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Search Engine Land - Each of us must ultimately decide what we are and aren't willing to do for our clients and content. Links may not be life and death most of the time, but for some of the people, some of the time, they can feel that way. If I was read more »
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Clickbooth has been a bit lawyer-happy lately. In response to online criticism, and in an attempt to salvage reputation, they've been passing out cease and desist orders like candy. This details the whole drama, what they [allegedly] did, and how th read more »
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How does a search engine sort its index and why is a temporary or supplemental index a necessary part of the equation?

Rudd's How Search Really Works Series. read more »
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How to avoid manual reviews by Google read more »
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I think this stinks. I have been hoping Ask could build it's search into a competitive engine. Their interface was nice but we all know that's not enough. I'm surprised they didn't stick it out longer. read more »
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Google groups nofollow all links in a post which would make you wonder, “why would someone go to so much effort to bother spamming the groups?”

The answer is: Because it works. Well. Very well. read more »
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... and I hate submissions about Twitter too! (the irony...)

But I give up Twitter, you win. There's just so much buzz about this product and even though I already tried it and I hate hearing about it. I'm trying it again for real this time.
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Bryan Eisenberg has a fantastic post about how to prioritize your optimization efforts, or those of a client. The progressive levels of the hierarchy are Functional, Accessible, Usable, Intuitive, Persuasive.

Great great post! read more »
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It's true, Universal Search is pushing organic results down or off the page. We all must adapt. However, "As long as there are search engines, there will be some kind of optimization for improving search engine visibility." (Lee Odden) read more »
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In the grand tradition of Slashdot and Digg, Mybloglog takes down Twitter today! :D read more »
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This entry covers why there is such a sudden surge in negative SEO, how it's done (filtering out details), and what few things you can do to protect against it.
All information was retrieved from my own test results(using my OWN domains as targets) read more »
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Some hints and pitfalls about general SEO read more »
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"In other words, among the daily deluge of millions of news items, stories, announcements, press releases etc., that scream at all of us, there are a couple, and just a couple, that indicate or lead to a real linking opportunity or a strategy idea." read more »
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From Sméagol to Gandalf the Grey, which LORT character are YOU???
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As of April 1, Google will be making significant changes to their enforcement of display URL policies. The “Policy Team” has taken a stricter stance on the relationship between display URLs and destination URLs — and they will be allowing few except read more »
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Michael Martinez explains how most of what you’ll read on the Web — particularly from SEO bloggers — concerning link analysis is time-wasting nonsense.

Luckily, he goes on to provides some very useful insights into how to do link analysis properl read more »
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This guy says the new beta version of the Google toolbar is hijacking the 404 pages of "regular websites" - anyone else experiencing this? read more »
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Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard appro read more »
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