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How local businesses are getting top results in Google Local without having any authority in Organic results. read more »
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Read the SMX London 2008 Day 2 summary - Live from London! read more »
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SMX London 2008 summary of day 1 sessions, people and some insights. read more »
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It seems last few days the change started to show on my accounts, and the outcome is quite interesting. Google is now sharing with us a real rank - score of 0 to 10 out of 10 possible points, and when our score is low they recommend us the necessary read more »
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21 seconds of good stuff for the SEO's of us. Trust me, you'll like it. read more »
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Google Insights for Search has launched today. It gives you great insight as to trends, related searches, demographics and competitive rank for a term vs. its industry index. read more »
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google affiliate network is launching bsed on DoubleClick perfromics platform. read more »
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Microsoft ad Center Desktop Review by Ophir Cohen. After the complex registration process, and the 2 stage download, the installation is somewhat seamless. The tool is a huge leap for Microsoft and is very nice and easy to use. This post gives a rev read more »
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How to efficiently track document downloads and pdf downloads using Google Analytics. A technique which is much more efficient than coding each link as Google Analytics help suggests. read more »
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Google Adwords Phishing attempts cause a fuss for Google Adwords' team. Ophir Cohen reviews another aspect, a breakthrough in the way the Google brand and its flagship product - Google Adwords are becoming a commodity, as phishing bait. read more »
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PPC Hero gives a cool and simple explanation on extracting the dynamic information from Adcenter to Google Analytics. read more »
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SEO Analytics is a tool set developed by SEOmoz, and it collects very useful information from the web, about the web site of your choice, analyzes and presents the data in a way which may help you. read more »
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Google Analytics releases 3 major features which hold a potential to change the way we analyze web site traffic and user behavior. Googles Industry Benchmarking, Audio Ads Integration and Conversion Optimizer integration may turn Google Analytics to read more »
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nofollow will not hold for a long time and will be bypassed quite quickly. This post describes the top 5 reasons why.

When I first read about the nofollow link attribute, I was quite impressed. “why not?” I though, it even makes a lot of sense t read more »
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SphinnCon Israel was an exciting event. I am not familiar with the final number of guests, but for my eyes it seemed very similar to ~200 SE’ enthusiasts mingling, networking, debating, eating, drinking etc.

In a way, it reminded me my first SES read more »
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Google released the latest version of Urchin (the “mother” of Google Analytics) to the public yesterday, so I couldn’t help myself - but to try the urchin software download, use it and review. Read and review my preliminary findings and conclusions read more »
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I read a new research summary from eMarketer this weekend. The summary analyzed three interesting researches on the interesting subject of User Generated Video and the demographic segmentation of its use.

The three article examined the demographi read more »
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Practical cook book on how to segment your web site visitors by time on site and finding amazing insights on different segments. read more »
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Can a part-timer succeed on social media sites? From the post: "You don’t have to spend hours a day, every day, to become a regular to the front page of social media websites. You simply need a strategy that fits your schedule." read more »
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Very useful post on robots by Sebastian - must read! read more »
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Can I register a .edu domain? Are the links more valuable? Why are some just spam pages? Julie Kent dishes out the answers to these questions on .edu domains. read more »
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