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Old (and new) media sites are stopping to link out in articles, instead linking to pages on their site that profile the website they talk about. Will this hurt the web? Unethical? read more »
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Good News for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) within Google Local Search Results. As those of us in the Storage Industry know, Public Storage is a beast of a company who consistently dominates the top ten map results in Google, commonly known as a read more »
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Don't be surprised to see advertising on Twitter soon. It's about the only way the service can generate revenue. But will it be enough? Insightful article by Ben Kunz at BusinessWeek. read more »
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This is a post I wrote about my failed attempt to get my SEOmoz profile penalized in Google for keyword stuffing. My profile still ranks #1 in Google for [World's Greatest SEO], despite the fact that I repeated that phrase back-to-back, like 250 tim read more »
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I’m [Brian Carter] a big fan of the “Now Discover Your Strengths” series of books, including “StrengthsFinder 2.0”, and “First Break All the Rules”.

If you’re not familiar with these books, the big idea is:

It makes more sense to do what y read more »
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Want to be successful on Digg? Why not do exactly what the most successful Diggers are doing. Manish details 10 of the habits of successful Diggers.

Good read! read more »
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Kate Morris writes "Back in the day, selling SEO/M services was relatively easy. The internet was "new," business owners were completely oblivious to the craft of search engine optimization, and were willing to pay people to "get them on the web." T read more »
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If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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After Paul did a great job explaining how search queries can help in link building, I decided to expand offering the list of such link building queries and also some tips on how to search effectively read more »
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Great post by Gab explaining a real trick to competing in hyper competitive markets such as the Real Estate sector. read more »
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They Want Your Money, That’s Their Job. read more »
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An in-depth explanation of exactly why the Google External Keyword Tool should not be relied upon for SEO keyword research, even though it now shows precise numbers. read more »
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This is a list of 40 KPI's for any Search Marketer. Cool. read more »
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Gab Goldenberg releases a brilliant Wordpress Plugin to maximize the effect of your internal anchor text.

"So: You can rank like Wikipedia, without being Wikipedia. Ok, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration, but the tool should help you improve your read more »
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Barry Schwartz writes "Many of you already saw the article from the Wall Street Journal named Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan.

If not, in short it says, the company that manages the domain names, ICANN, said they will be offering read more »
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Chris Winfield writes... Yesterday I presented at SES Toronto along with Lee Odden and Dave Snyder on a panel called ‘Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?’ I figured that in order to show how Twitter actually works - it would be best to use read more »
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Rishil writes "As I have often stated, I work with many small clients, especially in the medical field. There are few problems associated with this market, none of them unique, but they're a pain to deal with for the revenue that you make on taking read more »
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Are you using Google's visual reports to increase your understanding of your Adwords account? Using this report, and replicating the times where they've gotten the most clicks, SEMvironment increased their clients volume by 10-20% with one of hour w read more »
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All tough questions to answer. With so much choice it is hard to pick one, and if you don’t get paralyzed then it can reveal a lot about you.

After having thought about it for a little while (ok for just a few minutes), regardless of the website read more »
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Lee Odden how-to: “Digital Asset Optimization” refers to the practice of taking inventory of a company’s marketable, digital assets & implementing a process for keyword optimization & promotion to relevant channels. (Easter Egg: Check out Lee's HTML read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes "I've read a lot of posts lately tearing down the public relations industry for what a poor job they do when pitching bloggers. I've also read (and written) quite a few posts about what a terrible job companies do relating to read more »
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"Google is screwed up...it's time for some tough love. Yes, our friend Google is in need of...an intervention...classic signs of a serious abuse problem:
1)Wild Mood Swings and Erratic Behavior - lately the ranking swings have become unusually unst read more »
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30 blogs to expand your knowledge and expertise about web marketing and web analytics. read more »
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Let me guess: all you submit is stories written by you and published on your own website to digg.com; you get 3, 4 diggs on average; 11 if it’s a good story with a hot title. Don’t bother going through all the work of building a reputable account. T read more »
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Yahoo's PPC platform Panama has major issues holding back advertisers from implementing global marketing strategies: Difficult to scale, short of search volume, time consuming to maintain campaigns, basic reporting and complicated financial system. read more »
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