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Interesting post by Kooshy showing how (with a little outage) the big boys in SEO buy links....and get away with it of course. Required reading. read more »
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How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for "loans", "credit cards" and "mortgages" 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it? read more »
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Andrew gives a great insight into lies and propaganda spread by Google to make the SEO community play by their rules. Great look at Google's shortcomings and how they try and cover them up. read more »
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So I went to the SEO Toolbox session yesterday at PubCon thinking there has gotta be some tools I haven't found. Sure enough there were a few, but not as many as I expected. So it got me thinking maybe everyone else would like links to all of the to read more »
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Google is now show that its getting smarter- check out how it finds redirect links and clickbank links- this is breaking news as far as I know..... read more »
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While over at the Facebook Search Engine Optimization Group we do not have any light bulbs, sorry, this week the group surpassed the 1,000 member mark and the community continues to grow. If you have not visited become a part of the unbridled expans read more »
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We came up with several domain name options for our new company and surprisingly, Promote-My-Site.com was available. So we grabbed it. But no Google love after a month. We took a look at the wayback machine and we found that this was pretty much a read more »
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It typically takes a lot of time and even more hard work to increase a website's PageRank from 0 to a higher number, but Internet Hunger was able to go from a PageRank of 0 to a PageRank of 4 in just four months.

How did I do it?

I'm going to read more »
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The growth in social media is paramount. With Facebook reportedly gaining a quarter of a million new users everyday, it got me thinking perhaps we are approaching the next online age, an age which could see Google lose it’s control of the internet a read more »
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With Facebook an advertisers wet dream, and with new avenues appearing to advertise your wares, is the walled garden of Facebook falling around us, and while we all cram into this new advertising arena will we still have a captured audience? read more »
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Pandemic Labs discusses the functionality of the Flock web browser and its implications for the social media, viral marketing, and viral advertising industries. read more »
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Skellie put together a nice list of resources from which to draw inspiration for your next blog post.

From the post:
There are no new ideas. The essence of creativity is taking two or more existing ideas and combining them in ways that have neve read more »
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5 Reasons that you should submit to social bookmarking sites manually and 5 ways to speed up the process if you are in a time crunch. read more »
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Just who uses social media sites and what type are you? Are you The O.G? The Hater? Or one of the other 23 social media types? read more »
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