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"Six and a half years ago (which is ages, in Internet years), Robin Nobles, Eric Ward, and John Alexander compiled a legendary list of 131 legitimate link building strategies. Four years later, Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans published 101 link building read more »
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This quick and dirty post sparks a good question about Google's quality guidelines and the fact they are displaying ads from blackhat SEO websites. What are your thoughts? Leave a comment to help spark some discussion. read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "Keywordfinder is a new keyword research tool that I think belongs in your toolbox. It won’t become your primary keyword research tool, but I think there are some situations when you’ll find it useful. Let’s take a look at how it read more »
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CNET News: "Google is in the process of paring back a contractor workforce that numbers about 10,000, the company confirmed Monday." read more »
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This post illustrates a bad SEO scenario, what can you do when your client refuses to take your advice, but pays their bills? Definitely needs good discussion! read more »
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Answering the questions searchers are asking is a great way to create wanted content, hit long tail keywords and get links. Find the questions with this simple new tool from Wordtracker. read more »
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Unknowingly to most social media marketers, Stumbleupon is rolling out a fair number of changes that could affect user profiles, and their ’stumble power’. The beta has already rolled, and its only time before the finished release becomes available read more »
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Brian Carter writes "Oooohhhh scary time. It's so scary. And so is Twitter, in some ways...

If you retweet or sphinn or digg this, I'll send you chocolate. Really.

Here are the Top 10 Ways Twitter is Like Halloween..." read more »
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Before you can make decisions such as keyword targeting and page optimisation, it is first important to understand the search buying cycle and how this can impact on your keyword queries and landing pages. read more »
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Something to read for the weekend: "This collection of 50 must read (...) articles embraces the philosophy behind designing websites for the ROI of it not the looks." read more »
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There are probably tens of thousands of Internet marketing blogs. They often focus on different marketing aspects yet still you can easily get overwhelmed by the sheer number of them in every niche. read more »
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"simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, then click Google Insights Bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically open a new tab/window with Google Insights showing the stats for the keyword you were just looking up at a search engin read more »
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Meet Meso-the-Lioma, the US champion in cost per click: Approx 50$! There are several contenders from the DUI team though. Check out the top 100 of the national PPC league. read more »
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Face It - Worrying about some seo techniques some talk about is not worth your time, no matter how much of a science some try to make of it.

If you are going to obsess about Google Search Engine Optimization.... make sure you spend your energy ob read more »
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Great post about a website that has popped up and is claiming to be a crusade against Spore, yet looks suspiciously like a clever marketing ploy.

Unless you have been living under a rock (or simply have zero interest in video games what so ever) read more »
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An insightful interview with social media expert Shana Albert. read more »
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8 Search, Marketing, SEO and Social Media Bloggers were asked why they got "into" what they do.... here they give their answers.

Bloggers include Brent Csutoras, TheMadHat, Tad Chef, UtahSEOPro, Dazzlin’ Donna, Derek Edmond, Jill Whalen and mysel read more »
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"What happened to being objective, being able to look at a situation and potentially judge it for the actions undertaken without calling the person performing those actions horrible names or likening them to Nazis or KKK members?" read more »
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Great post from Tad Chef about how to generate 3,000 high-quality visitors from the search industry. read more »
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Google has just taken one more step in its quest for world domination: now it has its own web browser, named Chrome. As if it wasn’t enough, they have also published a web comic to help people understand how Chrome works. read more »
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A series of questions that I would like answered honestly about the workings of Google Chrome. read more »
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I tested Google’s new browser nonetheless and even before I could find out “how much faster it is” I was put off by a whole list of concerns and annoyances.
Read the 10 most pressing ones: read more »
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Some webmasters and bloggers believe that appearances count a lot when you want to win some credibility on the Internet. They claim that if you aren’t that successful yet, you should pretend you are, until everyone believes you. Eventually, actual s read more »
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There are difficult ways to get links, like link exchange for instance and there are easy ones. Check out these 30 easiest methods to gain links. read more »
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"It’s been said many times, including by me, that one of the flaws of social media marketing is that the resulting traffic is short-lived. That short-term nature of social media traffic is one of the biggest reasons that social media marketing is of read more »
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