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From Rand Fishkin: "Every SEO has their strong points and their weak ones. For me, subjects like content creation and keyword research have always come naturally, but others like methodically using analytics data to improve and running manual link b read more »
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It shouldn’t be the be all and end all of Twitter, but lots of people are focused on getting as many people to follow them as possible.

Personally I would rather have a few people really interested in what I have to share than thousands who are j read more »
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Plagued by service outages, the microblogging site is rebuilding its infrastructure. read more »
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Forget the screen shots and video, give Google's latest experiment a sphinn! read more »
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A discussion about the possible future of Twitter and ads. Does Twitter bring in enough revenue to survive? Would a subscription fee drive you to another microblog service? read more »
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Twitter is an amazing web property to can help build your business. Learn how to quickly and effectively build business relationships using 'twitter search'. read more »
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Stoney deGeyter writes, "Moving your site to a new domain is remarkably similar to moving to a new physical address. One of the primary areas of concern is making sure the search engines not only continue to deliver traffic to your new location, but read more »
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Like any good marketing strategy, SEO needs to have a solid foundation and that foundation is keyword research. If one is going to optimize the pages of their web sites to improve visibility for certain keyword phrases, they have to have a good unde read more »
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A nice article by Mike Grehen. His take on the 3 ghosts of SEO (past, present, future). Nicely written. He also started a thread on the Search Engine Watch forum. read more »
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I got an excellent 'bring back old customers' email, you should see it. When you try to bring back old customers, you can’t just tell them ‘come back’. You must give them something in return. And this guy, he didn’t even say 'come back', he just ask read more »
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How Yahoo is slowly but surely killing its income, and going the way of Looksmart. read more »
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Jeff Quipp writes, "Ever wanted to become a power Digger? Come on now … sure you have. Here’s how to start." read more »
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(Danny Sullivan post) If Microsoft's Yahoo walkaway is a ploy to save $5 billion, CEO Steve Ballmer may have proven himself pennywise & pound foolish. He was prepared to spend billions to make Microsoft a serious Google rival but may have destroyed read more »
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Stoney deGeyter writes, "Like a sound site architecture and directory structure, product categorization can play a significant role in how both search engines and users are able to access your products. There are two important things to consider whe read more »
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Lee Odden writes... It’s a near nightmare situation really. A client sends an email on Friday saying, "We’re launching a new web site on Monday, can you take a look at it to make sure our site optimization is ok?". read more »
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Rhea Drysdale - Search Engine Journal - We’ll let “Jason’s” actions speak for themselves and we ask that you draw your own conclusions based on the evidence before us. If Jason Gambert has such noble aspirations for the search community, why then is read more »
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SEORipOff.com - a complaint site where companies who have been ‘ripped off’ by an SEO firm can blast the company they contracted. So what are your views on SEORipOff.com and how do you feel niche service review or complaints sites fit in the busines read more »
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The best way to demonstrate the usefulness or power of Twitter is to show real examples. I started this experiment at approximately 5:20 PM EST on Monday afternoon. Within 1 hour, I had over 80 different replies that answered all of my questions and read more »
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Cornwall SEO - We are not here to write a great novel or give Tolstoy a run for his money. We are here to attract peoples attention and somehow get them to do stuff. In my case with the old linkbait, it’s getting them to give up a link, someone poke read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes, "The first ever Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference has come and gone and I've had a full week to unwind and decompress. When we first announced our conference last fall, I had more than one person drop me an email read more »
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Google is one of the Internet's darlings, universally loved by just about everyone. Everyone, that is, but webmasters who've had their domain networks wiped from Google's results. Some sites deserve it and some don't, but the bottom line is that a G read more »
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Rumors have been swirling that Search Engine Strategies has banned certain members of the search community and will be retooling their programming for upcoming shows.

Check out Daron Babin's interview with Kevin Ryan that explains everything. read more »
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The formulas used in Search Engine Marketing (SEM) are not always easy to understand and there is quite a bit of jargon, which is common to many niche industries. read more »
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Kristen M. invited me to write about being a Social Media Dad on her "Social Media Mom" blog. In the article, I wonder how young is too young for a child to start blogging....would love to hear your thoughts! read more »
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Good info but if I have no sitelinks in the first place, and I have a 60+ result, then you do not have the -60 penalized detector and you will have to figure everything else yourself.

I suggest trace this story to the GoogleGroups threads to get read more »
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