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Follow up on Sphinn post: Top SEO Firms Paid for by the Following...

Back in June, you read the story about the Most Dependable awards being given to SEOs and Web Design companies, amongst others.

In short, a company named Goldline Research ca 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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As Danny puts it, Yahoo's leadership has done a piss-poor job making people believe there's hope, he's stepped up and given it a swing. As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, Danny gives us the counter view on the company's future. read more »
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...and the drama continues...

SEL - Disclosure is a key point made by Matt. Now, if the article says the sources are not validated or the article is speculation - would that be sufficient? Would Google soon require us to slap on a nosource (aka n read more »
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February 12th, I found out that one of our team members, Tony Rugely, had been hospitalized with a perforated appendix. This was very sad news to hear about my colleague. Since then, a group from the office went to go visit him. He was in good spiri read more »
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How to influence your highest paid persons opinion... first in the a new series of 'win at web analytics' posts. Good stuff! read more »
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If Bill Gates has his way, credit card use, grocery discount membership cards, cell phone usage, interaction with digital television systems, and more, might be used by Microsoft to target advertising to you online, and influence the search result read more »
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Move over Sam's Choice Cola and Sam's Choice Drinking Water... there's a brand new product offering hitting the shelves - introducing Sam's Choice Pay Per Click services. I know you can find almost everything you need at Wal-Mart these days... but t read more »
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Avoid these mistakes when you start a new blog. Because they can affect your blog's success very very negatively. read more »
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I have heard talk about META Description/Keywords Tags worth vs lack of worth.
I am hoping that I haven't wasted my time in implementing them into my page codes!
Don't numerous SE's still utilize them? HELP!! read more »
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Li Evans writes, "As I delve deeper and deeper into Social Media and it's practical uses in online marketing, I'm just amazed by the lack of understanding, especially by PR Firms and Advertising Agencies. I've worked in PR and when I see other PR P read more »
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I've seen a lot of mistakes made in client management over the years, but communication is one of the worst mistakes you can make. read more »
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Justilien takes a look at whether you should do link building in-house or outsource it. For some companies, in-house works; for others, outsourcing link building works. A combination of the two might work for other companies. read more »
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I'm super pleased to announce that we've got a new networking event series designed for Sphinners and anyone interested in internet marketing -- SphinnCon! Where should be hold our events? Let us know below, plus find more details and info about our read more »
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Aaron Wall,
"Genius hacks together code to unlock the link details Google and Yahoo refused to show the common webmaster. And makes it available free to the masses."

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Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid. read more »
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Danny strikes a blow for the Good Guys…er...uh... Bad Guys… Say, is Google the good or the bad this week? Either way, a very nice write up (as always:0).

Search Engine Land - In two weeks, we've had two "open" initiatives from Google: OpenSocial, read more »
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Liana “Li” Evans, interviews two women weekly for this interesting series. Designed to shine the spotlight on the great accomplishment of women within all areas of the on-line marketing industry, the series has become a popular “must read” among all read more »
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Top 'Digger', Muhammad Saleem recently discovered a StumbleUpon-approved way of stumbling at light-speed... read more »
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Search Engine Guide Publisher Robert Clough says "Opinion or not, when someone with Jill's stature makes incorrect negative comments that portray our site and advertisers in a poor light, it's important to respond in order to sort opinion from fact. read more »
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With all the talk of Google PageRank *yawn* lately, at least we can count on StumbleUpon for love. read more »
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Search engines love to know what each page is about, but more importantly it is Your Ad Space, Your Ad Copy, Your Call To Action on the search engine result page.

If you have a crappy non-attractive Meta Description you can
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The interview appears to have taken place on September 24th, but was published today.

Covers following of links (mentions javascript being followed)
Robots.txt (pages blocked can be returned in search results, and can accrue PageRank)
Noindex a read more »
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We've had several threads here on Sphinn debating whether Google will hurt a site for selling links. Now an official answer: yes. If you sell links, Google says it might drop your PR score, penalize you in the rankings or potentially ban your site a read more »
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While I (Kevin from SEOptimise) find AdWords Editor great to speed up many tasks such as copying and moving keywords or ad groups, there's still a couple of things stopping me being completely lazy and having to log into the web based version too. read more »
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