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Maybe it's emotions...Maybe it's somehow legal, but it feels like the WORST kind of violation to see paragraph after paragraph of scraped content, from a blog post we poured ourselves into. Making things worse, the human modification tactic is enoug read more »
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While the rest of the SEO community was buzzing about SES San Jose and the crazy trapeze people they met at SearchBash, Jim Boykin was quietly planning an industry coup. The man literally went on a hiring spree and began tricking SEO types into trad read more »
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We all know that speaking at a conference is a major honor and a major horror. Some of us want to do it, but most are scared to death of public speaking. This is Brandy Eddings' tale of the scary part of ScarySEO. read more »
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On October 21st, 2008 Dave Bort a Google software engineer wrote "Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of the work that we've poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for f read more »
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Exactly two weeks ago, SEOmoz launched Linkscape, their new link analysis tool. There has been much accusation, feedback and discussion over the inner workings of the product itself which this post does not cover. Instead I’d like to take a look at read more »
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We Build Pages, 10E20, BOTW, SEOmoz, Sugarrae, Frank Watson, Search Engine Journal, Sure Hits. Help us help the Ronald McDonald house, and more... this is the SMX East party to attend. read more »
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laura callow gives some much needed insight into SEM during an economic downturn read more »
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An excellent analysis and summary of how the current economic occurrences in the US will affect search marketers.

Huge kudos and thanks to author Jim Hedger for some great research. read more »
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Few companies set out to do bad deeds, but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. When Josh McHugh profiled the young corporation in January 2003, it had one clear and concise rule: "Don't be evil." Ah well, times change. CEO read more »
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After what seems like forever writing and blogging for Bruce Clay, Lisa Barone is moving on to pastures new...


I hope your new venture still sees you writing online somewhere. The old place just won't be the same without The Lisa. read more »
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Why Online Reputation Management is important to you. read more »
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As silly season draws to a close, Traffick weighs in with its sixth annual Infinite Regression Awards -- an ode to circularity at its finest. This time by newcomer Matt Larkin.

We would have included the Best/Worst Sphinn About Sphinn as a catego read more »
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Cuil has a curious habit of selecting random images and applying them against search results. More fun with Cuil as Daryl Quenet performs a vanity search and finds himself to be half of Hall and Oats. read more »
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Reputation Management is much like a beauty regime. read more »
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SemGeek offers an exclusive interview with iProspect's President Rob Murray who is responsible for formulating the firm's corporate strategy as well as managing the company's operations. read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "A SEJ reader sent us the following SEO question, which which I decided to discuss with our readers: What is an orphan page and dead-end page? What’s the difference? How are they harmful for your site?" read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn’t been hacked." read more »
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Traffic Marks helps you locate authority sites — sites that would make good places to acquire links. You supply a keyword and it grabs the Top 10 sites in Google for your keyword, and it crawls those sites’ first 100 +/- backlinks (I assume from Yah read more »
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Though he writes that he dislikes writing about this topic, Barry was right to cover it. We have a collective problem of our own making... read more »
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Donna Fontenot writes, "I’m done. I’ve had all I can take of the vicious, nasty, cr@p that has been going on in our little industry. Sure, SEOs have disagreed with one another from day one, usually on forums. That’s nothing new. Sometimes it got nas read more »
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Online POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know it read more »
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Johannes Beus of Sistrix revisited the "first anchor text" debate again last Monday and got some nice results in conjunction with image links. We translated his test results to English. read more »
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Where I make a sociological-based argument theorizing that Doug's typical course of blog commenting is actually good marketing and branding for his business. read more »
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Scott Hendison offers his opinion as to whether the SMX Advanced "Give It Up" speakers strayed into black hat territory. Excellent review of the session. 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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