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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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Last week Matt Cutts made a post about how to connect your Linux computer to a Wii balance board using ...
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In old days newspapers and magazine figured out there where optimal times for publishing certain types of stories, example Tuesday ...
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Anytime a social media consultant starts talking to prospective clients and they bring up blogging, they talk about how RSS ...
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One of the key aspects of any SEO strategy is knowing the risks of the tactics you use. As those ...
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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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After reading about Lisa Barone's laptop being stolen, I got into a bit of a discussion about how I use ...
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Recently I've been experimenting with a plugin for checking broken links, on several of my blogs, and I'm fascinated by ...
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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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If you've spent any time visiting blogs lately chances are you've seen those small little photo's accompained by a title ...
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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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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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Whenever I go to a conference, or at least a dozen times a week by email, I get asked "What ...
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Recently I've been talking with some friends who don't fit into the traditional SEO, publisher, or writer-with-delusional-dreams-of-becoming-a-famous-blogging-rock-star categories. They want ...
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A lot has been said and written about Pinterest in the past few weeks and months, from how marketers can ...
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I recently wrote a story How Brick and Mortar Stores Can Use eCommerce to Drive Sales about tips that eCommerce ...
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Google's official line on their Google Website Optimizer (GWO) A/B testing tool was that using it would not make your ...
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In mid July of 2012, Google sent out a wave of "unnatural linking warnings" to many webmasters. They later said ...
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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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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 some of you may know I live on the south shore of Long Island, and this was one of ...
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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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While there aren't many marketers who still feel you need to blog everyday, most will agree that you should blog ...
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Earlier this year it was discovered that Google was having a problem crawling Apple's website and, as a result, direct links ...
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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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"out of the box" wordpress is neither SEO friendly, or configured for performance...Right now, wordpress is running on over 10 ...
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Today's topic is one that gets asked about pretty regularly, should I cloak my affiliate links to search engines, why ...
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If you happen to know anyone who has been building and publishing affiliate websites before 2000, chances are pretty good ...
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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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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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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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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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If you watched any of the congressional hearings about the newspaper industry where Marissa Mayer testified one of the concepts ...
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For this post we're going to be taking look at the optimal permalink and URL structures for wordpress. There are ...
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In recent weeks wordpress security, or more correctly the lack of wordpress security has been getting a lot of attention ...
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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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In the past week there's been a lot talk about the Wall Street Journal threatening to pull its content from ...
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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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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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Early Friday morning the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece from Eric Schmidt on how Google can help the ...
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At Pubcon this year Google announced page load time was going to become a ranking factor in 2010 (see video ...
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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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Last week Google launched real time SERP's, which included the possibility for twitter and facebook updates to appear in searches ...
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While I do have some issues with Wordpress, it is one of my favorite CMS tools, because it's easy to ...
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Earlier this week there was a post on SEOBullsh*t that talked about how Wordpress was inadequate for anything more than ...
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It took Leo Tolstoy six years to craft the 460,000-word War and Peace. A cheap copywriting service could churn out ...
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Today's post is question from Hicham Damahi of beezid.com/ who asks "How to handle expired product pages on a classified ...
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Anyone who's been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation ...
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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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For websites that are going to participate in social media in a big way along multiple channels, I find it ...
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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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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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The following screen shot has to be seen to be believed 7 wikipedia articles listed as news sources in google ...
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As the debate over personalized search continues I asked myself this question, is anyone one really asking for personalized search ...
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So I came across something from the Google analytics page about hiring a new representative To meet Google's exacting hiring ...
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Google recently announced they were updating the Adwords Quality Score, however it appears that there is a bug that raises ...
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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 a non logged in account in IE Google is not afraid to get big and ugly to get you ...
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Sometimes the ads in GMail crack me up ...
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Recently I was doing a bit of research on personalized search for two different projects (I love a bit of ...
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Google paid through the nose buying Doubleclick, but man leveraging all that doubleclick cookie data into the Google data borg, ...
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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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Much has been said about Google algorithmic favoritism for Wikipedia. I was working on a project this weekend about celebrities, ...
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I'm mentioned in a Forbes article about Google along with Aaron Wall and Jim Boykin ...
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So I was looking at something last week and I was getting onebox results with a map and three listings ...
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I like the new Google trends feature but does anybody really believe [esoteric] is a "hot search term" for May ...
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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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Google added a new section to webmaster central today entitled "report paid links". How anyone other than me or quite ...
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One of the people I finally had the chance to meet at SMX was Vanessa Fox of Google. We've been ...
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I demand a recount of the hanging chads or something, because according to a recent press release Google is the ...
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It's barely audible but Matt Cutts calls me a kitten ...
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Hey Google analytics did you guys monkey with something cause it's not working in FF. I can't change dates, I ...
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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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Not really sure what's the best/most efficient way to get this info to the right person so I'm totally going ...
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So here's an interesting little discovery, type the following into your FF address bar Museum of Modern Art You should ...
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The lunacy that is the Google adwords formula is actually really amusing lately, let's take a look and dissect it ...
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So when I was at the Google Dance a few weeks ago I met and talked with some of the ...
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Boy it sure is a good thing we have wikipedia around so Google can use it to provide relevant results ...
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Go read What if Google were Evil now!!! No really go read it the whole thing, really it's worth it ...
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Holy Cow Adwords you really have gone off the deep end with this one check it out Today, we'd like ...
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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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One of the things toolbars and personalized search will do is reduce algo busting to the equivalent of speaking Latin ...
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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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Since my experiment in reputation management is actually getting much more interesting than I planned I thought I should go ...
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C'mon Matt you either do things because they are the right thing to do or don't do them at all, ...
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I'm not sure if it's some synergy between google reader and feedburner but damn google reader is picking up new ...
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It's been interesting to watch [Eco-Friendly Flip Flops] ...
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Anne Wojcicki wife of Sergey Brin who is in charge of 23andMe.com (sorry no link love for you) is set ...
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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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SEO Case Study: Outbound Links Experiment: To determine if outbound links help a page rank for a term hypothesis: By ...
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Eco-Friendly Flip-Flops are all the rage in cyberspace, virtual communities, and the search engine world. QuadsZilla is looking for Eco-Friendly ...
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Much has been said about having a listing in DMOZ, whether it's important or not, whether it's necessary, or how ...
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SEO Case Study: Optimal Title Structure Experiment: To determine what the optimal structure is for a title soley for page ...
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Part of the fun and danger of the blogosphere and things moving at the speed of the internet, is quite ...
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Here are two suggestions for Google's GMail. If there are multiple emails do you have to keep adding the signature ...
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The following post is a response to Matt Cutts blog and the Official Google Blog, please stop being a bunch ...
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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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I went to two sessions today where Matt Cutts was speaking. First let me say whatever they are paying him ...
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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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So during the Matt Cutts in Hotseat presentation at Pubcon Brett gave me the mic to ask a question (heh ...
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This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test ...
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The following post is a counterpoint to the Outspoken Media post titled "Would I Recognize Your Blog In A Dark ...
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Recently I've been experimenting with a plugin for checking broken links, on several of my blogs, and I'm fascinated by ...
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I'll admit I haven't been following the Dave Pasternack contest that strongly, but I came across Incredibill's Dave Pasternack page ...
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Are you tired of wearing the some old dud's to Search Engine Conferences? Does that tired matching Ken & Barbie ...
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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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Looks like Google doesn't seem to have an issue with bad spelling. In addition to ranking my website they also ...
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Here's a question what are you learning from leading SEO and internet marketing bloggers? Are you hoping one of them ...
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Recently I've come across an increasing number of 'link bait is dying', 'link bait is dead', and 'linkbait is so ...
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Douglas Karr sent me a question that I get asked pretty often so I thought I'd share it with you ...
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So I'm looking through my stats in log programs and I'm seeing strange things. Hundreds and in one case nearly ...
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Changes with Google SERPS give some interesting results make wordpress search engine friendly any questions ...
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Let's have some fun with anchor text part II monstigaligation click here click here monstigaligation ...
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C'mon Matt do we really have to have this semantics debate every time something gets changed? The this is an ...
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Since I've had so many requests here's the presentation from the SES Paid Links Panel mgray-paidlinks-ses2007 (powerpoint) ...
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I came across Website Grader via Guy Kawasaki's website today and I have to say this is one of the ...
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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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As an SEO one of the things we often have to overcome is optimizing for the singular and plural form ...
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In the olden days of SEO it was all about targeting the "right keywords". You wanted to rank for [blue ...
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Since my experiment in reputation management is actually getting much more interesting than I planned I thought I should go ...
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After what seems like forever (but is really only 4 days) my v7ndotcom elursrebmem entry finally ranks, coming in somewhere ...
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Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic ...
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SEO Case Study: Outbound Links Experiment: To determine if outbound links help a page rank for a term hypothesis: By ...
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Eco-Friendly Flip-Flops are all the rage in cyberspace, virtual communities, and the search engine world. QuadsZilla is looking for Eco-Friendly ...
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Much has been said about having a listing in DMOZ, whether it's important or not, whether it's necessary, or how ...
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SEO Case Study: Optimal Title Structure Experiment: To determine what the optimal structure is for a title soley for page ...
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The folks who publish Search Marketing Standard approached me with a special offer for you readers. If you subscribe between ...
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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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So if you're a regular reader you know I'm a bit of a Disney nut (some would say I don't ...
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This post is old and outdated, for a new version please visit SEO Plugins for Wordpress Part II In the ...
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I went to two sessions today where Matt Cutts was speaking. First let me say whatever they are paying him ...
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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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There's lots of talk on the net right now that reciprocal linking is dead, which I disagree with. I will ...
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I was notified about this post via email and have to say if it's true I do find it somewhat ...
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If you do any SEO work on branded or named products or services, hopefully you're already optimizing for "keyword review" ...
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In case you missed it last week an analyst predicted Google will climb to $600 a share. Not to be ...
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Hey Google Adsesne how about giving people the ability to call for a "fresh visit" and content reassessment so the ...
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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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So I've decided to enter the V7N SEO contest, not because I think I'm great, but because I'd really like ...
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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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Here's another quick and fast tip for you ... people have habits. They are also repetitive and like to keep ...
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So what websites does Google trust? Well we all have our own theories, but I think there are a few ...
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So now that everybody is talking about linkbait. I think it's important to consider one of the important qualities of ...
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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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Ever since the ancient Sumerian's started writing things down in cuneiform on stone tablets thousands of years ago, people have ...
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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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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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If you read any of the forums you've probably heard murmurings of PR update underway. Actually this ties in quite ...
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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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Sometimes you can get subtle clues about things by not only paying attention to what people say , but what ...
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