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"On Tuesday instead of working I went to SES Hamburg (a leading search engine conference, sidenote for the uninitiated) for some fun" Now was it more than that?
[Take note, this is a revised version of my submission.] read more »
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Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. 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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Find out whats hot and whats not with these killer market trend tools. read more »
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From the page: "The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web."

I suspect this number will increase substantially each year for so read more »
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Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and w read more »
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The poll has got almost 60 votes, therefore I assume it as a good indicator of the make money online market. Majority of the bloggers are making less than $10 every month which is not a surprise for me indeed. read more »
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Karon Thackston shares the story of a client who begged for content rewrites when their rankings slipped and then makes a good case for why the client needed to leave the content alone. read more »
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At SMX yesterday Shoemoney and others talked about buying expired or established domains for SEO. But how do you know if those domains have value? Annie Smarty looks at ways to give a domain a background check to make sure it passes the mustard. read more »
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Matt Cutts posts lots of new docs, links about IP delivery/geolocation/cloaking, Nofollow documentation, Better definition for doorway pages, Robots.txt. read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "More and more webmasters become victims of hackers who put hidden links at their blogs. At Google Webmaster Groups I read daily approximately every tenth blogger complains that his site has been hacked. A few red flags that might read more »
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I do not own too many .info domain names, but a couple of them that I do own have quite solid link profiles. In spite of this, on May 23rd all of my .info websites (including search-marketing.info) disappeared from Google's search results. And then read more »
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In typical M2 fashion, Matt McGee gives himself a humble critique of his latest presentation(s) at SBMU and SEMpdx on the BRILLIANT SEO Success Pyramid. Those who haven't read the original post, or seen Matt speak about it, will want to click thr read more »
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Interesting - do you think the same? read more »
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Tom O’Brien took a chance tonight. He decided to send a pitch to a blogger, and see what would happen. And now, I’m going to show Tom (and you) what happened, first by reprinting his letter to me, and then, by commenting on his letter to me. read more »
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Reilly O'Donnell walks through data that shows SEO jobs have had explosive growth over the last four months despite the current state of the economy and also discusses SEO job trends over the last several years. read more »
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As social media occupy more of our time, it is important to make our interventions as visible as possible. Tags keep classification in our hands and complement what search engine computer indexing may do with our blog contents. With WordPress Vers read more »
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If you own a web site, or work on one, it might be time to start thinking about how your site looks on a phone, how people use your site, and how mobile search might influence whether your site will be found in searches made by people using phones. read more »
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Do you think that Google (e.g. -30, -950, -60, etc) penalties really exist? Have any of you experienced such a penalty with your website? read more »
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1. Getting people to vote for me on other social media
2. Verifying information before posting
3. Getting acute problems resolved
4. Interviewing people and generating content for my blog
5. Being one of the first to know a story read more »
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Andy Beal asks, "Have you ever thought about the enormous amount of data your broadband internet provider could collect from you?" While there are a whole host of laws in place that prevent broadband service providers from doing just that, that’s no read more »
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Yesterday I spent the day at a small conference here in Columbus put on by Ohio Web Leaders. They'd asked me to come and speak about blogging for business and blog marketing to a mix of small business, PR types and in-house marketers. Now I always t read more »
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In spite of the fact that I have always been an early adopter of new technology — or communications-based tools, social media turns me off. When I think about why, at least 10 reasons come to mind.

(I really enjoy the linkbait title, btw.) ;) read more »
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