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SEM Campaign Tips & Tricks

Let's say I was training a new employee on AdSense and Overture SEM campaigns, and I'd like to have some good online resources to point them to. What would you recommend? Yes, I know it's not technically a post, but it's a chance to use your hand coding HTML skills in the comment boxes ;)...

Don't Waste Your Money with Other Analytics Tools, Come to Google...

Google's new analytics setup looks impressively slick. That data, on the other hand, goes right through to big GG themselves, so all of you e-commerce nuts with cloaking, pop-ups, low co...

Contrasting SEO Ethics with Perception

The SEO ethics debate may be pointless, but it does spur a lot of activity. I noted a thread at SEOChat on the subject, where some disagreement between Fathom and I, along with a stereotypical quote from Mick has me reading: Rand: Never take on two clients ...

Good Advice for Consultants & Contractors

Steve Friedl, the man behind UnixWiz.net, has an older article on consulting that's worth reading. I pulled out some of the "maxims" that he writes about that stu...

Screw the Sandbox the Jim Boykin Way

Google has been asking for this. SEO has a new angle and Jim (of Webuilpages) is the pioneer. No longer is domain registration part of smart SEO - it's all about buying an old domain and changing as little whois info as possible - preferrably just getting the login info for the registrar. Jim's got a post on the&nbsp...

Powweb.com - What are they Doing?

It has been brought to my attention that a server that maps to powweb.com is doing some unseemly bandwidth hogging. A friend (whose name will remain anonymous) clued me in to the following: Recently a series of bots from Powweb.com have been targetting websites with the sole purpose of accessing files simply to increase the bandwidth u...

Delicious and Digg

Although I rarely point to TW, as everyone here has already read their posts twice, there's an excellent comment on the thread about Digg that I felt worth publicizing. It comes from John Resig, who writes: The two 'Web 2.0' traffic b...

5 Tips for SEO Businesses

Todd has some good references on operating your SEO business and I thought, in the spirit of teamwork, I'd address the same topic today with some recommendations of my own. Below is my own list of suggestions, based on experience (in both failure and success): Don't Underestimate your Value...

SEOmoz Escapes the Sandbox

I suppose it had to happen at some point. SEOmoz is finally sandbox free for the first time since our move to this domain 9 months ago. We aren't alone, either. Many folks had sites escape, and I'm happy for all of them. It looks like our ...

Kim Krause Interviewed by Andy Hagans

Kim's got some very wise words about everything from "party pooper" Jakob Nielsen to the obligation of SEO/Ms to give back to the web. It's a solid read: ...

Yahoo! Maps Beta - Taking Google to School

Wow... I'm incredibly impressed by the new Yahoo Maps beta. Why do I love it? Zooms in on mouse wheel scroll Has labeled city districts on transparency overlay Can show live traffic...

Teens Dominate Online Content Creation

The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a new study yesterday on Teen Content Creators and Consumers (warning PDF). The study has some great information for those of us who have a personal and professional stake in the development of web content. I've pulled out what I feel is the most relevant items for ...