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Laura Callow delivers awesome insights backed up by research and data, on why User Generated Content and SEO are a great match for each other. If you haven't thought implementing UGC onpage and through citation sources yet, this is a read makes a gr read more »
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sebastian weighs in on what is Crawling vs what is Indexing. Very apropos discussion at the moment :) read more »
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After Linkscape launched, some people didn't want to be included in it. Eventually, we got information posted for exclusion. But then there was a debate on whether that will exclude you or not. So, a discussion about how it works. read more »
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What began as a website likely designed to generate brand goodwill & awareness descends into the depths of social media hell.

An employee at the big bank first attempts to defend the website by masquerading behind a sock puppet. Puppet is called read more »
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"Quand la chine s'éveillera, le monde tremblera" - Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816.

(When China awakens, the world shall shake)

This report shows that China has indeed awakened and she is an online superpower to the tune of 253 million users, larger read more »
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Bill Macaitis is the SVP of Online Marketing for Fox Interactive Media (FIM) which runs a network of entertainment sites which include MySpace, Fox Sports, IGN, Photobucket, AskMen, Rotten Tomatoes and American Idol, GameSpy, Scout and Flektor offer read more »
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Featuring GoogleBan™ Action! read more »
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See who the search engines rank on the first page for "search engine." read more »
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It seems like new social media sites are popping up everyday or an existing social media site adds new functionality for us to waste even more time on!

This post covers the new trend in social media aggregation sites and lists a few that are curr read more »
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Lucas Ng brings "hardlinking" to our attention..."With QR Codes, the Japanese have created a 'hardlink' or 'physical hyperlink' -  a direct connection between the physical world and the Internet... With a QR reader installed, Jap read more »
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Expectably, after the Manchester SEO moot (aka Pissup), all us linkwhoring attendees will probably ramp up our PR artillery, blogging about it and publishing pix left, right and center - as well we should.
And yes, I'm aware that this event has bee read more »
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ROFLMAO! Whether you enter the contest and give Greg a link or not, you don't want to miss the 50 California vanity license plates he put together to represent various search industry guys and gals!!! read more »
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This Thursday, I'm meeting with the Live Search team and they'd love to hear from the search community at large about bugs, issues, opportunities and ways to better communicate with webmasters. read more »
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An inside source at one of these two firms mentioned (in passing) that Google is beta testing a new module in Google Analytics; a rules-based bid management tool called ‘Google Business Rules’.

Has anyone else participated in this beta?

If so, read more »
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I know at least 12 of you so far have used the Sphinn calendar to say you'll be at SES San Jose. Others? And anyone interested in meeting up? Usually there are "Birds Of A Feather" tables in the lunch area where you make a sign and gather according read more »
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Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn members to prove their mettle as marketers, by pushing Sphinn over 500 for the first time. If you're new to Sphinn, welcome! and why not throw your first Sphinn onto this historical post?

Sites like Dig read more »
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On ResourceShelf.com we just posted a link to a new "review" essay titled, Adversarial Information Retrieval: The Manipulation of Web Content," by Dennis Fetterly at Microsoft Research.

From the article:
"As the name indicates, adversarial info read more »
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Make your posts more 'sphinnable'. Add a smart Sphinn It! with vote counts to all your posts (RSS feed and blog). If the URL has been submitted the link increases the vote count, otherwise it submits the URL. read more »
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