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If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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BLVD Status is an analytics program that has a LIVE dashboard similar to something you would see in Have-a-Mint but with really robust information like conversions, search engine rankings, outgoing link information and many more data points. BLVD St read more »
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Well, you might still get indexed, but spamming sphinn no longer gets you a dofollow link if you don't go hot. Will this affect the quality of submissions? Only time will tell. What do you guys think? read more »
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What goes around comes around. read more »
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"Social media and SEO are now inextricably linked. You couldn't separate 'em if you tried." - Ian Lurie. read more »
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Great link building notification tool for Wordpress complete with instructional video. read more »
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A profile in FireFox is the collection of extensions, bookmarks, settings, passwords, and user preferences that are saved for you in a separate set of files. Creating several such sets of preferences opens the whole wealth of opportunities for SEOs read more »
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From Jill Whalen: "Blogs. They're the best thing since sliced bread. Everyone with a website needs one. Or do they?" read more »
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This Video shows a new version of Google where everybody can edit, comment and vote for results. read more »
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Why am I not surprised (screenshots and video evidence included!) read more »
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"In the world of business, lots of figures are thrown around. There’s a whole school of thought in the world of investing that only looks at a company’s financial statements and decides whether or not to buy their stock based on those numbers. The m read more »
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5 steps to make your Wordpress blog accessible on mobile devices. read more »
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This list is by no means exhaustive and there are hundreds of other factors that advanced SEO practioners will point to as having an effect on search engine placements. What you see here are simply the primary factors that should be taken into acco read more »
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Ann is a genius and my seventh favorite woman in SEO:

"One SEO related question which is often asked throughout webmaster forums is how much domain registration age is important for SEO. " read more »
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When it comes to the internet, I know that our passions can get in the way and drive us all to working excessively. Sometimes you just have to take some time out and I hope you can all learn a little from my experience.

Overworking might not hav read more »
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A new generation of search engines are starting to become publicly available and so it's time to start thinking about how they will affect SEO efforts. read more »
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Robots.txt has become a widely used method of controlling your site crawling. Thus it has become one of the first things I check when diagnosing on-site issues. While nowadays almost every webmaster knows its basics, some things still cause misunder read more »
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Very useful list of FireFox SEO plugins from Ann Smarty on SEJ. read more »
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It's been a long time since I've blogged about design & usability topics, but I think we're overdue for a revisit. Luckily, in my recent web browsing, I stumbled across some remarkably innovative, uncommon design elements that made me take notice read more »
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Jordan hits it spot on: "When conducting keyword research think again before immediately being drawn to phrases with the highest search volume. Consider KEI, the commercial intent, and which part of the buying cycle that keyphrase belongs to." read more »
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My post builds on a great article (and plugin) from Joost De Valk. What if, like me, you’ve created a bespoke sidebar, that isn’t quite dynamic enough to talk to a plugin like this? I’ve hard coded my sidebar links. How do I track what exit clicks t read more »
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There was a recent study on popfail which showed the last 500 stories to hit the front page of Digg. An impressive 1/3 of the 500 were controlled by 10 users. Of those 10 users many are recognized in the SEO industry. read more »
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It’s intriguing that most of discussions are outward focused. They’re about Google and “do no evil”. About whether any company should enter the China market. About how far “they” should be allowed to go, what “they” should owe us, how “they” should read more »
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Recently the SEO industry is buzzing around a relatively new term, advanced SEO.

Advanced SEO is not yet clearly defined but many people already seem to agree what it is. My personal impression as to this inherent definition is: Advanced SEO appe read more »
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Adobe recently announced their final release of the Acrobat Pro 9 software line, touting new video capabilities that are meant to provide a wider range of interactive publishing capabilities, along with improved engagement methods for end users. Wha read more »
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