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Danny Sullivan goes off on everyone who uses subversive marketing tactics. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and take it in. read more »
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Once again, Martijn is among the first to notice changes on Google Maps! read more »
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CNET News: "Google is in the process of paring back a contractor workforce that numbers about 10,000, the company confirmed Monday." read more »
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It can be a confusing process to find a good Search firm. You probably find every PPC (Pay-Per-Click) vendor says the same thing. They all say they do the same thing, and they are the best.

Shimon Sandler has put together an organized list of que read more »
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I found this article interesting from e-consultancy.com, detailing, in their opinion, the five most annoying SEO myths. Makes a good read! read more »
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Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
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Shaun from Hobo shares the results of another SEO test: "What does Google count, when it finds two links on the same page going to the same internal destination page?" read more »
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Have you ever wondered what the top Digg users avatars reveal about themselves?

We contacted a University lecture and prominent psychology blogger to analyse from a pyschological perspective what 20 digg avatars say about them. We also contacted read more »
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Google have downplayed the importance of PageRank sculpting and Graywolf follows this up with a useful analogy. read more »
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Major hat tip to @neyne for finding this:

According to ARIN's whois information, seomoz.org is owned by the one, the only dotnetdotcom.org

Yes, ladies and gents, the same dotnetdotcom.org bot that SEOmoz lists as a source of data for their con read more »
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The most recent instructions from the SEOMOZE people suggest that the way to get removed from their Linkscape tool (to prevent your data from being sold to your competitors, for example) is to put an SEOMOZE-specific meta tag onto your pages.

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After Linkscape launched, some people didn't want to be included in it. Eventually, we got information posted for exclusion. But then there was a debate on whether that will exclude you or not. So, a discussion about how it works. read more »
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As a seo I wanted to know - how many words or characters does Google count in a link? What’s best practice when creating links - internal, or external? What is the optimal length of a HTML link? read more »
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A couple of days ago Micheal posted his assertion that Rand Fishkin had lied about the details of the new Linkscape tool on SEOmoz. This caused Sphinn comments to be closed and a lot of fireworks. Now, read more about the bots that never were on SEO read more »
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Google will allow Gambling keywords on UK AdWords from Tomorrow. read more »
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When I enter into a discussion with my customers on the sort of topic they want to base a web business on, nine times out of ten the answer is something along the lines of "I don’t care, whatever makes the most money".

This is completely the wron read more »
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This is Greasemonkey Script to add social media metrics like Digg, Sphinn, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and Yahoo inLinks to your Google Analytics Content Report. read more »
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Exciting new features at SEOmoz, including an Index of the World Wide Web (30 Billion pages and growing!), the Linkscape Tool (extensive link data based on own index), a fresh design and a comic book. read more »
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Time again for a roundup of the best search/marketing posts during September. read more »
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Sometimes clients ask us to implement ‘not-so-unique’ elements into our designs and sometimes it seems almost impossible to convince them otherwise, however, hopefully this post can suggest some reasons why not to use the old web design stock imager read more »
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If you’re keen to work at Digg, here are 8 solid reasons to send in your resume / CV right away... read more »
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If you're on the internet, which you are, by the way, you've probably got a profile on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LiveJournal, Craigs List or all of the above, enjoying the company of hundreds of friends who you know will never ask to borrow your c read more »
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It is easy to see the point of hitting ‘publish’ on your blog post as the ‘end’ of the process of posting - however more often than not the real action and fruit of a blog post happens once it’s ‘live’ and being interacted with by readers and other read more »
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The description META tag won't do much to improve your rankings, but it's really important if you want to attract more search engine clicks. Here are three things your description tag MUST include! read more »
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Unfortunately, many of the methods that promise high search engine rankings are basically spam. Google doesn’t like spam at all and if Google finds out that your website contains spam elements, your website will be penalised. read more »
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