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Here’s an idea for discussion. Is linking to your Google Local Business listing asking for feedback OK? Are other sites already doing this? SEOgadget's Richard Baxter would like to hear your thoughts… read more »
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Ever needed to compare lists of keywords in different data tables and match corresponding values together? For example, matching keyword volume data to search engine rankings? Today Richard takes a look at a really simple but powerful query in Micro read more »
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Gab Goldenberg blogs a nasty issue he's found with Pepperjam affiliate network. His advice,

"To any and all affiliates reading this, I strongly encourage you to go direct, rather than rely on PJN." read more »
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Richard Baxter of SEOgadet uncovers and explores Quantcast's practice of including hidden links within its tracking code. It can be seen on pages such as Digg.com Last.fm and Technorati. read more »
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"The SEO Greenhouse came out with a nifty SERP rank traffic calculator that's based on AOL traffic data. It doesn't spell funny words like 80085, but it's handy nonetheless." read more »
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Richard Baxter at SEOgadget covers the SEO for Web 2.0 session at SMX London 2008.

Speaking:

Nathan Buggia, Live Search Webmaster Central, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft
Tom Critchlow, Head of Search Marketing, Distilled
Mikkel deMib Svends read more »
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Richard Baxter at SEOgadget summarises points of interest gleened from the international and social media SEO track on day 1 at SMX London 2008.... read more »
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Shocking news for the industry. read more »
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A great guide on how to turn your Wordpress blog into a jobs board. read more »
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Exactly two weeks ago, SEOmoz launched Linkscape, their new link analysis tool. There has been much accusation, feedback and discussion over the inner workings of the product itself which this post does not cover. Instead I’d like to take a look at read more »
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Some insights into the data that SEOmoz revealed today about what their sources for the Linkscape tool are, and what those sources reveal about things behind the scenes. read more »
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If you’re a graduate looking to move into online marketing, you could do very well for yourself in SEO. Here’s Richard Baxters guide to getting a job in SEO and making a rockstar career for yourself. read more »
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To celebrate his first year at SEOmoz, Danny Dover made a great compilation of "web's best resources and tools." read more »
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Google Sitelinks is an automated program that displays between three and eight indented links for the top ranking website shown for particular search query. This blog post is dedicated to my research of the Google Sitelinks program and will include read more »
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An extremely useful example of how to use wildcard (*) in Robots.txt for sites that use dynamic query parameters. read more »
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BigPonds recent debut on Twitter leaves most customers dissatisfied and angry. But what if they took a step back and looked at what Twitter is about before jumping in? They just might make a go of it read more »
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Publishers must take responsibility for the suitability of published adverts, even if the ads are chosen by an automated system like Google's AdSense, the UK advertising regulator has said. read more »
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Google does not crawl links hidden in Javascript Onclick Events. A short post discussing the subject hid a link in an onclick two months ago, and it is still not in Google's index... read more »
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There’s been lots of buzz about the worth of search engine rankings recently. Problem is, rankings checkers (or at least the process of collecting rankings data on a regular basis) are not useless. read more »
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It looks like it’s quite easy to get a Bebo profile indexed and ranking in Google.co.uk for reasonably competitive terms like “Cheap Airlines” – even after all the talk from Google on comment and forum spam! read more »
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The mission of Bloghology is to cover everything blogging and be devoted totally to blogging, providing new and experienced bloggers with worthwhile content every issue. We give advertisers the opportunity to promote their products and services in a read more »
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Video of Matt's comments about why they don't mention big name sites that get penalized for playing with black/grey hat tactics during SES San Jose 2008 read more »
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When I first learned of the NOSNIPPET argument, I believed I understood the purpose of it and what would result from using it - that Google would simply default to using the META description in SERPs. That's hasn't been my experience thus far... read more »
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What do you do when your blog covers more than one topic (let's say SEO and Gadgets..) and your audiences are likely to hang around on different social media sites?

Seeing a Sphinn logo in the top left of your content isn’t exactly appropriate w read more »
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Widgetbait gone bad sparked intense controversy about the utilization of anchor text within widgets. I decided to ask some of the leading experts in the industry their thoughts on the following situation, in an attempt to unearth what is kosher and read more »
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