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Adding a print stylesheet to your website will make your pages look good on and off the web. This article is a guide to the ins and outs of building a stylesheet for print. read more »
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CNN reports that UC Berkeley Grad Student James Karl Buck twittered his way out of an Egyptian jail with single-word text messages after being arrested. read more »
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Matt once again hits a home run with this post detailing a conversation he had with a local dry cleaner, and how people should look at the opportunities available to them to create great viral/social post ideas.

Look at some the ideas that resul read more »
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Certainly the most "out there" piece I've written to date, I attempt to link SEO with the concept of Surrealism, the art of Salvador Dali, and the mysteries surrounding extraordinary personal perception and its nexus to success in our industry.

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Garrett Pierson, of Your SEO Mentor, and wife are having a baby! Woohoo! (if you don’t know who Garrett is, he’s the cool dude that is responsible for "Learn SEO Live" video tutorials. (Which Jordan Kasteler (Utah SEO Pro) is also a contributor)

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Tim Nash uncovers a gem from John Andrews' live blogging from live domain roundtable about domains changing hands. read more »
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Jennifer Slegg looks at some of the reasons why company blogs are doing so poorly, and how to correct them. read more »
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A fully optimized Local Business Profile contains a well-crafted business description, containing a unique selling proposition based on market and keyword research, domain name and email cross branding (including generic domains), authentic testimon read more »
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Mark Dykeman over at the broadcasting-brain.com brings a little humor to the table. A great look at the lighter side of social media. Brightened up my day, hopefully will brightened up yours read more »
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IMO the only way to be secure for right now is to run the last build before 2.5 & update it with all security patches - then if you are worried about sites not accepting your blog because its under 2.5 - simply go into your header.php in your templa read more »
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Given we just launched HatedOrLoved.com an online Social Network Community that will be coming out of Beta 1.0 into Beta 2.0 this weekend, it may seem odd that I am about to extol the virtues of what is in essence a competitors site. Yet that doesn’ read more »
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A funny and informative Rant, inspired by SEOmoz's Rebbeca, about how People do not get Social Bookmarking. 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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The SEO community gets a lot of blame for Google's problems. Here are a list of solid reasons Google is better because of professional SEOs and how even the true spammers should get some of the praise for making Google what it is today. 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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The bright folks at MindValley Labs have covered Frank Kern's "Death Grip" method for making prospects want to buy your product so badly you'll be pushing them back at the gates! Reading this, I was honestly thinking "I neeeeed to get this" and they read more »
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So it seems to me social media is not only a facilitator for this type of interaction, in many cases it also encourages it. read more »
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Will be interesting to see how various companies and businesses tackle the balance between new video apps/technologies and providing relevance for consumer search experience/results. In the past, new technologies have often overshadowed basic relev read more »
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Social media can be a very valuable method of gaining publicity for your business blog. The techniques towards making it all happen can be found here. read more »
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Before i get started with this post i am in no way slagging off the job John Chow has done in achieving the things he has achieved with his blog. I am a regular reader of his blog and the only thing i would like to see is a little less of the produc read more »
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It is no secret that human review has been playing a bigger role at Google over the past couple years. And we are emotional beings... no matter how logical the guidelines may be, emotions cause human errors. But not all sites that get penalized are read more »
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Most people would tell you Google is not in anyway scared of Social Media, that they are capitalizing on it and buying some of the most successful examples. If we look both a decade into the past and into the future as well though a different image read more »
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I love the label black hat and white hat. It reminds me of those dusty old serial cowboy movies where the villain always wore a black hat. Of course very few of us in the SEO business are only white or black hat and I believe most SEOs are wearing a read more »
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Recently I published a very popular post on 20 Social Networking Sites that are good for building links. I put a lot of work into the research behind that project and isolated 20 great Social Sites that actually were useful for good old fashioned li read more »
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Currently in Beta 1.0 Hated or Loved is like Digg or Mixx with a cool twist. Rather then stories being buried they will be featured as "Hated" or "Loved" hence any story that gets a reaction will end up being featured. It is good to be loved but i read more »
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