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After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. read more »
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Google has experimented with search features that let users vote on search results, and/or recommend other results than those given, since late 2007. They generally bucket test these features (meaning some small percentage of users, randomly chosen, read more »
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Debra Mastaler ask Matt Cutt's if google counts the anchor found in a second link on a page. She tells Matt that if the question is one of those that hits too close to home - well - a general statement like "excessive reciprocal links" would be good read more »
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So you finally implemented web analytics. Now what? What metrics should you look at? What do those metrics mean? read more »
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Seems like many advertisers were hit with a major spike in minimum bids due to the AdWords landing page quality score update. This seems to have happened last night. read more »
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An interesting interview discussion with Aaron Wall. Some good questions in there too! read more »
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I want to share 6 tips that can help you to establish a stronghold on your personal brand. Your account name accounts for more than you think. read more »
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The Link Spiel: That old saying "it's not what you say, it's how you say it" is spot on in this situation. If you send out the old "swap with me for PageRank" type letter you'll find lower results than if you offer an incentive to act and develop yo read more »
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Give It Up! - No more secrets time. In this session, our panel of noted SEOs all share some of their favorite and largely overlooked SEO tips. Then we turn to the audience for more sharing. Attendees vow not to blog what's discussed for the now trad read more »
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Lisa Barone writes:

[Looks around, makes sure it's safe to reveal secret squirrel SEO information.]

Okay, kids, it's July 3rd. That means it has officially been a month since the Give It Up session that occurred at SMX Advanced 2008. The embar read more »
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The retractions are never as much fun as the original..

The important part is that you do not treat the Googlebots any different than other users from that region. So if your site blocks users in the region where the Googlebot comes from (based o read more »
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Danny says, "About two seconds after Google Trends For Websites came out, people started noticing that one company's websites oddly had no data available -- Google's own. Google will tell you all about the traffic to competitors like Yahoo and Micro read more »
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This is an often asked question, surprisingly. Webmaster forums keep discussing horror stories how their site traffic dropped after they created a sitemap and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools. So here I am giving a list of frequently asked sit read more »
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Jeremy Schoemaker asked a bunch of people in the industry “What is your definition of SEO?”.Here are their answers read more »
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Every Tuesday Link Building Best Practices picks a vertical market based on the number of votes a market receives at their Vertical Market Poll. This week it is the Business Services market. They are inviting everyone to post in the comments a speci read more »
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Microsoft executives, worried that the plan to acquire Yahoo for an estimated $40 billion, have hatched an alternative plan that might bring about success over Google at a much cheaper cost. read more »
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A detailed questionnaire for webmasters to ask themselves about their own website. It is unlikely that you can answer all of the questions with yes, but it shows you where you stand today and where you could potentially improve on in the near future read more »
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In short, being famous in the marketing world had BETTER come with a paycheque…. That I do agree with… This is NOT fame in my humble opinion, a limited notoriety at best. Fame? Uh huh…. My life (David Harry) is all about my family and occasionally f read more »
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Here's a great example of how one of the country's biggest companies is using a very personal touch to provide excellent customer service, and create evangelists for their brand. read more »
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I am curious if anyone else has noticed a trend over the past year or so where people (I have nobody specific in mind) in the search marketing business seem to increasingly gravitate towards becoming a “SEO celebrity”. It’s a bit like like moths to read more »
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From Rhea: "Scratching deeper into my little foxhole of the search engine marketing pie, I’ve noticed a trend among true experts - if you want to be over-the-top successful, keep your mouth shut!" Don't forget to take the poll too... 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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Wiep shows us Five easy link building strategies that don’t involve scavenging, hunting, baiting or other work intensive tactics. Using easily accessible data and contacting people that are already familiar with your website in some kind of way is n read more »
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With the millions of websites out there, you think you’re safe. You think the statistics are in your favor. That your website would never get hacked.

Well, I’m here to tell you it CAN happen to you.

This is a horror story you don't want to rea read more »
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In the end of January his blog ranked on Google higher than websites where he stole content. read more »
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