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Google’s Obfuscation of PageRank ScoresGoogle has a long history of deceiving webmasters, in order to push Google’s business interests and keep their search results clean.

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This video was shot a few days back.

Google’s Obfuscation of PageRank ScoresGoogle has a long history of deceiving webmasters, in order to push Google’s business interests and keep their search results clean.

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Posted by rebecca

Let me walk you through my morning thus far. I come into the office, log on to Trillian, and start working. I receive an IM from an SEO who makes some small talk before getting to the point: he wants me to digg/reddit about four stories. I click on the links and (pay attention here) vote for the ones I thought were interesting. I keep working. I notice that I get several email notifications from Digg, that “so and so has sent you a shout!” I click on them and see that I received several shouts from two users for the same story. And the shouts keep coming, about thirty minutes apart (about as frequent and pleasant as a pregnant woman’s contractions, I bet). At this point, I’m getting a bit irritated and disable the shout feature on my Digg profile.
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Posted by Dr. Pete

Recently, I made the difficult decision to change the domain name of my blog and consulting website. It had to be done; the old name just didn’t make sense anymore. No one could spell it, and it was terrible for SEO. Of course, I knew all of the rules of successful 301 redirection in theory, but when it came to putting theory into practice, I found myself dreading pulling the switch.

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Keyword Density vs Conversion Oriented ContentKeyword density as a measure of relevancy is at best limited. If pages have too high of a keyword density and are too focused they may have suppressed rankings or may get filtered out of the search results, plus dense copy does not read well, does not convert well, and nobody will link at it.

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Posted by Mel Gray

Just a brief update to let everyone know that we now have a Premium Content RSS Feed available.

This feed will alert you when new premium content becomes available. 

You will receive a notification whenever any of the following is added to the members section:
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Posted by rebecca

To cap off this gray, dreary Monday (in Seattle, anyway), I thought I’d share a hodgepodge of news, tidbits, and other things that have been brought to my attention by bloggers and colleagues lately:
Kris Farmer from RazorGator won Greg Boser’s SEO Vanity Plate contest, which is uber-lame because I took second place and was actually ahead in points but missed the bonus question (note to self: appease the Boser and visit the crew in California for Beer Friday).Shoemoney announced his Party Like a Rockstar at Pubcon contest (of which I am a judge). Post a blog entry on your blog by November 10th convincing the judges why you should roll with the Rockstars. If you win, you’ll get paid roundtrip airfare to Las Vegas, paid hotel lodging from December 4-7, a Pubcon conference pass, and $500 spending money. And no, bribing or schmoozing me won’t help you win (okay, maybe a little…).How big of an ego Googler are you? Big enough to sport the Google vanity ring? This little wonder displays the number of results on Google for your name. Think of it as bling for bloggers.My buddies at Get Elastic brainstormed Larry and Sergey’s Halloween costume: “ghoul”glers. They’re also giving away a $100 gift certificate for Amazon.com if you can come up with the best caption in the comments thread.Tamar shared her top 6 ideas for incredible viral content. Fun fact: the Zombie Apocalypse quiz was created by none other than former SEOmozzer, Matt Inman.
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Stumbleupon is one of may favorite social media sites, Not only can it drive traffic that matches or often exceeds that of Digg, stumbleupon users are much less critical/confrontation/judgmental than the typical Digg user. In addition they are much more likely to subscribe to your blog/rss feed and click Continue Reading »

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Posted by JaneCopland

Seattle-based wiki website Wetpaint has always done things a little differently to most wiki providers. With a highly user-friendly interface, Wetpaint lets even the most technically-uninclined people create websites. The sites, which are of course all wikis, can either be hosted at Wetpaint or on a separate domain. While the company doesn’t appear to have any plans to take its marketing campaigns to television yet, its has released seven videos on YouTube that fall into a relatively new breed of viral marketing. These videos use professional studios and teams, just like made-for-television commercials. However, they’re meant for online eyes only.
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How Domain Names Play a Role in SEO & SEMMany marketing and advertising costs are recurring. Re-registering domain names is a minimal cost, but many domains (especially .com names) get type in traffic worth thousands of dollars a year. Some get type in traffic worth thousands per day. And this traffic stream is defensible from search engine algorithmic swings.

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