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using google trends to see technorati rank matches their traffic read more »
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Adam, a colleague from my days in publishing, writes a great post about why many mainstream journalists still don't 'get' blogging: "Community is not a place. Community is an approach to publishing." read more »
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SERPGuard is launched in beta today. The system is built in Ruby on Rails using the new Safe Browsing API that Google has helpfully made available. We built this application as part of our in-house client suite but decided to release it publicly. Ho read more »
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Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. read more »
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This is mostly my personal criteria, but I (glen alsopp) wanted to share the things I look for when doing an SEO health check for others, and hopefully you can find this a useful resource and be able to improve your own search engine traffic by goin read more »
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Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. read more »
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Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its t read more »
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Digg has a similar system [to Google] for promoting breaking news stories to the homepage. Most of the time a story takes 24 hours and perhaps 200 Diggs to make it’s way through the system to the homepage but whenever a really hot story breaks (such read more »
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Barry Schwartz continues to report porn on Google over at Search Engine Land, via email to Googlers, via Twitter and Plurk and so on. But it seems that this is a battle Google is not winning. Why is this such an issue, because if a kid searches on h read more »
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A look at the localisation SEO strategies applied by six top multinational brands. read more »
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Kevin Gibbons gives us a list of very well-known companies that were too cheap to pay the £2.50 to protect their brand. read more »
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A response blogpost to the discussion going on at Bruce Clay about "SMX Advanced containing Black Hat SEO content", shock horror!! Black hat advice doesn't mean you have to do it. Black hat SEO rel="no follow"?? But it's worth listening to "them", a read more »
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"I’ve just been reading a great article by Clive Thompson on Twitter over at Wired.

He says that Twitter is giving members a sort of Sixth Sense about their community:

Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They read more »
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Glen from ViperChill has grilled dozens of SEOs and Online Marketers to get their most valued online reputation management tips. read more »
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Well, well, well. The Australian media have really taken up the story with the long running show 'Media Watch' making the Lyndoman linkbait story and how it duped the Daily Telegraph their lead feature!

There is a full online transcript plus ther read more »
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Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz) reflects, in an absolutely gorgeous post from the heart, on his life as an industry muse. "Travel brings with it perspective. I like to think each time I leave, I come back a little wiser, a little older, a little closer to bui read more »
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Voices of Search kicks-off with Michael Gray, Will Critchlow, Steve Rubel & Ian Lurie answering the question,

"During the last year or so Social Media Marketing (SMM) joined the forefront of Internet marketing and search marketing in particular. read more »
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News framing is the process of filtering and transmitting news through an angle or ‘frame’ in order to support specific ideologies, stimulate widespread attention or persuade an audience. They are narratives which contextualize information. As a for read more »
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The search giant plans to expand its travel offering, which currently seems to be confined to one-off videos and ads from tourism boards. In the future, the site will have marketer-sponsored pages where would-be vacationers can learn tons about a de read more »
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Matt Cutts explains what Google does when it discovers a hacked site: temporary removal from the index with a "hacked site" flag, contact the site owner, and then potential reinclusion within 48 hours when everything's fixed. read more »
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Glen Allsopp explains how he got 550.000 visitors to his clients site in only one month. Inspiring results read more »
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Interesting post where Googler Daniel Meredith talks about what Google is looking for from sites that wish to appear in Google News. Nothing that shocking - except that it's another example of a Googler offering advice on SEO. The answer? XML sitema read more »
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With brand bidding opening up on Google AdWords next Monday, Tesco have become the 1st major UK brand to announce they won't be bidding on their competitors. read more »
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Andrew Girdwood from Bigmouthmedia takes a closer look at NMA search marketing chart read more »
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Tom Critchlow mentions how implementing the twin brother of the 302 redirect, the robots.txt'ed out 301 redirect, resulted in 267,700 links that are not passing any value to the main Times website. read more »
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