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Websites have come a long way, not just in terms of design and technology, but also in their intention. A few short years ago your website was just an extension of your offline promotional material. You had a bit of an introduction, a few pages abou read more »
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From the post: "Have you ever thought about how Google might use all that clickstream data it has? For some reason, this question popped into my head on the flight home from SES San Jose last week." read more »
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Yahoo link: operator (and URL analysis in Yahoo! SiteExplorer) is the best method currently at our disposal to conduct backlink analysis and to evaluate either your own or your competitors’ link building tactics. read more »
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Great post from Ann Smarty: "I’ve been compiling the list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate. Today I am sharing the list and expect you to share yours too!" read more »
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Very well put review of an online seo software read more »
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Matt McGee does a great interview with K9Cuisine.com about their online marketing struggles and successes. read more »
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Social media measurement is one of those topics about which everyone has an opinion, but nobody agrees on the solution. Here are a few pointers. read more »
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This post describes microblogging and how Powence uses Twiter.. read more »
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"I’m not bored with what I DO every day, actually, nor am I bored with the industry in general. I am simply bored with writing about it, because the online space is becoming incredibly cluttered with people who seem to know absolutely nothing about read more »
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With oriango.com , you can perform searches, add and share web links, news, videos, sites, profiles, music, blogs, anything you need. Oriango is easy to use. It does not require registration, so you can advertise, search and share your contents free read more »
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A great short video by Googler Maile Ohye documenting an average day working at Google Webmaster Support. You'll probably recognise a lot of the faces, not sure why Jonathan was confined to a room on his own though!

Note: Sphinn does not endorse read more »
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Reputation Management is much like a beauty regime. read more »
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A SMX Local Mobile Presentation:

And I'm [Brian Carter] presenting it here to you in a variety of ways, since I know some of you like video, some like slideshows, some just like blog posts... for the blog post only, keep scrolling down. Best way read more »
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“One of the ones that filter to the top was “vote up if you don’t think self posts should get karma” and a useful discussion ensued. We decided to make the change after that. Reddit is a democracy after all.” read more »
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Barry writes: "Philipp Lenssen's The World According to Cuil blog post inspired me to take snapshots of how Cuil, the new search engine, matches up the names of our industry, to pictures." This is actually VERY funny! :) read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn’t been hacked." read more »
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The dragons were keen to invest in an online diamond website's potential due to its high search rankings in Google. read more »
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I've been playing around with Yahoo Site Explorer for a while now and looking at the backlinks that various sites have. It's a handy tool, but it does have its limitation (not least that it only allows you to view 1000 backlinks). But for getting a read more »
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Traffic Marks helps you locate authority sites — sites that would make good places to acquire links. You supply a keyword and it grabs the Top 10 sites in Google for your keyword, and it crawls those sites’ first 100 +/- backlinks (I assume from Yah read more »
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Some analogies perhaps oversimplify the SEO process, but are good for helping get the basic concepts across.

How do you describe SEO to people who are not deep into the field? read more »
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Rand pits Cuil against today's leading search engines to determine which, overall, is the best. The results weren't as predictable as he'd thought they would be. read more »
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Pierre has a great piece here about the people who are helping to build the street views you see in Google Maps, along with some funky pictures too! read more »
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Many companies still don't take advantage of SEO. There are many, however, that issue press releases on a regular basis. What they don't understand is that press releases can be part of your SEO efforts, and can be used to gain presence in the edito read more »
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Never has the opinion of the individual been as powerful as it is today. One negative blog post or product review can spread online in a flash and change the direction of a company. Reputation management isn't just for big companies and brands -- it read more »
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While there is no end to the SEO advice that permeates the web marketing world, it can often be very difficult to sort out exactly how one should research and where one should turn to learn about SEO. read more »
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