7 Search Conference Tips for Success

August 3, 2011
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I’ve been in the SEO industry for nearly 7 years. I started in the industry when I was hired to learn SEO on the fly for a real estate marketing & training company. I moved on to become the SEO Manager for Network Solutions, the original domain registrar. After a few years at that position, [...]

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The New York Times Becomes SEO Hitman

May 10, 2011
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On Friday the New York Times published a piece by David Segal that alleged several high profile companies were trying to game Google’s algorithm with paid links. If this sounds familiar to you, that’s because this is nothing new for Segal or the NY Times. In February Segal profiled what he claimed were JC Penney’s [...]

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Amazon Terminates Illinois Affiliates

March 10, 2011
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After weeks of playing a political game of chicken with the state of Illinois, Amazon has terminated its contract with all affiliates in the land of Lincoln. Illinois Amazon associates received the following letter mere hours after Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed the controversial Mainstreet Fairness Bill into law: Hello, For well over a decade, [...]

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Google Admits Quality Problem

February 25, 2011
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Google just announced “a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries.” The blog post, by Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts, emphasized that while data from the recently released Personal Blocklist Chrome extension wasn’t used in the algorithm change, 84% of the sites most frequently blocked by users [...]

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How to Salvage a Taken Twitter Name

February 17, 2011
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If you were an early adopter of the Twitter platform, chances are you were rewarded with the username of your choice. However as Twitter’s popularity grew, handles or profile names that don’t use numbers or strange spellings have become increasingly harder to come by. It’s bad enough that Twitter limits your creativity in this area [...]

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Free SEO Book Thesis Skin

February 9, 2011
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Last week Aaron Wall over at SEObook.com released the site’s old design as a free WordPress template. Tweet As a huge fan of the site, I was eager to get my hands on the design and start customizing it for an ongoing project. Unfortunately, Aaron released the design as a full fledged WordPress theme, and [...]

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Bing Sting Snares Google

February 3, 2011
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Google’s recent “sting” of Bing has gotten plenty of press coverage. Unfortunately, among the tech crowd who may have prompted the PR stunt with recent criticism of Google’s quality, a sizable portion of that press has been critical of Google. Most of the criticism seems to center around one (or more) of four major complaints. [...]

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Google Engineers Prove Bing Policy

February 2, 2011
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one but how many Google engineers does it take to prove something stated in Bing’s privacy policy? If you answered 20 you’re absolutely correct! Unfortunately for Google, what they proved is NOT their accusation that Bing is copying Google’s search results. The Sting For the three of you that [...]

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