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Lance Armstrong, Professional Ethics and SEO ... As stated in my brief Twitter profile, I have been a TdF fans (that’s Tour de France for those not geeky enough to follow the niche sport of professional bicycle racing) for many years. I’ve been following the 3 ...
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Helping Charities with SEO and Google Grants ... Quick note from Rick before we begin this post: Sorry I was absent for so long from these pages. As you can see from my Additional posts on SEO page, I have actually been keeping busy with SEO blogging. But recent e ...
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Road Warriors Have New Weapon of Choice ... I just got back from four days in Las Vegas. However, I wasn’t there for vacation – I was definitely there for work (looking for new work opportunities, to be accurate). I attended my first-ever PubCon Conferenc ...
Rick DeJarnette
Dave Naylor
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Google Penguin 2.0 Has Landed – War on Spam Con ... The much anticipated Google Penguin update has finally become a reality following confirmation that the latest generation of the algorithm update has been rolled out throughout their search engine results pages and ...
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Link Risk Analysis Process Made Easy With Link De ... With the Google Penguin update (branded as 2.0 or 4 depending on the scoring you are following) hanging over the world of SEO and being set to roll out within the next 8 days, the need to take a step back from the p ...
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Speaking at SMX London – May 15th 2013 ... On Wednesday I will be heading back to Chelsea Football Club to speak at SMX London. As a Leeds United fan I used to go to Chelsea’s ground many years ago for away matches, but lots has changed since those days I ...
Richard Baxter
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3 Examples of Great Content Marketing in Competit ... Let’s get right to it. Great content marketing is more than just plopping an infographic on your site. Great content marketing is knowing what an audience wants, what stirs up emotion, what gets those peopl ...
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John Maeda and his Electric Dots ... “During the day, on a completely black surface, a white dot appears like a bright star of hope. As night falls, attempts to resuscitate the star with liberal amounts of white paint inevitably lose to the wi ...
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Content Strategy beyond Top 10s – SEOgadget Web ... We’ve all been there – you’ve poured your heart and soul into a piece of content and for various reasons it just hasn’t worked out as planned. There’s nothing worse than experience a ‘flop’; but wit ...
Ben Edelman
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Google's Exclusive Flight Search OneBox ... Google often shows “OneBox” search results promoting its own services. These results have prompted antitrust scrutiny: Google awards these preferred placements exclusively to Google's own services, such as Go ...
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Privacy Puzzles at Google Play ... Even the most careful read through Google's many Terms of Use and Privacy Policies gives no indication that whenever a user buys an Android app from the Google Play marketplace, Google send the app developer the use ...
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Misrepresentation of Fuel Surcharges in Airline P ... Ever felt the "taxes" on air travel are unduly high? In other travel contexts (most notably, rental cars), genuine government-imposed taxes often approach or even exceed the amount payable to service providers. ...
AJ Kohn
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Google Removes Related Searches ... This morning I went to use one of my go to techniques for keyword research and found it was … missing. Related Searches Gone It was bad enough that the new Search tools interface was this awkward double-click ...
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Time To Long Click ... The internal metric Google uses to determine search success is time to long click. Understanding this metric is important for search marketers in assessing changes to the search landscape and developing better optim ...
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Tracking Image Search In Google Analytics ... The Internet is becoming increasingly visual but the standard Google Analytics default lumps image search traffic in with organic traffic. The problem with that is these two types of traffic have radically different ...
Hugo Guzman
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Avoiding not even wrong syndrome ... The phrase “It’s not even wrong” is arguably my favorite cliche. Granted, I’m not even sure that it qualifies as a cliche because it hasn’t really achieve mainstream status. In fact, it ...
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Finding real answers to the hard questions ... Ralphy is my good buddy. He’s also my 21-year-old nephew and arguably the biggest role model in my life. You see, Ralphy was diagnosed with brain cancer when he was two years old. And while he is fortunate tha ...
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Change is good ... I’ve purposely been laying low in recent months due to the significant changes that I foresaw coming both in my personal and professional life. And now those changes are manifesting themselves, so I figured I& ...
David Mihm
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GetListed.org (and Yours Truly) Is Joining Forces ... Hopefully the headline says it all, but if you want the official details, please head on over and read the official release. Needless to say, as a full-time employee of SEOmoz, I won’t be taking on client wo ...
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Two Conferences in the Same Week ... Hope you all had a terrific Thanksgiving holiday. Sorry for the lack of posting recently, it’s been quite the busy fall :) Just a quick note to say that I’ll be at BOTH Blueglass X Tampa and BIA/Kelsey ...
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The Apple Maps Ecosystem ... I was so excited by my sneak preview of Mat Siltala‘s “Yelp and Siri Optimization” presentation for Local University Advanced at SMX East today that I was inspired to put this infographic together. ...
Vanessa Fox
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Seattle SEO Startup Bootcamp: Starting Next Week! ... I have a lot of friends at Seattle startups and while I try to offer them advice on SEO when I can, their companies just often don’t have the budgets for our Blueprint search analytics software, technical infr ...
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Super Bowl 2013 Commercials: Did Offline Advertis ... Every year, I analyze how well Super Bowl advertisers capitalize on online interest, particularly search. This year, you can find the articles here: Super Bowl Commercials 2013 Edition: For Search Visibility, Most ...
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Google’s Upcoming Algorithm Change: “Overly-O ... This past week at SXSW, Google’s Matt Cutts talked about an upcoming “over-optimization” algorithm launch aimed at those who abuse search engine optimization. Rob Snell transcribed the session, whi ...
Michael Martinez
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Why Google Cannot Stop You From Spamming Search E ... As the Web marketing world braces for the onslaught of new Google anti-spam measures newly published research into economics has provided some interesting insights into why the arms race between search engines and W ...
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Link Building Strategies for 2013 ... You are offered a position with a great company that pays well, has a fantastic health plan, incredible bonuses and personal time options, and it’s conveniently located close to home so you don’t have to ...
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The Problem With Search Engine Optimization: It S ... Someone once told me that venture capitalists don’t want to invest in traditional SEO agencies because “SEO doesn’t scale”. If The Wall Street Journal is to be believed, 3 out of 4 start ups ...
Paul Bruemmer
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Optimizing Your Digital Assets To Boost Rankings ... Let’s say you’re responsible for developing revenues from both traditional and non-traditional advertising. You work with a digital staff of talented people to create lead-generating Web-based content, or perhap ...
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The Keyword Discovery Process For Enterprise Site ... The keyword discovery process is critical for managing enterprise projects, as it forms the bedrock of brand messaging in search and social for large-scale websites or multiple brand sites under one corporate umbrel ...
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Top 10 Tool Features For Successful Enterprise SE ... In 2007, I had the unique opportunity of building an in-house SEO team for an enterprise-level e-commerce retailer. From an SEO perspective, the website had been the accouterment of hacks, built over a six-year peri ...
Malcom Coles
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10 more sites that stupidly try to ban you from l ... Even more sites that try to bank you from linking to them in the terms. Make it stop. ...
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10 ZX Spectrum games to play online ... To celebrate its 30th anniversary, I've come out of blogging hibernation to write a round up of the top 10 ZX Spectrum games you can play online (well, in my opinion) on the Mirror site. In ... ...
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So long, and thanks for all the links ... Over the last week, I finally ranked on the first page of Google for a search on "malcolm". Yay. And I finally passed 1,000,000 page views for this blog's posts. Unrelated to that (or was it ... ...
Branko Rihtman
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Why Google SERP CTR studies are a waste of time ... Historically, one of the most quoted, used and abused SEO metrics was ranking. It is a cornerstone of reports that are sent to clients, one of the first things we go to check for clients’ sites and usually caus ...
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SEO Spider Review – Xenu on SEO steroids ... One of the first tasks when getting to a brand new SEO project is to assess the state of on-site optimization. That is the place where we usually do the first measurement of ”how bad the things really are” or ...
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SEO is Dead ... In the past few years, we have seen a flurry of articles celebrating the forthcoming death of SEO (AKA linkbait) and an even larger flurry of angry rebuttal articles from the SEO community (AKA retweetbait). So not ...
Alan Perkins
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Specialists in the Spotlight ... I caught up with some of SilverDisc’s paid search masterminds, Lorna and Mary, to grill them on their specialist subject - online marketing. ...
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Get More from Your Bing Campaigns ... It’s easy to concentrate solely on your AdWords PPC campaigns, and who can blame you when it’s Google that delivers the volumes and conversions? Bing i ...
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A quick look at Remarketing with Google AdWords a ... Have you ever visited a company’s website only to later find you are being followed around the internet by their ads? If the answer is “yes”, the chances are you are being ...
Duane Forrester
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Search & Mobile industry news from Dec 8 – ... Here’s what you may have missed form this past week. A huge stack of industry news and information well worth reviewing gang. YouTube Redesigned, Still a BitTorrent Site if You Dig Deep – If you visite ...
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Beancast bitchin ’bout marketing stuff ... December 9th marked another episode of the Beancast, wherein I joined a bunch of other marketing wonks to talk over the state of all things marketing. I highly recommend folks swing by the Beancast to listen to the ...
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Weekly Search & Mobile Industry News Recap ... All kinds of stuff. Justin Beiber’s retweet number is staggering. Nokia’s had a busy week, as has Bing. New SEO 101 video posted to Bing Webmaster blog. Instagram killed it’s connection wit ...
Ryan Jones
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You Can’t Reverse Engineer The Google Algorithm ... As most SEOs are aware, Google just launched the latest penguin algorithm. Amid the mass panic that follows all algorithm updates, several SEOs started discussing the Google algorithm and their theories. Don’t ...
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Rant: SEO Tests, Cutts Statements, & The Algo ... I’m going to channel my inner @alanbleiweiss and rant for a minute about some things I saw over the last few days in the SEO world. I also want to apologize for any spelling mistakes from the start, as my righ ...
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Fun With Facebook Graph Search ... I, like many of you, was given access to Facebook’s new Graph Search the other day. So, the first thing I did was start seeing how “weird” I could get. Let’s have some fun, shall we? It’ ...
Dr. E. Garcia
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“Powered by” in Spanish ... The Problem: When it comes to properly mean “powered by” in Spanish web pages, a lot of spanish-speaking users don’t … ...
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Some nice features added to the Image Crawler ... Some nice features added today to the Image Crawler, to please requests from current users. Thank you for the feedback. … ...
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The Images Crawler ... The Images Crawler has arrived at Mi Islita.com. An easy way to view images from Web documents. Use it to …Continue reading » ...