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Attribute-based (a.k.a. faceted) navigation systems make it easier for users to filter, sort, navigate, and buy. But this user benefit could cost you big-time in your natural search marketing performance if not SEO'd correctly. read more »
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GrayWolf: Ask any advanced SEO to describe what they want in a link and you’re likely to get something like this …

“A keyword rich link from a well linked/important/popular page on a trusted and authoritative website, that is preferably topic read more »
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Stephan Spencer dishes out a very thorough write-up on the different types of redirects. read more »
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"In addition to being smart, gorgeous, ridiculously talented, and pig kissing yummy, Lisa Barone is also one year older."

Happy Birthday! read more »
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Web Analytics Optimization is important too! Web Analytics are very valuable but it’s so easy for them to become useless if your not tracking what you want. Maybe your a small company and you get all excited that you have 100 visits in a day, but r read more »
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Since Google posted on how their search quality stuff works, Barry Schwartz figured he would take the webmaster view and tell you what webmasters and SEOs have been seeing from Google's search quality as of late. read more »
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A little image search experiment, via my Mozzer friends, demonstrating some variations between Google, Yahoo, and MSN, going from one algorithmic extreme to another. read more »
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Several weeks ago at SMX West I had the pleasure of meeting and having lunch with Brian White from Google. Brian works on Matt Cutts' web spam team, tirelessly working to make Google's search results the best they can be, ensuring the best user expe read more »
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Google will sell Performics. Hooray! read more »
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When you are strapped for ideas you either hope an idea will come to you eventually in a random moment of inspiration, or you delve into your RSS feeds to try to find something that sparks your imagination. The Word That Ensures 100% productivity i read more »
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In February of 2008, 3000+ search marketers answered 52 questions about themselves, their work and the search industry via a survey on SEOmoz. The following data and analysis comes from SEOmoz staff members Nick Gerner, Rebecca Kelley, Jeff Pollard read more »
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Google's search-within-a-site feature launched about 3 weeks ago. Discussed in-depth at SES New York. Today: NY Times. So why post old news? Ann Smarty (SEOSmarty) is quoted in NYT article! Very cool.

So are Pinny (Ice, Ice, baby) and ARKG's Ala read more »
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LinkedIn launches their company pages that have been in alpha stage. Take a look and compare the new to the conceptual. It will be interesting to see these develop and hopefully they'll bring in a few more of the features from the conceptual pages. read more »
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With Flickr's recent change of adding nofollows, be sure to check out the links that, at least so far, are still nofollow free. read more »
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Great list of link building tools by Link Builder Extraordinaire, Debra Mastaler. Some here I never heard of before and can't wait to check out. read more »
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At $2.7 million, amazing at how many commercials during the game either didn't have a URL shown or had one that was so insignificant that it either couldn't be read or was even noticed. Other than a few standouts, it appears that big companies or ad read more »
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Of course Microsoft's bid for Yahoo has been the big news of the day. Not to get ahead of ourselves, but cast your vote now for suggested names on the combined search efforts. read more »
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Huge news. Microsoft make an official bid for Yahoo. We've been here before with the rumors but now this looks serious. What do you think? Would this be a good move for both companies? read more »
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Informative article about social media profiles. read more »
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Well it seems on of the Big 3 decided to take a stab at playing in the social spaces. I am going to go play with it... cya!!

Search Engine Land - Yahoo has sent word that they are testing integration of data from their Delicious social bookmarkin read more »
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A pretty good list from Lee..... I do love my analytics toys :0)

Snip - Regardless of the purpose, I’ve assembled a list below of the various tools we use, or have tested to report onsite blog metrics. Pick the service or tool you like the most f read more »
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In this Stephan Spencer post Stephan highlights and expounds on Matt's response to indexing flash files in the recent interview Stephan had with Matt. This is a great follow up post to a successful interview. read more »
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There are a number of habits that separate top bloggers from the rest. They’re not often talked about, though the benefits they yield are very real. read more »
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Every search marketer has their bag of tricks and tools, but why settle for a bag when you can have a kit? At $15, this cheeky spin on an SEO toolkit had our office in stitches. read more »
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Just when we get settled back into being able to use advanced link queries in MSN/Live again, it appears that the love has been turned off. Hopefully this is just a glitch, otherwise, it's back to estimation queries when it comes to linking in MSN. read more »
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