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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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Understanding your visitor is the underlying answer to creating a successful website. However, gathering the required information can prove to be quite a task. There are a variety of ways to gather key information about site visitors and of course t read more »
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Funny that this quote/title was first spotted (for me at least) on Plurk... (dats 2 in one day Li!! woot)

Search Gurus - Twitter, you just got funding. Twitter, you really need to wake up and realize, people will go where the conversations are h read more »
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Taking tactics straight from the battlefield, a detailed look at how to defeat larger and well funded opponents. Signatories of the Geneva Convention look away now. read more »
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Since I just bought my new Macbook Pro, I had to reinstall all of my Firefox extensions, plugins and tools. So, I figured, hey, why not write a detailed post with examples about my “Top 7 Firefox extensions, plugins, and tools” that are near and dea 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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I’ve been sitting the whole day downloading, installing, testing and uninstalling applications and in the end narrowed my list to only 3 tools I found really useful (most of the tools I came across either didn’t work or focused on rather outdated an read more »
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Eric Enge and Rand discuss white, gray and black hat link building techniques that were mentioned at SMX Advanced. read more »
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:) You have to see Matt Cutts' moves in this music video! read more »
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New version 6.0! This version includes new bulk editing tools, better downloading for account statistics, and a new option for updating minimum CPC bids. We've also listened to users' requests for support within AdWords Editor for CPC placement targ read more »
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Take a look at Google’s 1998 homepage and see if you can guess its most innovative feature... read more »
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Karon Thackston shares the story of a client who begged for content rewrites when their rankings slipped and then makes a good case for why the client needed to leave the content alone. read more »
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Maki - While you might not own a large online newspaper, the points listed in this article can be applied to your blog or online magazine. Apart from having strong information sources, it’s important to organize content in a way which provokes great read more »
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Muhammad Saleem via ReadWriteWeb - When I first heard about Plurk I was ready to hate it. But after using the site and comprehensively going over the feature set and its implementation I am thoroughly impressed. Ultimately, I think Plurk is an amazi read more »
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I have no qualms about “tricking” Google.

Rewind time to when search engines were a fresh idea, and many people thought they themselves were unethical. Search engines are not invited to sites. They copy/cache content, and do whatever they can to read more »
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Great post from the one and only Spider Dave Snyder!!

SnydeySense - As is true with most content centered link strategies, it is likely going to take you more than one lesson or unit plan to achieve your link goal. You will need to not only learn read more »
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Could Stumbleupon’s human-filtered search results be the beginning of the next evolution of search engines that could see the all-powerful Google algorithim be made redundant?

I think Nowsourcing is on to something here. read more »
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Matt Cutts posts lots of new docs, links about IP delivery/geolocation/cloaking, Nofollow documentation, Better definition for doorway pages, Robots.txt. read more »
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Adam writes... This post will explore several arguments against using nofollow for internal PageRank™ sculpting. It is based on a presentation I did at SMX Advanced. You can view my presentation slides here, however the deck is very brief since I on read more »
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There are a number of great keyword research tools out there (paid tools and free tools, too). Many times, however, I really wonder if I’m doing enough work to get into the mind of the customers. Here are 3 ways you can learn what the customer is sa read more »
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Are you using Google's visual reports to increase your understanding of your Adwords account? Using this report, and replicating the times where they've gotten the most clicks, SEMvironment increased their clients volume by 10-20% with one of hour w read more »
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Yikes! "I received an email this weekend from Yahoo saying that they were updating their Terms & Conditions for their search marketing accounts. In summary, Yahoo is going to optimize your PPC account without prior knowledge of or approval by adve read more »
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I blogged Matt McGee's SEO Success Pyramid Presentation at the SEMpdx SEM Hot Seat last night...here's what he said: read more »
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There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development spe read more »
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With fears of negative comments, blog posts or being flamed in a community, understanding the difference between a passionate (but upset) customer and a troll can mean a huge difference in time spent on resources to defend accusations and opportunit read more »
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