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Google continues its supremacy, despite the clamor over emerging search engines attempting to dethrone it. These providers approach search from different perspectives (semantic, social, community-based) and present their results in fresh forms (desi read more »
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Every blogger concerned about his blog’s exposure and traffic levels has a StumbleUpon account, right? Oh, you don’t? Then you should. But never mind that, let me tell you about some less happier experiences on StumbleUpon.

I’m one of those Stumb read more »
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An impactful story that shows that in a fast Web 2.0 world dominated by superfluous applications and services, there are still services that bring value in our lives. read more »
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Tips on optimizing blog home pages to attract visitors and keep them coming back. read more »
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I have just received a message from Yahoo Buzz saying that their Buzz service now is open to public, not limited to big bloggers as in its Beta private. If you have signed up for this, you should see the message like this read more »
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Yahoo! Buzz and all of Yahoo's millions of daily visitors are now open to all website publishers, how can you benefit from it? Now any website publisher can hit Yahoo's front page with a little quality content and a lot of votes. Learn how to start read more »
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A fantastic post by Danny Dover over at SEOMoz that uses Technorati, Bloglines, Blopulse, Wikio and SEOmoz's Trefecta Tool to list out the top blogs and analyze what they have (or don't have) in common.

I particularly liked the graph showing how read more »
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Old (and new) media sites are stopping to link out in articles, instead linking to pages on their site that profile the website they talk about. Will this hurt the web? Unethical? read more »
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How does the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games English site hold up in terms of website stats when compared to the Euro 2008 football championship site? Using Quirk eMarketing's SearchStatus tool, I was able to derive the following for each. read more »
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Don't be surprised to see advertising on Twitter soon. It's about the only way the service can generate revenue. But will it be enough? Insightful article by Ben Kunz at BusinessWeek. read more »
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So why is it they still only default to 10? Stoney deGeyter brings up some interesting points... read more »
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For many in SEO (especially those in the UK) a link from the BBC would be the Holy Grail of a link building campaign. Well, now it just got a bit more likely. Or did it? read more »
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SEO Tips from MarketingProfs... How do you actually get your Web site ranked high in search engines? The answer is quite simple, but getting there can be a bit more difficult. read more »
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Stephan Spencer, of Netconcepts, breaks down what's hot and what's not in the world of SEO, and the new generation of SEO metrics and trends. read more »
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Great post on video search optimization, the good, the bad, what you might not be doing and some strategy for views over time, instead of just lots up front. read more »
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Most PR folks don’t read blogs and certainly don’t understand them. All they see is a Google alert with their clients name, and rush to put out a fire. Down the road they may try to bring those bloggers into the fold, largely relying on word of mout read more »
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"Admit it. You know you’ve thought about it. Yet you hesitate. Chances are, you’re probably conflicted, wondering if it’s morally right, or if you really want to “go there” – even if it is legal." read more »
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Blogs are a good way to set up some fine quality link baits (mind you, link baiting is good thing). Write something great about (or at least related to) what you're selling and if it's good, you'll find all kinds of people linking to ya...or even di read more »
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If there’s one lesson that I’ve learnt about writing for the web it’s that a key element to writing successful blog posts is that in most cases they take time to CREATE. read more »
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A bit on translating your websites for maximum potential while still staying on the inexpensive side of things. read more »
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Lee Odden writes "Lists and ranking resources can be tough and controversial. A while back we ranked top blogs on the topic of search engine marketing (SEO and PPC) that publish their RSS subscriber counts via Google’s Feedburner.

With changes in read more »
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Yahoo!Site Explorer & advanced link search operators provide the most robust link data available. Despite this & excellent blog posts/resources, not every pro SEO is familiar with how to use Yahoo!'s data to the fullest extent. read more »
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Great post from PPC Hero that covers how to use Google Insights to help several aspects of a PPC campaign -- budget planning, geo-targeting, and more. read more »
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I went to a restaurant that serves “breakfast at any time”. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. ~Steven Wright read more »
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SEOs come across this problem very often: what is the best way to get rid of lots of website pages without loosing rankings or getting into any sort of penalties? The problem may be associated with:

* moving the site to a new domain;
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