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Google is well invested in the cloud computing landscape. But without controlling the web browser itself, these applications are disjointed in feel to the end user and their capabilities are stuck within the limitations provide by the user’s web bro read more »
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Google is giving preferential treatment to blog posts with video syndicated from a Google video sharing site (Google Video or YouTube). Example shows page 1 ranking within hours. read more »
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Sometimes duplicate content problems are not at all easy to find and here’s a classic example. A group of recruitment websites leaking their staging server URLs into Google’s, Yahoo’s and Live’s index. In live’s case, the problem is quite severe wit read more »
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Don't let the title put you off - this is an outstanding article on the difficulties associated with doing SEO consultancy for small businesses. read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "Michael Gray gave Google the day off and decided to pick on women instead, or more specifically, BlogHer. Michael claims that the BlogHer conference is guilty of sexual discrimination. He's offended that there weren't any male s 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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Kay writes about a cool WordPress plug-in which automatically posts a link to a commenters most recent blog post (if they have a blog). read more »
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Stoney deGeyter points out in this article that "the SEOs place is becoming more of a conductor of an orchestra, rather than the one who plays all the instruments." read more »
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Great SEO tips summed up in a fun and interesting article by the SEO Diva herself. read more »
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Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
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Mike Moran writes "Is search marketing old enough to have a good old days? If it is, then I remember them. Ah, the days when you could fire up the Overture keyword tool to see how many searches were done in the U.S. on Yahoo! for a particular keywor read more »
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Check out this great article on online marketing to the baby boomer. Great tips and a really compelling read. We are all missing the boat! Thank you SEO Diva! read more »
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Every blogger at some point has to wrestle with his or her own philosophy on blog comments and moderation. Each blog has different goals and a unique target audience so there is no "one size fits all" answer. The particular solutions will have to be read more »
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Many agencies do not set the proper expectations when they start an internet marketing strategy with clients. Here are four quick tips to keep in mind before you get started. read more »
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David Rodnitzky continues his thoughts on his seven habits of effective SEM. He asks, "I sometimes wonder whether keyword selection still deserves to be a top seven SEM technique, since the search engines continue to ramp up their broad matching tec read more »
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Web Analytics Optimization is important too! Web Analytics are very valuable but it’s so easy for them to become useless if your not tracking what you want. Maybe your a small company and you get all excited that you have 100 visits in a day, but r read more »
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This is my attempt at a post about what the future of the SEO and Google will be. I'll be the first to admit that some of the stuff I say is (IMO) pretty out there as far as predictions go, but I'd love to get some feedback from the sphinn community read more »
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A common mistake made by folks who are new to SEO is a lack of focus on attracting deep links. They'll will work hard to gain new links to their sites by submitting to directories, joining organizations and filling out profiles on social networks, b read more »
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How Google has become a superpower, and seemingly untouchable... read more »
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This explains the abysmal click-through rates experienced with Yahoo paid search. read more »
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Funny and insightful post-Mothers' Day post on our love-hate relationship with Google. Probably funnier to search marketers, but I thought it was hysterical...(intended in a non-gender specific kind of way, Susan)... ;>) read more »
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Sonia Simone gives us some essential tips on creating leaner copy. Whipping copy into shape is an important skill for any writer. The cardinal rule of writing: Omit unnecessary words.

Once you loose those junk words and cowardly qualifiers, you' read more »
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Yesterday, one of the world’s most trusted oil analysts predicted, with certainty, that we would experience 10-12 years of gas prices that will hover well above the price of $12 per gallon. With that said, It’s now official that the world is going read more »
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Slightly Shady's SEO tips on attaining a power profile on social media sites. read more »
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Are you being left in the dust because you don't know how blackhat seo's are outranking you? SlightlyShady tells you why you need to know their tricks to stay ahead of the game. read more »
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