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LSI is an old, tried and tested technique but it has quite important limitations. PLSI is being preferred over this in IR research, and although it uses LSI it addresses some of its issues, and is therefore better. read more »
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To celebrate his first year at SEOmoz, Danny Dover made a great compilation of "web's best resources and tools." read more »
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Exciting new features at SEOmoz, including an Index of the World Wide Web (30 Billion pages and growing!), the Linkscape Tool (extensive link data based on own index), a fresh design and a comic book. read more »
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A fantastic post by Danny Dover over at SEOMoz that uses Technorati, Bloglines, Blopulse, Wikio and SEOmoz's Trefecta Tool to list out the top blogs and analyze what they have (or don't have) in common.

I particularly liked the graph showing how read more »
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Part two of Reilly O'Donnell's analysis of where to find SEO talent. Reilly acts on Rand Fishkin's suggestion and compares the results of the February 2008 SEOmoz SEO survey with the data from the SEMPO members list. read more »
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Our findings show that, in general, lots of mainstream sites are very good at linking out and that there is a direct correlation between the number of links they give and the number of links they receive. read more »
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Rand Fishkin writes "For the last two years, SEOmoz's Page Strength tool has been one of our most popular features. Using data collected from sources around the web, it aggregates, measures and scores a page based on its relative popularity and impo read more »
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97th floor just launched BLVD Status, their SEO/SMO web analytics tool. It's got some nice features and definitely worth taking it for a spin. read more »
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Danny Sullivan says: "Google's finally added a privacy link to its home page, explaining in 613 words why the company apparently can't have more than 28 words on its home page." read more »
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Kate writes her first post at Youmoz sharing advanced tips on segmenting your analytics data to find all your broad match phrases! Sweeeeeet tutorial :D. read more »
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Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Robots from Vanessa over at Jane and Robot. Huge and awesome. read more »
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Seriously, the entire Firefox+Google love fest is a joke. Let's revisit a little history here. Google fought and fought to pressure Microsoft so that no search provider was the default in Internet Explorer 7, arguing this was the best for consumer c read more »
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Will & the boys are running a competition to raise funds for the Burma cyclone appeal. All you PPC demons need to get on it now. read more »
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I want to do it the right way, so am reaching out to you Matt for some advice. I could do a hoax press release about some gossipy fake story - hey include a porn star and a search industry leader (Danny smart move introducing me to your wife now I c read more »
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Previously I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be read more »
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After scouring the web for Web 2.0 sites both new and old, we developed a "short list" of over three-hundred sites in forty-one categories. From there, we had some of the web's best bloggers, entrepreneurs and business people vote on winners, narrow read more »
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By profession we, SEOs, always have to compete. That’s an integral part of our daily routine: we come to work and check how our sites are doing compared to our SERPs competitors. Then we scratch our heads thinking how we can outrank them. And at the read more »
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Barry Schwartz posts at Search Engine Land about the Google -60 penalty and some interesting indications from Google reps that seem to acknowledge the penalty exists. read more »
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So is there such a thing as unethical linkbait? If so, what is it? Where does one draw the line? Or the link even (sorry!) read more »
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This is a great article about career moves and getting a solid start in the SEM arena. Anyone new to SEM or that has gone through/considered a career move should read this post in its entirety. read more »
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Adam Audette of AudetteMedia offers a characterically well-written and thorough explanation of Information Architecture in web development as it pertains to SEO. Simply put: invaluable. Read it now. read more »
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Earlier this month, Yahoo! unveiled its new oneSearch, which includes voice-based search. Since this was an exclusive BlackBerry download, I decided to give it a test run. We were told by Yahoo! execs that oneSearch will learn my style of speech ove read more »
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You know why there's "nofollow" and "dofollow." Now you need to know why "unfollow" happens. A lucky 13 microbloggers share why you may suffer the ultimate Twitter FAIL. Great post by Brian Carter (follow-up to his 14 reasons he'll unfollow you) read more »
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Ciaran thinks Flickr is the key to Yahoo squeezing more money out of Microsoft:

"Where Yahoo is really ahead of the competition is with its photo (and now video) sharing site, flickr. And if they could increase the number of people paying for pre read more »
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