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"Xenu is a highly valuable tool (that’s another great exception from the rule: it is both free and awesome). Let’s see how we can use it for SEO purposes" read more »
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Now hear this. This is *way* better than Cuil, and it is still in Beta.

What do you think?

The "stacks" feature is very innovative, the UI is amazing.




It requires flash and a fast web connection. read more »
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While I liked the fact that my WordPress login and registration pages were seamless with the rest of my site design wise due to a plugin, that ugly non matching user profile page was driving me nuts. So I enlisted Joost de Valk's programming skills read more »
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Derek Ball, CEO of Tynt responded to the SEO community - and this follow-up pot includes a review of my core issues with Tynt, why they're exemplifying reputation management in action, and, discusses the opinionated views of Michael Gray (GrayWolf) read more »
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Tynt is out as a private beta service, and it's allowing anyone to get an account and start marking up sites. The trouble is, URLs are being indexed and webmasters have no ability to block or opt out of this "contextual relevance and dialog" servic read more »
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Sorry I ain’t been around much lately, baby. It’s been crazy busy you know. Just got a lot of shit going on and am spreading the Hack pretty thin. And I think we both know this time might be coming sooner or later, right? I mean, we had a good thing read more »
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Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and B read more »
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Looks like a company called eBoost is giving SEO a bad name and calling customers bad names that ask for results or a refund.

Play the fun little audio file then skip to msg #52 posted by the BoingBoing mod for all the gory details. read more »
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The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.

Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out diffe read more »
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A very detailed and in-depth look at Sphinn from Edward Lewis of seoconsultants.com read more »
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"Edward Lewis runs SEOConsultants.com, one of the more well known and trusted directories in the SEO space. When I first started learning SEO about 5 years back Edward sent me an email letting me know that something I wrote was incorrect. He was rig read more »
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Johannes Beus of Sistrix revisited the "first anchor text" debate again last Monday and got some nice results in conjunction with image links. We translated his test results to English. read more »
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I am in awe of the detail in the data Google Ad Planner gives us for free. I have posted some screen shots of it. It is crazy! Blows Google Trends away. read more »
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Our common forward links tool finds those super authorities that a bunch of other authorities or important sites link to.

This follows an idea almost 2 years old, but never implemented by anyone out on the web.

Read how we do it! read more »
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How do advertisers feel about Google Maps taking the first (mostly, but not always) position in AdWords for local searches? read more »
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A fundamental strategy for obtaining links is to build awareness. This technique sets aside the toolbar and focuses on building awareness within communities, not building links directly, and creating mindshare among those who are handing out the lin read more »
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“This one is going to be hard to beat,” said BOTW President Greg Hartnett. Hopefully not :) read more »
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Some big changes are in the pipeline for Sphinn, which I'd like to discuss with you further and also talk about our existing functionality. read more »
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Speculation that Seachme was gearing up to launch a new search service based on screen shots is no longer speculation.

Their flash demo is hot, a must see. read more »
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IncrediBIL put together a great resource post if you are interested in stopping (ok, slowing down) your competitors from using different SEO tools to to mine your site and SEO tactics. read more »
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Not only is this one of the best parties at SES NY, it helps our community help others. read more »
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A Shoemoney C&D sets off a reputation management fiasco as a mob of Diggers pull out the pitchforks, incredulous that Shoemoney would send a C&D claiming a forum post was defamatory, even though the post was based on a blog post that Shoemoney wrote read more »
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He's arguably the most well-known poster at WebmasterWorld.com. He's cited by some of the most reputable SEO minds in the industry. He has likely influenced hundreds, if not thousands, of enterprising webmasters.

Who is this veritable titan of SE read more »
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As of April 1, Google will be making significant changes to their enforcement of display URL policies. The “Policy Team” has taken a stricter stance on the relationship between display URLs and destination URLs — and they will be allowing few except read more »
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"I love getting to know fellow SEOs a little better by reading
interviews of them. So I went on a quest to find as many SEO interviews
as I could. No doubt I’ve also left some out, but if so, then it’s
completely unintentional (blame the search e read more »
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