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Why does Google celebrate obscure artists and architects with special logos, but they won't do one for Memorial Day? Makes no sense to me. Barry shows some of the other special logos today at various search engines and forums. read more »
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A while ago I posted a widely discussed article on indirect promotion on how to grow your site power by building links to pages linking to it. XMCP posted a great piece on how to make the most of your social media profile in terms of link juice. A f 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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After a year of domain investing, Aaron of Flipsquare shares 5 mistakes he wishes he never made when starting out. Also includes some great tips on finding undiscovered domain properties. read more »
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Earlier today I sent out my weekly Digital Photography newsletter to not only the 40,000 subscribers who asked to receive it but also to several thousand ProBlogger readers who had subscribed to an old ProBlogger newsletter that I used to run. OOPS! read more »
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I’ve found that explaining SEO in terms of specific goals is the most successful way for me to get my point across when pitching my services or products to prospective clients. I like to think of SEO as anything and everything you can do to your web read more »
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Not earth-shatteringly new info for most of us, but just a very short observation on why blogging works better than most standard ecommerce sites in Google.

I'm personally going to use this link when trying to convince clients on blogging. read more »
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You see a lot of posts about how businesses are using Twitter but most of them talk about the strategic approach, not the tactical application. Here are a few ideas on how to start twittering tactically. read more »
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The Debate

The real meat and potatoes of the discussion right now, however, isn't necessarily what standards to employ, but whether we need -- or should even consider -- SEO standards. I've stated here repeatedly how the rules of SEO are always i read more »
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I have compiled a list of what I believe to be the top 100 domains based on estimated monthly visits. These are the companies that have found the success that most SEOs are striving for. To identify them, I downloaded lists of the most popular (US) read more »
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When this blog was about 6 months old, I considered turning it into an industry news blog or even setting up another one that only covered the latest information. The reason I’m telling you that is because one of the reasons I wanted to start a news read more »
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Linkbaiting false stories, using sockpuppets in social voting networks, engaging in comment spam and forum spam, being solely self promotional in venues where self promotion is frowned upon?

Small business can benefit from engaging in conversatio read more »
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NeO for SEO 101 and TopSeo gives some awesome advice here for those in freak-out mode. read more »
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So, for the third day in a row Twitter has taken a crap on me. What’s the deal here? I understand that sites go down on occasion but three days in a row is freaking ridiculous. read more »
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An interview with editor in chief Jeroen Mirck of Emerce.nl, a major Dutch internet marketing magazine/website about SEO and Press Releases read more »
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AboutUs.Org was one of the great free Wiki resources for webmasters looking to create a page about their websites, and get a little bit of link love flowing to start things off. It appears, as of this week, that AboutUs.org is now automatically addi read more »
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Andy Beard with an intelligent response to DaveN on the use of nofollow on blog comments. read more »
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I love Twitter. I have become quite accustomed to having TwitterFox beeping out sounds of updated tweets (what us Twitter users call posts) as I click on its icon to see what they are. It has been useful in so many ways. But as of late, Twitter has read more »
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1. Getting people to vote for me on other social media
2. Verifying information before posting
3. Getting acute problems resolved
4. Interviewing people and generating content for my blog
5. Being one of the first to know a story read more »
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More details are emerging on round 2 of Yahoo/Microsoft: Instead of a simple straight up acquisition, Microsoft may be able to pull off a deal where they get to pick off just what they want - search - and leave the rest of Yahoo and its troubles beh read more »
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20+ Firefox Extensions to ease your SEO, Developer and Designer existence, covering SEO, HTTP, Cookies, HTML, CSS, JS, Debugging, Multi-Resolution Testing and so much more... read more »
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1. Creative and Playful
2. Innovative
3. Connectors
4. Community Enablers
5. Information Mavens read more »
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Marty from aimClear writes "One person’s defensive reputation management maneuver is another’s ghastly crises. In search marketing blogs and communities, social media reputation management experts inadvertently teach losers to build nightmarish nucl read more »
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Internet marketing strategy guy and family man extraordinaire (who also really likes beer), Adam Audette, posted to twitter about 15 hours ago with a tweet that read... We're having our baby today. Heading to the hospital at 12 noon to induce. I'll read more »
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Adam and Sally Audette are having a child right now.... How do I know? Adam is Twittering the entire event. The world's first Twitter baby. read more »
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Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008