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Here’s an idea for discussion. Is linking to your Google Local Business listing asking for feedback OK? Are other sites already doing this? SEOgadget's Richard Baxter would like to hear your thoughts… read more »
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Ever needed to compare lists of keywords in different data tables and match corresponding values together? For example, matching keyword volume data to search engine rankings? Today Richard takes a look at a really simple but powerful query in Micro read more »
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Richard Baxter of SEOgadet uncovers and explores Quantcast's practice of including hidden links within its tracking code. It can be seen on pages such as Digg.com Last.fm and Technorati. read more »
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Richard Baxter at SEOgadget covers the SEO for Web 2.0 session at SMX London 2008.

Speaking:

Nathan Buggia, Live Search Webmaster Central, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft
Tom Critchlow, Head of Search Marketing, Distilled
Mikkel deMib Svends read more »
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Richard Baxter at SEOgadget summarises points of interest gleened from the international and social media SEO track on day 1 at SMX London 2008.... read more »
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Shocking news for the industry. read more »
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A great guide on how to turn your Wordpress blog into a jobs board. read more »
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Exactly two weeks ago, SEOmoz launched Linkscape, their new link analysis tool. There has been much accusation, feedback and discussion over the inner workings of the product itself which this post does not cover. Instead I’d like to take a look at read more »
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If you’re a graduate looking to move into online marketing, you could do very well for yourself in SEO. Here’s Richard Baxters guide to getting a job in SEO and making a rockstar career for yourself. read more »
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An extremely useful example of how to use wildcard (*) in Robots.txt for sites that use dynamic query parameters. read more »
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Google does not crawl links hidden in Javascript Onclick Events. A short post discussing the subject hid a link in an onclick two months ago, and it is still not in Google's index... read more »
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There’s been lots of buzz about the worth of search engine rankings recently. Problem is, rankings checkers (or at least the process of collecting rankings data on a regular basis) are not useless. read more »
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It looks like it’s quite easy to get a Bebo profile indexed and ranking in Google.co.uk for reasonably competitive terms like “Cheap Airlines” – even after all the talk from Google on comment and forum spam! read more »
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What do you do when your blog covers more than one topic (let's say SEO and Gadgets..) and your audiences are likely to hang around on different social media sites?

Seeing a Sphinn logo in the top left of your content isn’t exactly appropriate w read more »
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I’m glad to announce that my newest website, called WpVote, is online. What is it? That’s simple: WpVote is a 100% Wordpress focused social bookmarking site. read more »
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Sometimes duplicate content problems are not at all easy to find and here’s a classic example. A group of recruitment websites leaking their staging server URLs into Google’s, Yahoo’s and Live’s index. In live’s case, the problem is quite severe wit read more »
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A guide on how to optimise your Wordpress sidebar by only displaying features depending on which page of the site you're on. Why display your blogroll links on every page, for example? This post shows you how to use Wordpress conditional tags to do read more »
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Test results proving Googlebot really has been effectively upgraded to include parsing of flash to find links. Let the flash bombing begin. read more »
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[...]Go as far to the back of the index as you possibly can, because that’s where the good bad stuff usually hides. You’re looking out for malformed urls, query strings (like ?=sessionid or ?first_page etc) [...]

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This series is aimed at beginner to intermediate SEO’s or in house marketers working to design a search engine friendly website able to attract new candidates or potential clients. read more »
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a pretty comprehensive guide to optimising a recruitment website covered by Richard Baxter's seogadget blog read more »
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