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Is Google favor its own video engines? read more »
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How useful could Google Knol be for SEO? It's definitely useful, but think twice about the amount of time you will need to spend on it.

The Good

* It is expected that many of these pages will rank quite well for a variety of terms with ext read more »
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In part 1 of What SEO/SEM Professionals Should Know About Website Usability, usability experts Peter Morville and Susan Weinschenk answered the question, "What should SEO professionals know about usability?" For this installment, website usability g read more »
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Superb, in-depth look into the value of a top Google ranking from Aaron Wall. Must read! read more »
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Finding a real good SEO expert to handle all of your website needs can often be a tough task. Having interviewed many, these are a solid list of 10 questions to make sure your potential SEO knows. read more »
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Most people would tell you Google is not in anyway scared of Social Media, that they are capitalizing on it and buying some of the most successful examples. If we look both a decade into the past and into the future as well though a different image read more »
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Leaving the cost of an analytics program aside, below are some of the things a Search Strategist should look for in order to become adept in SEO Analytics:

-Data separation by organic search: To be able to truly understand how well your SEO campa read more »
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The Google Algorithmic manner of ranking and serving relevant online and indexed documents to specific Google queries has been a mystery to many over the past decade, with search marketers and mathematicians working to expose the way Google ranks si read more »
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Dewey you say.... read more »
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Ian Lurie's unfortunate experience with Alaska Airlines leads to an insightful post on 10 ways a business can best apologize if they screw up. read more »
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Gab shares an incredibly sneaky method for disguising text links. With the recent leak of the Manual Review guidelines, it became obvious that perhaps Google's reviews are not as advanced and omnipotent as it was once thought. This trick seems like read more »
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Sometimes the brightest people can come off as completely clueless and say the strangest things. This week’s winner goes to Aaron Wall at SEOBook about how a company could try to make money by limiting the number of people who can freely see buzz-wo read more »
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News of the document is spreading like wildfire with ideas on how to use it to every SEO advantage. You can even begin to see further manual reviews happening as well affecting a multitude of websites.

Nonetheless, what the main players are not n read more »
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All you email marketers out there may not realize the potential role you could play in generating links to your organization’s website - how and why to build links if you are an email marketer. read more »
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What particularly surprises me about people within my industry (SEO) is how many search strategists or online marketers in general seem to place such a faith in Google’s search engine algorithm in being able to figure out every little thing about hu read more »
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Ask.com has finally thrown in the towel to fighting off the Google. They realized that they can’t compete under their current model. They decided to focus all of their energy on attractive married woman. No it’s not what you think its for, get your read more »
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Google Analytics has added three major features today, two of those features are related and the third is a standalone feature. Google Analytics users can now have the option of comparing their site's data to industry benchmarks. Analytics users can read more »
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After seeing the t-shirts from eVisibility, I had to offer up some of my own slogans that could be added onto more shirts all for some hilarious SEO Humor.

Here's one example (click on to read em all):

SEO Humor #1

* < Title>Awesome Pim read more »
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Recently, SEO.com attempted to manipulate sphinn.com votes in an effort to get publicity. This is a breakdown of what they tried, how they got caught, and why it didn't work.
This article is the result of a poll I ran on whether they should be outt read more »
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At the Google Groove during SMX several of the Sphinn moderators and admins got into a heated debate about an important question, who's the best Star Trek Captain, Kirk or Picard?

I'm an old school guy with a "damn the torpedoes full speed ahead read more »
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Great post by Diane Aull. "I was talking recently with a friend who's been trying to hire an SEO to work on her company's website. She was surprised to find out how much it could cost to hire a good SEO (by "good" I mean those people I was willing t read more »
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I ran across a hot topic on Sphinn titled “Google Showing Bias Towards .org TLDs” by The Google Cache and thought to take a look at how other sites/people are trying to run tests on what matters to Google. I am always appreciative to see people tryi read more »
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The main question is: At what point after crossing the rubicon into Grayhat SEO can you justifiably (or morally) limit yourself to various grayhat techniques and not go full swing into Blackhat SEO? read more »
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Rand Fishkin writes, "A long time ago (at least, in web years), search engine optimization required specific targeting practices for each of the engines.

Nowadays, most SEO is done with the same set of search-friendliness and search targeting sta read more »
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Lee Odden asks (and answers): "Let’s assume we’ve made the case for taking charge of our online persona. What can a person who’s not savvy in the ways of SEO, social media and online public relations do to make sure they are represented positively a read more »
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