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Some of the things I'm finding is that there are different kinds of ads. Some ads can blend. Some ads can almost resemble navigation. The text ads that work are different in the content network too. I'm still working it out, but I'm analyzing the co read more »
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Today I am adding a few tips on promoting your online profiles and organizing your reputation management campaign. read more »
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New Adwords users often think that their ads will only show up when someone searches for the keywords exactly as they enter them into Adwords, but that’s not usually the case. Whenever you “broad match,” or “phrase match,” a keyword, you leave the d read more »
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Google may lose the right to patent protection of their "pagerank" system. read more »
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Propeller gets a face lift and more! read more »
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After Paul did a great job explaining how search queries can help in link building, I decided to expand offering the list of such link building queries and also some tips on how to search effectively read more »
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Rand Fishkin writes, "If your blog has any reasonable quantity of link equity and ranking ability, chances are that every blog post has the opportunity to earn you ongoing search traffic. The problem arises when you don't take advantage of this fact read more »
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"So why do people buy SEO? What exchanges hands when a client buys SEO services? I believe two key values are bought, knowledge and experience, which together deliver value through speed and cost-effectiveness." read more »
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Donna Fontenot writes, "I’m done. I’ve had all I can take of the vicious, nasty, cr@p that has been going on in our little industry. Sure, SEOs have disagreed with one another from day one, usually on forums. That’s nothing new. Sometimes it got nas read more »
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The best book I’ve ever read about marketing isn’t about marketing. It’s about baseball. read more »
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Ever been asked, "How much additional traffic can I expect from your work?" William Flaiz explains the folly of traffic prediction metrics. read more »
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I don't know if this is here to stay, but I just noticed that all the external links from stories that haven't reached the front page yet are being nofollowed now. Great!

Hopefully this puts an end to the invasion of spam. I almost got RSI from c read more »
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A very detailed and in-depth look at Sphinn from Edward Lewis of seoconsultants.com read more »
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Sephy raises some important questions - like where did 759 bugs disappear to in 24 hours or so, whatever happened to supporting old versions of Wordpress, will post revisions bloat your database to an unmanageable size, and the fact that turning any read more »
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From Jill Whalen: "Blogs. They're the best thing since sliced bread. Everyone with a website needs one. Or do they?" read more »
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The link building challenge of big brands isn’t in obtaining new links, but in using the strength of these links optimally. Converting link juice isn’t very hard, but certainly worth the effort. read more »
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The wet dream of all webmasters is to get to the frontpage of Digg or Reddit. After reading how Cracked.com did it on Digg (hit the frontpage) I decided to write a follow up for StumbleUpon. That’s how it works: read more »
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Digg, Reddit and all the other so-called “social media” sites can be a great way to get your message out to millions of people, but with so many voices out there screaming for attention it’s hard to be heard sometimes–even if that 400,000-word poem read more »
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Short of writing very complicated software that can detect and filter out all these numerous sources of deceptive activity, switch to javascript based analytics such as Google Analytics. The downside of javascript analytics are that many people are read more »
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This list is by no means exhaustive and there are hundreds of other factors that advanced SEO practioners will point to as having an effect on search engine placements. What you see here are simply the primary factors that should be taken into acco read more »
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Much of the common trade knowledge in the SEO industry is factually incorrect. read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "People are talking online. They’re talking about your company, your products, or perhaps your industry. And what they’re saying has a big impact on your chances of converting that next lead or closing that next sale." read more »
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The latest in my "Avoiding SEO Brain Freeze" series at TalentZoo. This one about attracting targeted traffic by getting the word out about your website. read more »
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The next time someone starts talking about getting reciprocal links, or dropping comments in blogs for links, or writing crap articles for links, please point them to this article by Justilien that explains how to REALLY get links! read more »
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Laura Callow writes "The SEM Canada Conference has been postponed until October of next year for the following reasons:

1. We are in final talks with a new corporate sponsor who will enable us to really make the SEM Canada series world-class. Det read more »
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