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Greg Jarboe outlines the various tracks available to the many kinds of search marketing horses at SES London, coming to Islington in February. read more »
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Ways to fight back against domain name companies who are snakes. read more »
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It’s not very Web 2.0 of us but today SocialBlogroll is out of beta. Thanks to everyone who has helped us test the system.

We’re now polling over 100 blogrolls belonging to everyone from Matt Cutts, SugarRae to Mikkel deMib Svendsen to find out w read more »
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Black Hat PPC management is the art of getting around stupid rules and restraining guidelines to gain a competitive advantage over your competitors in PPC engines. read more »
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The Digg effect is often dubbed as every webmasters dream, and hey, let’s not kid ourselves for a second here - getting an influx of traffic to the point where your web hosting will struggle to keep up is something that can bring some of us close to read more »
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People have been pretty fired up since it was discovered that Network Solutions was pre-registering domains anytime someone used their domain search feature. Now a Network Solutions blogger explains the company's position on the issue, but if the co read more »
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You can gain an unfair advantage over the competition with these four simple steps. Includes the custom 404 redirect. read more »
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If you already have a campaign running and you didn’t scrub out the non converting geo terms, or even if you have, this is an important step. You may have a completely clean keyword list, but if you are using phrase match (my favorite), you still ne read more »
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Here is a set of great free videos on Autoresponders! It is a proven truth and with a list and an autoresponder can increase the sales by 400%.

But what exactly is an autoreponder and how do we use it precisely for profit?

Watch these free vid read more »
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The latest StomperNet video on social media marketing is really something you ought to learn more about during this time in Internet history. read more »
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How could anyone other than an organically grown search professional lead a search product producer into the future? read more »
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Lets look at Google's Webmaster Guidelines like a user read more »
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Lots of stats and commentary, including:

- latest figures for top 25 social network sites in UK
- Social networking landscapes & demographics
- Predictions for SMM in 2008

"...This first wave was then followed by a second wave of more organ read more »
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Google moved the "cache" and "similar pages" links from the line with the URL to the line under the URL, pushing down more of the results and screen realestate for other listing.

I personally think this is a mistake and Google will revert it back read more »
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"Today we are having our first Google Toolbar PageRank update of 2008. At least there are dozens and dozens of reports that PageRank scores on the 72.14.25.x data center has been updated." read more »
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Skellie gives some great insight into how to inject a new life into Link Roundup posts. She raises some really interesting opportunities.

Great advice! read more »
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Justilien talks frankly about what he sees as the big challenges for SEO and link building in 2008, and lists 5 in particular.

From the page: "Fear has infected the entire Web community -- not just link buyers and sellers. Google's public attack read more »
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This long New Yorker article provides some intriguing insights into the leadership, operations, and ambitions of Google. Lots of great quotes from many conversations with people inside and outside of Google.

One of my favorite passages:

"What read more »
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A great post detailing elements to consider to boost your credibility as a professional. Lets face it ... its absolutely crucial no matter who you are! Its not specific to the search or social media space, but the principles are all exactly the same read more »
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Jim Safka To Replace Jim Lanzone As CEO Of Ask.com

Jim Lanzone goes into venture stuff. But more shocking... He leaves Ask.com.

Jim, to me, is the soul of Ask.com. It is very very sad to see him leave Ask.

Thoughts on why, who, what? read more »
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Post toaster has recently published a short but sweet social bookmarking guide. They touch on keywords and global relevancy, dofollow sites, tagging, and raw vs ASCII text. read more »
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Andrew Nagy and his wife are having difficulty settling on a name for their son due in February, so they thought they'd leverage social media to their advantage. Andrew has a poll on his site and they're taking votes! read more »
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Our official announcement for SEMpdx Searchfest 08, taking place March 10th in Portland. We've announced our preliminary agenda & have placed tickets on sale (Buy Early And Save $$$!!!).

Rand Fishkin will be giving the keynote and popular Sphinn read more »
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The key to getting your requirements out there is by injecting yourself into the primary portions of the project that are used for developing the site—which basically means that you need be involved in the key deliverables that go to management and read more »
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On a cold winterss evenin at a Pubcon in Vegas,
I met up with the Linker; we were both too tired to sleep.
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You got to know when to link em, know when to bait em,
Know when Matt's talking FUD, And when he's holding a gun.
You never coun read more »
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