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Some confusion over an interpretation of one of Google Webmaster Guidelines. read more »
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From the article: "Guest blogging rules. No shit Sherlock… I hear you saying. There are literally tonnes of articles out there already promoting the benefits of guest blogging... Yet despite all the guest blogging banter, I am yet to come across a c read more »
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How you measure your SEO success, is that only the Ranking Reports? or should you use other KPIs? A detailed post about how to measure your SEO success matches with your actual Goals. read more »
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NetSol has apparently started engaging in a practice that Google deemed ban-able 2 years ago: subdomain spamming. The twist? They're not subdomain spamming with their sites... they're doing it with *yours*. read more »
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Now this is an issue the SEO community has to deal with not hiding behind "white hat or black hat anything goes as long it works" slogans. Either we ostracize people doing that and make people aware that it's not SEO or soon people will spit on us i read more »
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Many times we get an opportunity at a link on a site that looks great and we are super-pumped about it because it is in the right spot, on a great looking, relevant website. But don’t get your hopes up yet … there are a few simple steps you can take read more »
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Recently, a story announcing an incorrect fact got way popular on Sphinn. How did it happen among the field of smart marketers? Read on (and voice your opinion, too). read more »
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If you don't think Matt Cutt's retro post on building links to your site that he recently published applies to you, then perhaps you need to reshape your thinking. read more »
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Jay describes how Google disables accounts automatically, based on some imperfect algorithms. He and his friend got his Google AdWords accounts disabled because Jay's account was seemingly linked to a bad one and his friend's keywords were irrelevan read more »
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Dazzlin' Donna's first guest post as an SEO Chicklet lets you see why being stubborn can prevent you from doing well on the web. read more »
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OUCH! Hard data proves that the recent Digg algo change had a HUGE impact on the chances of getting a story to go hot, and that impact justifies the initial outrage that ensued. Totally great to see actual numbers for things like this. read more »
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I am not degrading those who sells seo as packages, but expressing my thoughts on why I don't believe, that's the right way of doing it. read more »
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A Google Maps (street view) car just happened to be parked on the same street that my great uncle lives on, so I got some close up pics of the car and it's equipment. read more »
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Would you believe that more than 60% of stories that hit the front page do so with 2 or fewer comments? How about that the most common time for a story to become popular is 22 hours after it was first submitted?

That's what data from 1800 front p read more »
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An Open Letter To A Borderline Sphammer :) read more »
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Guest posting on Techipedia, Pierre Far tracks the development of marketing into the social media age. read more »
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The changes to the language in the Google Reconsideration Request that were discussed on SEO Scoop back on December 3rd and on Smackdown again on the 18th, have finally gone through.

Kudos Matt Cutts! :) read more »
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I'm hoping to open SEO Scoop up to many guest bloggers, especially those of you who may be just getting started. If you want your name to become a little more well known, guest blogging is one way of achieving that. I'm not saying that guest blogg read more »
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This post is important. Learn simple Local Business Center procedures to show up in the G-maps category of YOUR CHOICE. Mike Blumenthal discusses first research to reveal workings of Google's map categorization process. read more »
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Social Alerter is a free service that alerts you when your websites are about to go popular on Digg and delicious and be hit with lots of traffic. Never be caught with a dead server again! read more »
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There will come a time when you can't find the right category on Google Maps... book mark this for just that occasion. An awesome analysis by Mike Blumethal... read more »
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Wondering what this is all about? Well, a few SEOs needed to lose some weight, so they got together and decided to make it a public event. We are sharing our weight loss attempts right here for the whole world to see, and in the process, we hope to read more »
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I don't know what the h*ll is going down here but apparently it's happening in 5 days. read more »
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Donna, I admire you. You sure do have some stamina, the way you've had them Louisiana lips of yours puckered so firmly to Google's evil ass this long.

They're in the wrong to make you (or anyone else for that matter) jump through hoops like that. read more »
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I dumped text link ads. I nofollowed paid links. I javascripted links that might be mistaken for paid links. I canceled my sponsored review accounts....And I did all that for…what? read more »
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