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Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
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~40 photo examples of how ICanHasCheezburger and ecommerce are related - including photos and links to additional articles on each topic. Hilarious. read more »
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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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When link buying turns into genuine, valuable editorial content that people would be happy to find in a SERP, which content only indirectly affects the links you built... is link buying still problematic? read more »
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A response blogpost to the discussion going on at Bruce Clay about "SMX Advanced containing Black Hat SEO content", shock horror!! Black hat advice doesn't mean you have to do it. Black hat SEO rel="no follow"?? But it's worth listening to "them", a read more »
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Our common forward links tool finds those super authorities that a bunch of other authorities or important sites link to.

This follows an idea almost 2 years old, but never implemented by anyone out on the web.

Read how we do it! read more »
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After scouring the web for Web 2.0 sites both new and old, we developed a "short list" of over three-hundred sites in forty-one categories. From there, we had some of the web's best bloggers, entrepreneurs and business people vote on winners, narrow read more »
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Oh my Christ, Facebook almost killed Jane! read more »
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It now seems that Google is ignoring its own advice, and the use of noindex, and is indexing search results pages. If you look at Computer Weekly’s robots.txt file, you’ll see their search pages are noindexed. And yet the pages have been indexed. read more »
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So is there such a thing as unethical linkbait? If so, what is it? Where does one draw the line? Or the link even (sorry!) read more »
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Dazzlin' Donna explains how new SEOs evolve, in her typically witty manner. read more »
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When you hear the word "conversion" do you automatically think "shopping cart", "secure server", or "SSL"? It's O.K. if you do, most people think along those lines when they hear talk about converting visitors to buyers. When people first started read more »
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Li Evans writes, "Yesterday, as I was driving to Via Roma which is my usual Friday night hangout with friends, I was just thinking about the different aspects of blogging, and it really hit me that it's actually a lot like Karaoke. Of course in mos read more »
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We've decided to postpone SphinnCon North Carolina until later in the year. The first half of 2008 has been jam-packed with Internet Marketing events, resulting in us squeezing the one-day conference into a date that did not conflict with other even read more »
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Good local perspective. read more »
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Recently, we've seen multiple stories that were hot in our space get featured in mainstream media...this being only the latest example. read more »
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Li Evans recaps the opening session of Search Engine Guide's "Small Business Marketing Unleashed" conference. Speakers include Jennifer Laycock, Wendy Piersall, Matt Bailey, and Matt McGee (yours truly). read more »
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I'm happy to announce that the next SphinnCon has now been confirmed for Friday 2nd May 2008, just a few weeks away. The event in Greensboro is designed for local Sphinn members and internet marketers, looking to share knowledge and network with pot read more »
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From May 28th 2008 the practice of blogging under false pretences (or flogging as we like to call it) will become more than just black hat - it'll become illegal! read more »
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Is SEO ever a waste of time and/or money? American Express certainly seems to think so, even going so far as to suggest that search engine specialists will naturally try to trick the filtering techniques of engines and are likely to get your site ba read more »
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Interview with Tom Leung, Business Product Manager of Google Website Optimizer, a free site content testing tool offered inside of Google AdWords designed to improve conversion rates on paid ads and thus keep advertisers happy (and, not coincidental read more »
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Dazzlin' Donna's first guest post as an SEO Chicklet lets you see why being stubborn can prevent you from doing well on the web. read more »
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Julie asks a good question - "how secure is your social media platform?"

She states "it's critical for everyone to be aware of the security vulnerabilities that are intrinsic to the public sharing of information in this type of format. US-Cert, read more »
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Search Marketing Gurus will be the vehicle driving most of the questions during the Calacanis keynote at SES NYC. Li has asked for tough ones, so lets not disappoint her eh?

The Rules:

You cannot ask "Jason why are you such an jerk?" or any ot read more »
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For anyone who's ever struggled with explaining just what SEO is...this is perfect! read more »
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