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Track official Google responses by using their own tool against them. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.

All you have to do is use Google Alerts and setup a Group alert for various Google employee handles. read more »
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Web analytics an hour a day is an amazing book, but it didnt have a kick start guide for media websites... so i took a go myself! read more »
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I've had an epiphany: Most people want to hire really crappy SEO 'professionals'.

It's the only possible reason for some of the asinine hiring decisions made by otherwise intelligent people. So, in the tradition of bloggers giving audiences what read more »
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We noticed several phishing attempts from some Google impostors. After contacting our Google representatives this morning, they confirmed that those emails were not authentic. If you receive ANY emails from “Google AdWords” or any a similar source, read more »
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eVisibility, an Internet marketing agency based in Carlsbad, has price of gas capped at $2.25/gallon for Southern California staff. read more »
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Once again, the dynamic due of Miguel Salcido (aka ‘searchjunkie ‘ on twitter) and Steven Peron (aka ‘imnotadoctor ‘ on twitter) impressed with empirical studies that demonstrated some key findings in regard to the use of nofollow tags, Google local read more »
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Welcome to the SEO post on my blog. I would like to start off and say, you are smart. You have chosen to read up on SEO techniques rather then just sitting back and hoping google cuts you a break. First off this topic is for bloggers mainly but we d read more »
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Jaan has a poll and I want ya'll to get over and vote for your fav Web Gypsy - I shall send gifts and much Plurk Karma your way.... bwaaa ha ha ha ha.... (oh it is too early for this...) read more »
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If Google can reset the Search Engine Authority from domain names that expire, you can be sure that they can find that your domain names are owned by the same entity even if they are hosted in different servers... read more »
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A funny and accurate depiction of the type of relationships you encounter in the social media world. read more »
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In another case of major mapspam (discovered first by Imnotadoctor), a SMB-local internet market firm, Big Local, has captured many of the top positions in the Google Maps "onebox" for the category "internet consulting." Below are some examples from read more »
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A great post reminding marketers if you’re running a paid search campaign to command more real estate on Google since it is a precious (and valuable!) commodity. read more »
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I never knew this, but you can setup GEO specific area of sub folders in Google Webmaster Tools. So, if you had built out state pages or city pages for your main keywords you can now tell Google to associate that page if you build in its individual read more »
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"The era of being number one is Google has left. The age of Conversion rates, qualified traffic, and site wide analytics has descended upon you." read more »
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Darren Rowse writes a guest post on SocialMediaMom....4 Tips for Social Media Toddlers.

So many of us as Social Media Toddlers seem to get bogged down by the way things should be done or by being concerned of how others will receive us - but pe read more »
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When working with national and international Fortune 1000 clients, I often observe that their brand is so strong that it provides 80% of the conversions at 20% of the total budget spent (the Pereto principal at its finest).

This is where the Int read more »
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A funny and informative Rant, inspired by SEOmoz's Rebbeca, about how People do not get Social Bookmarking. read more »
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SEO for Firefox is a Mozilla Firefox add-on that every SEO professional and enthusiast should have, along with SEO Quake. Ricardo shares his insight on when to turn it off. read more »
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Why doesn’t every major online business offer a customer survey site like this? read more »
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I noticed that Google is putting plus map boxes on search engine result listing that have address information on that page. (screenshots) Do you have them? read more »
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It has been noticed that when the same user repeatedly submits articles from the same blog, the posts will not get promoted. If you often promote your own work, the articles will be recycled among you and your friends - your strong ties; your conten read more »
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Just imagine what life would be like if you could take your robots.txt file out to the bar with you. You could filter people out and only allow certain people to contact you. Or, of course you could leave things wide open! Of course you are going to read more »
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Eric Enge posts at Search Engine Land examining the "Display: None" CSS attribute as it pertains to SEO - the legitimate user-friendly methods and the shadier possibilities. read more »
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Watch Your TV Favorites. Free. Anytime’ - that's the tag line for the brand new so-called ‘YouTube Killer’ website, Hulu.com, but how does it actually live up to its tag line and rate as a website? read more »
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