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From Aaron Wall: "What is the difference between an unremarkable no value add thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age." read more »
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Sphinn turns one year old tomorrow, July 11! This is a look at Sphinn's early days -- including some of the "firsts" that happened when we were all figuring out what Sphinn was, how to use it, and how to say the name. :-) read more »
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A great little guest post on SD from Mark Hayward - I noticed the words 'Hell' and $hit in my reader... knew it had to be a guest post...lol read more »
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An interesting interview discussion with Aaron Wall. Some good questions in there too! read more »
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A good list of high level seo tips. I'm not sure its the ultimate list, but I do think its somewhat realistic in that it helps to portray SEO as marketing and not a magic black box.

I really liked the fact that he mentioned passion for the topic read more »
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The ability to write well is very useful for our personal and professional lives. The written word has become an essential means of social communication: mastery of it helps you to enthrall and persuade an audience that would look upon you favorabl read more »
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Google breakdance anybody? read more »
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Lisa Barone had a great interview with Vanessa Fox. (Surprised it wasn't sphunn already!) Learn what Vanessa is currently up to, as well as her thoughts on "PageRank Sculpting" and more! read more »
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This is a great article about career moves and getting a solid start in the SEM arena. Anyone new to SEM or that has gone through/considered a career move should read this post in its entirety. read more »
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Lee Odden writes... It’s a near nightmare situation really. A client sends an email on Friday saying, "We’re launching a new web site on Monday, can you take a look at it to make sure our site optimization is ok?". read more »
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In part 1 of What SEO/SEM Professionals Should Know About Website Usability, usability experts Peter Morville and Susan Weinschenk answered the question, "What should SEO professionals know about usability?" For this installment, website usability g read more »
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Excellent and insightful outline of the behavioural habits that are important for making a success of blogging. read more »
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"If a web site falls in the search engine forest, would anyone hear it? If the web site belonged to Victoria’s Secret, it wouldn’t be missed by a shopper like my young adult daughter. She doesn’t need search engines to find Victoria’s Secret product read more »
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With all the talk about blogging and social media lately, you'd think there was nothing left to do in the world of search engine optimization. I'm guilty of tunnel vision myself. After all, social media is far more fun to talk about than title tags, read more »
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Virgin Money is the latest in a string of financial service providers to drop their affiliate marketing in the UK.

SEO and Bruce Clay also get a mention. read more »
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Short article on using PPC typo campaigns to optimize for organic rankings with lower competition. read more »
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Dazzlin' Donna explains how new SEOs evolve, in her typically witty manner. read more »
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Online Marketing Blog manages a list of over 500 search marketing blogs called the BIGLIST, but it’s not ordered other than alphabetically. A year ago I took a sample of SEO and SEM blogs that were publishing Feedburner counts and posted a list rank read more »
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Want to generate more business from your local market? You can build your business using these online marketing websites.

The advertising of the future is going online--and going local. This hot trend is growing rapidly and shows no signs of lett read more »
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Introduction to micro-blogging with Twitter and TwitBin. Instructions on installing and using TwitBin to update Twitter and read Friends' updates directly on Firefox without visiting the Twitter website. read more »
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Google employee says "Webmasters who rely heavily on bookmarking their own sites to gain traffic will likely see a drop in pagerank before the end of 2008, and we will be working closely with two major social bookmarking sites to find a solution tha read more »
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AOL has announced that it will acquire Bebo, the UK-based social media network, for £422 million in cash. Randy Falco, CEO of AOL, announced this in an email to all AOL employees on 13th March 2008. read more »
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The best way to write content that will go viral is to spend time Analyzing the Success of Others. Take some time out to analyze the types of posts that are going viral in your niche. read more »
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This how to covers the most important factors for image optimization for all relevant media. read more »
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