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After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. read more »
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"More than 300 are found at Google.com in the Google Docs Template Gallery, launched this past week and covering everything from project management schedules and travel expense reports to gas mileage calculators. The templates are accessible from an read more »
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Search Friendly Development Maile Ohye (Google) Learn techniques to help bring your site more users through search engine traffic. This session focuses on how to maximize your site, your content, and your application's exposure to search engines. We read more »
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BOTW published a blog post that detailed some of the changes that have been made to their Local section. I found some of the info useful and thought you might as well.. read more »
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Interesting look at PPC that uses others trademarks read more »
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Today I am adding a few tips on promoting your online profiles and organizing your reputation management campaign. read more »
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Welcome to the Grudge Match that is Wigix vs eBay. The battle begins and the Wigix vs eBay blog will have commentary, blow by blow action, round winners, and continue to follow each website (and their competitors) to see who reigns supreme. read more »
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alleged positive and negative on- & off-Page SEO Google Ranking Factors in an overview read more »
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Many do not seem to understand the full scope of what is playing out with Digg and Google and why Digg is so valuable. This article should pull it all together for you. read more »
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While many people think that Digg has an irrational vendetta against these SEOs and SEO sites, it's not entirely irrational. Here's a video that shows why it happens. read more »
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Lifehacker's bi-monthly "Getting To Done" column covers SEO on how and why it's important in the web publishing arena. read more »
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List posts often work to make you popular, but here's why I still don't like them. read more »
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Sometimes the most relevant and most popular page on the Web isn’t the best response to a query submitted at a search engine. Sometimes the best page to return to a searcher is the one most appropriate to their informational need.

How well can a read more »
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There are a few different ways that misinformation occurs. The problem is that the internet amplifies each of these errors to dangerous proportions. read more »
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Every so often I visit new blogs most Internet Marketing related and do you know what I see on each one? Awesome link building techniques, so I get all excited thinking that I am going to read something that is new, innovative. So the page loads up read more »
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This is a guest post by Brandy Eddings. She is one of the brightest young minds in paid search and SEM. The is the owner of New Edge Media, an SEM company based in Texas. She is also speaking at Scary SEO in October. read more »
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Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The read more »
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In the first part of this series about B2B SEO, we spoke about an online strategy for B2B websites. We named some differences between B2B and B2C websites. We also determined the kind of content a B2B website needs. This article dives deeper into th read more »
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Should a local business setup a Merchant Circle account to network locally with other businesses? How can it effect search results and promote your primary site? Read on to find out. read more »
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If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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BLVD Status is an analytics program that has a LIVE dashboard similar to something you would see in Have-a-Mint but with really robust information like conversions, search engine rankings, outgoing link information and many more data points. BLVD St read more »
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The #1 ranking page on Google and Yahoo for a killer local real estate query happens to be a domain for sale. [sarcasm]Nice job, search engines. That's good for users.[/sarcasm] read more »
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ShoeMoney says - "There was a post on the digital point forums from a newbie poster saying he had just purchased a list containing all attendees of the Affiliate Summit."

"I followed the link and downloaded the list… it contained names and home read more »
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Ann Smarty writes, "In my previous post on the topic I summarized the theories behind Google Sitelinks. Now I would like to look into and also to ask for your experience on what’s the real benefit from them. Many webmasters are eager to get them but read more »
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Just jotted down some thoughts after three years working at Microsoft...... read more »
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