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A new study from Forrester Research has corporate blogs coming dead last as trusted sources of information. Social networks rank second last. Eeek! read more »
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Jeff Smith of SEO Design Solutions interviews Kris Jones on topics such as web site conversion, SEO, PPC, affiliate marketing & social media. read more »
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Unless action is taken to free up links, firms are expected to report losses in search engine rankings. Congress must act to pass SEO bailout legislation. read more »
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Steven Bradley's awesome round up of the best SEO & social media articles for September. read more »
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Friggen brilliant summary of how to create a lame MMO clone. Hilarious! read more »
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Rand gives us another head smacking tip:

Simply by purchasing common misspellings, mistypings and alternative TLD extensions (Eg. Yutube.comn), you can earn links the easy way - by conserving them. Just grab these domains and 301 redirect them t read more »
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Wiep gives us his definition of what actually constitutes link building. read more »
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The best case study on the power of a social media community you'll ever see. A wave of Tweets, Diggs & Stumble complaints sees Problogger's StumbleUpon ban lifted in one hour and 44 minutes. read more »
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Steven Bradley's awesome monthly round up of search & social media links. If you missed your reading this month, this is the only place to catch up. read more »
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Ken Jones gives us a round up of his favourite search marketing articles of the week and some personal insight (and jokes) on each piece. read more »
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Individuality online is not easily classed as black or white its about being the many shades of you.

Being, bold enough to stand-out may make you seem like a figure of controversy but is instigating a deeper understanding of a written work by ask read more »
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My new pal Ahmed posts a nice article about how to optimise your StumbleUpon blog to connect with others in your niche. read more »
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There are all sorts of metaphors and analogies you can use to illustrate various aspects of link theory, from the buckets full of link juice used to explain PR flow and sculpting, through to examples where Links=Votes.

Ken has devised a new analo read more »
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Paul proclaims Plurk as the new micro blogging king, leaving Twitter in its wake. And he ponders just what micro blogging can offer an SEO. read more »
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Do you desphinn your colleagues when you visit Sphinn? If so, what criteria you use? Do you simply have to disagree, find the content offensive, or maybe you only desphinn when something is blatantly spam? read more »
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Danny from from SEO Moz puts Digg and StumbleUpon head to head in an attempt to determine where to invest social media optimization efforts. read more »
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The saga continues... money.co.uk issues a formal apology for the linkbait saga. Maybe this will close it once and for all... read more »
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Jeffrey Smith talks about the 'grandfather effect' and the impact it has on a search engines level of trust/authority in a web site. read more »
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Debate on the value of buying an existing blog, and discussion of the blogging elements money can't buy (relationships, authority etc). read more »
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Mark Dykeman debates the impact online persona's & behaviour will have on marketing tactics in the future. read more »
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Rand Fishkin analyses recent research from Jakob Nielsen regarding users reading habits on the web... and gives his two cents on the implications for webmasters/SEOs. read more »
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The first of many guest posts likely to sprout on Dave Harry's blog until Dave's hand mends. From the article:

Without quality content why would anyone come to your site? Without quality content why is your site relevant enough to rank? Without q read more »
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Amusing take on Twitter addiction. From the list:

1. You recognise Robert Scoble on sight.
2. You have no interest in baseball but know that the Astros are two down in the ninth inning.
3. tinyurl.com is the only domain name in the world.
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Even a local ice cream parlour has learned how to use social media to build positive customer relations! read more »
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Darren Rowse tackles the issue of self esteem and self perception in the blogosphere. read more »
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