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Jane follows up Danny's post about his conversation with a truthfully challenged (if you see what I mean) search marketer. She mentions the 'e' word. Twenty quid to the first person to mention Lyndon-gate in the comments.

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While I liked the fact that my WordPress login and registration pages were seamless with the rest of my site design wise due to a plugin, that ugly non matching user profile page was driving me nuts. So I enlisted Joost de Valk's programming skills read more »
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QualityGal weighs on the A Lister Link Payola debate and writes "As I was leaving a comment on Graywolf’s post about Guy Kawasaki and Link Payola, I realized I had more than a few words to say on the matter.

Google’s policy on paid links is impos read more »
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When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm] read more »
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QualityGal (of We Build Pages), "It’s hard to tell someone - like your boss, or a client - that their keyword targeting campaign is due to fail miserably because it doesn’t match up with user intent." read more »
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Google's search string parameters. read more »
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If you've ever wanted to know how to get a quality score that kicks serious ass, here's a guide as to what you need to be doing. read more »
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I hate beating a dead horse, but I think it's all in our best interest to try to understand where are the lines that have been drawn when it comes to purchasing links. I reference comments from Matt about paying for a Yahoo Directory listings to sho read more »
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Shoemoney has promoted offers even he calls a "scam" (repeatedly), copied linkbait from others, and much more.
And yet he calls SEOs slimy.
I don't normally give into flamebait, and don't normally like to call people out on such things, but I made read more »
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While WordPress is one of my favorite CMS platforms, out of the box it isn’t search engine optimized. Combine this with people who aren’t SEO aware, and publish a blog, and you almost always end up with an implementation that’s sub-optimal. Here are read more »
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TheMadHat has some choice words regarding Eric Ward's link building strategies. The short of it, he's not using Eric for his future link building campaigns. read more »
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While over at the Facebook Search Engine Optimization Group we do not have any light bulbs, sorry, this week the group surpassed the 1,000 member mark and the community continues to grow. If you have not visited become a part of the unbridled expans read more »
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13 Tricks that are 100% Original, Whitehat Friendly, and Free! Most of these techniques are referenced nowhere else I could find on the web and can be used to build many, high PR links very quickly, and also can help to and some serious spunk to you read more »
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Shimon Sandler gives out a download of his “basic” PPC Performance Report in Excel format which has many self-calculating formulas within the cells. read more »
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This is an extensive interview with tons of useful links delving into the elusive world of ninja link building with Jim Boykin. read more »
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Graywolf holds whiney Jason Calacanis' hand and walks through an informative mini site audit/analysis of the poorly structured mess of Mahalo... read more »
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Linkbuilding has got a lot easier over the last couple of years. Gone are the days of sending out link exchange emails, begging for links, submitting articles and submitting to directories. Now all you have to do is write some linkbait and the links read more »
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bwaaa ha ha ha ha... WOW, criminals seems a tad harsh don't it? Is Google our new overlord and breaking the TOS is a crime? Sure, using such tactics without a clients knowledge could be leaning towards fraud, but generally speaking, most Black Hats read more »
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Aaron Wall hits on a very under-discussed aspect of SEO: Site Trust. I think it's the first thing you have to work toward with your web site, because once you've gained trust, the possibilities are endless. read more »
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Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn members to prove their mettle as marketers, by pushing Sphinn over 400 for the first time.

Sites like Digg show hundreds and sometimes thousands of votes because their members participate and exercise t read more »
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