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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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Learn how to increase your calls on Yahoo! Local in about 15 minuets. read more »
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Andy Beal writes, "A California resident is suing Google for trespassing. Apparently Google’s Street View driver ignored a "No Trespassing" sign, drove down a private road, and snapped photos of the resident’s house." read more »
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Great review of basic SEO conversion tactics. The conversion of a visitor to a client is everything. I like the quote "A site that ranks well and doesn't capture customers/visitors is like an umbrella on a sunny day." Exactly right especially if the read more »
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When it comes to driving online sales every additional income funnel matters, unless your Ryanair. Recently they've made some terrible online decisions which will affect how much money they will make online, while negatively affecting their reputat read more »
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Reputation management is a too hot topic to be left out of discussion here, especially for your own names. If you love searching for your name (either out of vanity or for business purposes), you will enjoy playing with the following online identity read more »
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GrayWolf: Ask any advanced SEO to describe what they want in a link and you’re likely to get something like this …

“A keyword rich link from a well linked/important/popular page on a trusted and authoritative website, that is preferably topic read more »
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When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search?

A new patent application from Yahoo explores how a search engine might handle the singular and plural versions read more »
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Lee Odden writes "Lists and ranking resources can be tough and controversial. A while back we ranked top blogs on the topic of search engine marketing (SEO and PPC) that publish their RSS subscriber counts via Google’s Feedburner.

With changes in read more »
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SEOs come across this problem very often: what is the best way to get rid of lots of website pages without loosing rankings or getting into any sort of penalties? The problem may be associated with:

* moving the site to a new domain;
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Ian Lurie speculates about an SEO industry shake out:

"The industry shakes out. While many rip-off artists stick around, even more go away. Competent individuals move to agencies or continue as consultants. Corporations become smarter consumers o read more »
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Your business is a data-driven machine. You live and die by leads and sales. You don't have time for unmeasurable, time-consuming concepts like community and conversation.

Fine.

Forget community. Forget conversation. There's a far simpler, far read more »
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Cuil has a curious habit of selecting random images and applying them against search results. More fun with Cuil as Daryl Quenet performs a vanity search and finds himself to be half of Hall and Oats. read more »
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Includes Matt Cutts, Tamar Weinberg, Jim Hedger, Dave Davies, Jeremiah Andrick, Bruce Clay, Richard Zwicky, Laura Lippay, Jon Glick, Jonah Stein, Danny Sullivan, Rob Kerry, Marty Weintraub, and more!

I would have posted them elsewhere but not eve read more »
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Tim Nash delivers another thought-provoking post on how block segmentation could be used to help analyze a web page.
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Lower latency + Less Power = More Efficient Google Data Centers. INTERNET GIANT GOOGLE could be toying with the idea of moving over to Solid State Disk (SSD) technology, according to Digitimes which says the company has just bought a load of them f read more »
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How to buy and sell websites and where to get the best deals. read more »
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Currently there is no recognized standard for assessing the skills and knowledge level of the search marketing professional. This not only increases the difficulty for employers to accurately identify the talent level of the professional workforce, read more »
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Why SEO needs to be bought and sold on quality of service - not price points.

Link beetle, anyone? read more »
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At SEJ Ann said about Black Hat SEO and How to promote your website indirectly in Google. read more »
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Sphinn is made up search engine marketers. Search engine marketers are search engine marketers, They know PPC, they know SEO, they know how to get links to sites. Search engine marketers, the majority of Sphinn users, are not social networking exper read more »
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If only people would learn from this. Tad gives real examples of why your content won't make it on social media sites; worth your time to read. read more »
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Investigating Sphinn proved to be a telling exercise for me. At least, I think so. This article shares some of the data I pulled and the concerns that emerged from having done that research. Hopefully worth a view for anyone caring about the long read more »
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Now Shoemoney is a friend of mine, but regarding his post SEO Has No Future today, I am forced to disagree with him. read more »
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Ian vehemently disagrees with Jeremy Shoemaker and Marketing Pilgrim that SEO is singing its swan song. What do you think? Is SEO a burly bully boy or is sand getting kicked in its face? Sound-off on the Conversation Marketing blog.



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