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Making sure your website is mobile phone friendly should be a priority for any business that wants to be found on the mobile web. read more »
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Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
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Mobile SEO is quite a confusing term. I’ve been around the SEO industry for years and am involved in mobile application development but still the term is confusing. read more »
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Google custom search engine that searches known dofollow blogs read more »
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Give It Up! - No more secrets time. In this session, our panel of noted SEOs all share some of their favorite and largely overlooked SEO tips. Then we turn to the audience for more sharing. Attendees vow not to blog what's discussed for the now trad read more »
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Ann Smarty has put together a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. read more »
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Googlebot is hungry and looking for data in previously inaccessible corners of the web. Recent changes to search technology mean previously uncrawled sites are going to receive a visit from the search behemoth. read more »
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Test results proving Googlebot really has been effectively upgraded to include parsing of flash to find links. Let the flash bombing begin. read more »
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URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes daily all over the place as if URLs wouldn’ read more »
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Review of the best Free Backlink Checker for off-site Search Engine Optimization analysis of your websites. read more »
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It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social medi read more »
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People don’t want to believe the truth when it comes to social networking sites. There are two ways to get an article to the front of digg. The article must either be from a website that has a well established reputation with Digg users, or the subm read more »
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This is pefect example of why I don’t use Sphinn anymore. And yes, I realize the irony of writing that statement and then posting a screen shot of Sphinn. I was curious to see if a comic we wrote (which has a gravestone with Sphinn on it) had be “sp read more »
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I really hate arguments over cloaking. Like really hate them. But Rand Fishkin recently did a chart outlining the degrees of "safeness" to cloaking that in turn riled up Google's Matt Cutts in comments there. So I wanted to revisit some of the thin read more »
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Matt Cutts asks the question, what should webspam work on next? I think this is a call to voice your opinion to the webspam team... read more »
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Blogs just got a whole new audience: the casual reader. There has been some concern as of late that mainstream web users don't really read blogs, but a new Facebook app called "Blog Networks" aims to change that. read more »
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Matt McGee weighs the pros and cons of his popular comment-followed blog. Some interesting discussion and advice from readers in the comments. read more »
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Welcome to the Black Hat art of desert scraping. This article reveals an extremely effective technique of recycling old web content to generate great profit. read more »
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We all are aware of Google News Alerts, that nice service from Google News that keeps us sending email alerts on a particular tag/word we specified. Now take that into a new level with Alerts.com. This new service supports not just news alerts but m read more »
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Keyword optimization is a highly effective way to increase your blog's SEO score. Find out what you should do or avoid for a better blog optimization. read more »
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In every social site, having many friends and fans is one of the main factors that have direct effect on how popular you are going to be on that site. There are many ways through which you can get friends in stumbleupon. But getting fans is tougher. read more »
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"What if we could combine the relevancy of social recommendation filtering with the efficiency and accuracy of Google search? Wouldn't that be the Holy Grail?

Well if so, then your chalice awaits Indy, because this harmonic combination is alread read more »
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So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because "google couldn't scale".

I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him read more »
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I would say that about 70% blogs have typical mistakes which exist on most other blogs. read more »
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Lisa Barone writes "Oh my poor disgraced Ask.com bag. I wish I could rescue you from the back of my closet but I still can't bring myself to look at you.

I didn't intend to blog about the recent phone call I had with Ask CEO Jim Safka and the PR read more »
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