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Why you shouldn't trust Google, including how Google tracks you, indefinite storage of data, secret government access and Google's creepy obsession with your personal data. read more »
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Jason Calacanis bashes SMO/SEO in his blog again, but further research exposes Mahalo's extensive social media optimization campaign -- this time on Twitter. read more »
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An excellent post by Tim, recently revamped explaining the ins and outs of SEO. Great reading material for those that have trouble explaining what you do for a living. read more »
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An amusing quote unearthed by Quadzilla showing why TS Elliot was a black hat ;-) read more »
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These site analysis methods go beyond the obvious basics like page titles, meta tags, and alt attributes, and will help you find major SEO issues on large Web sites. read more »
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From SEL - Google is now allowing you to control which sitelinks get shown under your URL. read more »
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Google recently provided data showing the top keywords for certain countries. Internet users in Egypt, India and Turkey are the world's most frequent searchers for Web sites using the keyword "sex" on Google. Check out the list of keywords that are read more »
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Protect yourself from accidentally becoming collateral damage in Google's witch hunt on paid text links. Or, if you buy/sell text links, you will want to keep these tips in mind. (With illustration.) read more »
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This article describes why you should consider Drupal rather than WordPress, Joomla, or Plone for your SEO-friendly Web development projects. Drupal is used by Yahoo, AOL, Forbes, the Discovery Channel, and SEObook.com. Best of all, Drupal is free read more »
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Nice list of SEO blogs ordered by Technorati and Alexa rank. read more »
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Since Google decided to reverse things by punishing webmasters for selling links and because it apparently is pretty easy to determine which links are paid, I’m writing this post as a paid link disclaimer. So, Google, I’ll explain why these links ma read more »
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Let’s face it—most of the wailing about Google has to do with the fact that people are fascinated by the prospect of sucking in traffic from Google Search and quickly sending it away for cash via AdSense. Even in the relatively rare instances where read more »
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Jason Calacanis wrote that social media optimization (SMO) is "the worst thing I’ve ever heard of". A quick look at Mahalo.com on Digg makes it seem like Mahalo.com is quite active with social media optimization. It's easy to say that "Anyone who read more »
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The fall out from Google's PageRank penalty continues. Will the little guy just starting out have a chance while seeing the big guys tumble? read more »
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I've found that while Digg users will hit stories comments such as lame, fail, old news, etc - StumbleUpon has some interesting folks that expand quite a bit on their negative opinions. read more »
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In-depth interview on cutting edge PR and linking strategy. "If Google wins what’s going to happen is the market will go underground. You’re going to have to "know a guy" to get you links." read more »
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Fancy SEO tactics don't mean SQUAT when the client ERASES HTML title tags in favor of "Welcome to Our New Site." Andrew Shotland offers tips to avoid such nightmares with good client communication and planning. read more »
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Yahoo Site Explorer has just had a big backlink update making link counts a LOT lower. read more »
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from the page, "Why I actually got penalised.... according to Matt Cutts himself (head of the Google spam team), my Google penalty was imposed for two main reasons:

1. Having paid links to bad neighbourhoods
2. Trying to game my search eng read more »
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You gotta see these! read more »
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