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brian carter writes "Everyone who has a persona in multiple social networks knows that:

1. Social media site profile pages show up in search engine searches for your persona username and/or real name
2. These pages can be valuable links to read more »
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The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a video interview created by Juliane Stiller of Search Quality Team. Juliane interviewed Matt Cutts about search spam for the German Google Blog. My favorite question and answer set was when was the first tim read more »
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I got a chance to sit down and speak with Matt about White Hat link building tactics. Very illuminating. read more »
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A very cool list, though there are more than 100 out there that I know of! Still, with all the "why aren't there women on SMX panels?" and women-focused questions, it's nice to know that some people are being thought about! :) read more »
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Our friendly dutchman at yoast.com is showing off a nice feedburner style twittercounter! Looks great! read more »
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Matt Cutts explains what happened to the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards, and includes some good advice on filenaming conventions. read more »
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My latest fascination is Friendfeed..."Easily searching content created by people you trust."

If you can just search just what your friends think and prioritize it over everything else, you have a very powerful recommendation engine.

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Hey, it's SEL...too fun not to bookmark (Gotta like Greg Sterling's commitment to journalism): "This afternoon Yahoo confirmed that it had entered into a paid search deal with Google. That deal is described by Yahoo in its press release and by Googl read more »
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Ann Smarty asks the question, "I for one do backlink research almost daily. Why is that so essential in SEO to know how to properly analyze backlinks?" Ann examines ways to explore the site’s backlinks using link: operator in Yahoo." read more »
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Matt Cutts explains what Google does when it discovers a hacked site: temporary removal from the index with a "hacked site" flag, contact the site owner, and then potential reinclusion within 48 hours when everything's fixed. read more »
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Connecticut software developer Jake Luciani has run 10k items on Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit and Mixx through the API of popularity ranking engine AideRSS to analyze the connection between popularity and timing. He determined the best days and times f read more »
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How you measure your SEO success, is that only the Ranking Reports? or should you use other KPIs? A detailed post about how to measure your SEO success matches with your actual Goals. read more »
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An "SEO agency" called Internet Advancement has been sued by Washington State and required to pay over $100,000 in fees for scamming its clients. Among the restitution includes penalties against offering services to new members and requiring refunds read more »
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Live Search and AdCenter have reached a truly depressing state. With this in mind, I am pleading with them. Please, get better. There are basic and obvious problems. None of them too hard to fix. This is just getting depressing. read more »
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Wow ... this is a big announcement. Previously, Google was not able to get past simple forms, but now it can. Great development. read more »
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A great new study out of Penn State with reasonable accuracy suggests that only 10% of search requests are for transactional purposes.

Good information to have when constructing new content for client sites! read more »
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Google's App Engine is a huge threat to both Adobe and Microsoft. read more »
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For this round of the ‘How Would I Do This…’ I am looking at an article on CNN called ‘How do you know your love is real? Check Facebook’. I am also going to tie in my previous post on the overuse of stock photography. read more »
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The SEO community gets a lot of blame for Google's problems. Here are a list of solid reasons Google is better because of professional SEOs and how even the true spammers should get some of the praise for making Google what it is today. read more »
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I'm interviewing Google's Marissa Mayer at our SMX Sydney show later this week. Marissa oversees search products and user experience. I'm looking for questions people would like to see asked. Thinking caps on! read more »
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It is no secret that human review has been playing a bigger role at Google over the past couple years. And we are emotional beings... no matter how logical the guidelines may be, emotions cause human errors. But not all sites that get penalized are read more »
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Submitting your RSS feeds and blog URLs to as many sources as is possible will optimize your sites visibility. Obviously this is equal to promotion / advertising that is either free or at low cost advantage. read more »
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Tired of PPC? Try new PPC! Here is a good list of 14 alternate sources of paid search traffic that you might not be aware of. read more »
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Dewey you say.... read more »
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Andrew Shotland shares a creative way to get SEO value out of a Facebook business page. :-) read more »
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