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Loren Baker has had his google account suspended.It's having a huge impact. Is your business safe? read more »
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A small “Google awakening” happened on Tuesday night. There seems to to be a “Google Glass Ceiling” in the serps for certain types of sites. Mileage might vary, but if your site is pulling more weight than Google thinks it should, there is mounting read more »
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Being based in the UK I find that SEOs on this side of the pond have to get very familiar with website geo-location factors. It’s an unfortunate quirk of search engines that one of the main criteria that search engines use to determine a websites lo read more »
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Here are the 3 things missing that I can't live without. What would you like to see added? read more »
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Rae Hoffman writes, "As you may have heard, Twitter recently decided to “nofollow” links left of the “bio” section of user profiles. The “web” link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, wh read more »
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The Yellow Page industry is incredibly easy-to-understand - you pay more, you get a bigger ad, you get more calls. Search engine optimization, even for the rare small business owner who has heard of it, is much more complicated and is inherently som read more »
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Twitter have released their most detailed list yet on what they consider spam. Commercial or promotional Twitter users take note, these activities can get your account suspended or banned. 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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The community has long had a debate as to how 'ethical' blackhat SEO is. Here, I highlight which blackhat techniques are ethical and which aren't, based on a line drawn at algo-gaming vs abusing humans. read more »
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The world of internet marketing can be a minefield of personalities, but there are certain characters you will see over and over again. These characters range from a little naive to downright dishonest… see how many of these 11 you recognise. read more »
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SES San Jose - Although everything is far from ready, there are some cool looking booths. Here’s a sneak peek read more »
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"No, Seth, it doesn’t take 10 years to become a success."

I follow Seth, I have his books, but I don't agree with everything "anyone" says, SEOblackhat.com echoes my thought. read more »
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We've been getting blasted by these guys lately, any one else out there experiencing this? read more »
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Looks like Google is making another major play in the affiliate/cpa market by launching Perfomics Ad Network at Google Affiliate Network. read more »
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Even computer illiterate John McCain will Google you before you get a job! read more »
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Could this be the death-nail for internet marketing? If the good people pushing "Internet 2" have their way, it could very well be. read more »
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My take on Quadzilla's great post about the non-existence of Advanced White Hat SEO read more »
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The tool for checking all of Google's Data Centers at http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php is showing an "Account Suspended" message. Help us bring it back. read more »
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Now this is an issue the SEO community has to deal with not hiding behind "white hat or black hat anything goes as long it works" slogans. Either we ostracize people doing that and make people aware that it's not SEO or soon people will spit on us i read more »
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The biggest problem with SEO standards is we’ll get some half baked, half assed, implementation that’s just as bad as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As a concept it’s seems like a wonderful idea, everyone agrees to a set of established teachin read more »
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From SEOMoz, Someone is trying to register "SEO" as a service mark. Apparently, the guy who's doing this has managed to get all the way to the publication stage of the registration process. That means he has passed the preliminary review by the Trad read more »
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SEO Standards(to me) seem completely insane. There's too many variations on too many tactics. People aren't going to expose their tricks for a "risk assessment". And beyond that Google's tolerance for different tactics in different niches is complet read more »
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Looks like Google won't be operating an SEO/SEM firm. read more »
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From the post, "A very good friend of mine, and senior executive with Google, suggested to me today that the search giant is imminently poised to begin consolidating the search engine optimization industry. Google plans to make SEO services availabl read more »
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Great post on the #1 benefit of being an online marketer. read more »
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