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A great write up on the controversy with Digg and Mr Babyman.
For months, a small but outspoken number of Digg's millions of other users have complained about seeing as many as three or four MrBabyMan submissions on the front page at one time. As w read more »
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The site would need to have the word “olympics” on their home page in order for it to really work. Ideally, the site would cooperate with us and take our SEO advice in terms of on-page factors that they would need to change to help with the “olympic read more »
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Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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We've always been pretty open here at Search Engine Guide about how we do things. Partly because that's just who we are, but mostly because we like the challenge of doing things on a budget (like our readers) and ending up with examples that can hel read more »
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What happens when you ask some of the world's foremost link building experts to dish out one of their most guarded secrets to the world in a single collaborative effort? They respond! read more »
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Las Vegas Casinos are a good model for a successful landing page. Casinos know what they’re doing when it comes to marketing. read more »
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Ann Said in her blog: "Really color perception differs from country to country and from niche to niche. Color theory deserves the whole separate blog to cover it and I outlined only some main points." read more »
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It's hard to write a general article about application design mistakes because the very worst mistakes are domain-specific and idiosyncratic. Usually, applications fail because they (a) solve the wrong problem, (b) have the wrong features for the ri read more »
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Catch the interview with glamorous Lora aka Sexy SEO speaking about herself, social media and... well, sexy SEO! read more »
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The Sunday Times writes a positive article about online reputation management entitled:

"Smeared on the Internet? Then call in the cleaners"

(I make a cameo appearance with a quote at the end!) read more »
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Graywolf takes a look at the useful data and common mistakes you should be thinking about when link building. read more »
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Sugarrae shows us the power of Firefox Quick Search bookmarks. And even has a download of a arsenal of SEO related quick searches! read more »
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Interview of Ann Smarty (aka SEOSmarty) by Mark Dykeman (Broadcasting Brain) read more »
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Are you afraid to miss that breaking news post or interesting discussion, but you don’t have the time to keep up with all the 246 feeds in your RSS reader? Don’t sign up for that Time Management training just yet, but try to follow everything throug read more »
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Jeff Quipp writes this awesome post on how supplying your staff with digital cameras (and having them carry them all the time) can create some serious linkbait. Jeff even offers some Quick Cost & Benefit Analysis. read more »
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A while ago I've staged a public SEO test, asking whether the 401 HTTP response code prevents from search engine indexing or not. Guess which search engine doesn't behave ... read more »
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Last year, I asked a bunch of the link development pros to sit down and do an interview on the topic of developing links in regards to seo. What I ended up with as a result was a six thousand plus word tutorial on developing backlinks. read more »
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Just had a meeting with a client who is paying $350 an hour for their SEO consultant for 2000 hours a year. Yep, that is close to 700k per year.

And what an SEO consultant, a truly forward thinking kind of consultant! read more »
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Surely if Google can track down and punish users of services such as PayPerPost or those running text link ads it could find spammers using its own services to direct users to download malware? or is it that it’s easier to target others than look af read more »
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This here raises a very good point: In-house SEOs just can't handle a campaign on social media. You need someone from outside to do that. read more »
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As a crap SEO company, we’re not passionate about SEO. We don’t have staff that stay up at night looking at a site in Google SERPS wondering ‘why’. Our passion is sales. We still live in 1999. read more »
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It must be the season for outing clueless companies. You'll laugh out loud.... read more »
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Late this week at ProBlogger guest blogger Justin Dupre explored the topic of swearing on blogs in his post - Dropping The F-Bomb: Blogging with Naughty Words. The response to his post was a great discussion with a variety of opinions expressed. I t read more »
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Rare to read a rundown like this.

"I’m not going to give you the code, but I will at least give you what you need as far as what you should be concentrating on creating." read more »
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If you look for credit cards you would expect a mix of results between official bank websites and independent comparisons and reviews. At the present time comparison websites are winning the top spots and banks can’t leverage their brand authority e read more »
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