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David Mihm looks why InfoUSA, SuperPages, Acxiom, Localeze, Yelp and InsiderPages are so important in local search. read more »
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Andrew Shotland's fabulous post detailing an immensely scalable way to evaluate your best keywords based on analytics data. A must-read for Keyword Researchers. read more »
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Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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Dave Synder writes "I am a slave to writing about things that I see and do in my everyday SEO efforts or searching. To me theory often fails to show value in terms of dollars. And I am in this business to make dollars." read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "A couple alert friends emailed me over the weekend to point out that I now have 500+ followers on Twitter. This normally wouldn’t be worth a blog post, except for that Twitter for charity contest I’ve been having with Jeff Quipp read more »
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If you’ve been in the search marketing industry for any length of time, you’ve undoubtedly encountered a wide variety of conflicting or outdated advice. Since “how to” information in so many other industries is often presented as an absolute, many p read more »
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Yes they are, and in some situations, probably essential. John Mueller from Google explains it all. 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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Great post from the one and only Spider Dave Snyder!!

SnydeySense - As is true with most content centered link strategies, it is likely going to take you more than one lesson or unit plan to achieve your link goal. You will need to not only learn read more »
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If you do your homework well, you will soon see your readers and fans promote your content for you. Why is it so essential to always keep track of who promotes you and where you are promoted? read more »
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Pro sports organizations could use a few hours with a reputation management expert ala Andy Beal.

In the last few months, we have seen the sports world being devastated by its own lack of transparency. It is something we as marketers are learning read more »
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Lee | Online Marketing Blog - One Twitter use that is definitely missing from this poll is, “Crowdsourcing your network” much like Stephen Baker did in this story on Twitter from yesterday’s BusinessWeek. Outside of sharing links to interesting thin read more »
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If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll be helping to raise money for a good cause. Please follow me, then come back to read on for more details….. read more »
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a massive sql injection is happening right now, 600,000 websites infected, that's some mighty link juice there, shame it was malware :( read more »
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Following a controversial post by Lisa Barone about how Local SEO doesn't exist, Michael Jensen identifies four major differences between "SEO" and "Local SEO" and why it should be distinguished and considered to "exist". read more »
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An thoughtful response by Ahmed of iBegin to the recent Yahoo Affiliate Mapspam reports asking:

•What is mapspam?
•What is a reasonable approach to to the varying forms of it?
•How do we respond to it?.
•What are the technical and human limits read more »
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One of the major challenges in Local Search is connecting offline local businesses with online customer reviews. LeaveFeedback.org is a free service to help local businesses get authentic customer reviews with little effort, by incentivizing existin read more »
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Dear Google,

It would be more un-evil if you would make it easier to opt out of that new data sharing “feature” (your word) that you recently added to Google Analytics. I tend to be much more forgiving of you than some of my friends, so please le read more »
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Search Engine Land - There is a cautionary tale for Yahoo, Google or any company that allows user generated content in their local product. These affiliate spammers are deceptively providing a "service" that is unneeded and unwanted. Whatever they a read more »
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If you've got a slow to medium crawl, it can help to ping the major search engines when you have new content. Here's a tool to easily ping all four major search engines in one click! read more »
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Lee Odden wants to know how Twitter user utilize the service. In a poll, he asks the question, "What is your most productive use of Twitter?" read more »
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A well put together post from Micheal....

SNIP - Let’s look at Rand Fishkin’s recent premature declaration that his implementation of Rel=Nofollow on many internal links magically increased the number of search referrals to SEOmoz. Although Rand read more »
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A look at how the Presidential candidates fare in their SEO strategies, including a statistical comparison to 10 months ago at the start of campaigning. read more »
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Inspired by legendary basketball coach John Wooden, the SEO Success Pyramid is a guide to SEO success for everyone who's new to SEO and online marketing. Includes a free download of a printable graphic. I'd love any feedback! read more »
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Patrick Schaber discusses using paid search for branding purposes (beyond the direct sales benefits), and specifically a couple of strategies he uses to brand with different groups. read more »
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