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When Will Mahalo Add Nofollow to Outbound Links?
Mahalo is becoming more open, but if they have any success with it they will soon become more closed off.

Thank You!
My wife and I just had our first anniversary dinner, which was a lot of fun. She actually found me by buying my ebook back when I still sold it, and our connection was only made possible through years of supporting this site / blog / brand by readers like you…so I just wanted to say thanks.

The Ugly Side of The SEO Industry
A post about the social and anti-social parts of the search marketing industry that are rarely discussed.

How Microsoft Could Compete With Google
Could Microsoft compete with Google by buying out top ranked editorial sources in high value verticals?

How To Implement Search Engine Optimization (SEO) On Your Web Site (Turks.US)
Search engine optimization has the capability to increase the traffic of your Web site by improving its overall accessibility using different lookup methods on the Internet.

Re: Watch your 500 server errors and add a robots
Bummer about the issue EG but good tip, thanks.

Can you explain how you managed to generate a 500 though? Is it a pure dynamic site that was miscon…

Selling SEO Consulting Services
Do you sell SEO consulting services? If so, do you still plan to do so in 5 years?

When Will Mahalo Add Nofollow to Outbound Links?
Mahalo is becoming more open, but if they have any success with it they will soon become more closed off.

Choosing the Domain Name of Your Dreams
Your domain name should be the most memorable part of your business. Many web site owners struggle with this important decision or lament that all the good ones are taken. I can t tell you how to create the next Amazon or Google but I can offer a few pointers on creating a domain name….
Child Protection Information Tips That You Should know.

ICANN Approves Broad Expansion of Top Level Domains (TLDs)
My thoughts on the new expanded top level domain policy.

The Ugly Side of The SEO Industry
A post about the social and anti-social parts of the search marketing industry that are rarely discussed.

The Value of a Generic Brand
Some broad generic sites offer a lot of opportunity to make money.

Re: Wordpress.com Signup… anyone automating successfully?

You had better say “Command-line” or he may get confused

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PPC Blog - SEO Book's New Sister Site
My wife just launched her PPC Blog focused on pay per click marketing.

Social Network Theory
I am soft launching a blog about social stuff called social network theory. Not so much Digg spamming sorta stuff, but tips and ideas about how social networks work from my limited understanding thusfar.

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Answers.com Takes New, Old Approach to Search
Is asking a simple question and getting a simple answer too much to hope for from today s search engines For the most part it seems that way. But Answers.com is trying to change that. The three-year-old search engine hopes to give answers to your natural language queries that will keep you coming back….

SEO Services Company Unveils New Internet Marketing Internship Program (PR.com)
Dallas based SEO Services company has launched a new initiative to promote search engine marketing in colleges and universities. The internships will be available to several academic fields including but not limited to journalism, web development, business management, graphic design and to IT majors. [PR.com - July 03, 2008]

Links Are the New Lotto Ticket
I was just forwarded an email from a popular internet marketing list where a company gave people linking at them a chance to win $500 or $1000 for linking to them.

Google’s Flash indexing - good or bad for SEO? (e-Consultancy)
Flash sites can be a nightmare from a user experience perspective, so we were surprised by Google’s decision this week to begin to indexing content from Flash files (SWF). One major argument against the use of Flash has been that the major search engines have been unable to effectively index the content contained within these files, so websites using this software have been losing out in …

SEO Book Help Center
We recently added support software for SEO Book members. It is powered by Kayako SupportSuite.

SEO Marketing Adds Google Checkout Payment Option for Search Engine Optimization Services. (PR.com)
SEO clients can now make their service payments securely online due to the recent addition of Google Checkout services. [PR.com - July 03, 2008]

Links Are the New Lotto Ticket
I was just forwarded an email from a popular internet marketing list where a company gave people linking at them a chance to win $500 or $1000 for linking to them.

Matt Cutts on Using Search Usage Data to Fight Spam
Matt Cutts made a post on the official Google blog stating that Google does look at search logs / usage data to determine how large spam attacks are and how well new anti-spam measures are doing.

How To Implement Search Engine Optimization (SEO) On Your Web Site (Turks.US)
Search engine optimization has the capability to increase the traffic of your Web site by improving its overall accessibility using different lookup methods on the Internet.

Search Engine Optimization Experts to Teach Universal Search SEO Training Class in Seattle for Search Engine Strategies (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR and Amanda Watlington of Searching for Profit to provide search engine optimization training on “Optimizing for Universal Search” for SES.

SEO Marketing Adds Google Checkout Payment Option for Search Engine Optimization Services. (PR.com)
SEO clients can now make their service payments securely online due to the recent addition of Google Checkout services. [PR.com - July 03, 2008]

SEO Marketing Adds Google Checkout Payment Option for Search Engine Optimization Services. (PR.com)
SEO clients can now make their service payments securely online due to the recent addition of Google Checkout services. [PR.com - July 03, 2008]

Short is Sweet for Web Copy Writing
You can t write the same way for the web as you would for a print publication. Site visitors focus differently on the web they skim rather than read. You can t change their behavior so if you want to get your point across you need to change the way you write….
Online Crash Analysis Automatically capture customer crash data, no debugger required. Support for .NET, C++, OS X, Java.

How Social Bookmarking Can Improve Your Presence On The Internet (Turks.US)
Webmasters today are now employing the concepts of social bookmarking to improve their site’s presence on the World Wide Web. In fact, social bookmarking can improve the Internet marketing strategies that you implemented on your site to further improve its online coverage, such as SEO, Link building, and so on.

Search Engine Optimization Experts to Teach Universal Search SEO Training Class in Seattle for Search Engine Strategies (PRWeb)
Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR and Amanda Watlington of Searching for Profit to provide search engine optimization training on “Optimizing for Universal Search” for SES. (PRWeb Jul 2, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1068624.htm

Search Engine Optimization Experts to Teach Universal Search SEO Training Class in Seattle for Search Engine Strategies (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR and Amanda Watlington of Searching for Profit to provide search engine optimization training on “Optimizing for Universal Search” for SES.

The Ugly Side of The SEO Industry
A post about the social and anti-social parts of the search marketing industry that are rarely discussed.

Your work is marvelous…
A blog post about a funny benevolent comment spammer.

How Social Bookmarking Can Improve Your Presence On The Internet (Turks.US)
Webmasters today are now employing the concepts of social bookmarking to improve their site’s presence on the World Wide Web. In fact, social bookmarking can improve the Internet marketing strategies that you implemented on your site to further improve its online coverage, such as SEO, Link building, and so on.

The Value of a Generic Brand
Some broad generic sites offer a lot of opportunity to make money.

Search Engine Optimization Experts to Teach Universal Search SEO Training Class in Seattle for Search Engine Strategies (PRWeb)
Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR and Amanda Watlington of Searching for Profit to provide search engine optimization training on “Optimizing for Universal Search” for SES. (PRWeb Jul 2, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1068624.htm

Links Are the New Lotto Ticket
I was just forwarded an email from a popular internet marketing list where a company gave people linking at them a chance to win $500 or $1000 for linking to them.

Search Engine Optimization Plagiarism Runs Rampant on Blogs (Search Engine Roundtable)
Jill Whalen (whose birthday is today — wish her a happy one!) wrote a very logical article at High Rankings about the problem of SEO plagiarism . She explains that numerous not-so-established SEO types are regurgitating a lot of articles online and just switching up a few words, probably so that they can look smart. It’s not so much the same as copyright infringement because of the fact that …

SEO Friendly Flash?
Apparently Google is now pretty good at crawling flash.

Matt Cutts on Using Search Usage Data to Fight Spam
Matt Cutts made a post on the official Google blog stating that Google does look at search logs / usage data to determine how large spam attacks are and how well new anti-spam measures are doing.

Re: Ping
Thanks wahd

Well I think getting a site index fast is nice, even if it has shitty content.

But I do have html file with all doorway pages linked in…

SEO Services Company Unveils New Internet Marketing Internship Program (PR.com)
Dallas based SEO Services company has launched a new initiative to promote search engine marketing in colleges and universities. The internships will be available to several academic fields including but not limited to journalism, web development, business management, graphic design and to IT majors. [PR.com - July 03, 2008]

Viewzi Offers New Look at Visual Search
If you re tired of standard search results that yield ten blue links per page there are any number of visual search engines that can change the way you look at the web. But none offer quite the variety of Viewzi. Not content to provide one version of a visual interface on search Viewzi offers more than a dozen….
Online Crash Analysis Automatically capture customer crash data, no debugger required. Support for .NET, C++, OS X, Java.

SEO Best Practices for URL Structure (Search Engine Journal)
I’ve decided to make up a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. And if you have something to add, please do. So he we go: Length of the URL: no more than 3-5 words in your URL. According to Google’s Matt Cutts if there are more than 5 words… [Google] […]

SearchDay: Some New SEO Services Not So Special (Search Engine Watch)
Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Some New SEO Services Not So Special; Newspapers Bleed Red Ink: Death by Internet; SEO Quarterly Web Site Review: Villas of Distinction; and more.

Short is Sweet for Web Copy Writing
You can t write the same way for the web as you would for a print publication. Site visitors focus differently on the web they skim rather than read. You can t change their behavior so if you want to get your point across you need to change the way you write….
Tech brief: Collaboration reaches the Tipping Point Learn why online collaboration has reached the Tipping Point and how it’s accelerating business.

Search Engine Optimization Experts to Teach Universal Search SEO Training Class in Seattle for Search Engine Strategies (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR and Amanda Watlington of Searching for Profit to provide search engine optimization training on “Optimizing for Universal Search” for SES.