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Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and B read more »
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According to Google themselves, their goal is to hire people who are "as passionate about their lives as they are about their work" - so why is it that a company that's concerned about the quality of their employees can’t seem find anyone decent for read more »
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Could this be it? If you’re on top of the tech news, you know that Digg has been on sale for over 6 months now - actively looking for buyers to take on the social media monster.

In the latest round of rumors, Google is set to buy up Digg for $200 read more »
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Though I don't always agree with what GrayWolf writes, I find Michael very entertaining most of the time. Therefor this Sphinn :-)

"To those organizers I challenge them to look in the mirror and realize that you’ve now become the same evil and se read more »
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For a small business, time isn’t just money – it is something that’s always in short supply. That’s why smart marketers make it a priority to get maximum results out of their marketing efforts every day. You’ve got to make sure you’re paying attenti read more »
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This is some SHADY stuff. Apparently a ton of the .ME domains were purchased months ago. read more »
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Google continues testing to change its search interface and it seems to be more like Digg with comments too. read more »
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The link building challenge of big brands isn’t in obtaining new links, but in using the strength of these links optimally. Converting link juice isn’t very hard, but certainly worth the effort. read more »
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Lisa Barone offers up some tips about things you should take into consideration when choosing a domain name for a long term, quality website. read more »
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Maki writes, "So what do you do? One method that works is just to use references to heighten content relevance and styling your articles in a catchy format that is easily accessible. What this template looks like will of course, depend on the specif read more »
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Jane Copland writes, "Reputation management problems are delicate enough when a company or an individual discovers negative press in search results for its name or common keywords. The situation becomes even worse when undesirable results are not th read more »
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A brilliant post contradicting Aaron Wall's piece "Why Traditional SEO Consulting usually sucks." read more »
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A Yahoo patent application was published last week which looks more deeply into how the search engine would follow directions not to recall sections of pages pursuant to robots-nonindex tags. read more »
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Our findings show that, in general, lots of mainstream sites are very good at linking out and that there is a direct correlation between the number of links they give and the number of links they receive. read more »
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Kate Morris and Lisa Barone write "Idea so stolen from On365’s 21 Signs a Geek Girl Likes You. This is coming from a couple of the apparently few single SEOs. As I’ve said before, almost all SEOs are married! I realized this while stalking people be read more »
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Do you know who to promote your affiliate programs? Learn how to do it right, it's easy! This way, you will improve your earnings through them. read more »
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DazzlinDonna writes "This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next cou read more »
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"Funnily enough, the principles that lead to success in the bedroom are strikingly similar to those that permeate successful permission marketing. Weird…" read more »
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A strange new bug in the search feature of the Yahoo Directory seems to be showing sites either hosted or extensively cross-linked with the site you are searching for. read more »
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worth reading for SEM people read more »
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Marketers who treat their audience as they would a partner are far more likely to succeed. Just because you’re hiding behind a computer screen, doesn’t mean you can abandon the principles of human relations and interaction. If you’re struggling to g read more »
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A few days ago, I wrote about the power of the word “New” to get our attention - if there’s a more potent attractor out there, it’s almost certainly “FREE!” For years, advertising gurus have listed “free” on every compilation of powerful headline wo read more »
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One of the often overlooked benefits of PPC marketing is the conversion data from the different sources the networks use to expand into different marketing channels. read more »
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Individuality online is not easily classed as black or white its about being the many shades of you.

Being, bold enough to stand-out may make you seem like a figure of controversy but is instigating a deeper understanding of a written work by ask read more »
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This is pretty funny, "ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ" read more »
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