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Ian Lurie speculates about an SEO industry shake out:

"The industry shakes out. While many rip-off artists stick around, even more go away. Competent individuals move to agencies or continue as consultants. Corporations become smarter consumers o read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "It’s really my hope that in the next 3-5 years we’ll stop thinking about local search engine optimization, video optimization, audio optimizations and all the optimizations individually. SEO and all the practices and techniques read more »
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Thoughts please on my analysis and how to determine if this is indeed a change in the way Google is handling smaller blogs that don't meet a certain "authority score" read more »
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Lee Odden was checking out WordPress.com site on “types of blogs” for creative ways to categorize them.He found a page separating blog types into two categories: “popular” & “banned”. Guess where SEO blogs fall? Sigh. read more »
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Nick Wilsdon writes about the new "Stumble Upon Cards". Great find Nick!!!

It's building links and bookmarks and it's driving 100's of SU reviews. Is it a great marketing ploy or Spam?

What do you think? read more »
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By engaging in knowledge-transfer, an interactive agency specializing in search articulates the need for its clients to embrace SEO as an ongoing discipline within their marketing department. Clients who adopt a knowledge-transfer mindset will profi read more »
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Blogstorm looks at the controversial issue of PageRank and attempts by Yahoo and Google to make it more relevant again in the wake of a new patent filed by Yahoo. read more »
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I have seen a few of these at other sites, but Aaron at TheMadHat.com has put together another nice list of questions for SEO professionals. If you are hiring as SEO pro, this may help you and if you are looking for a job, you should at least quiz read more »
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Wordpress is frequently underestimated in terms of it's sheer SEO power. Here, I cover the reasons that it tends to do excellent in Google. Understanding WHY it does so well is the best way to take advantage of it's architecture, giving your sites t read more »
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Google removes XML feeds from Web search results. So unless Google provides a procedure to prevent feeds from accumulating PageRank whilst allowing access for blog search crawlers that request feeds (I believe something like that is in the works), i read more »
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This entry is NOT a common anchor text entry. It instead describes how to use anchor text to rank more highly and for more terms, than if you'd thrown the same link text at a page over and over. It's not a "simple" overview of anchor text, but rathe read more »
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Shoemoney shows that Neil and Rebecca Kelley are better comment baiters than he is :) read more »
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I just received this SPAM from Joost :-)

"Most of you probably know my Greasemonkey script for Google Webmaster
Tools, that shows you the anchor text of that backlink, and the PR of
the page that link is on. I have now made that same script wor read more »
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Matt talks about using wordpress for SEO, but this video is also very good for convincing people that they actually need to do SEO for their website read more »
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Do you like to post one article at a time or blast out many related posts to get the excitement going? read more »
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Did you get yours yet? Seems much cheaper than in the past. A 2GB Memory card? See pictures at my site. read more »
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They promised us a reverse DNS their IPs to search.live.com but they are not. So now we may be blocking their spiders from crawling us. read more »
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Loren offers up some tips on how to properly buy and sell paid blog reviews so as to not anger Google. read more »
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Now this is a great example of SEO 2.0: On-page SMO tips to increase both direct and Google traffic. read more »
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A huge statement was made recently by Matt Cutts about how just because a site buys links is no reason to think that the site shouldn't rank well. read more »
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faberNovel Consulting has released a research paper on social networks. The paper is an excellent theoretical overview of social networks and the trends in this important market. Interesting that in terms of identity, Facebook and MySpace are at opp read more »
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Just couldn't resist getting into the spirit a little early this year. Everybody sing...! read more »
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According to an interview with Chamath Palihapitiya of facebook ( http://tinyurl.com/2lg4gq ) they don't recieve the data if you've opted out:

Q. If I buy tickets on Fandango, and decline to publish the purchase to my friends on Facebook, does Fa read more »
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We recently had a Digg submission go Hot. This is the first one that I was personally involved with. Given that I didn’t have anything better to do on a Sunday afternoon, I thought that it might be fun to Chart the # of Diggs and resulting traffic t read more »
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If your Whitehat RSS subscriptions aren't challengine you to think, here are 11 Blackhat Bloggers that you simply can not afford to NOT be reading -- because they're outranking you. read more »
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