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By now, you know which "Sex and the City" character you are, along with which Disney princess, Victoria's Secret angel, Spice Girl, "L-Word" character, and Desperate Housewife.... Now, it's time to solve the question behind the question, the one tha read more »
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What skill do you need to become a successful social media expert? Tamar asks several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteris read more »
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Rishi continues with his small business link building series and discusses the ways in which he would try to reach the different types of link ops. read more »
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Twitter may buy Virginia-based Summize, a Twitter search engine, says Jason Calacanis. A source close to Twitter says that the two companies have been in discussions around a merger over the last couple of weeks, but won’t comment on whether an actu read more »
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"I am pretty sure if any of these guys wrote a “Top Six SEOs I Wouldn’t Want to Be Stuck in an Elevator With” post, I would be at the top." read more »
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The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, k 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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Is Plurk really a player in the big game with the likes of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter? Who are these Plurkers and should you bother with yet another social profile? read more »
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TheNanny612 didn’t think the duty of choosing an avatar would be a difficult one. After all, what is the big deal, really? An avatar simply is a picture to help members of Online Communities know who you are…. is that really such a big deal? read more »
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Adobe announced today that it is teaming up with major search engines - notably Google and Yahoo - to "dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs)." In a press statement, Adobe said that it is "pr read more »
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Whether you’re an employee or a consultant, it sometimes falls to you to drag an organization into the 21st century—and that often means convincing a company to adopt social media. Someone might even be asking you about some new web tool their son o read more »
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Google is effectually forcing advertisers into buying more AdWords PPC by systematically setting out to neuter SEOs. They’re eviscerating organic paid link-building tactics which historically have been so critical to attaining prominence in natural read more »
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I can't believe that google have come out and said they are use people's IP and Cookie data for search relevancy read more »
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Rishil shares a practical guide to link building strategies that small businesses have access to but tend to over look. 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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Rand Fishkin writes "It's been a big month for false positives and getting caught with spam, and I've never been one to break up a theme. Short post, but an important one that every dev team should be aware of." read more »
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In preparation for the greatly anticipated (tongue firmly planted in cheek) - SEO Superlatives Contest - the committee members have been announced. Leave nominations in this thread for consideration

Some of the hardware up for grabs include;

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Gab of SEOROI explores how your sites pre-existing distribution and readership effect the impact of your content. read more »
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For anyone who hates having to change their passwords because it means memorizing a new one, I built this nifty little tool that generates strong passwords with built in mnemonics. Please, feel free to share this with your family members who still i read more »
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Chris Winfield writes... Yesterday I presented at SES Toronto along with Lee Odden and Dave Snyder on a panel called ‘Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?’ I figured that in order to show how Twitter actually works - it would be best to use read more »
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So I suspect I’m not the only blackhat SEO that monitors the search results for “buy viagra”. For the past few months, these results have been dominated by a variety of forum and web2.0 profiles that were link spammed into the rankings. However, for read more »
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Brent Payne, SEO Manager of Chicago Tribune does a nifty job of deciphering the responses Matt Cutts gives during an interview with Eric Enge. Does Brent "nail it"? Only one man knows for sure... read more »
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Some quick ideas on why you might want to optimize your site for phone number searches. read more »
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A fun post comparing SEX and SEO ... the differences and the similarities. It can't be all work! read more »
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Brent Csutoras shows us 5 Wordpress plugins you are just stupid not to use. read more »
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