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The last post you'll ever need on Google Analytics, covering ecommerce, advanced PPC keyword tracking, cross-domain analytics and more! read more »
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A great post on dangers of screwing over people who build reputation for a living. read more »
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An outstanding professional and positive message from Michael Gray. Honestly, my hat is off to him for this post. I spoke against him, publicly on sphinn, but now, I'd like to publicly praise Michael Gray. Good job!!! read more »
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From the ocean of posts about linkbait it would be easy to think this particular technique is the solution to marketing any site. The reality is, however, very different. Especially on commercial websites. read more »
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An insightful interview with social media expert Shana Albert. 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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Another excellent article with very specific recommendations to make your images actually go to work for your website. read more »
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SEO and social media marketing TopRank team member Jeff Nolan has stepped up to the plate, or in this case, onto the green and submitted the following post about marketing within social media communities using golf as a metaphor read more »
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Really nice comparison of Yahoo! Search Assist vs. Google Suggest (i.e., search tools that use dropdown menus which display in real-time possible keywords that the tool thinks you may be intending to type as soon as you start typing). Cheers also fo read more »
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If the URL count is accurate, Sphinn has now had over 10,000 submissions! Pretty impressive, keep up the great work everyone. read more »
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Shimon Sandler describes what elements go into creating a PPC Search Strategy document that can be woven into your overarching digital marketing plan. read more »
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We all lead busy lives, and finding ways to optimize our online research is vital for time management.

As the Sphinn user base increases, finding the wheat among the chaff becomes more time consuming.

In the future Sphinn will allow some sort read more »
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While I continue to build a list of top read and commented articles on the site, I realized that we need more resource pages. The one linked here is the Google Blog Resource page, with a list of all 61 known Google Blogs (including the 18 non-Englis read more »
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An interesting way to get links from CNN and other huge media sites. read more »
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Approximately 60-70% of CSS Juice visitors are Firefox users, so i had a idea to create a complete list of Firefox Extensions / add-ons for web designers and developers. After a pain searched and tested, here is some of useful extensions you would h read more »
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Four part recap of the session I gave at BlogHer. It's introductory SEO, aimed at bloggers who are new to the idea of using search to drive traffic. There are no cat pictures. Sadly. However, Buffy is briefly mentioned so all is not lost. read more »
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If your web site is backed by a physical store front, you may want to do things a little differently on your site than you might if you were web-only. Here are a few ideas. I only rant a little.

(Finally! I have written a post about something oth read more »
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Few things are more frustrating than getting a great link from a blog that is clearly not set up to stay indexed. Getting good links is difficult work. However, ensuring that the links you DO get stay indexed and have a bit of link juice to pass on read more »
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Smart phones are hot and cell phone web surfing is even hotter. Here are basic tips you can implement now to start optimizing web sites for mobile search. read more »
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Lyndon issues the heartfelt cry, "Do not offer what you cannot deliver" and lambastes all those webdevs who claim they know Search. read more »
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