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Jane follows up Danny's post about his conversation with a truthfully challenged (if you see what I mean) search marketer. She mentions the 'e' word. Twenty quid to the first person to mention Lyndon-gate in the comments.

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Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. read more »
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Is there a line between blog marketing and pay per post? Are promotional gifts just another form of money? Ciaran comes down on the side of no. read more »
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Excellent analysis of the evolution of mobile search and the role Google's Android plans to play in it going forward by Greg Sterling. read more »
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David Naylor does the Calcanis dance, saying "I Quit!", but of course he then mentions he'll be back later. His frustration with whatever Google glitch / penalty / error / ban is affecting his blog's indexing has prompted him to throw in the towel. read more »
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Excellent discussion about this important topic concerning SEO terminology. read more »
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I posted the browser stats from Google Analytics of SELand, SERoundtable and my personal blog, CartoonBarry.com at Search Engine Land. Chrome looked pretty impressive.

I encourage you to share your stats as well. So go to Google Analytics, cha read more »
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George Michie: Taking advantage of intraday fluctuations in traffic value can be important to maximizing the efficiency of your pay-per-click (PPC) ad spend. We see statistically significant variances in traffic value on the order of 5% to 25% for m read more »
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I'm not really sure what the term shake a stick at means?

But this list is just freaking mammoth. read more »
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Danny Sullivan notes something very true, the times are changing, and presidential candidates are getting better at search marketing, but not in the most recent case. Danny explores how neither campaign is running ads for the new VP nominee. read more »
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Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and B read more »
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"Thank you for your email. Please note that it is currently not possible to differentiate between visits from news.google.com and google.com. We apologize for any inconvenience."

Enough said.

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After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. read more »
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Did you ever wonder how Google Adwords Expanded Broad Match really works? Relevance has very little to do with it. How do I know? They told me. All the infuriating details here. read more »
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A new generation of search engines are starting to become publicly available and so it's time to start thinking about how they will affect SEO efforts. read more »
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Google's search string parameters. read more »
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Unfortunately, when you’re delivering recommendations to stakeholders at medium to large companies, virtually every decision you make is met with antagonism of some sort. Worse still, at the Fortune 500 level, you’re facing a literal labyrinth of ma read more »
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So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd 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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Paul J. Bruemmer writes, "All complex systems can be broken down into manageable components or modules. SEO is no different; whether you have 17,000 domains or 10,000,000 products SKUs, the system for managing this load is always the same." read more »
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Those of you who work for yourselves likely never have to deal with this, but for those folks working in-house gigs or agency gigs, running ranking reports for a given swath of keywords is likely one of the most frustrating and demoralizing prospect read more »
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When use of the phrase "linkbait" first started to achieve critical mass, some dismissed it as nothing more than a fad that would be dead in a year. Some truly understood linkbait and tried to explain it while some of those who grasped it ran with i read more »
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Mr. Cutts, if you’re out there and you’re reading this, please chime in. I need a definitive answer before I post my annual faux Miami Dolphins column in 2009. read more »
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Greg Sterling and Barry Schwartz provide a first glimpse of Google Health from Google's factory tour. read more »
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