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Going green or offering ecofriendly products is great for the Earth and developing a niche for your business; it’s also a great way to build new links to your company website. Loren Baker points out a handful of ways to attract links and attention read more »
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SEC lets companies report financial information on websites and blogs and creates a huge opportunity for opportunistic social media hounds to rewrite SEC disclosure reports for Digg users. read more »
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This is some SHADY stuff. Apparently a ton of the .ME domains were purchased months ago. read more »
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Beware of companies sending out blanket emails charging for search engine submission services.

$185 for 5 years of search engine submission, just send your credit card please.

Will scammers ever stop giving SEO a bad name? read more »
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The incredibly popular NewsDay.com was at a PageRank of five recently, and Google specifically confirmed that NewsDay received this PageRank penalty due to "selling links that pass PageRank." But when I look at the Google Toolbar now at www.newsday. read more »
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Pretty impressive way to look at how a brand, in this case individual NFL franchises, perform online. Looks at everything from KeywordDiscovery and Google Traffic Stats, to Technorati Google BlogSearch and individual Web 2.0 communities. Pretty comp read more »
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The Wall Street Journal cleverly tries to disguise a celebrity linkbait piece with web 2.0 jargon. Apparently if you sprinkle in enough keywords such as SEO, e-commerce, & site usability you can post about anything without guilt. read more »
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In this post Steven Snell looks at 5 ways that bloggers can quickly gain tremendous exposure without social media, and without paying for any advertising. Just like social media, these methods won’t be for everyone either, but you may find something read more »
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Technically, you’re not supposed to show the Google Bot something different from what you’d show a human user. Netconcepts president Stephan Spencer argues, though, what’s good for Amazon should be good for everybody. In this video, Spencer chats wi read more »
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Wow. MediaPost does a number on Sphinn and SEO Bloggers. Hat tip to Todd Mintz for Tweeting this post on Twitter. I never would have read it otherwise. read more »
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Fire up your adcenter ads, this affiliate program is back. All you need to do is register to be a Microsoft partner and you can earn money for signing up clients to the adcenter advertising program read more »
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Earlier this morning a colleague of mine was conducting a search and called me over to show me something interesting. Immediately below each of the sponsored search results (AdWords) were three separate variable names and values. The numbers that ha read more »
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As Dave says, it's a shame to see this kind of thing being done by such a big company as it gives them and the SEO community a bad name. read more »
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With all media focused on the content of the most famous "companion" finding website, I wanted to see what made it tick, and how well it would have ranked before being shut down.

Some interesting facts about the EmperorsClubVip website:

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Matt's a bit late to the game, but still comes up with some interesting ideas. I like how he distinguishes between "traditional blackhatSEO" and "illegal blackhat SEO." read more »
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Heavy Clickers Distort Reality of Display Advertising Click-Through Metrics comScore’s “Natural Born Clickers” findings suggest the click is dead as default measurement of effectiveness for brand-building display advertising campaigns read more »
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"In other words, among the daily deluge of millions of news items, stories, announcements, press releases etc., that scream at all of us, there are a couple, and just a couple, that indicate or lead to a real linking opportunity or a strategy idea." read more »
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This is part one in a series on social marketing using Yahoo! Answers. In this post, Matt McGee will describe in detail what Yahoo! Answers is, how it works and its social aspects. read more »
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The reputation of some SEO gurus has tanked. Oh, no! read more »
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RipOff Report is the virtual equivalent of someone saying it'll cost £50 not to have your legs broken. Do your bit and spread the word about their shady practices. read more »
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Two days ago, Digg went down for a short while while changes were being implemented in the system. Tamar runs down the changes to the Digg algorithm and gives a great recap on how the community is reacting. read more »
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Avi Wilensky interviews Craigslist founder Craig Newmark about a variety of things, including SEO: "SEO is more ethical and less obtrusive than many other online marketing methods. In comparison to many other marketing tactics, SEO is appropriate an read more »
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Every day we get businesses coming to us looking to improve their search engine rankings. They want to talk about an SEO campaign but one quick look at their site and we see that SEO may not be the right approach for them. Usually in these cases the read more »
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Again and again and again and AGAIN we’ve learned that in the Social Media era, the CUSTOMERS ARE IN CONTROL of the brand. read more »
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no description needed. throw your (black, grey, white, cat in the) hat in the ring for a chance to win a conference pass. read more »
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