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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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SEL - Someone’s trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent and Trademark Office, claiming to have coined the term “SEO” (for Search Engine Op read more »
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Jane follows up Danny's post about his conversation with a truthfully challenged (if you see what I mean) search marketer. She mentions the 'e' word. Twenty quid to the first person to mention Lyndon-gate in the comments.

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Write up of how to spot and deal with potential link insertion hacks, how we solved it and a free checking tool.

Nasty hack to discover this one, hits your rankings before you notice in most cases. read more »
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Amused head shaking at big brand consultancies who claim they know anything about SEO. I bet these guys charge five figures for an initial consult, yet don't know enough to not use a spider-invisible page as their entire site. read more »
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Publishers must take responsibility for the suitability of published adverts, even if the ads are chosen by an automated system like Google's AdSense, the UK advertising regulator has said. read more »
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Congrats MattMcGee and the other new editors. read more »
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Larry and Sergey join the press launch of T-Mobile's G1, the first handset to operate The Open Handset Alliance's "Android" platform. Greg Sterling questions whether Eric Schmidt will resign from the Apple board, after Google goes into direct compet read more »
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Few companies set out to do bad deeds, but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. When Josh McHugh profiled the young corporation in January 2003, it had one clear and concise rule: "Don't be evil." Ah well, times change. CEO read more »
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New top level domains to be released later this year allow websites to have unique one word domains (such as .books instead of www.books.com), expected to be in hot demand once they are available for purchase. read more »
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Just when you thought your PPC campaign's weren't getting the ROI they deserve...... read more »
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Jane Copland writes "I don't need to spend much time explaining what meme marketing is. A meme is born, defined in its traditional sense here, and someone (not necessarily its inventor) uses its popularity to push a commercial interest. Memes are ho read more »
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Anyway as I said above I am good friends with the owners of BOTW so obviously I am biased. I am curious to hear your thoughts on the deal if in fact BOTW is the new owners of the DMOZ directory. read more »
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Ever wanted to find a webmaster but there's no obvious contact page or details on the site? Here's a comprehensive guide to tracking these elusive figures down! A great guide read more »
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While the funny image makes for some great link bait, the message below is the heart of the issue. I would hate to see this post only get looked at, and not read. read more »
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Adam Lasnik: Have you tried Google’s new browser, “Chrome”? It’s fast and it rocks. But there’s no Google Toolbar! How can you bookmark pages to a central location (Google Bookmarks)? Here’s how, in just a few quick and easy steps.. read more »
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"For almost a year, Keyword Spy have been email spamming both my personal email address and Sphinn (on a weekly basis), regurgitating announcements about its launch and features." read more »
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Final proof if it were needed that Google is now too powerful - they've redrawn the map of Europe and ceded the Benelux countries to Germany... read more »
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Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and B read more »
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The Internet, as fragile, infuriating and enigmatic as its features can be, certainly does some things that I'd really like to see implemented, at least for beta testing, in real life. I am not a programmer, so this is piecemealed together from thin read more »
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For example, what colors do you associate with a spooky night? Most likely, you’ll choose black, shades of gray and maybe a little silver or even orange. Haunted evenings generally don’t come in vivid blues and fresh greens, after all.

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The ultimate guide to where people click. This data is the result of 36,389,567 searches and 19,434,540 clicks. The results make for interesting reading... read more »
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Far far away in cyber space....the Jedi's (white hat SEOs) and Siths (black hat SEOs) are fighting for the best rankings in the mighty Googletrons results pages. In the first series of SEO Wars we see the mighty Darth CloakMaster (Fantomaster) take read more »
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A great short video by Googler Maile Ohye documenting an average day working at Google Webmaster Support. You'll probably recognise a lot of the faces, not sure why Jonathan was confined to a room on his own though!

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The dragons were keen to invest in an online diamond website's potential due to its high search rankings in Google. read more »
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