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Vanessa Fox details the new functionality Microsoft Live Search has added to their Webmaster Center. New features include indexing stats, penalty information, and downloadable link data. read more »
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Sugarrae writes "Let me start off by summing up this entire post in one sentence for those of you busy actually doing some productive sh*t today (which I usually am):

This “community” is f**ked and way too wrapped up in its own communal and delud read more »
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Is Google favor its own video engines? read more »
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The dragons were keen to invest in an online diamond website's potential due to its high search rankings in Google. read more »
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Widgetbait gone bad sparked intense controversy about the utilization of anchor text within widgets. I decided to ask some of the leading experts in the industry their thoughts on the following situation, in an attempt to unearth what is kosher and read more »
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Fake Social Media Profiles - Good, Bad or Ugly. I think Michael Gray really hits the nail on the head with this one. I guess as with so many other things it really comes down to the intent. read more »
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As many top social news users spend more and more time on reddit, the traffic seems to be following them. read more »
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The Beeb cover the rise of online hoaxes and even mention SEO's very own Lyndon from Cornwall SEO read more »
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After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. read more »
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Knowing that the search marketing industry is currently talent constrained, I wanted to take a look at where the search marketing talent was located. To get a feel for this I chose to use SEMPO's member roster as a baseline to assess where search m read more »
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Lisa Barone offers up some tips about things you should take into consideration when choosing a domain name for a long term, quality website. read more »
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Web analytics an hour a day is an amazing book, but it didnt have a kick start guide for media websites... so i took a go myself! read more »
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Bill Macaitis is the SVP of Online Marketing for Fox Interactive Media (FIM) which runs a network of entertainment sites which include MySpace, Fox Sports, IGN, Photobucket, AskMen, Rotten Tomatoes and American Idol, GameSpy, Scout and Flektor offer read more »
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The most common question I get asked about Google's ranking is "how do you do it?" Of course, there is a lot that goes into building a state-of-the-art ranking system like ours, and I will delve deeper into the technology behind it in a later post. read more »
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So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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I can't believe that google have come out and said they are use people's IP and Cookie data for search relevancy read more »
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From the story: This is pretty cut/dry - we found a couple of cloaked redirects on Trulia’s site. It looks like they’re doing it simply to pump the PR of specific pages, and to get some good sitewide one-way links. read more »
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Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. 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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Who determines what is obscene and moral? The defense attorney argues that the community does and what better way to determine what the community sees as moral then to see what they are searching for from within the comfort of their own homes. read more »
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"I used to hear this question from prospective clients around 3 years ago whilst heading up the SEO department at a London based marketing agency. The question was usually asked by SMEs, in the belief that either Google recommended the agencies in t read more »
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I got a chance to sit down and speak with Matt about White Hat link building tactics. Very illuminating. read more »
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In this guest post, SEMpdx member Jerome Thorp argues that MVC Site Architecture should be used with care because though it apparently is endorsed by the search engines, it seems to go against Google's Webmaster Guidelines. read more »
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Technically, you’re not supposed to show the Google Bot something different from what you’d show a human user. Netconcepts president Stephan Spencer argues, though, what’s good for Amazon should be good for everybody. In this video, Spencer chats wi read more »
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Coming back from our SMX Advanced conference last week, I found myself doing some soul searching. How was it that some people could wonder if advanced SEO means spamming search engines? And have I been contributing to this confusion? For the record read more »
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