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Ok peeps.... I'd been hearing WAY too much about so called 'real time' search engines of late and thought I'd put a few musings together on it (and some rudimentary testing). If you'd care to leave some feedback on it - I'd be most appreciative as i read more »
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The more you structure your data, the easier you are to disintermediate. BUT, the less search referred traffic you get in this search-engine-controlled marketplace, the less likely you are to survive. Sensing the icy cold sting of the double-edged s read more »
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There are a lot of parallels between Google AdWords and SEO, and a lot of the beginner mistakes are the same for both traffic acquisition strategies. I figured it would be worth outlining some of the most common ones to help save you money on your s read more »
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Brian Carter is one of those people who grows on you until one evening you sit typing the intro to an interview and you realize you can't even pinpoint the moment you got to know him; he's just always been there. read more »
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Brian Carter shares his 6 spheres of SMM diagram, which he says "gives you a map of how to get prospects to take action no matter where they're at, and no matter what Internet marketing channel you use." read more »
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Now Google has made it clear that PageRank sculpting no longer works, and I personally suspect it never did. But if you are still concerned with PageRank from your home page (PR from your entire site) being funneled into pages that will never rank read more »
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The numbers are in- both Statcounter and ComScore show Microsoft’s Bing search engine, launched two weeks ago, chipping away at the solid hold Google has long maintained on search engine traffic. Within a week after it launched, Bing had jumped Yah read more »
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Google now say PageRank Sculpting and the use of the NoFollow tag on hyperlinks is ineffective. SEO clients have paid to have such work done. Should they get discounts? read more »
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Great article and resources highlighted by Garrett French. Know your enemy and know them well, only them will you truly be able to outlink, outlast and outplay the opposition. read more »
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via Small Business SEM - SNIP - But what about the cost of small business SEO? What should a small business expect to pay when hiring an SEO consultant? Here are five points that I hope will help small business owners understand more about SEO, pric read more »
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Strategic link building means having an understanding of audience, tactics and measurement as well as how links can be achieved anciallary to other marketing activities. Many of the most successful sites (at link acquisition) don’t ask for links at read more »
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Andy Beard takes a look at FeedBurner's change to now include tracking of FriendFeed subscriber data. read more »
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Ruud Hein writes, "A lot, an awful lot, has been said about The No Follow Issue but one thing I miss so far is Trust. With what feels like sleight of hand, Google has done away with a huge chunk of Trust in the relation it is trying to build between read more »
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What I can’t stand is when a search engine tries to tell me how I’ve to link (out).

Dear Googlers, please –WRT to the implementation of hyperlinks– leave us webmasters alone, dump the rel-nofollow crap and rank our stuff in the best interest of y read more »
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I [Ann Smarty] have shared a few tools to combine Google and Twitter search. Now it is quite natural that some people would want to add Twitter search to Bing: read more »
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Jordan Kasteler covers the possibilities with Google's Social Media PageRank and the variables in InfluenceRank. read more »
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About 2 weeks ago Danny Sullivan highlighted that Google follows Javascript links, and that sculpting PageRank using rel=nofollow no longer works. Matt Cutts shared that second bit to the shock and awe of the SEO industry at the recent SMX conferenc read more »
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(SNIP) I’ve read some of the reviews on Bing and the comparisons to the other engines too. It seems that Bing is actually being well received by the general public and the SEO people as well. I like Bing, I like Google as well, and I like Yahoo! too read more »
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So what happens when you have a page with “ten PageRank points” and ten outgoing links, and five of those links are nofollowed? Let’s leave aside the decay factor to focus on the core part of the question. Originally, the five links without nofollow read more »
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No, we don’t have it out for Walmart just like to shop there online! So of course, keeping up with SEO I just happened to stumble across something today. I was looking at deals on the iPod Touch and found some interesting stuff. Checkout these scree read more »
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Good article by Julie Joyce detailing how using long-tail keywords can "jazz up your link building" efforts with new links and targeted traffic. read more »
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While bloggers strive to get traffic from search engines, other blogs and the top social media sites; it's hard to deny that a lot of the best quality traffic out there still comes via search. And, if you want to increase your search engine traffic, read more »
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We all know by this time about the benefits of converting your parameterized URLs to human- and crawler-friendly URLs, but the stock tools of the trade don't necessarily scale all that well when you have a large number of categories, product pages, read more »
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There is no single definition of advanced SEO. There are a few of attempts to describe what it might mean or consist of and what not but there is no entity or authority that could define such a broad term like advanced SEO. I can’t define advanced S read more »
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The SEO community is buzzing about how Matt Cutts sat up and openly stated that "Google profiles SEOs like common criminals." Even though what Matt actually said was rather mild and nothing we haven't heard before, there's a couple good lessons here read more »
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