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Twitter have released their most detailed list yet on what they consider spam. Commercial or promotional Twitter users take note, these activities can get your account suspended or banned. read more »
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Last week at SES, I sat in on the Black Hat, White Hat session. The panelists gave their definitions of “white hat” and “black hat”, and then talked about particular techniques, such as paid links, and whether they thought they were OK or not. The p read more »
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Tad Chef writes "How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer traffic have gone the way of “hits”: All these older metrics become more and more meaningless in the current web environment.

Why measure ranking when they d read more »
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A recent controversy at a Seattle college student newspaper highlights the role Google plays in access to information. Does adding robots.txt to a page by request from a higher authority constitute censorship? read more »
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Tweet Pro allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by allowing you to search through posted messages and profile information. Using this software you can be following people all over the world who share your s read more »
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Great post from Jill Whalen, looking at six common SEO issues which effect a website's performance. read more »
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Twitter has always been looking for better ways to combat spammers and it appears they have recently... read more »
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Google Page Creator's rich text editor is now included in many other Google services, but Google decided to focus on the more powerful Google Sites. read more »
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All three engines have been using a variation of link analysis to determine what's relevant and what gets ranked into their databases. But the news of the week has been Microsoft's research into BrowseRank -- analysis that includes time spent at a s read more »
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Rand pits Cuil against today's leading search engines to determine which, overall, is the best. The results weren't as predictable as he'd thought they would be. read more »
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ok, so a pretty rainbow, why is this post relevant? someone made a graphic? read more »
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SearchCloud, a new search engine that launched on July 17, has a new take on search refinement that it hopes will make it a useful alternative to the likes of Yahoo and Google. Instead of simply entering multiple keywords, users can rank how importa read more »
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SEOs look at the source code of almost every page - I do even when I am not analyzing the page and just browsing. That’s quite natural, I’ve been looking for tools that can represent the information in a better way or allow for more valuable options read more »
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Many people believe a catchy blog post title is the way to go, some think a search engine friendly article title is - which is best? I think it ’s a combination of both. (note that I repeated the blog title in the previous sentence - you should do t 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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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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But as Google gets better at personal relevance through everything it knows about us — and it knows more and more — then your search for wine may be different from mine and there is no absolute value for placement in results and Googlejuice, no? read more »
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A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
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| Collective Thoughts | Today, we’re going to have a little fun with it. We’re going to take the web 1.0 metric of time on site and go a little more touchy feely with it for a web 2.0 world. Trust me, this will be fun. Here is a list of my top 10 fa read more »
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U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, came out with a statement this evening on the Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) deal: “We will closely examine the joint venture between Google and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) announced to read more »
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Aaron's take on the whole "We swear, this deal with Yahoo won't allow us to raise prices for advertisers" comment to the DOJ.
Typically cynical, but typically a great read :)

SEObook: "Aspects of that statement are categorically untrue, perhaps read more »
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Somebody created ten fake Facebook profiles of varying descriptions, built them up to 200 friends each, and is now selling them on eBay to anyone who cares to take them over for undercover marketing purposes. Yet another reason to make friends in re read more »
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Well, it was a little later than we expected, but Yahoo has announced a non-exclusive deal with Google around search and search advertising... read more »
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1 Don't do any harm and engage in aggressive techniques. You don't want to hurt their brand... read more »
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QuadsZilla joins the fray over white hat/black hat and SMX Advanced. read more »
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