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Global link building sounds very glamourous, like something you’d do wearing Chanel and drinking seriously good wine that I wouldn’t know anything about, not being the glamourous sort. However, it’s something that makes you roll up your French-cuffe read more »
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Really great video interview with SEO Chick founder, Lisa Ditlefsen. Seriously, it's like sitting right there with her, as you chat about SEO. Long, but awesomely interesting. read more »
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The second episode of SEO Wars by Base One. This episode is about the discovery of a new planet called "Link Space",from this planet you can see the link paths that both SEO jedis and the "evil" SEOiths have taken.

Rand LinkWalker and Princess Ja read more »
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Distilled got in touch with Richard Millington at Feverbee to find out a bit more about the subject. Rich is an expert in building online communities and is currently working with Seth Godin in New York. read more »
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The fab Chewie (Dean Chew) takes us through three major reasons why you should be using Facebook connect on your website. 1. Users can use their facebook login to login to your site 2. You get really useful information about your users and 3. lastly read more »
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A look into how the ad men make us buy things we don't want, by manipulating our most basic emotional triggers read more »
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There are interesting pros and significant cons to incorporating SEO into universities and developing degree programmes based on the subject. Somehow, my disadvantages list got a bit longer than the advantages one... read more »
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SNIP - The ethnographic method is an approach of studying a person or group of people by participating in the culture of interest while still remaining a bit of an outsider. At its core is the focus on cultural relativism, which is seeing something read more »
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Exciting new features at SEOmoz, including an Index of the World Wide Web (30 Billion pages and growing!), the Linkscape Tool (extensive link data based on own index), a fresh design and a comic book. read more »
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Jane follows up Danny's post about his conversation with a truthfully challenged (if you see what I mean) search marketer. She mentions the 'e' word. Twenty quid to the first person to mention Lyndon-gate in the comments.

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Sometimes clients ask us to implement ‘not-so-unique’ elements into our designs and sometimes it seems almost impossible to convince them otherwise, however, hopefully this post can suggest some reasons why not to use the old web design stock imager read more »
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Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. read more »
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Write up of how to spot and deal with potential link insertion hacks, how we solved it and a free checking tool.

Nasty hack to discover this one, hits your rankings before you notice in most cases. read more »
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Selling websites on eBay can be very profitable but you need to stand out from the crowd to be successful. The key is to market your product as a “website business” and not just a "website" and the 56 tips in this article can be the difference in yo read more »
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Hamlet Batista wrote a useful post last week on using applications to build links. My first online job was in the shareware industry so this is a familiar technique for me. Here are a few notes to add to the conversation Hamlet started. read more »
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Last month Google gave us another reason to discuss the value of rankings, while blocking the automated rank checking software tool Web Position from retrieving search engine listings from Google. read more »
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A very interesting article was brought to my attention over the weekend which was published on the Guardian website in June. read more »
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Jane thinks that there is a lot of hot-air which passes for insight in the search industry. I think she should just get on with creating good content....

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Internet marketing is supposed to be enjoyable and allow you more time do the things you enjoy. However, if you are finding yourself almost enslaved to your desktop and working more hours per day for yourself than would be legal at a "proper job", t read more »
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"For almost a year, Keyword Spy have been email spamming both my personal email address and Sphinn (on a weekly basis), regurgitating announcements about its launch and features." read more »
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Patrick makes some interesting suggestions on how to out wiki wikipedia by providing better quality articles within your niche to inherit some of the phenomenal link love Wikipedia gets.

It sounds like an awful amount of work but I can see how it read more »
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A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
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The world of internet marketing can be a minefield of personalities, but there are certain characters you will see over and over again. These characters range from a little naive to downright dishonest… see how many of these 11 you recognise. read more »
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The Internet, as fragile, infuriating and enigmatic as its features can be, certainly does some things that I'd really like to see implemented, at least for beta testing, in real life. I am not a programmer, so this is piecemealed together from thin read more »
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Eloi Casali of SiteVisibility outlines 3 mistakes people make with their PPC campaigns and how to avoid them. Tired eyes and keyword blindness can lead you to make expensive mistakes, so take note and as Eloi says, have a double caramel latte. read more »
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