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Google Insights data showing how far behind Christmas is this year compared to last year. We're almost 15% down in the UK, and 19% down in the USA! read more »
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In an outrageous act of selfishness and greed the BBC has decided to stop giving real links to the websites featured in the “Related Internet Links” section on the right hand side of each news story. read more »
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Google have obviously been clamping down on paid links during the last year, but it now looks like they may also be taking a stance against blog reviews made in exchange for free gifts! read more »
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Hrmm... so what about all thos DNN, Joomla, TYPO3 rewrites i've written, do i have to change them back? read more »
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Few companies set out to do bad deeds, but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. When Josh McHugh profiled the young corporation in January 2003, it had one clear and concise rule: "Don't be evil." Ah well, times change. CEO read more »
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I stumbled across an interesting example of a site that is pulling in close to 500k visitors/month by gaming the system. Their technique, though not recommended, is explained in this article. read more »
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A common question often asked in online marketing is whether or not to continue using paid search if you’re already achieving top organic search rankings. Why would you pay for traffic when you’re already in position 1 or 2? There are in fact a numb read more »
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Rae Hoffman writes, "As you may have heard, Twitter recently decided to “nofollow” links left of the “bio” section of user profiles. The “web” link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, wh read more »
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I tested Google’s new browser nonetheless and even before I could find out “how much faster it is” I was put off by a whole list of concerns and annoyances.
Read the 10 most pressing ones: read more »
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Andy Beal writes, "A California resident is suing Google for trespassing. Apparently Google’s Street View driver ignored a "No Trespassing" sign, drove down a private road, and snapped photos of the resident’s house." read more »
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Todd Mintz writes, "How does one define “success” online in 2008? Tons of traffic? Tremendous revenue? An inbox full of customer leads?" read more »
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Recently, the PR firm of a very famous and lavishly wealthy public figure called me. One of his projects had gotten a lot of bad press. They asked how much it would cost to remove the negative information from Google. read more »
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Far far away in cyber space....the Jedi's (white hat SEOs) and Siths (black hat SEOs) are fighting for the best rankings in the mighty Googletrons results pages. In the first series of SEO Wars we see the mighty Darth CloakMaster (Fantomaster) take read more »
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So if you haven't seen this interview yet it is a must see. Check out what the average Jane thinks about Twitter, RSS, Blogs, and Logs. Let's just put it this way this blonde thinks that RSS is a disease!!! read more »
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I think still it is too Early to say anything about Cuil.com, Opening was really cool, still there are many points at which Cuil is lacking.

But if we are thinking about optimization then we should start working on it.... read more »
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Pierre has a great piece here about the people who are helping to build the street views you see in Google Maps, along with some funky pictures too! read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "Creating fake avatars as a way to boost your social media efforts - it's a topic I've tried my best to stay away from tackling. Mostly because I don't want a riot to break out on the blog. I'd rather those riots take place elsew read more »
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Matt Cutts has posted on Twitter today(http://twitter.com/mattcutts/statuses/866824220):
"Unsubscribing to seomoz for a bit. Read http://bit.ly/3ABPRk right after http://bit.ly/2ZbJjy . "Tree hugger SEO publicly bitching"? Sheesh."

The two artic read more »
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Do you broad or phrase match keywords in Adwords? By default, you can't see which terms Adwords uses to trigger your ads - it could be totally bogus keywords!

You need this hack to expose exact keyword referrals, or you'll spend too much on Adwor 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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Aaron Wall put together a nice tutorial on robots.txt including tools for creating and analyzing. read more »
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"Edward Lewis runs SEOConsultants.com, one of the more well known and trusted directories in the SEO space. When I first started learning SEO about 5 years back Edward sent me an email letting me know that something I wrote was incorrect. He was rig read more »
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The biggest list of SEO tools. Ever. read more »
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Video and Post from Li Evans on 5 Easy SEO tips to optimize a website, great quick reference for beginners. read more »
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This list is by no means exhaustive and there are hundreds of other factors that advanced SEO practioners will point to as having an effect on search engine placements. What you see here are simply the primary factors that should be taken into acco read more »
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