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Google recently announced amongst the inner SEO circle headed up but Matt Cutts that they have developed a way to penalize video bloggers who are ‘Stuffing’ their video blog posts with keywords! read more »
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Last week Google announced the release of a new project known as the search wiki. This represents another step where google shows complete disregard for their users, ignoring what they want, and instead forcing them to participate in what can only b read more »
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The link has optimized anchor text, is completely off topic, links to a commercial site, and most importantly does not have the nofollow tag applied!

Is Matt Cutts *gasp* selling links?

Obviously Google is going to give MC the benefit of the read more »
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Everybody who works for an SEM agency, has worked for one in the past, or just visits Fortune 500 company websites from time to time, has probably had this thought at least once or twice; “If only they got it…”. Well, within the next 5 years, most l read more »
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Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
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Guest blogger RSS Ray does a nice job of putting together a methodolgy for estimating the value of link building efforts. read more »
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Eric Enge authored example of step-by-step process using Yahoo! search to uncover link targets. read more »
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"simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, then click Google Insights Bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically open a new tab/window with Google Insights showing the stats for the keyword you were just looking up at a search engin read more »
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When you are hunting for links for your site or for a client’s site, there are lots of avenues that you could pursue. Some work, some don’t. Angela Moore listed her 10 favorite tips, of which #1 is my favorite. read more »
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There is a way to build SEOmoz's Linkscape tool without crawling, and I show you how. If I'm wrong, SEOmoz must disclose the Linkscape User Agent, and I explain why. 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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Dave Snyder writes "So I was doing some research yesterday, and was noticing a drastic difference in the quality of the Live search results.

I decided to do comparative analysis, and was stunned to begin finding that Live’s results were actually read more »
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SNIP - There needs to be a massive amount of inbound links to a site for it to become one of the seo black holes. A working example of such a site is Wikipedia, who NoFollowed links and has had content pages steadily at the top of SERPs ever since. read more »
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Anyway as I said above I am good friends with the owners of BOTW so obviously I am biased. I am curious to hear your thoughts on the deal if in fact BOTW is the new owners of the DMOZ directory. read more »
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This post will show you why your link request may be getting deleted, rejected or ignored. read more »
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Rae Hoffman writes, "As you may have heard, Twitter recently decided to “nofollow” links left of the “bio” section of user profiles. The “web” link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, wh read more »
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Great article by Dave Snyder on the various microblogging platforms such as Twitter, Plurk, and FriendFeed.

"As with any social media platform that grows in popularity, Internet marketers are eager to figure out how to leverage microblogging pla read more »
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Search & Social's first blog post!

"What are some things you should focus on as you continue to grow your knowledge set?

First place your current current knowledge status, and for God’s sake be honest with yourself. If you are a new to the gam read more »
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Jaiku have finally completed their much anticipated move to the Google App Engine and opened the service to unlimited invitations. Will this solve the problems of reliability that have plagued Twitter? Must be making them nervous. read more »
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A great post by my friend Angela Moore: nice analogies drawn between training for and participating in a decathlon and building links. Definitely worth the read. read more »
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Eric Goldman and Mark J Rosenberg speak out on the common myth of domains = real estate, as well as SEOs' legal duties to clients and whether kw research = intellectual property. read more »
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A lot of successful "linkbait" is launched on the heels of breaking news or changes. We can't anticipate the future but we can plan around upcoming events, holidays, elections etc and write for them NOW. That way when the time comes you're ready and read more »
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Tom Critchlow gives us another clever and ethical linkbuilding technique. The basic principle is to find link leads by searching for pages or sites which used to offer a service and no longer do. read more »
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How To and DIY articles have been time proven tools for publishers to build links and evergreen content. Trendspotting takes a look at the trend and has ideas to help you jump start the process. read more »
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Ann Smarty explains in SEJ to explore competitors back links through 2 alternative search engines other than yahoo site explorer. Neither of them is any better than Yahoo, but what’s important they are different providing you with other data you mig read more »
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