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An insightful interview with social media expert Shana Albert. read more »
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Excellent discussion about this important topic concerning SEO terminology. read more »
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A break down on the time costs, whuffie, social capital and social momentum it took me to win the Macbook Air Contest on Second|Brain read more »
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Ann Smarty loves playing with visualizing tools because they allow her to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time she has compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics. read more »
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An impactful story that shows that in a fast Web 2.0 world dominated by superfluous applications and services, there are still services that bring value in our lives. read more »
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As the search saga continues, rumor has it Microsoft is just about to announce it did a little shopping and acquired Powerset – one of the leaders in natural language search. On the other hand, Microsoft’s future plans of buying Yahoo’s search funct read more »
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We’ve all heard various experts toot the horn of various elements of SEO: “Content is king!” or “It’s all about the links.” Others tout their proprietary software tools or throw out terms like latent semantic indexing. The truth is, all of these thi read more »
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Does a "social search engine" like newly launched Delver have a chance of becoming the new IT? Google's Joe Kraus does believe that social is "the new black" but how can a social startup compete with Google? Maybe the competition is out of the quest read more »
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Google continues testing to change its search interface and it seems to be more like Digg with comments too. read more »
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Is it safe to say that Digg is at the forefront of a group of sites that are declining in both popularity and actual added value to our Web? read more »
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So we’ve been told and told some more about the miracles of a Squidoo lens. Now comes the little glitch. Your Squidoo lens is not the only one out there. It’s the marketing tool these days so you can’t expect others to sit still, right? They’re all read more »
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Open source could be the last bastion of Web 2.0. Which side of the fence do you fall on? read more »
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Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a read more »
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Raving news about hakia’s so-called “credible online health search” proliferated the Web in April. Since then, a deafening silence threatened to condemn hakia to the darkest corner of the Web, but luckily enough they had some more coverage with the read more »
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Aside misinformation regarding Yahoo! Search and Microsoft, what else is wrong with The Telegraph? It occurs to me that the purpose of the Telegraph.co.uk article mentioned in the opening of this entry is to promote search engines affiliated with th read more »
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Sometimes one of the hardest things to do for any website is build links to deep content.These are the links that generally will help the site perform best overall in the search engines. This is because while it may take hundreds or thousands of lin read more »
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This is a guest post from Josh Garner, a practicing SEO professional. He’ll be sharing some of the things small business owners and the self-employed should be wary of when looking to hire an SEO. read more »
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Loren Baker Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite years of building relevant and valuable links, and wanted some tips on building better links. read more »
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Personally I doubt that Yahoo will ever learn from anyone. Their last purchases demonstrate nothing but lack of maturity and understanding of the new trends. Of course, their new Yahoo!Search Open Platform could prove to be the new "hit" but still.. read more »
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Getting the most out of SEO - is geography the key?
Setting geographic target with Webmaster Tools doesn’t seem to work in most cases. At Google Groups Googlers themselves say they don’t think it might be effective (the discussion first spotted by read more »
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Community is one of those Buzz words we have all come to love and hate at the same time. I suppose we could loosely define FriendFeed and Profilactic as communities, but I think they are really just TV sets into some activities of friends. SecondBra read more »
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Social aggregation is not just a trend; it is part of a clear evolution towards the semantic web which is another definition for Web 3.0.

Social networks and social bookmarking sites were just the modest beginnings.

The early adopters of these read more »
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Yahoo! announced not long ago the release of the new Yahoo!Search open platform. What happens next? What are the impacts on SEO and which other search engines can compete with Yahoo!Search in the future? read more »
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It’s amazing to think that just about ‘anyone’ can write an article about ‘anybody’ or ‘anything’ on Wikipedia. Is it just me, or does that concept seem faulty at best? The only advantage of this system is that masses of information can be quickly w read more »
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Anyone scanning the pages of my articles these last 2 years will find one overriding common denominator – I admire excellence. This article is about an underlying certainty resident in the world even when considering the most excellent things we fin read more »
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