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When you hear the phrase "in-house SEO expert" or "in-house SEO," certain things immediately flash to mind. There's the glamour bits built around the perceptions fostered from hearing of six-figure salaries, or direct involvement in big projects and read more »
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I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers. read more »
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Now Shoemoney is a friend of mine, but regarding his post SEO Has No Future today, I am forced to disagree with him. read more »
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Connecticut software developer Jake Luciani has run 10k items on Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit and Mixx through the API of popularity ranking engine AideRSS to analyze the connection between popularity and timing. He determined the best days and times f read more »
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This is a great article about career moves and getting a solid start in the SEM arena. Anyone new to SEM or that has gone through/considered a career move should read this post in its entirety. read more »
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You are probably familiar with the rather rocky relationship that Digg has with its core community. Fueled partly by a need to counter false accusations from disgruntled community members who claim that Digg is rigged, partly by the desire to encour read more »
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Any links a person can pursue and obtain just because that person has certain defining personal characteristics should not be able to positively affect search rank. That in essence, such links are irrelevant to the site and products being sold and a read more »
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SEL - Although Standard Process won part of the case, the judge ruled that since the keyword META tags do not influence search results, having trademarked terms in them are immaterial. read more »
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With Google’s recent “shading in” of many whitehats by killing off even widget bait, more and more people are getting worried. Even for non blackhat sites.
So I've put together some tips for paranoid SEOs to resist the penalization power as long as read more »
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We all know Social Media Marketing can be pretty time consuming. There are numerous social media communities, each requiring you to sign up, make a profile, and participate, in order to have any success with them. So it is only natural that you woul read more »
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On a related note, we've posted the full text of the complaint on ResourceShelf. It's a 12 page; PDF file.

http://tinyurl.com/4lsatk read more »
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"Some bloggers use social media to boost traffic and draw links, but they write off the opportunity to gain subscribers through social media as being unrealistic. While it’s true that social media users are typically less likely to subscribe than th read more »
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Here is an in depth look at three backlink checkers which do much more than just report on Yahoo Backlinks, they help categorize and organize backlinks based on anchor text, site age, whois info and much much more. read more »
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As social marketers we are communicators, digg is simply the path of least resistance to communicate our message. Yes, our message may be one of persuasion, but it all comes down to communication. We must speak to those who have influence, and I got read more »
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According to TechCrunch Encyclopedia Britannica is giving free access to people who will link to them

"Instead of going free and opening up to all, they’re using the new program to simply price discriminate. Give people who may link to the site read more »
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Wow, indeed "Very Impressive SEO Service" as one of the 150+ bots stated. read more »
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One of the challenges link builders face is pursuing links that will differentiate one site from competing sites in a way that still produces a natural ILP (inbound link profile). Backlink forensics is a method I use to see who already links to who, read more »
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I thought this would be useful to people - how to choose an SEM consultant or agency. There are a lot of potential pitfalls when looking for SEM help - here are 12 tips so that you don't get burned! read more »
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Lots of reports about a weekend Yahoo Search update. No official word from Yahoo yet, but it seems like we got a major Yahoo update going on. read more »
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A great interview with Aaron Wall. Sometimes I find interviews are of lesser value than you'd expect from the interviewee. In this case, you won't be disappointed. read more »
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Scott Hendison discusses the evolution of linkbuilding and makes the strong case for linkbuilding Darwinism...if an SEO doesn't evolve his/her link-thinking away from the traditional sources of links (now much devalued), they won't be able to acheiv read more »
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Wow ... this is a big announcement. Previously, Google was not able to get past simple forms, but now it can. Great development. read more »
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Hmmm...wonder if anyone else can relate to this? read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes, "I've been using Twitter for roughly five months now and I'm finding more and more reasons to include it on my must-use list of social media sites. The more I thought about it, the more I realized Twitter just might be the b read more »
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An interview with five SEO experts from all four corners of the world (sort of). Questions ask about accented characters, languages vs. countries and the future of geo location. read more »
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