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That's right, Sphinn is now big in Japan. read more »
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Sometime in May, Yahoo has acquired a web service company called IndexTools. Now, several months after Yahoo is making use of their acquisition with a new service Web Analytics for Business websites. This service helps to create a feedback mechanism read more »
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Sometimes helping a client understand whether to utilize AdWords is a question of ethics, particularly if that client believes that using AdWords automatically means an increase in bottom line profits. Can every website benefit from AdWords? Somet read more »
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The central focus of many SEO efforts is reaching the right people with the right information at the right time. Third-party search engine marketing firms, many of whom work tirelessly helping clients consume information in the highly dynamic world read more »
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All Twitter benefits and (potential) spheres of usage are yet to be explored. However it is great to see some of huge companies already taking advantage of the tool read more »
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Over the last few years we have seen a real explosion of social media sites and services, influencing the way we network, read, and search the web.

With sites like Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Delicious, social media is here and it read more »
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One of the hardest thing for an SEO to manage is expectations. For many SEO consultants and firms, part of closing the deal is to get the client to believe that the work they provide is going to get them "results," however that is defined. But in do read more »
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As previously mentioned in part 1 of this series, it’s extremely important to be able to evaluate the power of a directory for link building. Especially when you consider that the power of a directory listing is much more complicated than just looki read more »
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Here are few tips on how to diagnose both on-site and off-site issues with Google Search and its advanced operators. read more »
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This is Greasemonkey Script to add social media metrics like Digg, Sphinn, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and Yahoo inLinks to your Google Analytics Content Report. read more »
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In an earlier post, I [Greg Sterling] solicited questions for Google about local search. My intention had been to present them at the What’s New in Local Search panel at SMX East this morning. But I didn’t get my act together to distribute them at t read more »
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40,000 Reasons the IM Charity Party at SES San Jose Was a Success...... and all the more reason to make sure you go to the IM Charity Party at SMX East.

Check out the great pics!! read more »
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Measuring SEO success. Must read by SEO Theory.

Hitting a link wall? What do you do when you hit #1?
Stop and evaluate where you are. How much did it cost to get there? How much time? How many resources did you use? How much money did you spend read more »
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Well, strike me dead for hubris, I'm pretty proud I got to 1,000 Twitter followers in just 6 months. See the graph of that journey on Twitterholic. read more »
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Brian Carter writes "Should SEO Success Be Measured By Rankings? Traffic? Conversions?

There's been a lot of discussion in the SEO community over the last few months about how important rankings are or are not, and whether the main goal of SEO read more »
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@JoshuaSci scratches his head and says, in effect: "What's all the hubbub about Martin Bowling and Zima? I bet most people don't know. Here's the whole story."

He actually says:

"Now, every time I think about “Martin Bowling loving Zima“, I read more »
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Small business owners are often curious, and sometimes desperate, to understand why their web sites are doing well -- or doing poorly -- when it comes to search engine visibility. Online forums and message boards are filled with questions like "Why read more »
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Check out Scott's awesome free SEO tool...input your domain and it evaluates your site on lots of different SEO criteria. Great job by the Search Commander! read more »
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Find out with our social media addiction quiz! read more »
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Jordan Kasteler writes, "Recently, I spoke at SES San Jose on “building a search engine friendly website” with emphasis focused on the incorporation and embedding of multimedia. Before narrowing my speech down to multimedia I had researched some com read more »
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Some time ago I reviewed tools that help understand the page HTML semantic structure based on H1-H6 headings. While some webmasters question the overall necessity of headings, I insist that they should be used to structure the page content for: read more »
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Hrmm... so what about all thos DNN, Joomla, TYPO3 rewrites i've written, do i have to change them back? read more »
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duncan morris writes "With Will out of the office for a week or so, I was let out of the office to attend a sales meeting. In the normal course of events Will does our sales meetings and I stay in the office looking after the troops.

At sales mee read more »
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Algorithms (and under-waged third world employees labeled as the algorithm) often make mistakes. If a mistake is made when Google passes judgement against your site, is your site good enough to recover? If your site was deleted from the Google index read more »
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