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In the game of linking there are two types of people....the prudes and the promiscuous ones. Will you buy a drink for anyone at the bar for a link or are you more selective? read more »
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Looks like Google and Adobe are working together to get Flash content indexed... read more »
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An interesting look at what your blog can expect from going hot at Sphinn. read more »
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It is the chicken before the egg of the online industry.

Which comes first usability or SEO?

Designers and developers often take one stance on the issue, and SEOs another. I am not sure there is a right or wrong answer. Despite how many in our read more »
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Ever thought about how many of your online friends are actually offline friends? You tell them what movies you have seen and if you liked them (Wall-e anyone?), but would you invite them to go with you to said movie. Here are some insights from a t read more »
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Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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As anyone who has seen the Terminator or Matrix movies can attest, if machines rule the world humans are in deep trouble. Similarly, if you allow machines to control the PPC keyword creation process you are guaranteed to both leave opportunity on th read more »
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Tamar explains in this post that you shouldn't be canceling your Twitter account yet..... Twitter & Plurk are totally different. 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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Hilarious list of the things a wife (or any spouse) have in common with Twitter - the site we all speak to more often than speaking to our spouses anyways! read more »
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Discussing the three changes which are causing small businesses to begin to focus more on building community, rather than simply pushing out content read more »
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In part 1 of What SEO/SEM Professionals Should Know About Website Usability, usability experts Peter Morville and Susan Weinschenk answered the question, "What should SEO professionals know about usability?" For this installment, website usability g read more »
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Some thoughts on SEO ethics by some industry experts- Matt McGee, Michael Gray, Jeff Quipp, Jim Hedger and more. read more »
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A patent application published last week from Microsoft provides another look at the ranking of images in image search, and some of the things that might be considered when ranking images.

It’s not quite as revolutionary an approach as the one su read more »
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Google serving ads based on keywords not relevant to your ads. Learn how Google is hurting your Quality Score. read more »
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Tad presents his top 7 CSS solutions that work around Google’s weaknesses. read more »
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After the keynote frenzy this morning, the session that stood out for me was Facebook Marketing: Best Practices with Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester Research as moderator, Evan Mager from AKQA, Holly Liu from Watercooler, Brett Keintz of 750 Industri read more »
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Gab Goldenberg shares two creative and effective link building tips: consider geography and keyword misspellings when researching link prospects. read more »
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Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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Matt Bailey offers up some thoughts on how the rampant twittering of conference sessions may force speakers to evaluate the way they give their presentations. read more »
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We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you woul read more »
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Darren Rowse writes a guest post on SocialMediaMom....4 Tips for Social Media Toddlers.

So many of us as Social Media Toddlers seem to get bogged down by the way things should be done or by being concerned of how others will receive us - but pe read more »
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Barack is featured as Baidu's Person of the Month. They are stating it is due to his web-savvy..... read more »
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Lisa Barone asks: "Is the new connected employee, the one that reaches out to industry contacts via Facebook and stays in the loop during the day via Twitter, a resource for the business they work for or a time-sucking liability?" read more »
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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
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SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008