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Despite reading tons of blogs each day it’s actually quite rare that I bookmark posts in FireFox. But by being selective, I’ve managed to build up a nice collection of quality articles and blog posts over the last three or four years about pretty mu read more »
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Twitter may buy Virginia-based Summize, a Twitter search engine, says Jason Calacanis. A source close to Twitter says that the two companies have been in discussions around a merger over the last couple of weeks, but won’t comment on whether an actu read more »
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How do we price search marketing services? How do we teach our potential clients to seek bids for search marketing services? Read this article only if you're willing to put a little skin in the game... read more »
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Gyutae Park writes "I want to give a little background information on my various SEO experiences and then outline what I think is an ideal career path for aspiring newbies to become SEO rockstars." read more »
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Ninety-nine percent of Web users do not click on ads on a monthly basis. Of the 1% that do, most only click once a month. Less than two tenths of one percent click more often. That tiny percentage makes up the vast majority of banner ad clicks. read more »
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Writing a Business Plan can be extremely overwhelming. Writing a business plan for an internet business using a “template” b-plan is frustrating; we have tried many times. The majority of b-plan templates are 20 years old an don’t take into consider read more »
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"I do not like doing much traditional SEO client work, and see the business model as having limited longterm value for most SEO consultants. The best consultants could usually make more promoting their own sites and brands than they would working fo read more »
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Not only do you have to write extremely compelling and informative content that makes visitors want to read every word and ultimately buy a service or product (which is hard enough alone), but you have to structure your writing in such a way that to read more »
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Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
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Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool. read more »
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Andrew Shotland's fabulous post detailing an immensely scalable way to evaluate your best keywords based on analytics data. A must-read for Keyword Researchers. read more »
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Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!
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Search Engine Land - So what am I trying to accomplish with this article? Honestly, I would really like the search industry to re-evaluate what they consider to be advanced SEO skills. I do not believe that advanced SEO skills are necessarily "black read more »
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I invite you all to hop on over to Donna's blog, grab a piece of cake and chat it up in the comments - it's a party after all.

MODS - this is a dupe... please nuke it ;0) read more »
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If you feel it's time to give private ad sales a try, this article will teach you everything you need to learn about it -- and I really mean everything. 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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Stoney deGeyter writes, "Moving your site to a new domain is remarkably similar to moving to a new physical address. One of the primary areas of concern is making sure the search engines not only continue to deliver traffic to your new location, but read more »
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I am in awe of the detail in the data Google Ad Planner gives us for free. I have posted some screen shots of it. It is crazy! Blows Google Trends away. read more »
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iEntry (Webpronews) fires up a categorized twitter directory with over 300,000 Twitter users. An Alpha launch, it looks pretty good from the get-go.

I just hope that Twitter recovers from its current technical troubles in time to make all of th read more »
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No company should have this much information on it's customers. This is a comprehensive list on what the Big G is collecting on you... Most of this stuff you already know they are tracking, but it is amazing to see the amount of data that Google is read more »
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Tips for small bloggers to help them compete against bigger blogs in terms of attention from social media. read more »
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Not staying on top of what’s working and what’s not can result in unexpected outcomes. Bad and outdated information can be very costly. While I don’t think all company web site owners need to retain a full time in-house SEO consultant or agency in a read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "... don't be so quick to let go of the traditional search engine optimization techniques in favor of the big Web 2.0 buzzwords. White hat SEO is evolving and is all the advanced SEO you need to rank well in the search engines an read more »
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What if you didn’t move the page and simply deleted it and don’t have a page that carries the same information as the old one? Or what if the page never existed in the first place and the broken link was simply to result of someone else’s error duri read more »
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There are many examples of genuine disdain being expressed for SEO on LinkedIn. Why? Interesting read through (right now) 21 responses on why there is distrust or people have commentary on SEO practices via LinkedIn Answers. What do you think? read more »
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