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In response to his growing concern over Google's treatment of his site with regards to the paid links issue, "I have spent a long time deciding on a course of action, and have decided that blocking my content using Robots.txt is ultimately better fo read more »
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Do you have the Bloginozia virus? Read this post by Patrick from Piggy Bank Pie to find out. What a great post looking at some quasi- clinical observations :)

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Andy Beard writes: "With the recently introduced API still in closed beta, I can only imagine they are going to add a little more to the information panel in the future to expose your activities in the "social cloud." Optimization tips offered. read more »
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Wanted to start a thread wishing everyone a happy Valentines Day!

My post has a large collection of special logos from our industry, plus links to past logos from the previous years.

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John Battelle points out the Google is hiding chuck Norris read more »
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Wouldn’t you love to have the best social media marketers for you to teach you everything they know? Well, unfortunately this is not possible, but I managed to contact some top Social Media Marketers and got them to tell a personal tip for social me read more »
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An authority is someone or some entity who’s opinion(s) about specific topics are respected and valued by industry peers. This definition is both interesting and important because it can guide much of our decision making going forward. Case in point read more »
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No niche or topic should be promoted exactly like another. As an SEO, it's our responsibility to evaluate each project in it's own unique light. This post shows some things to examine when figuring out how to promote a given topic. read more »
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A lot of people new to social media wonder if there are any rules, and if so, what are they? You'll be glad to know that yes, this frontier isn't quite as wild as it looks. Even in these relatively early days, there's a healthy set of conventions, l read more »
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In this post, I want to share all the trade secrets I’ve learned about how to craft posts that set StumbleUpon on fire. These are tips and ideas I use on a daily basis to get anywhere between a few hundred and a few thousand (or more) StumbleUpon vi read more »
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CHICAGO: Starcom, behavioral targeting network Tacoda, & comScore research reveals that a very small & unrepresentative consumer segment is accountable for vast majority of display ad click-through behavior. Fascinating stuff. read more »
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Jen Slegg: "One client was able to launch an entire section to their site because they noticed their competitor was doing something very similar when the directory popped up in the competitor’s robots.txt file. And like any good businessperson, my c read more »
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This post is an ode to Matt McGee’s post How to SEO Your Site in Less Than 60 Minutes. I found myself using this as a quick reference from time to time when first published. It was a great write-up that was very useful to many people. I always wante read more »
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There are several lists with “ways to make money with a website” on the Internet, but none of them seem to be complete. That is why I decided to create this one. Notice that ways to make money with a website are different from ways to make more mone read more »
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I often get questions about creating, maintaining, and optimizing an online presence from small businesses and non profits; how to get into search engine results, how to redesign an old site, what tools are available that are useful, inexpensive or read more »
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My job is to help companies get better rankings on search engines via content. One of the ways that I do this is by writing and submitting search engine optimized press releases. I started to write this “how to” as a post, but it became so huge (15 read more »
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Does using NoFollow for internal navigation and outbound linking expose your site to search engine spam teams to look deeper into your internal practices? Eric feels that nofollow with the purpose of controlling the flow of links or link juice is a read more »
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Matt Rideout of SEO Unique explains why sometimes a 'page 1 ranking' just isn't necessary. read more »
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When Google started, even if they had the resources they do now, they could not have created what they have now. When Google started, search engines, and especially caching content, were dubious at best.
They have now begun not only indexing inform read more »
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Some humorous examples of how not to ask for a link based on a recent WebmasterWorld thread. read more »
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Lee Odden was checking out WordPress.com site on “types of blogs” for creative ways to categorize them.He found a page separating blog types into two categories: “popular” & “banned”. Guess where SEO blogs fall? Sigh. read more »
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Today's post in an on-going series of Viral marketing ideas from the guys at 97th Floor. This one is an idea for a financial planning company. read more »
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From the post - As a professional, it is such a turn off to think how can this guy have this large of a following when he doesn’t respect his readers intelligence (or himself) enough to use a spell checker or a grammar checker.

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Now comes the time of the long tail keyword when it comes to ranking for keywords and phrases. No surprise there right? Except Chuck takes it a bit to the extreme.... and even applies how to use the long tail if your a local business to start using read more »
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