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Great post by Donna Fontenot that covers both prevention of and recovery from hacker intrusion, for blogs and other non-blog sites alike. read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
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Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. read more »
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John Carcutt wins the Search Engine Journal blogging contest, and donates $10,00 in prizes... "One of my best friends growing up recently moved to a remote area of Mexico to build and operate an orphanage. I plan on donating a majority of the prizes read more »
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While plug-ins for the WordPress blogging platform are in abundant supply, I try not to depend on too many of them due to the fact that I don't want to have to worry about them breaking every time a new version of WordPress is released. That being s read more »
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Step by step guide on how to completely clean out all signs of intrusion in your WordPress after you have discovered that you have been hacked. read more »
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When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
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Bill Slawski has posted an article at SEM Clubhouse about Google's recent advances in categorizing and ranking images. Looking well beyond that ALT text on the images, Google is beginning to look at how the images are used on the site, who (and ho read more »
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Stoney degeyter writes, "There are advantages and disadvantages to using both absolute and relative links. Here I will explore the differences between the two, outline some pros and cons and also provide some additional information on how you can cr read more »
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A couple of weeks ago Search Engine Journal covered the controversy behind Google StreetView and their Google Armada trespassing on private property and filming homes and the happenings on such property despite obvious no trespassing postings. 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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If you're an AdSense publisher, and you're not using the free widget, it's time to update your privacy policies again. :) read more »
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Some link strategy related questions are pretty hard to answer, although you know what the outcome should be. I'm trying to collect some opinions here, so if you have something to share, please do. read more »
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I got Matt Cutts and Chris Elwell's permission to post this one minute video clip of Matt's take on the fabricated link bait issue. SMX Advanced You&A With Matt Cutts - two days ago. read more »
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Pictorial evidence of what could potentially be the darker side of social media giant Digg's founder, Kevin Rose. read more »
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Not the kind of answer I was expecting when I asked for clarification on the AdSense policies concerning AdSense in Feedburner feeds. read more »
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A nice little tool I built to help easily stay in line with the new AdSense privacy requirements as far as third party ad providers go. read more »
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Fantastic (as usual) roundup of all the best SEO and SEM blog posts for the month of May by Steven Bradley of VanSEO fame.

Makes for a great Sunday morning read. read more »
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If you do your homework well, you will soon see your readers and fans promote your content for you. Why is it so essential to always keep track of who promotes you and where you are promoted? read more »
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Gizmodo has the inside scoop. read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "When David Mihm interviewed me earlier this month, one of the great questions he asked was about emerging trends in Local SEO. I said that I think hyperlocal blogging is going to become very important for small business owners:" read more »
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So who will Lyndon be writing the retraction statement for? Nintendo that's advertised, the advertising agency who made the fake vid, or YouTube who gets all the links!? read more »
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You should consider many factors when getting involved in Social Media Marketing, such as the quality of your content, your domain name, and who is submitting your content. But there is almost always one thing I find myself looking at before any of read more »
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Lisa Barone writes "I received quite a treat this morning when I was listening to the DailySearchCast and heard Danny mention that those funny Belgians are back in the spotlight and causing trouble for Google. You may remember that I've been rather read more »
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I want to do it the right way, so am reaching out to you Matt for some advice. I could do a hoax press release about some gossipy fake story - hey include a porn star and a search industry leader (Danny smart move introducing me to your wife now I c read more »
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