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Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets – NYTimes.com

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“The key is to roll the campaign out slowly,” he said as he nibbled at seared duck foie gras. “A lot of companies are in a rush. They want as many links as we can get them as fast as possible. But Google will spot th…

Google Maps Optimization: 10 Likely Elements of Google's Algorithm

This is an updated version of a post that I first wrote on this blog in February, 2007. It represents a summary of my contributions to David Mihm’s 2010 Local Search Ranking Factors survey, which includes the thoughts of a couple dozen local search m…

Google Markets HotPot In Portland & Breaks Its Own Rules On Local Reviews

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Exactly! It’s getting weird. Anyone else think the Yelp pages aren’t scoring as well since they declined to be purchased? Does your personal search history become part of the HotPot algorithm? Will my browser retargeting be informed …

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets For 2010 (Paperback) tagged “seo” 23 times

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets For 2010 (Paperback)By Michael Monahan Buy new: $19.9511 used and new from $15.99 Customer Rating: Customer tags: social media(23), social media marketing(23), seo(23), se…

Google’s “Gold Standard” Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story

“Hello, My name is Stanley with DecorMyEyes.com,” the post began. “I just wanted to let you guys know that the more replies you people post, the more business and the more hits and sales I get. My goal is NEGATIVE advertisement.”
It’s all par…

SEOmoz | How Google's New Local SERP Affected Your Ranking

As you probably noticed, last week Google did a pretty big makeover of its local search results page, incorporating the local results directly within the organic results. In some cases it appeared that the old “7-Pack” was just given larger real es…

The Art Of Link Building: The SEO Book Every Site Owner Should Read (Kyle Healey’s Internet Marketing Series) (Kindle Edition) tagged “internet marketing” 51 times

The Art Of Link Building: The SEO Book Every Site Owner Should Read (Kyle Healey’s Internet Marketing Series) (Kindle Edition)By Kyle Healey Buy new: $9.99196 used and new from $8.90 Customer Rating: Customer tag…

2010 Google Holiday Relevancy Algorithm Update? | SEO Book.com

I think the reasons they do it are likely 3 or 4 fold

they want to make SEO unpredictable & unreliable (which ultimately means less resources are spent on SEO & the results are overall less manipulated)
they want to force businesses (who just …

Top 10 SEM Tips From SMX Advanced London 2010

Last week, SMX London graduated to SMX Advanced status. We in the UK eagerly anticipated the fresh new tips and tricks which are usually left until several beers later in the networking bars!
And we certainly weren’t disappointed. I thought it would …

SEOmoz | 30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them (Part 2 of 2)

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Holy treasure trove!
Last November, I authored a popular post on SEOmoz detailing 15 SEO Problems and the Tools to Solve Them. It focused on a number of free tools and SEOmoz PRO tools. Today, I'm finishing up that project with…