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The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, k read more »
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A programmatic solution to running and managing a network of micro-sites for link juice as explained during the Give It Up session at SMX Advanced and touched upon in SEOMoz's Whiteboard Friday Give It Up video.

Probably not the brightest idea to read more »
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Give It Up! - No more secrets time. In this session, our panel of noted SEOs all share some of their favorite and largely overlooked SEO tips. Then we turn to the audience for more sharing. Attendees vow not to blog what's discussed for the now trad read more »
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Lisa Barone writes:

[Looks around, makes sure it's safe to reveal secret squirrel SEO information.]

Okay, kids, it's July 3rd. That means it has officially been a month since the Give It Up session that occurred at SMX Advanced 2008. The embar read more »
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So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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Matt McGee offers us a chance to collaborate and write a blog post on his site. Join the GroupThink Tank. Submit your favorite SEO tools. read more »
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Looks like Google and Adobe are working together to get Flash content indexed... read more »
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From the official announcement: "If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms i read more »
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Stoney deGeyter writes, "Moving your site to a new domain is remarkably similar to moving to a new physical address. One of the primary areas of concern is making sure the search engines not only continue to deliver traffic to your new location, but read more »
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I am in awe of the detail in the data Google Ad Planner gives us for free. I have posted some screen shots of it. It is crazy! Blows Google Trends away. read more »
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In preparation for the greatly anticipated (tongue firmly planted in cheek) - SEO Superlatives Contest - the committee members have been announced. Leave nominations in this thread for consideration

Some of the hardware up for grabs include;

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Danny says, "About two seconds after Google Trends For Websites came out, people started noticing that one company's websites oddly had no data available -- Google's own. Google will tell you all about the traffic to competitors like Yahoo and Micro read more »
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Matt McGee writes, "A couple alert friends emailed me over the weekend to point out that I now have 500+ followers on Twitter. This normally wouldn’t be worth a blog post, except for that Twitter for charity contest I’ve been having with Jeff Quipp read more »
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I had a great conversation with Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced. I didn't get to tell him all that I wanted to, so here's my do-over... read more »
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When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
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It's Huomah.com.... David Harry's (aka TheGypsy) 2nd Anniversay of his Blog and he writes this post regarding the highlights of his blogging travels over the past two years.

Here's to many more years, Dave!! read more »
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Chris Winfield writes... Yesterday I presented at SES Toronto along with Lee Odden and Dave Snyder on a panel called ‘Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?’ I figured that in order to show how Twitter actually works - it would be best to use read more »
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Matt is at it again asking web folks to step up and help Google where they can't do it themselves. Nice volley of words between Michael Martinez and Matt Cutts too. ;) read more »
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Good news -- now you can have your activity on Intense Debate, brightkite.com, Diigo, Mister Wong, and tipjoy as part of your FriendFeed. Bad news. Despite asking twice and being told FriendFeed is just too busy, Sphinn still hasn't been added. read more »
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A blog is one of the best and easiest ways to generate fresh, up to date content for your site as well as link love.Here comes 25 Blog Optimization Tips Even Dear Old Dad Could Ace plus 10 bonus tips for your mom too ;) read more »
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There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man, a land of linkbait and drama unfolding. It is a dimension as vast as social spaces, brimming with enigmatic individuals and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle-ground between light read more »
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Maybe the big SEO standards debate is about to be settled for good? read more »
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The SEO community has been foaming at the mouth lately over whether or not we need standards for the industry. Standards won't signal maturity, but will rather lead to homogenization of industry strategy. Ethical and educative issues should be addre read more »
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Great interview with ten questions asked to social media/SEO aficionado Melanie Nathan regarding networking, Twitter and blogging. read more »
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In an unexpected twist to the end of Day 2 at SMX Sydney Rand Fishkin and Danny Sullivan exposed a possible case of blackhat cloaking by Flightcentre.com.au read more »
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