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"Wow, a story about Microsoft and Internet Explorer and most all of the comments in here are positive? I Never thought I’d see that!" read more »
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Danny and I created a little Facebook app that tells the industry how Danny and I see the news for the day. For example, some days it might be a slow news day and a slow forum day in the SEM industry. Danny and I always say, "it seems slow today," read more »
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Daniel takes a look at the potential upcoming sale of Digg, looking at the reasons why they might be keen to sell now. read more »
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There are many whitehat reasons to redirect bots based on certain conditions. User interface analytics and affiliate marketing can each fill the index with too many variations of a single URL, and this discussion covers it. But Brent Payne chimes i read more »
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A guest post by Aaron Wall on the Compete blog - one of these days I will have to go experimenting with the Compete data. read more »
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No htaccess? No problem! Follow this short, easy, copy-paste guide and get your juicy content on your own domain, and use WP. read more »
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Christmas time is a good time to think of others and give them of yourself.
Matt Cutts has asked; "Does anyone want to mention specific charities? Or mention other things that might not strictly be charities, but might be “good deeds” that readers read more »
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Oh, Boy!! Marty is on a rant....

To the majority of SU folks who support our writings about SU, THANK YOU for spotting real heart when it’s right in front of you. To the rest of you…get a life read more »
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Mike Walsh has written a great article on how some internet entrepreneurs are developing products tied into user-generated content. By moving some of the product design and marketing onto the user base, companies are producing some fantastic busines read more »
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Another one of my rants: "Digg, I think you forgot that you can’t just ignore your community simply because you’re ready to sell. In fact, that’s exactly why I urge nobody to invest in Digg." read more »
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Image is something, a photo can psychologically influence visitors decision making. But an image won’t do much more than that. It won’t influence the person to spread the message of your company or site.

Does your site convey the right message? read more »
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Let me paint the picture for you. You spent the last 8 hours perfecting a killer linkbait. You're proud of your work. You think it's going to do well on Digg, it collects some votes...a few hour later, you receive an email from someone claiming that read more »
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Gab has a really interesting post about 5 things that MSN must do to gain marketshare on Google. I'm sure there are many others who feel the same ... Google is gradually going to take control of the net, and MSN is the best chance for keeping them h read more »
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The end of the year is a time to reflect on events over the past 12 months. A handful of search engines compiled the top searches for the year in several categories. Recaps from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, and Lycos highlight the trends that came and w read more »
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Tom discusses in some good depth one of the most important elements to any SEO firm ... Account Management. It may be easy to get business, but the real challenge to growing is in keeping existing business first ... then securing new clients.

Gre read more »
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Dart throwing, names in a hat, coin tosses, and binge drinking are all accepted formulas for devising a list of keywords for an SEM campaign. There is however differences in creating paid search keywords versus natural search keywords. read more »
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After I wrote about Google’s search technology earlier this year, I got an e-mail from an engineer at another search engine telling me not to believe Google when it said its search results were simply the product of fancy formulas. Google, he said, read more »
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Here’s a friendly heads up by way of a Season’s gift to our esteemed readers, offering a sneak peak behind the scenes of what’s brewing in the sinister clandestine developer labs of modern bad ass Black Hat SEO: Mosaic Cloaking is essentially compon read more »
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Microsoft explains why they indexed billions of Google Ads and what they did to fix it. read more »
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Offline ad agencies still don't understand the importance of a URL in ads, so why don't you take advantage of this fact? I've posted one of the many ways that I use a company's advertising for my own affiliate profit. read more »
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Submit to the evil SEO 2.0 empire now or I will use these 7 evil tactics to dominate your country and the rest of the world. read more »
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With the advent of the $50 free click credit, I decided to give adCenter a bit of a run, and here I share the ups and downs as I see it thus far. read more »
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Brian is now convinced that his site is on autobury read more »
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If your Technorati reputation factor sucks ass then read on, otherwise happily skip this post. Technorati calculates a blog’s reputation based on its link popularity, counting blogroll links from the linking blogs main pages as well as links within read more »
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Today I had a social network take my account for their further benefits. They claim that it was due to their system not recognizing that it was a restricted username. Personally my guess is that they forgot to reserve the username. However, I’ve read more »
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