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As John Andrews writes, bait and switch is the practice of offering something attractive to draw an audience of consumers, to which you then sell an alternative. Has Google just done this to us with Chrome/Chromium? read more »
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Hey, any list that gives me a namecheck is gonna get a Sphinn. There's a few names that should probably be up there that aren't, so drop a comment if there's a search Brit you think deserves a plug.. read more »
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The Yellow Page industry is incredibly easy-to-understand - you pay more, you get a bigger ad, you get more calls. Search engine optimization, even for the rare small business owner who has heard of it, is much more complicated and is inherently som read more »
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This article takes a look at the possible implications of the new Google Sugest feature, rolled out onto the Google.com site recently, from the Google Labs. read more »
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IE8 Download. Who prefers Firefox :) Me me me read more »
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Genuine concern over the future for comparison websites, affiliate aggregates, and other sorts of affiliate marketing. Request for feedback from other SEO / affiliate professionals on what we should do next? read more »
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I just read Jeremy’s post here and I gotta admit that it’s funny to go to a search engine optimization conference with a shirt that says “SEO SUCKS” and then made a couple of arguments to defend his shirt, bas read more »
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... the reasons I had to blog was a mail from Saurabh in the morning and more precisely a small tweet in response to this one. He confided to me earlier that he got a Nokia thingy happening in this life which mostly authenticate that he's hell of a read more »
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Today an interesting conversation (here, here & here too) with Asfaq led me to brood over one simple question. How should Twitter be used? Now simple it is but its implications are manifold. To pen down some of my thoughts on “How we Tweet?” led me read more »
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Patrick thinks that Google is reducing the weight it puts on anchor text in setting rankings: it's not based on a huge amount of evidence, but it's an interesting proposition.. read more »
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A very complete look at the Thesis Wordpress theme that looks slick. I have never bought a theme before but the ease of customization here rocks. Looks especially good for those of you who think PHP looks like Chinese..unless you're Chinese. read more »
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I have been asked countless times how to get included in the Google “One Box”. That’s when there used to be a “one-box”. Now we have Google Universal Search results. They contain listings from Google Products, Google News, Google Images, Videos, etc read more »
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There are so many definitions for Social Media. What is Social Media really? read more »
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Trying to keep on top of the ever-changing world of social media? Whether you are a marketer, developer, technologist, industry insider, or simply a news lover, this is the list for you. We've put together the top 50 social media blogs for the year read more »
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Bit of a rant. Quite funny. read more »
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Breadcrumbs are a great utility, both for usability and SEO. They allow people and search engines to easily determine the structure of a domain. Good reasons for Joost to add them as an action point in his WordPress SEO guide. Now he gives us the pl read more »
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One of the problems with working on Small Business SEM is content development. So far we know what keywords we are targeting, who our link market is, and how to gain those links. But in order to target a large range of the long tail keywords, we do read more »
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Todd Mintz writes, "How does one define “success” online in 2008? Tons of traffic? Tremendous revenue? An inbox full of customer leads?" read more »
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I have just received a message from Yahoo Buzz saying that their Buzz service now is open to public, not limited to big bloggers as in its Beta private. If you have signed up for this, you should see the message like this read more »
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Despite the prominence of small business in Australia we have still failed to capitalise on local and small business marketing on the internet. read more »
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A viral content sharing report: Dan Zarrella's eye-opening study of why and how people share content online. It explores content type preferences, sharing methods, motivations, reach and frequency. read more »
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SEO Tips from MarketingProfs... How do you actually get your Web site ranked high in search engines? The answer is quite simple, but getting there can be a bit more difficult. read more »
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Is purchasing multiple keyword-targeted domains an ethical practice? Kurt Krejny considers the risk vs. reward of this tactic, what his current findings of it are, and what could happen in the future to sites that do this. read more »
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Indenting has just begun at Yahoo Search. read more »
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Eric Goldman and Mark J Rosenberg speak out on the common myth of domains = real estate, as well as SEOs' legal duties to clients and whether kw research = intellectual property. read more »
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