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"Google calculates PageRank on the total network of sites Google has in its index. From that point of view a non-indexed page can’t accumulate PageRank, because Google can’t determine the relative value the page. Or can it?" read more »
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I have compiled a list of the current Top 25 free ebooks on Social Media. The order is random as quite honestly I have not read all of them. The 26th free ebook to the reader who reads all of them and gives me their opinion on the actual top order.. read more »
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Once again, Martijn is among the first to notice changes on Google Maps! read more »
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The economic Grinch is threatening to steal Christmas this year, but there are some things local businesses can do to avoid getting coal in their stockings this holiday season. Here are three tips for punching up your online local marketing presence read more »
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A bookmarklet is often a good alternative to FireFox extension: first, they are not limited to FireFox; secondly, they are easier to backup and quicker to install and easier to organize; thirdly, most of them do not require constant updates. What I read more »
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One of the core concepts of viral advertising is to make it as shocking or unexpected as possible, the idea is to push viewers outside of their mental comfort zone. The following advertisement is a perfect example, since you aren’t sure what it’s ab read more »
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Unless you have a good understanding of some basic technical concepts, it sometimes may be hard for you to figure out if your internal links are capable of passing pagerank. read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "In an effort to help make more connections and develop relationships within the local search industry, I thought it would be fun to put together a big list of people and companies with close ties to local search who are using Twi read more »
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Three striking examples showing the differences and difficulties of search marketing and optimisation in Europe. read more »
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How local businesses are getting top results in Google Local without having any authority in Organic results. read more »
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TimeWarner and Google have announced that starting today Google will make available millions of images from the Life Magazine photo archive. read more »
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I am not a very well known member on Sphinn at the moment and indeed have not been a very active member for long at all.

My purpose here though is to contribute effectively to the community, Sphinn articles that are relative and interesting to me read more »
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Stumbleupon traffic, To bounce or not to bounce. What is the stickyness factor? read more »
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Google Maps embedded in ATM Machine

This is the first time I saw this, Google Maps embedded in an ATM machine of “La Caixa”. I don’t know how long it has been there and I’ve been living in Barcelona for almost 10 months now and use these ATM mach read more »
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Google indexes public notebooks. Their robots.txt shows Google doesn’t disallow this. They only prevent the search results from being indexed, as you can see on the following image, or by looking directly at robots.txt read more »
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Ann Smarty talks us through some fun site usability tools she has come across. Very interesting... read more »
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Here are five actionable tips to ramp up your Holiday promotional efforts ranging from e-commerce optimization, link building, local search, and pay per click marketing. read more »
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JavaScript Lightbox Popups can be a bit tricky sometimes in SEO. Good tips on how to implement it properly to avoid SEO issues. read more »
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Mike Blumenthal, Danny Sullivan, Matt McGee, Dana Lookadoo and myself are all sending the same message about Local to Google. Here's the question for you: Do you think of Google's Local applications as wikis? Probably not, but Google does. This arti read more »
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QualityGal presents a clear-headed perspective on live blogging. Great reminder that the goal of live blogging isn't perfection; it's information dissemination for a variety of audiences: those who can't be at the conference, attendees who have to c read more »
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Google seems to be indexing Google Notebooks that are openly shared. How can this help you for linkbuilding
(well, maybe that is, before Matt reads this..) read more »
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Steve Espinosa makes some great suggestions to Google on improving Google Maps for both end-users and small businesses. read more »
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Is anyone working on reducing the spam that is submitted on Sphinn, looking at some of the user names, it seems that spam-bots are able to register and submit.

I get all Sphinn content fed to me via RSS and it takes me ages to filter out all the read more »
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When it comes to spam on Google.com and Google Maps, Google is talking out both sides of its mouth. read more »
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Aaron Wall publishes a flowchart (PDF/gif) of the basic SEO process and invites readers to expand and improve it. read more »
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