Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

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SMX Advanced: SEO Domain Buying

Got to this one a bit late: ShoeMoney says if you buy a lot of domains for SEO don't 301 redirect them all at once as this could send up a flag to the search engines. 301 them over time. Jeremy…

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SMX Advanced: Stephan Spencer:Fo Shizzle Linkbuilding

Stephan Spencer of NetConcepts. High Value Link Targets: Find PR10 /9 Sites: ercim.org, w3.org, usa.gov, etc. Look for sites one click away from Google They have a new tool that involves the…

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SMX Advanced: Yahoo Issues Bot-Herding Standard

Presented by Priyank Garg from Yahoo Standard Across All Engines Robots.txt Disallow Allow Wildcard tags Sitemap location Meta Tags: NoIndex NoFollow NoSnippet NoArchive NOODP Optional…

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Social Media Marketing Is Hard Work

I am heading up to Seattle this afternoon for SMX Advanced. One of the main reasons I am going is because a lot of the SEO/SEM social network is converging there. When I started this blog, these…

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How to Use Yahoo Local to Rank in Google Local and Vice-Versa

Don't you hate it when another blogger beats you to the punch on writing about a good idea? Well, Steve McStud Espinosa kicked my butt this morning with his post, Take Advantage of Trusted Sources…

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Liveblogging SMX Advanced - Maybe

I will be sort of liveblogging SMX Advanced next week - maybe. I say "maybe" because every attendee at the show will probably be liveblogging it, Twittering it, Sphinning it and generally doing…

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Reviews & Local Search Rankings

Nice piece over at Stephen Espinosa's blog on how reviews affect local search rankings along with some helpful tips. There's a reason why his profile name is "McStud".

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More Local Search Deal Rumors

Since I am now trading in local search gossip and innuendo (maybe I should turn this blog into Valleywag Local), I thought you might be interested in a little Twitter-based speculation. I just…

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Move Over Microhoo, Grayboxx is Back

In our last episode local search start-up Grayboxx had apparently been sold to Bay Advisor who was going to exploit Grayboxx's PreferenceScoring technology in new and fantastical ways. Now word on…

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Sometimes Pages Just Disappear

In my previous post we discussed what happens when the "home page not indexed" warning lights go on. Today let's talk about the fact that sometimes your pages just disappear from Google. This…

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