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If you are an run an online ecommerce program, it's very likely that you have come up against the coupon ...
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One of the recurring themes I've been seeing in the past few months, comes from web publishers trying to confirm ...
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In over a decade of working on websites I've see a lot of affiliate websites. Some were good but a ...
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This post is part of a series on How to Silo Your Website. The other parts in the series are: ...
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The following post is part of a series on How to Silo Your Website. You should review, How to Silo ...
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Who are you writing your blog posts for ... people or search engines? Depending on your intended audience your posts ...
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The following is part of the series How To Silo Your Website. Be sure you have read parts one and ...
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Recently there was a big kerfuffle over Bing copying Google results, Bing denying it, the Google FUD machine in full ...
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A few weeks ago @etnainteractive asked me a question on twitter about HCards and Microformats, and do they matter for ...
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While I'm well known for being critical of many of the things Google does, I'm also a power user of ...
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Recently Slots.com sold for 5.5 million dollars, when the general public looks at a domain sale of six to seven ...
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Many of the poorly ranking websites that I am asked to fix share a common problem - they do not ...
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One of the more powerful tools an SEO can use when setting up or fixing an existing website is siloing ...
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So you've been blogging for a while, your getting some links, traffic is growing, but your blog isn't making any ...
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When you're running a blog with affiliate links, one of the key factors that can increase your conversions, help you ...
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The following is part of a series on image optimization. In this post, we’re going to be talking about images ...
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Whenever you're at a conference and you speak to a Google Engineer about link building, they will almost always default ...
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If I had the ability to reach through the screen, grab you by the shoulders, look you in the eye, ...
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Once you have gotten past the hurdle of getting followers on Twitter, chances are good that you will want to ...
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Social Media still scares many businesses both large and small. But hiding from social media isn't the answer. The real ...
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Recently there has been a lot of talk about Facebook versus Twitter and which is more valuable to web publishers ...
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Google recently announced they will start to pre-render pages in Chrome to "improve the user experience." IMHO this represents nothing ...
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When twitter lists first came out and I commented about how awesome they are, I also warned they had the ...
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One of the most difficult conversations I have with new or perspective clients is about Linkbait and content marketing and ...
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While Google has taken action against content farms, from a strategic perspective I still think there are lessons that every ...
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Anyone over the age of 30 who spends any amount of time online has to be aware of the gradual ...
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In recent weeks Google has been launching a higher than usual amount of new products. Many will say they are ...
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Tips on how to build a successful niche website, that is easy to run and doesn't require much maintenance ...
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As someone who has been involved in the search industry for over a decade, one of the things that really ...
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I recently came across an article in paper magazine by Jaron Lanier which helped me discover his new book "You ...
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For a moment, I'd like you to think back to high school. Remember how there was always that one kid ...
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I've mentioned incorporating living URL's into your SEO strategy before.  Now that I have been experimenting with them for a ...
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When you run an online ecommerce store with a shopping cart, it's quite easy for your architecture and URL's to ...
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Is having a high exit rate bad? In pursuit determining whether Google is using analytics data to ranks SERPS, many ...
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If there is one thing Google is good at, it's framing themselves and their actions as being "good for the ...
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One of my constant criticisms of bloggers and the blogosphere in general is the sacrifice of keyword focus and the ...
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When your blog or website becomes successful and starts to get traffic, if you don't make direct sales yourself or ...
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At SMX one of the more contentious subjects was the debate over Google's Android Phone giveaway, and demonstration that they ...
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Now that twitter lists have been rolled out just about everyone, I'm going to actually agree with Robert Scoble and ...
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As some of you may know I live on the south shore of Long Island, and this was one of ...
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I’ve been doing SEO for a few years, with specific focus on social media and ways businesses can find their ...
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The following is a review of Shoeboxed.com, a receipt scanning and business card scanning service ...
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At the SMX Advanced Conference in June of 2014, Danny Sullivan had a Question and Answer session with Matt Cutts ...
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When I talk with people who aren't involved with internet marketing about Google, I'm surprised by the amount of trust ...
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Most of the the tutorials on the web dealing with growing your Twitter followers, don't pay any attention to location, ...
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Generally speaking, Using Microsites is a bad idea. However, Using Microsites is a good idea is when you are conducting ...
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He're's a little secret, I've slowly and steadily been unsubscribing from SEO blogs for the past few months, and last ...
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Last week Google announced a new addition to the search engine results page: the +1 button. While there was a ...
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Earlier this week Google launched the latest iteration of the SERP's, Google Instant. While I, like everyone else, had fun ...
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In the past I've spoken about why I turned off blog comments, but it was mostly from a time/labor perspective ...
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Last week Danny Sullivan twittered he was looking for a creative commons image to use. Christine Churchill poked a little ...
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So What the heck is feedproxy.google.com why is it out there, what's it being used for, why is google letting ...
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in this mornings post I chastised Google for giving straight links to partners, However now I've found a whole bunch ...
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I'll admit that when I first saw the new adwords quality score I thought they were crazy, they'll have to ...
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Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next ...
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I'm mentioned in a Forbes article about Google along with Aaron Wall and Jim Boykin ...
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When I see things like this I have to admit I'm fascinated about the inner workings of the Google Borg ...
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First off let me say Google's constantly updating non synchronized data centers are actually becoming quite annoying. Big Daddy data ...
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While I'm well known for being critical of many of the things Google does, I'm also a power user of ...
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I was a little busy last week and didn't have time to respond to this, but don't worry the Google ...
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Dear Matt Cutts, I know you and I don't always see eye to eye on everything, but I think we've ...
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Sometimes the ads in GMail crack me up ...
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Oh apostrophe you give and then you take away (and suggest) ...
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With the impending arrival of Google OS I've been spending more time in Google Chrome, and figuring out how to ...
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So I'm bidding on a keyword where I'm the only person running an ad. It's getting between 1,000 and 1,500 ...
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So if the word "the" is a stop word an generally speaking just ignored, why does the search for [the ...
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It's barely audible but Matt Cutts calls me a kitten ...
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One of the things that I admire about the Google algo is it's ability to "learn" and "adapt" based on ...
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If I'm looking for [private jet long island] chances are I don't want to see craigslist crap nor do I ...
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Google recently announced they will start to pre-render pages in Chrome to "improve the user experience." IMHO this represents nothing ...
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If you needed any further evidence that Google is ramming personal search and Google accounts down your throat for their ...
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In recent weeks Google has been launching a higher than usual amount of new products. Many will say they are ...
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I know Google's been trying to get more involved in the social game, but here are a few suggestions on ...
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I was looking for something on Google Video today, and looking at the most recommended videos I see some personalization ...
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As someone who has been involved in the search industry for over a decade, one of the things that really ...
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Recently Google announced how their flu tracking system worked using data from Google trends. While I appluad Google for thier ...
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While some people realized affiliate marketing has has slowly been changing for some time now many others missed the memo, ...
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Over the years chances are you've seen stories about Google Maps or similar services sending people off course, sometimes by ...
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So one of the more interesting panels at Pubcon was the organic site review with panelists, Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, ...
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Last week there was a bit of a brouhaha over Google news incorrectly giving the wrong date for a news ...
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For a moment, I'd like you to think back to high school. Remember how there was always that one kid ...
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Hey Matt if you said this: Users don't want to see results sorted by who has the biggest pocketbook. Then ...
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Recently I've been laying the groundwork for some future SEO projects doing some site migrations onto content management systems, showing ...
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One of the things toolbars and personalized search will do is reduce algo busting to the equivalent of speaking Latin ...
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Is having a high exit rate bad? In pursuit determining whether Google is using analytics data to ranks SERPS, many ...
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I've never seen this before a code snippet as part of a Google Universal Search Result ...
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If there is one thing Google is good at, it's framing themselves and their actions as being "good for the ...
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This is the way things work in the real world this is the way things would work if Google ran ...
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I’m not exactly sure what caused all this secondary fuss about no-follow and reviews lately but I think it’s time ...
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So during the Matt Cutts in Hotseat presentation at Pubcon Brett gave me the mic to ask a question (heh ...
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At SMX one of the more contentious subjects was the debate over Google's Android Phone giveaway, and demonstration that they ...
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So I logged into Google Analytics this morning and I get the following message ...
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Not sure what's causing it but I've never seen site links formatting go funny like that ...
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In recent years due to developers misguided attempts to make the web a more interesting place with things like JavaScript ...
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Have a Gmail account? Log in unless you've set your preference otherwise you'll get the AJAX UI. Now change your ...
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In part I AdSense Arbitrage: Tips, Tricks & Secrets we went over the basics of how AdSense arbitrage works. In ...
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I was reading Google's guide to SEO (pdf) , and it's actually pretty good from a website or business owner ...
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At the SMX Advanced Conference in June of 2014, Danny Sullivan had a Question and Answer session with Matt Cutts ...
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If you've been following any of the Google Jagger update threads on any of the search engine forums some of ...
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This post is a follow up to is my website banned in Google. Looking at the screen shot below you ...
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One of the recurring themes I've been seeing in the past few months, comes from web publishers trying to confirm ...
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This post is part of a series on How to Silo Your Website. The other parts in the series are: ...
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The following post is part of a series on How to Silo Your Website. You should review, How to Silo ...
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Who are you writing your blog posts for ... people or search engines? Depending on your intended audience your posts ...
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The following is part of the series How To Silo Your Website. Be sure you have read parts one and ...
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Recently there was a big kerfuffle over Bing copying Google results, Bing denying it, the Google FUD machine in full ...
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Seems the guys at Googleplex may need to reload if they keep shooting themselves in the foot like this. Check ...
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In recent weeks I've noticed a disturbing new trend in Google SERP's: Google has become much more aggressive at trying ...
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Perhaps you've heard of the play or seen the movie Six Degrees of Separation. One of the elements of the ...
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A few weeks ago @etnainteractive asked me a question on twitter about HCards and Microformats, and do they matter for ...
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First off let me say Google's constantly updating non synchronized data centers are actually becoming quite annoying. Big Daddy data ...
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Lodefizzle this is a zugzwang post so avert your eyes nothing to see. Trying to find the meaning of life ...
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The idea of evergreen content is that it is essentially unchanging, intended to last "a long time,"and have little or ...
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Many of the poorly ranking websites that I am asked to fix share a common problem - they do not ...
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One of the more powerful tools an SEO can use when setting up or fixing an existing website is siloing ...
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I got a tip that our friend Dave Pasternack has taken to spamming MyBloglog now. Pretty nice, one community is ...
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Today's post is answer to a question from Curedream: Is there really any value in getting links from the Yahoo ...
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While wordpress is one of my favorite CMS platforms, out of the box it isn't search engine optimized. Combine this ...
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Jeff Libert, CEO, DirectoryCompany.com Ted Ulle, Partner, The MEWS Group George Kepnick, Co-Founder, DottedOnline.com First up George Kepnick, what is ...
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Let's have some fun with anchor text part II monstigaligation click here click here monstigaligation ...
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While linkbait posts aren't as popular as they once were, top 10 lists have been popular ever since Moses came ...
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So now that more and more companies are getting involved in one form or another of search marketing, chances are ...
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The following is part of a series on image optimization. In this post, we’re going to be talking about images ...
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Article marketing has been one of the foundations of link building ever since I got started in SEO. However, since ...
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In my early days I played a bit more in the darker side of the game. I fully admit that ...
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Lee Oden from Online Marketing Blog got an interview with my buddy Todd (aka Stuntdubl) that's well worth the read ...
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The SEO space is a buzz with "SEO is/isn't Rocket Science" and "SEO is/isn't like Baking a Cake" and every ...
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While UGC and Reviews can often be a mixed blessing, as long as Google continues to reward rich snippets with ...
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One of the more common questions I get asked is is it better to have one big site or a ...
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I have mentioned the dangers of having multiple versions of your website. On recent trip I had first hand experience ...
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Recently I launched two new mini sites and discovered something along the way ...
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Today's post is in response to a question that came in via email asking, "How do I optimize a department/category ...
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I've been complaining about big sites like eBay, Craigslist and Wikipedia getting more than their fair share of wikipedia luvin' ...
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All right since Matt Cutt's and I are well on our way to be being best friends (as is clearly ...
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Whenever Ajax enter the conversation for an SEO or internet marketer, chances are good there will always be a deep ...
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When twitter lists first came out and I commented about how awesome they are, I also warned they had the ...
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One of the most difficult conversations I have with new or perspective clients is about Linkbait and content marketing and ...
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While Google has taken action against content farms, from a strategic perspective I still think there are lessons that every ...
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Want to learn something about building a website? There are lots of places that can help you learn the different ...
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I was looking for something on Google Video today, and looking at the most recommended videos I see some personalization ...
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For those of you in the industry you've now doubt heard of the infamous "sandbox". For those of you not ...
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Tips on how to build a successful niche website, that is easy to run and doesn't require much maintenance ...
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As someone who has been involved in the search industry for over a decade, one of the things that really ...
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I'm an SEO. My job is not is not to educate, organize, or raise profits of any search or advertising ...
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I'd like to announce my first premiere sponsor Text-Link-Ads.com. I've been using text-link-ads since 2005. To learn more about them, ...
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So one of the more interesting panels at Pubcon was the organic site review with panelists, Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, ...
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The following post is part of my Thesis tutorial series. In this post, we're going to be looking at how ...
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Last night I attended the world premier of Danny Elfman's Serenada Schizophrana at Carnegie Hall. The event was commissioned by ...
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Some of you folks who visit my site and don't just read in your feed readers may have noticed the ...
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Yeah yeah I know some of you think I wear my jammies all day, goof off and blog constantly, but ...
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