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Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
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Julie interviews Ruby on Rails extraordinaire Tony Spencer on SEO and Ruby on Rails compatibility, issues, and is it spider friendly? Great interview with some keen insight for PHP, Ruby programmers as well as technical SEO's. read more »
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Adam, a colleague from my days in publishing, writes a great post about why many mainstream journalists still don't 'get' blogging: "Community is not a place. Community is an approach to publishing." read more »
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Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its t read more »
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Rand Fishkin's take on Google live chat session: "Rather than attack the content provided by the Googlers directly, I thought it would be more valuable to provide the answers from Google alongside the answers I would have given. Hopefully, in this f read more »
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Twitter has 3 million indexed user feeds.
Writing applications to automatically post to twitter is super-easy. They suggest doing it with their twitter api.
Twitter posting apps get dofollow links.

Sounds like Twitter Fox and Twurl are goi read more »
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Twitter is a fun Web 2.0 communications tool that allows users to deliver quick messages of 140 characters or less. Twitter has become more than a communication tool — it's a source of angry, funny and awkward messages that would be sometimes best l read more »
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So I suspect I’m not the only blackhat SEO that monitors the search results for “buy viagra”. For the past few months, these results have been dominated by a variety of forum and web2.0 profiles that were link spammed into the rankings. However, for read more »
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Google’s primary data center crashed yesterday. What’s to blame? Linkbait. read more »
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Rand lets off about paid links:
"This perfectly explains why you have to discount perturbances like paid links. Make it about the business, and the business owners and operators in the room will respect you. Make it about the lack of morality among read more »
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A scan of the Twitter search site Summize shows a large amount of people tweeting about lost followers over the past few days. No one knows for sure what is going on but a few have keyed in on the idea that Twitter may simply be deleting the account read more »
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Matt Cutts explains what happened to the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards, and includes some good advice on filenaming conventions. read more »
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Patrick Altoft writes "What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about Linkbait

Lyndon Antcliff has become one of the most notorious linkbait experts after a recent high profile project involving a hoax story was publicly “outed”.

The fallout fr read more »
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Every webmaster needs to know this. Essential stuff. I wonder why Google thinks this is an indication of spam? read more »
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The SEOmoz Web 2.0 awards page is PR0 and no longer ranks.

"This seems to be a particularly harsh move by Google if you ask me. I mean people have ran awards and given out badges to the winners for years and it is totally white hat." read more »
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A response blogpost to the discussion going on at Bruce Clay about "SMX Advanced containing Black Hat SEO content", shock horror!! Black hat advice doesn't mean you have to do it. Black hat SEO rel="no follow"?? But it's worth listening to "them", a read more »
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My look on how Google personalised results can show you some interesting results and how to deal with that. read more »
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A look at the 10 most common fatal localisation mistakes English language sites face when entering other markets. read more »
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QuadsZilla joins the fray over white hat/black hat and SMX Advanced. 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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Matt McGee writes, "Despite what you may have read elsewhere, last week’s SMX Advanced conference in Seattle was not a black-hat spamfest. It was one of the most educational conferences I’ve been to, and a big improvement over the original SMX Advan read more »
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This is a hilarious post by Dr. Pete at User Effect - an amalgamation of various spam emails containing delightful misuse of the English language. read more »
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Running a search query for Plurk: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=plurk&meta=

Guess what the second result is? The Redeem Friendship link to Probloggers Plurk account!

Screen shot on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21963003@N04/25 read more »
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Everyone has heard about the SEOmoz Pro Membership, but is it worth the price tag? I recently subscribed to their membership and this was my impression. read more »
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buybigtires talks about how to posture yourself for international growth, and taking advantage of differences in language and spelling for different cultures. A great place to start optimizing for international search results. read more »
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