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Our ranking factors article from several weeks ago is now in 3rd place at del.icio.us SEO tags for all time most popular. 671 folks have tagged it to date and we're closing in on Vaughn's Google Ranking Factors List, wh...
I am running blogger on a couple of my sites and decided to try an experiment as an attempt to increase the frequency of my posts being emailed. By default Blogger adds a little email icon at the bottom of each post. I kicked it up a notch by placing a smiley beside it with so...
Aaron Wall is struggling with the forces of the publishing world, who've re-nigged on their original agreement to let him maintain e-book publishing rights if they take his book to press. Aaron has a lot of positives and ne...
Last Saturday night I fell asleep on a friend's couch after watching a really funny television program. I couldn't remember the name until yesterday, when a visitor to our offices mentioned it - My Name is Earl. I'm not typically much of an Ask user, bu...
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If you haven't seen the TV ads for Ebay's new "it" campaign, they're worth a look. Ebay's playing with a new market here and their attempt to juxtapose post-modern (or post-post-modern) styling and panache with a humorous twist on all things Steve ...
I contracted out a keyword research report from Dan Thies yesterday afternoon (hard to believe they're only $99) and spoke a little on the phone. Dan has a lot of cool stuff coming up, including a limited engagement...
As much as I think site explorer is a great idea, in practice, it's still not as useful as Yahoo!'s normal linkdomain command. There are some fantastic features in there that I use all the time, for example: Removing sites from the list as in a search for ...
With this latest update from Google, we've been noticing some very odd things in the SERPs. Despite our best instincts and measurements of link quality, quantity and optimization, sites seem to be ranking in very strange orders. In the hopes of making greater sense of things, we wondered if you'd like to list your top search results that make no sense. No need to point out your site or those of...
I noticed this well thought-out post today from Chris Anderson at the Long Tail (which is a blog I've been mean...
A recent thread in SEOChat brought up this extremely cool and fun tool - SEO Map. This is one wicked and excellent idea to utilize Google services to connect business and professionals to each other. If you are not listed, ...
One of my biggest rants with MSN Search has been their weighting for physical location of webserver. It is totally incredible and beyond any reasonable measures. Before you read any further, it is important you know some background information. My company, ...
Following Nick's lovely recommendations for community building, I'll be doing a bit of link baiting in this thread. Actually, that's a lie; I'm just ticked off about this article from SEO News' Rob Sullivan about a conference call he had with some Google employees. I'll just refute...
Shopping on the web has never been cooler. This site - Etsy - is appealing in a way that I haven't seen in a long time. They've combined many of the latest "Web 2.0" trends into the store and amalgamated thousands of sellers into an online...
BugMeNot is a nifty tool that acts either as a one-time viewer for content sites or a plug-in that lets you surf through without entering a username or password. It reminds me most of the grocery store checkers who simply swipe the store copy of the "...