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SEO’s, SEM’s and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -what read more »
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Paul proclaims Plurk as the new micro blogging king, leaving Twitter in its wake. And he ponders just what micro blogging can offer an SEO. read more »
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How to build branded search demand by advertising on the sites that share the most common links/traffic. read more »
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hmmm... kind of scary. Thoughts? Wouldn't some one like Google merely become an ISP and offer unlimited access to the web? Is this a conspiracy theory? Madness?

One man's conspiracy is another's entertainment - truth?? bah humbug

SNIP - Almost read more »
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So you say you want to be a part of the answer not the problem? Have you considered a Green Web Host? The lady Able has a great round up of Hosts that are environmentally minded...

Great read... and worth promoting methinks ;0) read more »
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Getting the traffic is half the battle, making it stick is where the real marketing starts. So, before you start thinking about how many keywords you want to rank for, make sure the pages are appealing enough to serve the purpose of optimization. Be read more »
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Hot off the heels of this study comes a new Nielson Mobile report showing a growing number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide are taking online social networking to the pubs, streets and subways! read more »
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As announced last weekend, Google is launching the mother of all data portability features. After Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Portability announcement, here comes Google beating the two social networks with its Google Friend Connect features! read more »
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I think it will be hard to displace Google in the short term but I have been thinking that Google may be the only entity that can kill Google. And one way they may be doing that is through their consistent insistence on using No Follow for certain l read more »
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You see your site falling - a bit too late. Think now to save headaches down the track. read more »
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I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers. read more »
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Before you go anywhere, you have to know where you’re going. What’s your destination? What’s your plan? Building a blog of quality and relevance is an accomplishment. It’s not something that just happens by letting your fingers type anything. It tak read more »
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If you hang around the tech industry long enough, you realize: It's just like high school. These grown men and women may have millions or billions of dollars, but it's the same old set of dramas on a bigger canvas. Which seems exactly the way to vie read more »
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From time to time I come up with some nice SEO analogies. Analogies really help the lay person understand why people in our business do what they do. read more »
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Your avatar is the first thing that catches attention, make sure not to lose out on that. read more »
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Great start to a series of posts from (Spider) Dave Snyder!

SnydeySense - Sure you can construct yourself a great foundation based on quality initial keyword research, but you need to build upon that. As we proceed through this series of posts we read more »
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Ann Smarty details more than 8 ways to evaluate a web page.

"Besides the overall domain strength, there are quite a number of ways to evaluate a site page power. Even if that’s not your site and you have no access to its internal statistics, you read more »
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Ruud | Search Engine People - If we don’t know where Google Shared Stuff is (heck, I thought for a moment it was Google Shared Items but that is the reader stuff), who in the world would know?

Nobody.

So, again, you and I know Google wants to read more »
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The Google News Blog announced the addition of "related searches" at the bottom of Google News search results. Related searches are "automatically generated based on an algorithm to determine terms related to your search," said Google. read more »
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Interesting look at some of the bloated pricing models that some "SEO Experts" still try to pawn off others. read more »
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After abandoning search it looks like ASK.com has abandoned proof reading and spell checking as well. Instead of "Cinco de Mayo" Ask celebrates "Cinco do Mayo" instead. Maybe now that Microsoft has some extra cash not buying Yahoo they will buy you read more »
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Three classic techniques can get you to better ad copy more quickly, without brute force testing of many variations. By "better," I mean higher CTR. We'll need to make Google happy in the early going to build up quality signals that will give you an read more »
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Eric Schmidt of Google says they are prioritizing revenue generation for YouTube this year. He admits they still haven’t figured out how to make money from Youtube, which Google acquired for $1.65 billion. read more »
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A new great meta-list (list of lists): "I’ve compiled a list of the top 100 list posts for learning Search Marketing, Social Media, and Affiliate Marketing. You’ll find a few well-known sites along with a few hidden gems." read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "Very often if you have some issues with Google ranking your site, you should search for problems with your own site (instead of rushing to get as many inlinks as you can). Checking that your content appeals both to your human vis read more »
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