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In the first part of this series about B2B SEO, we spoke about an online strategy for B2B websites. We named some differences between B2B and B2C websites. We also determined the kind of content a B2B website needs. This article dives deeper into th read more »
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Sphinn turns one year old tomorrow, July 11! This is a look at Sphinn's early days -- including some of the "firsts" that happened when we were all figuring out what Sphinn was, how to use it, and how to say the name. :-) read more »
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Hamlet Batista has been accepted to speak at SMX in Seattle. His topic will be White Hat Cloaking. Expect raw truth and some great tips, those of which most are too shy to speak about. read more »
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"I thought this was kinda funny. Someone thought that Google was taking stronger action on excessive reciprocal links. So did they ramp down their reciprocal linking? Nope. Instead, they put their offer into an image thinking that Google wouldn't no read more »
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Despite all the best efforts of the StumbleTrolls, the guys at aimClear celebrate the first birthday of their blog. Happy birthday, guys :) read more »
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"Google's rolled out a new tool at Google Webmaster Central, a robots.txt generator. It's designed to allow site owners to easily create a robots.txt file, one of the two main ways (along with the meta robots tag) to prevent search engines from inde read more »
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Different from the hidden links injection reported earlier this month, this one involves the attacker creating a new physical directory in your Wordpress installation, and populating it with HTML files that then use Javascript to redirect visitors t read more »
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It's now after midnight so this makes it the official day of the search patent guru's entrance to life.

Happy birthday Bill and many more. read more »
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Where I argue that the premium content offerings from Rand & Aaron are win-win for them as well as for their subscribers. I also state that their tremendous visibility in our industry (aka "Celebrity") is a necessary pre-requisite for them to succe read more »
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Some big changes are in the pipeline for Sphinn, which I'd like to discuss with you further and also talk about our existing functionality. read more »
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Google employee says "Webmasters who rely heavily on bookmarking their own sites to gain traffic will likely see a drop in pagerank before the end of 2008, and we will be working closely with two major social bookmarking sites to find a solution tha read more »
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Managing an international website isn’t as straightforward as running a site focussed on a single local market. There are several issues that need to be handled very precisely in order to maximise your traffic while maintaining a user friendly desig read more »
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I just wanted to take a moment (having just reached 200 submssions) to say YOU ALL ROCK! I have only been around Sphinn since last fall, but in my time here I have met a TON of new friends and working partners alike. As a guy working from his home o read more »
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Let's say that on your homepage, you have two links to your blog. The first link is in the navigation, the second link is in the body. That second link's anchor text is NOT going to help the blog page rank for the anchor text used, because Google do read more »
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In reviewing the "What's New" posts here at Sphinn this weekend, I was hoping to catch up with some interesting SEO/SEM articles I may have missed during the week. I really wanted to Sphinn some good stuff.

Unfortunately, the good stuff was few read more »
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Months ago, MSN changed bots to detect cloaking. Result?
"Every single domain I had is still in Yahoo or MSN. That is not a good sign for them. Some of these are way older than a cloaked domain should be." - XMCP read more »
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We Build Pages has acquired SEOClass.com. SEO Class has been a leading Internet Marketing training program providing live SEO Training classes. Jim Boykin writes, "We’re going to take SEO Class to the next level, and offer 4 classes from New York, t read more »
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Google Webmaster Central and the Google Search Quality team have a new ally in the global fight against Web spam, cloaking, paid links, link farms and other non-sanctioned schemes: the Security Group at the University of Cambridge.

Web sites crea read more »
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Everybody loves Shana, and for good reason too. Socialmediamom asks some fine questions so we can all learn more about Shana. read more »
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> Have you been searching for Jesus? On Google,
> Wikipedia ranks first for that search. How much
> is that first place ranking worth? According to
> Wikipedia's public traffic stats, about 14k page
> views on a typical day, and 19.3k on Christm read more »
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Have seen several cases now where using “nofollow” on internal links did this -

a) Increased ranking on short tail and killed a lot of long tail traffic .. Hmmm not good
b) Didn’t effect ranking’s at all .. Ok so my internal page rank may have l read more »
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Matt Cutts writing about some ways to get high-quality links without emailing, paying, or even paying attention to search engines.... read more »
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Everyone needs SEO even if they don't know it. read more »
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Aaron Wall gives insight into what we can learn from leaked internal Google spam guidelines. read more »
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It's come to this... read more »
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