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Googlebot is hungry and looking for data in previously inaccessible corners of the web. Recent changes to search technology mean previously uncrawled sites are going to receive a visit from the search behemoth. read more »
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Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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I really hate arguments over cloaking. Like really hate them. But Rand Fishkin recently did a chart outlining the degrees of "safeness" to cloaking that in turn riled up Google's Matt Cutts in comments there. So I wanted to revisit some of the thin read more »
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Earlier this article was focused on warning peoples from common seo scams .. but now they have added some of the valuable services a good SEO Consultant can provide. read more »
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When navigation schemes are mapped out in accordance with IA there is less chance for cliffhangers. I love these. It’s when you get going on a site and you’re rolling along until suddenly you’re taken to a page that drops you off into the Unknown In read more »
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Mod_rewrite is an Apache module that can be accessed from .htaccess files to perform all kinds of complicated URL manipulation. The main mod_rewrite function, RewriteRule, is powered by regular expressions. For the purposes of this tutorial, though, read more »
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As Matt writes, "As the head of the webspam team at Google, I'm in charge of making sure your search results are as relevant and informative as possible." read more »
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Rishil shares a practical guide to link building strategies that small businesses have access to but tend to over look. read more »
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Validating HTML for better SEO and traffic growth: A few simple steps in WordPress. read more »
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AVG recently activated their Linkscanner product. It scans all the results on a search page and downloads all of the pages. This has led to a skewing of web analytics data on many websites (recording the link scan as a visit even though no human vi read more »
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I have been doing business on the internet since 1998. I started in web design and learned SEO and have been doing it for several years. One thing that really gets under my skin is when people try to sell a useless service. read more »
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Search Engine Land - So what am I trying to accomplish with this article? Honestly, I would really like the search industry to re-evaluate what they consider to be advanced SEO skills. I do not believe that advanced SEO skills are necessarily "black read more »
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I invite you all to hop on over to Donna's blog, grab a piece of cake and chat it up in the comments - it's a party after all.

MODS - this is a dupe... please nuke it ;0) read more »
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Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its t read more »
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There are all sorts of metaphors and analogies you can use to illustrate various aspects of link theory, from the buckets full of link juice used to explain PR flow and sculpting, through to examples where Links=Votes.

Ken has devised a new analo read more »
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Stoney deGeyter writes, "Moving your site to a new domain is remarkably similar to moving to a new physical address. One of the primary areas of concern is making sure the search engines not only continue to deliver traffic to your new location, but read more »
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Was Threadwatch shutting down a conspiracy ? I don't believe it was and all the actions that caused it to close are perfectably understandable but you can make your own decision.

One things for sure though, I agree with the Web Prof I miss TW too read more »
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No company should have this much information on it's customers. This is a comprehensive list on what the Big G is collecting on you... Most of this stuff you already know they are tracking, but it is amazing to see the amount of data that Google is read more »
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I am not sure all of you might have heard of htaccess files. Also may be thinking what can be done having an htaccess file on your site. The people who would have heard would have used to implement custom error pages and for protecting directories w read more »
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Nice post from Rand on leveraging customers for link building. Here's to more "headsmacking tips". read more »
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Before I launch into my inagural moz blog post let me make one thing clear. I'm not a blackhat. We don't do blackhat work for clients and frankly I don't do that much of it in my free time either. Just thought I'd like to clear that up before I laun read more »
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A scan of the Twitter search site Summize shows a large amount of people tweeting about lost followers over the past few days. No one knows for sure what is going on but a few have keyed in on the idea that Twitter may simply be deleting the account read more »
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Every webmaster needs to know this. Essential stuff. I wonder why Google thinks this is an indication of spam? read more »
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The SEOmoz Web 2.0 awards page is PR0 and no longer ranks.

"This seems to be a particularly harsh move by Google if you ask me. I mean people have ran awards and given out badges to the winners for years and it is totally white hat." read more »
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Robots from Vanessa over at Jane and Robot. Huge and awesome. read more »
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