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I posted the browser stats from Google Analytics of SELand, SERoundtable and my personal blog, CartoonBarry.com at Search Engine Land. Chrome looked pretty impressive.

I encourage you to share your stats as well. So go to Google Analytics, cha read more »
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Q&A with Marshall Simmonds from About.com and NYT. Another in the series of interviews with top inhouse search marketers. Hope folks enjoy. read more »
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I was just about to post some screen shots of the new quality score when I noticed fellow paid search blogger Jeff Hudson was few steps ahead and had posted some pictures from one of his accounts on the 29th. Quality score now shown at 1 - 10...cool read more »
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Eloi Casali of SiteVisibility outlines 3 mistakes people make with their PPC campaigns and how to avoid them. Tired eyes and keyword blindness can lead you to make expensive mistakes, so take note and as Eloi says, have a double caramel latte. read more »
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Patrick thinks that Google is reducing the weight it puts on anchor text in setting rankings: it's not based on a huge amount of evidence, but it's an interesting proposition.. read more »
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Thank you for the information... read more »
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Pageoneresults writes "In just under three (03) weeks, I've managed to view a very large percentage of the Sphinn Profile database through public access. I lost count on just how many profiles I've read. I did learn quite a bit about each and every read more »
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The ultimate guide to where people click. This data is the result of 36,389,567 searches and 19,434,540 clicks. The results make for interesting reading... 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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Google News shows stories from the last 30 days. After that stories get dropped and are not automatically archived. Follow the instructions and submit the required material to be considered for the archive. 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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Menlo Park based Cuil has officially launched with quite a sizable index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably a comprehensive search engine on the web. Cuil not only claims that they have found a way to massively reduce the costs involved read more »
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Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer t read more »
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Jessica Bowman shares...While SEO can be done completely in-house, not every company truly has the expertise to fly totally solo and make it to the destination without a bit of turbulence and unnecessary crashes along the way. read more »
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Matt Cutts has confirmed that a Google PageRank update is underway. Some PageRank penalties will be expiring, so if you were hit with the PR downgrades in the past, you should check where you are now. read more »
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MSN/LIVE Search comes out with BrowseRank to compete with PageRank... wouldn't they need to be psuhing some traffic for people to care? 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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Makes me wonder if this is going to lead to quality management or another year of disarray. How will Jerry Yang react to not being the smartest person in the room? read more »
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Like Avinash Kaushik says about web analytics, "The goal is not to collect more data – it’s about extracting insight from this data.”

The Get Elastic Blog provides 7 tips to remember when using the keyword tool, how you can apply keyword research read more »
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One of the often overlooked benefits of PPC marketing is the conversion data from the different sources the networks use to expand into different marketing channels. read more »
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Yahoo was granted a patent this week which describes how anchor text in links may be used to increase the relevancy ranking of a page pointed to by that anchor text.

It provides some details about how anchor text might be used by a search engine read more »
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Sphinn turns one year old tomorrow, July 11! This is a look at Sphinn's early days -- including some of the "firsts" that happened when we were all figuring out what Sphinn was, how to use it, and how to say the name. :-) read more »
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Google trends is displaying a swastika as #3 on Google trends. Is this some sort of spam trick or what? read more »
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Gyutae Park writes "I want to give a little background information on my various SEO experiences and then outline what I think is an ideal career path for aspiring newbies to become SEO rockstars." read more »
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Where I make a sociological-based argument theorizing that Doug's typical course of blog commenting is actually good marketing and branding for his business. read more »
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