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When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm] read more »
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At times what’s best for the user doesn’t always seem to be what’s best for the search engine and vice versa so compromises have to be made. I’ve gone over here some of the most common flash points between usability and SEO best practice I see. read more »
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Shimon Sandler asks, "Is it possible not to touch the code of a site and still optimize it?" The answer is yes and he explains why. read more »
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You have spent all that time making your web site look great, but are you actually accomplishing business goals? Optimize your landing pages for conversion. read more »
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Adobe has today announced a new plugin that will allow Google and Yahoo to start indexing Flash content and help them make sense of the millions of Flash documents out there. 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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There's a right and wrong way to include SEO in your internet marketing mix. Throwing it in as an afterthought after your shiny new site launches is the wrong way. Here's the perfect SEO workflow. read more »
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Whether it’s for business or personal use, it’s fantastic to benefit from the best in Twitter technology. Here are my Top 10 ways for making your Twitter life easier. read more »
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Here Ann listed 4 tools to find your competitors keywords ranking read more »
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Vanessa Fox via Search Engine Land - Today, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have come together to post details of how each of them support robots.txt and the robots meta tag. While their posts use terms like "collaboration" and "working together", the read more »
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Google's Mayle Ohye made a short glossary of some of the more unusual Googlebot related webserving techniques. read more »
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Well, the issue of whether or not search marketers report their competition to Google if their competitors are practicing gray or blackhat tactics has shed a new light on the issue, or on the difference between some SEO blogs and our audiences. read more »
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Adam Audette explains the concepts of designing optimized site architectures for efficient spidering by search engines. read more »
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Interesting look at some of the bloated pricing models that some "SEO Experts" still try to pawn off others. read more »
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Wow. Now that's a turn of events. Wonder how long before they go after Yahoo again? read more »
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The following email was sent to all Microsoft employees from CEO Steve Ballmer at 5:17 pm PST read more »
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Here we go again. SEO guidelines or advice that sucks, is not true or is just poop on a page being published on a big popular website. read more »
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The difference between www. or no www. Simple little thing causes duplicates in your search engine rankings. The code to fix it. read more »
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Explains why (and when) we see sitelinks at #60, what the penalty is likely to be resulting from, and what it may mean for the future of that site. Definitely worth keeping this information tucked away in the brain for possible future needs. read more »
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The latest piece of Yahoo software to be revealed is Yahoo BrowserPlus, which may be the company’s answer to Google’s Gears project. read more »
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Mike Tighe has a great list of Twitterers who are also active Sphinners. Add your name to the list! read more »
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"I have been thinking about this for a while. There are so many new SEOs getting into the game and unfortunately many of them are clueless wanna-be’s. How are we to distinguish between these posers and the “Real” deal?" read more »
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Yahoo is looking to turn over Web search advertising to Google following a successful test using Google's service to deliver ads alongside its Web search results, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. read more »
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Guest post by Eric Enge over on SEOmoz that covers using Google Ajax APIs as a way to bring dynamic content to a page through feed and search scripts. read more »
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So Google have launched the latest of their indexing features - form content, this article discusses the implications of such searching and the possible work around's that could be implemented/developed by Google. read more »
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