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Organic search engine optimization expert Rhea Drysdale will be joining Jim Boykin's We Build Pages team as SEO & Social Media Coordinator.

Congrats to Rhea and the WBP team! read more »
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Stop the nonsense!

Seriously.

As an industry we need to collectively get a grip.

We our a community of people that make our money through search engines and social media platforms, and because of this we utlize these places as our playgroun read more »
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Face It - Worrying about some seo techniques some talk about is not worth your time, no matter how much of a science some try to make of it.

If you are going to obsess about Google Search Engine Optimization.... make sure you spend your energy ob read more »
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Lee Odden writes, "With search engine optimization a challenge for most company marketers to stay current with, how exactly are businesses supposed to confidently hire a SEO consultant? Google has an opinion on this if you haven’t noticed." read more »
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Quick run down of the three types of "super affiliates" as we see them and the one thing they all share - a work ethic that would make James Brown blush. read more »
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with earning a link from a blog post you decide to comment on. In fact, if you comment often on blogs, it is a good way to increase the amount of inbound links pointing to your site's pages. However, there is a "rig read more »
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A further look at the initial discovery of Michael Gray's about the Google News indexing issues. read more »
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People far smarter than I have talked about the web becoming an operating system, and search being at the center of how we access the cloud. What better way for Google to position themselves as the C prompt than to turn the address bar into a search read more »
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Internet marketing is supposed to be enjoyable and allow you more time do the things you enjoy. However, if you are finding yourself almost enslaved to your desktop and working more hours per day for yourself than would be legal at a "proper job", t read more »
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A High Rankings Forum member who has been working on a yearlong SEO agreement is now facing new management with his client and they're requesting a refund for services (mostly because some project deliverables weren't actually delivered). Should thi read more »
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A practical list of steps to take when redesigning your website by the local search optimization guru. read more »
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Hey, any list that gives me a namecheck is gonna get a Sphinn. There's a few names that should probably be up there that aren't, so drop a comment if there's a search Brit you think deserves a plug.. read more »
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Firefox addons for better and effective blogging and webdevelopment 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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Getting involved in Social Media can be intimidating. So much so that you might not know where to even begin. There is Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, Mixx, Digg. There are blogs, forums, wikis, photo sharing, vlogging (video blogging), and other read more »
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Automatic Match is Google’s new feature that allows AdWords managers to receive clicks in their PPC campaigns without the need to select specific keywords. In two previous posts, Jim took a somewhat negative shot at Google’s “Automatic Match” featur read more »
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Meta-search engine is a web-based service that aggregates data from a number of search engines. A meta search engine doesn’t have a database of indexed pages of its own. Instead it “sends a user’s query to multiple search engines and blends the top read more »
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Shaun Anderson puts together this amazing guide for "Do it Yourself" SEO for your Website. read more »
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Paul does it once again equating certain industry figures to action heros ... who would each be? Michael Gray, Dan Thies, Hamlet Batista, Joost de Valk, Lee Odden, and more.

Very comical! read more »
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Andy Beard with an intelligent response to DaveN on the use of nofollow on blog comments. read more »
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It seems like Google are applying their penalties all over the place. Instead of manually punishing sites, they came up with all these red flags that can send your site into the depths of -60 / -300 / -950 penalty/filter. The penalties are site spec read more »
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Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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A list of blog directories for submiting non-spammy blogs. read more »
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"Search behaviour and the performance of your campaign can be modelled mathematically using probability theory to make informed decisions that will maximise your profit." read more »
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What Google Knows About Spam: A video presentation by Matt Cutts (recorded recently at a Web 2.0 conference). read more »
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