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UPDATE:  The party filled up very quickly so Reservations are now closed. Those of you wondering if you registered successfully can search for your name on this list. We’re looking forward to seeing you all there!

Next week, at Las Vegas’ Pubcon Conference, SEOmoz is throwing a whole new kind of party. In the past, we’ve had tons of fun playing the parlor game, Werewolf (description & rules here), with Googlers, SEOs, Black Hats & industry mavens. It’s the perfect combination of deceit, guile and yelling across a table. However, we’ve always felt that lynching villagers and biting victims was a little too 13th century for our tastes. Thus, we’ve updated the game of Werewolf with new cards, caricatures of popular industry figures and new titles and called it…

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Hey are you guys going to update your plugins? Custom Query String - UTW Edition and SEO Title Tag 2.0 aren’t wordpress 2.3 compatible? Now that wordpress 2.3 has entered nag mode with the 2.3.1 release, I’m reminded I still haven’t migrated 80% of the blogs I manage/run.Puuuuuhhhhleeeeeze Read the rest of this entry »

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This morning, Andy Greenberg wrote an article for the front page of Forbes’ technology section - Google Purges the Payola. The article focuses on the ongoing battle between search engines and paid links - a battle that most see as unlikely to ever end:

To most users, the difference between sponsored links and advertisements is a blur. Take, for instance, the online site for the British magazine, New Scientist. Near the bottom of the New Scientist homepage are “sponsored links” that launch the curious to odd destinations including teeth whitening sites or German language sites that sell women’s shoes–places that are probably only marginally interesting to most New Scientist readers.

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