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A major Adwords policy has been revised, and it seems to be going unnoticed. For reasons that no Googler could explain, you were unable to bid on any beer or champagne related keywords. You could, however, bid on wine keywords. This is no longer tru read more »
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Where did that SEO Chris guy go? He took a break from blogging for months? Really? read more »
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From the story: This is pretty cut/dry - we found a couple of cloaked redirects on Trulia’s site. It looks like they’re doing it simply to pump the PR of specific pages, and to get some good sitewide one-way links. read more »
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This is a great article about career moves and getting a solid start in the SEM arena. Anyone new to SEM or that has gone through/considered a career move should read this post in its entirety. read more »
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Yet Another Bookmarking List, only this one might actually be useful based on Googles own trusted list as found via Feedburner a Google owned company read more »
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SEO Standards(to me) seem completely insane. There's too many variations on too many tactics. People aren't going to expose their tricks for a "risk assessment". And beyond that Google's tolerance for different tactics in different niches is complet read more »
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Great local search feature read more »
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Maybe it is just me but the use of the tabs is behind Microsoft. read more »
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Wicked MAD = Dumbass of the Week by Ask Kalena: "EVIL site scraping bastards STEAL content from this blog within hour of me posting it. They scrape Marty & Niall Kennedy’s blog and others, listing us all as “contributors” F'Wads. WTF? read more »
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Ann Smarty shows the SEJ readers How to Organize Your Keyword Modifiers to Create Long Tail Strategy. 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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Some valuable lessons for businesses (and Governors) who suffer site outages during a search engine marketing campaign. read more »
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Sometimes a client perspective is the refresher that we all forget. 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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Sage Lewis gives the Skinny of skin of Sphinn read more »
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Search Engine Guide: "Sam's Club has partnered with a company called Innuity to offer a small businesses program for getting noticed in the local search. Many scream,"worthless" service. It's not worthless, but is NOT close to comprehensive SEO" read more »
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"To many Internet Marketers,Twitter has become important. Some people may not yet understand, but this may just be part of their journey through the social media learning curve. As with any social media application, site influencers got to where the read more »
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A Google Maps (street view) car just happened to be parked on the same street that my great uncle lives on, so I got some close up pics of the car and it's equipment. read more »
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Did you SEE THE QUESTIONS? Wow is all I can say. I took the 'test' myself and must say it is back to my history lessons for some of it. Kudos to Matt and Paul.. (and the SEL crew for coming up wih them). Danny should really create an on-site quiz ve 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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Tim Nash does it again with a great analysis of using PDF's for SEO. Well worth the read. read more »
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How to get the businesses with multiple locations in the same city (e.g. two Starbucks on opposite corners) to rank for the same local search query, or something to that effect. read more »
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In response to his growing concern over Google's treatment of his site with regards to the paid links issue, "I have spent a long time deciding on a course of action, and have decided that blocking my content using Robots.txt is ultimately better fo read more »
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Most people’s journey into the blogosphere goes something like: lurker to commenter to blogger. In fact, there’s a concept called participation inequality that says that about 90% of people online fall into the first group, and about 0.1% of people read more »
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Do you suffer from an irrational obsession with Google PageRank? Stop being a PageWanker with a new 12-step program from PageWankeraholics Anonymous. read more »
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