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One of the tools of the SEO trade has apparently been axed by Flickr. It seems like every SEO conference I have attended since Flickr went live included recommendations that Flickr photo submissions be treated much like HTML pages. The title of the read more »
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Google has announced a Beta launch of a compete.com style keyword tool that has a number of advantages over the compete.com tool. read more »
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Jeff Quipp writes, "Over the years, I’ve learned a large number of things about the strengths and weaknesses of search as a medium. Perhaps one of the most powerful of these lessons however, is that as powerful as search is, it CANNOT compensate for read more »
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I disagree with this article, but thought it might provoke some good discussion. Eager to hear feedback. read more »
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Guest post blogs. Interesting concept to increase and broaden the content of the blogs. read more »
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Continuing on with its strategy to build search share by gaining distribution partners, Microsoft has landed a deal to have its MSN Toolbar offered to anyone in the United States who downloads Java for Internet Explorer. read more »
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This post illustrates a bad SEO scenario, what can you do when your client refuses to take your advice, but pays their bills? Definitely needs good discussion! read more »
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Having just got back from SMX London I thought that rather than be one of 50 recap blog posts I thought I would try to do something a little different. read more »
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A SEO cartoon about Kevin and those damn bots. read more »
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Kim Krause Berg writes, "For me to stick with online communities for a dozen years and tolerate the incredible voyage that is Cre8asiteforums, I’ve come to learn some lessons that I thought might be helpful to share. Whether you Blog, Twitter, own a read more »
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When it comes to spam on Google.com and Google Maps, Google is talking out both sides of its mouth. read more »
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SER (supplier of juicy topics lately;0) - Does this surprise anyone? Well, we know a few things. We know Matt Cutts of Google, a very influential person at Google, has wanted Google to remove PageRank from the toolbar for a while now. We know Adam L read more »
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David Harry discusses his findings related to some research he has done related to the SERPS and personalized search. Apparently personalized search isn't the big bad that many have made it out to be. read more »
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A website called, "Be a Magpie" has developed a method of connecting Twitter users with Advertisers in what I'll dub PPT (Pay Per Tweet) fashion.

I know it was only a matter of time before something like this would come about but what are your th read more »
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SEOmoz is right, more than that: The key phrase SEO company is not the exception. Take a look at the more generic terms SEO and search engine optimization and you’ll quickly realize that the Google results there are even less relevant. read more »
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Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
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Once you're ranking well, you'll want to boost the CTR of your organic listings. Here's how. read more »
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Call them Google versions of business cards, Geocities 2.0 or call them what you will, I consider Google Profiles to be the building block to the foundation of Google’s social map in the interactive Internet world, weaving basic user information whi read more »
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Crafting an effective title is genuine art as it should aim at two main targets:

* to increase click-through (as this is the most prominent element of your site listing in SERPs);
* to achieve higher rankings (being the most important on read more »
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MSN is sending another social search experiment into the world... but it raises privacy concerns with it's automatic system of sharing searches: Do you want your searches known?? read more »
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I think it's an interesting evolution in the world of Google, since they're now adding recent bloggin information, it may indicate it's usage in the algorithm for the ranking of blog posts. read more »
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SNIP - The ethnographic method is an approach of studying a person or group of people by participating in the culture of interest while still remaining a bit of an outsider. At its core is the focus on cultural relativism, which is seeing something read more »
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Getting good positions in search engine results is far more valuable then getting a good page rank. Here are a few tools to help you keep track of your progress. read more »
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Google has revamped it's blog search and now has a meme system that bunches popular blog postings together - Interesting that Google's joining the fray with Techmeme, Polymeme, and Wikio. read more »
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SNIP - I’m guilty as anyone else at the above infractions of SU review courtesies; however, I have seen the error of my ways and have started to put more thought and effort into my stumbling. Why? Because SU is social. If I’m going to join into the read more »
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