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A weekend workshop to get your own internet business completly up and running - sounds like a good idea, if it works..? read more »
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Two simple but effective free list building methods with details of how to do them, useful! read more »
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Good Blogging survey results with some useful answers to common questions.. read more »
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What Google Knows About Spam: A video presentation by Matt Cutts (recorded recently at a Web 2.0 conference). read more »
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I just came back from Google and they have updated their translation tools.

Less than a month ago the options were English to 10 languages and those same 10 languages back to English. 20 options, and to be honest I was happy with that. I went on read more »
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Mixed Market Arts has an interesting review of the most common traffic widgets. Are they really worth it? read more »
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Link opportunities are abundant if you know where to look. Sometimes there is value in linking outside the box as your site is only as strong as its weakest link. read more »
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Three classic techniques can get you to better ad copy more quickly, without brute force testing of many variations. By "better," I mean higher CTR. We'll need to make Google happy in the early going to build up quality signals that will give you an read more »
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Findability is just bullshit*, that means SEO, on-site SEO...

*A synonym for SEO used by people anti-SEO. read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "ow many times have you read an article or blog post where someone says "don't worry about PageRank, if the link will drive traffic it's worth pursuing." I'm betting you read that a lot and if you're like me, catch yourself sc read more »
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Ok bloggers...Do you blog for business or pleasure? What results are you seeing from your blogging efforts? How long did it take to see those results? Do you feel it’s worth the time commitment? read more »
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Shimon Sandler does an excellent job providing further detail to the strategy, creative, and optimization tactics used in a Reputation Management campaign. read more »
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You've probably run into stuff like this crap in what's new: Bangladeshi thoughts on Salahuddin, Diesel Generators etc. Obviously, Sphinn's counter-spam measures aren't working, so I'm offering $100 for the best idea to fight spam on Sphinn.

It' read more »
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Ian "I'm Angry and Venting" [and funny] Lurie does it again, castigating people who just don't get how twitters works nor how to gain followers on it. read more »
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Fake it til you make it, doesn’t have to mean you are a liar, a cheat, or otherwise too deceitful. read more »
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Google keeps strengthening their control over search and the web. They can easily use usage data to automatically flag websites for human review. Does Your Site Look Good to Google's Relevancy Algorithm? read more »
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A case study on how you can optimize color-specific product pages, even when on-page content is 100% duplicate. Because product-color searches are long tail and convert higher, this can be a profitable strategy. read more »
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When in comes to doing SEO for Google, one thing is certain; you’d better know about backlinks. Given the fact that the core algorithm is based largely on ranking and detecting spam via links, it is certainly an area to be familiar with. read more »
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Now that we've acknowledged the obvious, where are some of the cracks and flaws in the online advertising model? And what's the possibly most valuable type of online advertising? Here's a hint: it may involve you. read more »
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Any links a person can pursue and obtain just because that person has certain defining personal characteristics should not be able to positively affect search rank. That in essence, such links are irrelevant to the site and products being sold and a read more »
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Andy Beal writes, "One of the biggest gripes small businesses have about local review sites is that not all of them provide an opportunity to respond to a customer complaint. Popular review site Yelp is hoping to address that issue with the launch o read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "I know I shouldn’t post about this … heck, some of you will tell me I shouldn’t even look at it, but one of those coolio Firefox plugins makes the little green bar show up right down there where my eyes always look, so I just not read more »
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I might be biased on this one, but with semantic SEO we have a new set of methods for on-site SEO - one that can double, triple or even increase the number of page views by 500% (during my test) among other benefits. read more »
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Yahoo search just doesn't understand user experience - no wonder it lags behind Google. read more »
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Forget SEO, findability is the key. read more »
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