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SEO, or search engine optimization, is far from being a new method of online marketing. As long as search engines have indexed pages there have been Webmasters and marketers attempting to optimize their pages in order to appear higher in the search read more »
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Barry has a problem and rightly so..going through too many links will become hard! Thoughts? read more »
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Website Magazine asked several of the top Internet marketing and SEO experts what their focus would be for 2009. Share your thoughts by commenting below! read more »
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Major hat tip to @neyne for finding this:

According to ARIN's whois information, seomoz.org is owned by the one, the only dotnetdotcom.org

Yes, ladies and gents, the same dotnetdotcom.org bot that SEOmoz lists as a source of data for their con read more »
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There are many ways to build backlinks. There are many ways to waste your time building backlinks too. Therefore, it makes sense to invest your time and effort in something that just works. read more »
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So these past few weeks you have sweated, grunted and toiled to churn out your quality free ebook (ahem…I mean free report) to help you build your subscriber list, but why is it that nobody is downloading it?

Ever wondered why quite often medioc read more »
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How to File a Google Reconsideration Request read more »
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Muhammad Saleem writes, "When I attended South by Southwest 2008, I had the pleasure of attending a panel where four somewhat lost panelists were (with difficulty) trying to come up with metrics to measure success from a social media marketing campa read more »
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PDFs in Google Search Results Showing Author & Cited in Description Snippets. read more »
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“One of the ones that filter to the top was “vote up if you don’t think self posts should get karma” and a useful discussion ensued. We decided to make the change after that. Reddit is a democracy after all.” read more »
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The guys over at the conversion rate experts (aka the squirrel guys due to their fantastic website optimiser piece) have just re-launched their site and have a new blog. Add to your feed reader now! read more »
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Writing a Business Plan can be extremely overwhelming. Writing a business plan for an internet business using a “template” b-plan is frustrating; we have tried many times. The majority of b-plan templates are 20 years old an don’t take into consider read more »
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One of the most common mistakes websites owners make is moving pages around causing missing pages. read more »
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The blogosphere was amazed earlier this year when it realised the true size of Google. Think Google is the King Kong of search? Think a million King Kongs and you’re getting close. read more »
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If you are active in social media marketing, you have probably come to understand that it is a whole lot more complicated than you thought it was going to be. Even as involved as I am in social media every day, I still learn new tricks and tactics d read more »
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A good discussion of how fraudulent stories used as linkbait are harmful to SEM's reputation. read more »
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Reddit.com just launched their highly anticipated redesign. There are quite a few new features, including the option for hard core Reddit fans to turn the view back to the compressed link format. Check it out. read more »
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Currently expected to launch sometime next week, if no further bugs or issues are discovered, the Reddit community has been vocal in what they like and hate about the new designs. Since the release earlier this month on May 7th, 2008, there have bee read more »
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If a Digg submissions uses vulgarity in the title or description, it is changed automatically to show “*” and censor the word. read more »
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I am not sure if anyone noticed or not, but Reddit.com has removed the advanced search option from it’s site. I used to use advanced search strings like “(site:brentcsutoras.com)” to check if anyone had submitted my posts to Reddit. read more »
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Is it time for one site to be everything to everyone (in a similar fashion that Yahoo or AOL was 10 years ago)? We are all now forced into situations where time and the efficient use of it have become acutely important. read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "Very often if you have some issues with Google ranking your site, you should search for problems with your own site (instead of rushing to get as many inlinks as you can). Checking that your content appeals both to your human vis read more »
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Screen shots and feature descriptions have been leaked for the new changes coming to Reddit.com. The changes are only the first round and appear to be the biggest update to the Reddit site to date. read more »
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Tired of PPC? Try new PPC! Here is a good list of 14 alternate sources of paid search traffic that you might not be aware of. read more »
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Google is giving the ability to select your own time on you emails so you can have proof that they were snet when YOU say they were, allowing for the possibility of never being wrong again. read more »
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