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Danny Sullivan goes off on everyone who uses subversive marketing tactics. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and take it in. read more »
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Interview of Jeff Quipp by SEO Mentor Garrett Pierson read more »
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Danny interviewed SearchWiki product pros at Google. read more »
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Google SearchWiki — a new feature that allows you to move and comment on search results — has been out for less than a day, and it’s amazing to see how much confusion (as well as commentary) there is already developing. So below, some clarification read more »
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Everyone is a social media guru now a days. Just b/c they are on Facebook and Twitter they think they can actually sell social marketing services. Social media Marketing Snake oil is rampant. Be aware! read more »
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Hrmm... so what about all thos DNN, Joomla, TYPO3 rewrites i've written, do i have to change them back? read more »
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Unbelievable post on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog telling us to NOT use URL rewriting as it has no advantage and is too dangerous. Uh, hello?! The post itself uses URL rewriting. read more »
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Search Engine Land - Brian Ussery has discovered a revised copy of the Google Quality Raters Guidelines, which he archived on his own site.

The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy an read more »
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Fantastic review of common canonical URL issues, URL security issues (can someone steal your database?) and how to fix them. read more »
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As the title might suggest, an article about the possibilities for the future of mobile advertising, including mobile web advertising, sms advertising, mobile search advertising and Google's apparent and suprising (to me) suggestion for monetizing t read more »
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Again and again and again and AGAIN we’ve learned that in the Social Media era, the CUSTOMERS ARE IN CONTROL of the brand. read more »
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German site gets ASCII art included in Google ads read more »
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It's been a while since we've heard the TrafficPower name... "Now Traffic Power's CEO is behind bars, jailed for allegedly running a housing foreclosure scam." read more »
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If you're new to the field you'll face an uphill battle against floods of incorrect information being put out by inexperienced people anxious to make their mark in a saturated SEO community. read more »
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Why Knoledge makes Google a worse search engine read more »
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They promised us a reverse DNS their IPs to search.live.com but they are not. So now we may be blocking their spiders from crawling us. read more »
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Google Digg-Style Experiment from Googlified was one of the first to report a new experimental search feature from Google. read more »
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YouTube Canada launched a few hours ago... it's so new, even Google doesn't seem to have noticed yet.

Within 1 hour of the press release going out, companies were already sending out their own press releases publicizing their new promotions spec read more »
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Google stock hits $700, on the same day that details of OpenSocial - Google's new Social Network platform are revealed. read more »
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Michael Arrington reveals details on OpenSocial - Google's new "Meta"-Social Media API platform. Access will include Profile, Friend & News access. Networks already signed up include Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Friendster, Plaxo, Hi5. read more »
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From the master of StumbleUpon analysis comes a definitive guide on how and why you might use StumbleUpon paid advertising. read more »
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Carsten on PageRank

Take away: "If you saw a PageRank™ drop as a direct or indirect side effect of all this, you will probably be affected by the things that are likely to follow, but so is your competitor, if he was affected by the recent PageRa read more »
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Analysis of Yahoo stock trading in the last few days by Ex-CEO by Barry Schwartz read more »
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"For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans."

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From the gang at SEL - A recent report issued by Autobytel, based on on findings from a poll of 1,001 US adults conduted by Kelton Research, examined "The State of Search" and how automobile shoppers interact with search engines in particular. Below read more »
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