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I [Garrett Pierson] had the wonderful honor of spending some time with Lee Odden of Top Rank. He gave great insight on the changing SEO Industry and the up and coming Social Media industry. Also Within the interview that you can listen to above or r read more »
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Content is King and links are Queen. Together with a nice dose of marketing they make a nice little kingdom. But what if you have trouble generating new content on a regular basis? How can resource strapped bloggers and busy web site owners leverage read more »
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Google is now rolling out Suggest to their homepage, but how does this affect SEO as we know it? read more »
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A short but sweet post from Lyndon that rings sooooooo true. So often I come across people who focus entirely on going 'hot' with a post or getting tons of traffic, without considering whether it will generate links. Link building ain't about traffi read more »
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Rand Fishkin writes "This past week has been a particularly frustrating one for me, and I felt compelled to share more about the behind-the-scenes operations here at SEOmoz, particularly as it pertains to the blog and recent controversy surrounding read more »
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Yahoo describes how they might use robot programs to help identify emails, IMs, chat rooms, and Web sites where inappropriate activities take place. The document goes into detail on how a Yahoo robot might interact with others in a chat room, and th read more »
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So the Google-Digg deal that I predicted last week has been broken up. I asked for opinions from some of the most active SEO’s and SMO’s on Sphinn, a perfect intersection between search and social media. Will Google acquire Digg? Do you think it wou read more »
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Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer t read more »
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We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol read more »
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Twice now I have have personally seen private conversations that Matt has had with web masters appear on the net, personally I’m in two minds on this.... read more »
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Melanie tackles the present issue that faces SEO. Shes not the first to adress it, and possibly on the last. However she looks into aspects that are worth noting.

Note - this is on wolf-howl (Michael Gray's blog)and Mel is the first guest blogge read more »
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"How do we bridge this gap? The question isn't how you meet us, it is how do we meet you? In a world operated by handshakes and meetings in private rooms where everyone has an agent, it's next to impossible for a startup without Nike cred to meet a read more »
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Donna Fontenot writes, "I’m done. I’ve had all I can take of the vicious, nasty, cr@p that has been going on in our little industry. Sure, SEOs have disagreed with one another from day one, usually on forums. That’s nothing new. Sometimes it got nas read more »
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Andy Beal writes, "How can you use services such as Twitter to build your reputation? The service is still relatively confined to early adopters, but is already showing great promise as a tool for building your brand." read more »
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Here is a detailed explanation of the Keyword Analysis process & Documentation. A must read. 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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The growth of the social web, increases in search engines understanding sentiments and opinions in reviews and user created content, and greater scrutiny of misleading business practices urge businesses to become more socially responsible.

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The 21 techniques are ways that you can make your blog or website more sticky. They come from ProBlogger's experience of blogging over the last 5 years. As a result of basing this on personal experience he shows you quite a few examples of what he's read more »
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Social media marketing is one of the fastest changing forms of marketing online. Every time a new site, service, or community is launched, there comes both new opportunity for marketing and the possibility that the site you just spent months partici read more »
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David Harry takes a step back and sees the light. What are you doing in social media, and what are "they" doing in return for you? read more »
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The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR). The IR community has studied search for almost 50 years. It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages. (See "M read more »
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A Yahoo patent application was published last week which looks more deeply into how the search engine would follow directions not to recall sections of pages pursuant to robots-nonindex tags. read more »
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Kate Morris and Lisa Barone write "Idea so stolen from On365’s 21 Signs a Geek Girl Likes You. This is coming from a couple of the apparently few single SEOs. As I’ve said before, almost all SEOs are married! I realized this while stalking people be read more »
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Dave Snyder goes on a rant about being a glass chewer. He says, "If your going to talk, back it up, and back it up with what is real." If you are not a glass chewer then I suggest you stay away from Dave or he will punch you in the throat!!! read more »
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If you’ve been around Twitter long enough, certain patterns start to emerge. People start to develop tweeting habits, and for better or worse, those patterns tend to stay fairly stable, at least in my experience. Some people are composite creatures read more »
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