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Google appears to be testing new displays of paid search ads with URLs above ad copy rather than below in certain regions. See screenshots. read more »
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It allows people to exchange social votes on Digg and StumbleUpon.
Increase your traffic, promote your stories.
You digg/stumble some stories and earn Points.
Spend those Points to have your own stories dugg/stumbled.
You can earn points by refe read more »
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Since the small list of general SEO ones I previously published was received well, I figured I would create a download of some of the ones I find to be great tools in my link development efforts. I can't give them all away, but anyone who spends a l read more »
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Google now indexes some aspects of flash content but not everything. This article describes exactly what Google tells us it can index and its limits. Before spending thousands of your or your client's funds on a full flash site, here is a checklist read more »
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Can you spot the paid links on this page? They are there and you can make them appear without looking at the source code.

Most importantly they work very well. read more »
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Darren Rowse writes a guest post on SocialMediaMom....4 Tips for Social Media Toddlers.

So many of us as Social Media Toddlers seem to get bogged down by the way things should be done or by being concerned of how others will receive us - but pe read more »
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Garrett Pierson, of Your SEO Mentor, and wife are having a baby! Woohoo! (if you don’t know who Garrett is, he’s the cool dude that is responsible for "Learn SEO Live" video tutorials. (Which Jordan Kasteler (Utah SEO Pro) is also a contributor)

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Ann Smarty discussing the various ways you can have Google treat your content. read more »
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Esteban gives a very good checklist of how to go about starting your social media marketing campaigns. read more »
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You will need to register to Web2Log and refer as many people as you can. The URL you need to promote will be http://www.web2logs.com/register/user (replace user with your username) . read more »
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When link building, it's important to not only know WHAT is/isn't allowed, but it's important to know WHY, and how to avoid them. This is a guide to the common penalizations within Google, how they're detected, and how to make sure your own site doe read more »
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When the networks screw people over it is the fault of "users" or "the algorithm," but when the central networks do not like what we do we are "criminals performing illicit acts." read more »
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Title says it, posted on sphinn against Andy wishes but I was tired. read more »
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Maki (DoshDosh), Jennifer Laycock, and other familiar faces share online marketing secrets. This is also certain to be the only time I'm ever mentioned in the same article as Seth Godin, John Jantsch, and John Battelle. :-) read more »
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Vanessa Fox on using social media to point to your own content; specifically, hosting an image on Flickr and linking back to the page on which the image appears. read more »
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Greg Boser's beautiful description of a penalty to a major real estate site. His point about a site being penalized for its indirect (as well as direct actions). While I wrote a similar post on the issue at the same time, I believe his take on the r read more »
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Mad Hat follows up his first post on the topic of Shoemoney vs. SEO with his second installment:

*** Disclaimer: This post isn’t supposed to be about anyone in particular. This post isn’t about a post in particular. I may mention specific example read more »
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So, why is it exactly that Matt Cutts thinks that anonymous employees over at Yahoo have better decision making skills than the search engine industry leaders? read more »
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Moving your web site into another language involves many steps and many choices. Getting this process right is critical, and this article deals with each aspect of the process from translation of the site to marketing the site on the search engines read more »
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Skip the confusion that it was ALT text driving up traffic. Interesting look at how an apparently popular blog readability testing site handed out graphics with code that put links driving anchor text to a payday loans place. Not a new tactic, thoug read more »
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In light of Dazzlin Donna's recent 'Matt Cutts, why am I still being punished?' post at SEO Scoop, John Honeck suggests a scalable solution to Google reconsideration requests - Matt Cutts responds. read more »
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There are a few questions I repeatedly get from webmasters and online entrepreneurs. One of those common questions is how many press releases a company should send (weekly, monthly, more?). I always give the same answer: Send a press release wheneve read more »
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Stoney deGeyter recently wrote a great post on when usability is more important than SEO. With this article in mind I got into a conversation with a great and well-respected Flash developer, Dan Decort, about Flash and the caveats it places on usabi read more »
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Dev Basu writes this excellent post on the "How" and the "Why" of using Yahoo Answers to Capture Long Tail Searches. read more »
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Can I make the claim that I get my news from one source? Definitely not. Twitter, which started off as a site where you shared what you are doing, has emerged into a useful site where sharing news is only a small part of what you’re doing. read more »
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