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Julie interviews Ruby on Rails extraordinaire Tony Spencer on SEO and Ruby on Rails compatibility, issues, and is it spider friendly? Great interview with some keen insight for PHP, Ruby programmers as well as technical SEO's. read more »
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KeyRelevance adds yet another top notch Search Professional to their growing staff of search professionals. They've snagged Matt McGee of the Small Business Search Marketing Blog! read more »
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Li Evans writes, "Inherently Flash itself still has optimization drawbacks. So Google's saying they can crawl buttons, urls, etc. in Flash, but that doesn't mean that Flash offers the best way to be optimized for the content you are trying to presen read more »
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For those of you who are not advertising on facebook already (and even if you are) and want to give it a try, now there is a completely free way to test the waters. read more »
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At the end of the week last week, I (storyspinner) asked the question to my Plurk audience, "Do you consider yourself a plurk convert? If you do, I'd love to hear why?" which then led to "What would you like to see plurk add to make it better??" I read more »
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A great rant from Li towards the social media spammers... Does SMM = Social Spamming? Or is it about building relationships?

Search Marketing Gurus - Along with that, I was just flabbergasted at a submission on Sphinn about gaming Twitter for " read more »
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SERPGuard is launched in beta today. The system is built in Ruby on Rails using the new Safe Browsing API that Google has helpfully made available. We built this application as part of our in-house client suite but decided to release it publicly. Ho read more »
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Search Engine Land - So what am I trying to accomplish with this article? Honestly, I would really like the search industry to re-evaluate what they consider to be advanced SEO skills. I do not believe that advanced SEO skills are necessarily "black read more »
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I invite you all to hop on over to Donna's blog, grab a piece of cake and chat it up in the comments - it's a party after all.

MODS - this is a dupe... please nuke it ;0) read more »
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For those that are playing in PlurkWorld here are some toys and tools to start broadening your experience. I haven't played with them all much yet, so do share any experiences here if you could... read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "... don't be so quick to let go of the traditional search engine optimization techniques in favor of the big Web 2.0 buzzwords. White hat SEO is evolving and is all the advanced SEO you need to rank well in the search engines an read more »
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Paige Filler guest posts with content ideas that everyone should take to heart. Not only does this article give great ideas, but it details the implementation steps that you can use over and over again to really make this technique work for you. read more »
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Ok, maybe I am being a tad cheeky today, but Matt decided to highlight the interview he did, so why not? Reading the article on USA Today he mentions;

“In a nutshell: Google ranks sites based on popularity. If authoritative sites link to you, you read more »
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Li Evans writes, "What do you use social media for? Do you use it to gain links? How about power? Maybe to trick people into thinking you are someone else? Perhaps as leverage to con someone into doing something on another social media site for you? read more »
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When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes "When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there's a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder how read more »
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If you're an AdSense publisher, and you're not using the free widget, it's time to update your privacy policies again. :) read more »
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Funny that this quote/title was first spotted (for me at least) on Plurk... (dats 2 in one day Li!! woot)

Search Gurus - Twitter, you just got funding. Twitter, you really need to wake up and realize, people will go where the conversations are h read more »
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Search Marketing Gurus - The point is, you can't expect your audience to tell you where they are. You have to ask, if you don't ask, you'll never know that they are hanging out at the local McDonald's on a Saturday Night! read more »
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Exclusive interview with Eric Morris about Google Adwords read more »
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Pictorial evidence of what could potentially be the darker side of social media giant Digg's founder, Kevin Rose. read more »
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Not the kind of answer I was expecting when I asked for clarification on the AdSense policies concerning AdSense in Feedburner feeds. read more »
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Check out how the search community came together to help Kim Krause Berg celebrate her 50th Birthday! read more »
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Fantastic (as usual) roundup of all the best SEO and SEM blog posts for the month of May by Steven Bradley of VanSEO fame.

Makes for a great Sunday morning read. read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes "I've read a lot of posts lately tearing down the public relations industry for what a poor job they do when pitching bloggers. I've also read (and written) quite a few posts about what a terrible job companies do relating to read more »
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