way of explaining what is important in an SEM campaign. read more »
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Closest proxy to having Dave Naylor with a webcam that I've ever seen in text. read more »
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"In addition to being smart, gorgeous, ridiculously talented, and pig kissing yummy, Lisa Barone is also one year older."

Happy Birthday! read more »
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I can't believe that google have come out and said they are use people's IP and Cookie data for search relevancy read more »
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Rishil shares a practical guide to link building strategies that small businesses have access to but tend to over look. read more »
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Dear SEO Bloggers, I’ve been reading SEO blogs for quite some time and while I appreciate the input you offer up on a regular basis, I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend. It seems that more and more of your posts state your opinions or theories, as read more »
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Barry Schwartz writes "Many of you already saw the article from the Wall Street Journal named Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan.

If not, in short it says, the company that manages the domain names, ICANN, said they will be offering read more »
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Stone deGeyter writes "There are a lot of little things that can junk up your code, but, for the most part, the search engines don't really care. It doesn't matter to them if your HTML validates or if you keep your code "clean" or not. When it comes read more »
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Adam, a colleague from my days in publishing, writes a great post about why many mainstream journalists still don't 'get' blogging: "Community is not a place. Community is an approach to publishing." read more »
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A great rant from Li towards the social media spammers... Does SMM = Social Spamming? Or is it about building relationships?

Search Marketing Gurus - Along with that, I was just flabbergasted at a submission on Sphinn about gaming Twitter for " read more »
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