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There are interesting pros and significant cons to incorporating SEO into universities and developing degree programmes based on the subject. Somehow, my disadvantages list got a bit longer than the advantages one... read more »
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duncan morris writes "With Will out of the office for a week or so, I was let out of the office to attend a sales meeting. In the normal course of events Will does our sales meetings and I stay in the office looking after the troops.

At sales mee read more »
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A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
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An interesting question is what someone should look for in a potential link developer and how to go about finding them. Rae lists (and pretty much answers) several must-ask questions for link development job interviews. read more »
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Some nice, practical advice on how to manage competitive, high-volume keywords that can't be dumped even when the CPA is too high to fit ROI targets. read more »
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Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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Charles Arthur of the UK's Guardian newspaper gives a really good overview of what Twitter is, how to get the most out of it and the various tools have grown up around it. It's great to see the MSM getting behind a site like Twitter, so let's give T read more »
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Really, Twitter spam? I mean, how do you get spammed by people you voluntarily choose to follow. It's like bitching that your Facebook "friends" are spamming you. Why did you make them friends, then. read more »
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"If a web site falls in the search engine forest, would anyone hear it? If the web site belonged to Victoria’s Secret, it wouldn’t be missed by a shopper like my young adult daughter. She doesn’t need search engines to find Victoria’s Secret product read more »
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The best way to demonstrate the usefulness or power of Twitter is to show real examples. I started this experiment at approximately 5:20 PM EST on Monday afternoon. Within 1 hour, I had over 80 different replies that answered all of my questions and read more »
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Can you tell what the status of an industry as a whole is? Can you predict financial issues by analyzing search data?

Hitwise seem to think you may just be able to. Excellent deductive article on the US housing market... read more »
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The Mozzers come up with some interesting things that Google should look at adding to their OneBox results... read more »
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"We all know that Money Expert have been buying links. They know it. You know it. Google even knows it...........Serving different content to the search engine and the customer. Naughty, naughty." read more »
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www.kwik-fitinsurance.com with over 10,000 links no longer ranks for it's own name on Google. It still ranks 50th for "car insurance". read more »
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Stuntdubl, Graywolf and Sugarrae all get together and share some insider secrets with Gab. It's not too long but there's some nice takeaways both for affiliate and blackhat projects as well as whitehat linkbait projects. A good read! read more »
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Live Search and AdCenter have reached a truly depressing state. With this in mind, I am pleading with them. Please, get better. There are basic and obvious problems. None of them too hard to fix. This is just getting depressing. read more »
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Wonder how you're growing Twitter followers compared to others? Here's a rundown I wrote on tools that will help you chart progress and see how you stand. read more »
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Ah, youth. 13 years ago I started my company with a spare room in my house, a credit card (limit: $1500) and a computer (Pentium 75 mhz, Windows 95). If I'd known then what I know now, would I have gone into this business? I don't know. But here's s read more »
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An interview with five SEO experts from all four corners of the world (sort of). Questions ask about accented characters, languages vs. countries and the future of geo location. read more »
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From May 28th 2008 the practice of blogging under false pretences (or flogging as we like to call it) will become more than just black hat - it'll become illegal! read more »
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Managing an international website isn’t as straightforward as running a site focussed on a single local market. There are several issues that need to be handled very precisely in order to maximise your traffic while maintaining a user friendly desig read more »
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Have spammers and phishers finally begun the slow take-over of Facebook, as they did MySpace? read more »
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This how to covers the most important factors for image optimization for all relevant media. read more »
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Matt Cutts writing about some ways to get high-quality links without emailing, paying, or even paying attention to search engines.... read more »
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Interesting Hitwise post looking at the importance of plural/singular search traffic and how these target users at different stages of the conversion process. read more »
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