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Fantastic look at what SEO means (since we use like 800 variations of the three letter acronym) and how we sell it. read more »
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Brian Carter writes "Should SEO Success Be Measured By Rankings? Traffic? Conversions?

There's been a lot of discussion in the SEO community over the last few months about how important rankings are or are not, and whether the main goal of SEO read more »
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Mark throws a tiny tantrum - 8 annoying things about Stumbleupon. 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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Dear Danny,

I love Sphinn. And I really love Search Engine Land. But if the two are separate, why do you force me to submit something from SEL to Sphinn in order to comment on it?

There are times when I don't want to Sphinn a story (not becaus read more »
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Latinos are the fastest growing demographic in America. Yet marketers often approach their Latino marketing in a stereotypical, "muy caliente" way.

Could dignity in marketing actually be better for business? read more »
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Darren Rowse is regularly asked how he’d promote his blog if he was starting out again today and didn’t have the profile that he currently has.

First in a series of posts - all of which are focused upon the topic of finding NEW readers. read more »
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Gab Goldenberg offers some very useful tips and observations on why, as a webmaster, being dependent on Google for traffic / monetization is shaky ground at best and what we all can and should be doing to work around this. Chock full of great tips read more »
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One of SEOmoz's former regular blog contributors, Michael Martinez, posted his "Thoughtful SEO's Manifesto" this week. After reading it, Rand Fishkin thought it would be fun to highlight some of the differences in how Michael and he think about, wri read more »
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This post could also have been titled “Tracking Radio Ads” or “Measuring Online Impact of Offline Marketing” or “Success in a Nonline World. It will touch on all of those. read more »
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And conversely so, this leads to an important point often neglected: What you do not publish on your site will define it. The absence of certain content positions your site against another competitor and allows it to develop an identity among others read more »
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For many people, a manifesto is something to think about. For some people it defines a way of life. For a very few people it may become an object to be feared, disputed, and opposed. Like art, a good manifesto evokes some sort of reaction in people. read more »
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Recently I discovered a site that is scraping a number of SEO blogs for content everyday and attributing the posts to the wrong people in the anchor text. Am I the only one who finds this annoying? Do you think it is ethical to share this person's read more »
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Flat architecture is effective in creating visibility to a great deal of content because you can use a known strong page to pass equal link value to a large number of pages. read more »
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If you don’t show passion for your web site, it will perform that way. read more »
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Picture of Michael Martinez in a bear suit. Definitely funny. read more »
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As a crap SEO company, we’re not passionate about SEO. We don’t have staff that stay up at night looking at a site in Google SERPS wondering ‘why’. Our passion is sales. We still live in 1999. read more »
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It must be the season for outing clueless companies. You'll laugh out loud.... read more »
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Good examples of how to build a web-page that converts visitors to customers. Good pictures including eye-tracking and original examples. read more »
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Chris over at 97th Floor makes a compelling case about Google indexing and ranking a site that seems to be clearly in violation of Google's TOS on several accounts. Intrigued? Read on.... read more »
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This happens to best of us and I know I had to deal with it on more than one occasion - a broken WordPress blog… As a direct result of one of our actions we run into issues that could be different in severity ranging from partially lost functionalit read more »
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bloggers can use stumbleupon to get the attention of other bloggers read more »
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You know the difference between a filter and a penalty right? read more »
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A concise description of Google's economic motives behind the "Paid Link Boogyman" read more »
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Do you think that a poorly executed long-tail can hurt your PPC return on investment? I do. read more »
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