Link Building Outside the Box
If you ve used traditional link building strategies and find yourself running out of ideas maybe it s time to do a little brainstorming. To help you get started this article will clue you in to some underused but powerful ideas for generating buzz and traffic for your web site. Feel free to mix and match or use them as jumping-off points….

Re: Fine… How mcuh?
Sent a message about a week ago, but haven't heard anything back about advertising.

Link Building Methods
Links are the core of your search engine optimization campaign. Quality authority and trust-building links are tough to get. Here we outline 35 methods you can use to attract links to your website….

You Need More Than One Site Map
Something as basic as your web site s site map could have more of an effect on the success of your web site than you originally may have thought. So why is it that site maps are often taken lightly or overlooked altogether Most graphic designers webmasters and even Internet marketers don t grasp the many uses and purposes for a site map. And the ones who do might only incorporate one version when there is a strong value to having multiple types for different audiences. …

The Whys and Hows of Video Search Optimization
More people are viewing video online all the time. Bill Gates is even predicting that online video will replace TV. How important is this trend for you And how do you get your video in front of viewers Keep reading to find out more….

Paying Competitors to Beat You & Steal Marketshare
Examples of short term cheap traffic sources that grew expensive as affiliates grew into competitors.

Decisively Average
Sometimes the rough edges of a brand are the best parts.

The Secret Book/Movie/DVD Scam: Blindly Seeking Material Wealth = Tragic Failure
The people behind The Secret were recently caught up in legal turmoil.

Google Insights for Search
Google just launched Search Insights, a cool new research tool for data hounds. Have you tried it yet? What do you think of it? How does it compare to your favorite market research tools?

Re: Autopligg.info Parked??
remove www please …. i might fix this lol

Wal-Mart bans customer
Best one I've read in a while   

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Yesterday I was at my local Wal-Mart buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for…

Emotionally Engage or Enrage
As the web gets more efficient and search engines gather more data, those who evoke emotional responses will keep gaining marketshare while bland webmasters fall quietly into the abyss.

Re: PHP permissions for mysql connection file
Yea, now I understood what you were getting at… but the requesting client is not protected, these are just sites distributed across some cheap ho…

Interviews & News
A few interviews and some interesting news links from the past couple weeks.

Google Insights for Search
Google just launched Search Insights, a cool new research tool for data hounds. Have you tried it yet? What do you think of it? How does it compare to your favorite market research tools?

Link Building Basics : Presentation on Building Links (Search Engine Journal)
I really do not do many speaking engagements on SEO and search marketing, but plan to in the immediate future (the next speaking and moderator sessions are planned for the ScarySEO mini-Con in Florida). Back in June I did have the chance to speak on behalf of TrafficBlend, my SEO and online marketing consulting firm, […]

Social Media Free For All Pages
How much longer will SEOs promote social media for? What comes next?

Paying Competitors to Beat You & Steal Marketshare
Examples of short term cheap traffic sources that grew expensive as affiliates grew into competitors.

Re: George W’s War
Nah, he hopped a plane to California last night.

NEMedia Announces Reseller Partnership with Hostgator (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
HostGator has entered into a partnership agreement to resell NEMedia’s SEO software suite, RankSense. Hostgator, a web hosting company with more than 1.3 million hosted sites, will make RankSense available to its growing customer base starting in September.

Thirty Day Challenge: Why Must Traditional Email List Internet Marketers be so Sleazy?
Pretty sleazy stuff there Ed Dale. Thumbs down for you.

Video Content Tips
Have you done much audio and video recording? What are some of your favorite tips, and what courses/books/products/etc. would you recommend?

Emotionally Engage or Enrage
As the web gets more efficient and search engines gather more data, those who evoke emotional responses will keep gaining marketshare while bland webmasters fall quietly into the abyss.

Decisively Average
Sometimes the rough edges of a brand are the best parts.

New Google SERP Changes
We updated SEO for Firefox and Rank Checker to work with the current Google SERP layout.

Social Media Free For All Pages
How much longer will SEOs promote social media for? What comes next?

The Whys and Hows of Video Search Optimization
More people are viewing video online all the time. Bill Gates is even predicting that online video will replace TV. How important is this trend for you And how do you get your video in front of viewers Keep reading to find out more….
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Golf: Danny takes Tiger’s record - and calls mum (The New Zealand Herald)
Young Kiwi golfer Danny Lee pulled off a feat that eclipsed Tiger Woods, then told his mum, “I miss you.” The 18-year-old’s mother, Seo, said yesterday that she and her family were ecstatic he had become the youngest US Amateur champion.

Paying Competitors to Beat You & Steal Marketshare
Examples of short term cheap traffic sources that grew expensive as affiliates grew into competitors.

Robots.txt vs Rel=Nofollow vs Meta Robots Nofollow
I created a chart comparing how Google handles the blocking of indexing and/or PageRank flow via robots.txt, robots meta tags and link rel=nofollow.

Chitika - the 5th Search Engine?
Chitika has built a large search ad network through the use of behaviorally targeted ads that use search queries to target ads.

Noob from the UK
Hello All

Im a pathetic noob from the UK.

I have several websites that make a few cents a month, and preciously, I have started hunting around f…

Re: Noob from the UK
Go for point 6, forget the rest

Welcome dvpatter

Re: George W’s War

Re: George W’s War
hey i have an idea… theyre both equally fished…. there… now i win.

Maximizing SEO Returns with User Generated Content (Search Engine Roundtable)
When your catalog has 200 million products, grows at $3M per week, and contains content created by users, how do you optimize it? · Capture the long tail by balancing a user-contributed folksonomy with a site taxonomy that works for both searchers and search engines. · Provide tools for users to SEO their own content and use the power of community to edit the retail site. · Measure traffic, …

How to Adopt a Pro-SEO Culture at your Company (Search Engine Land)
The most successful SEO programs aren’t solely the result of a great SEO team. They happen because the entire company incorporates SEO into their portion of a given project, and everyone recognizes when it’s time to bring in the SEO to discussions. Establishing this level of SEO buy-in throughout the organization is neither a fast nor easy task, but it’s very realistic and the ROI on …

Position Gold Make SEO Simple with a Step by Step Manual (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Position Gold are releasing a ‘ How to SEO‘ manual in order to provide the general public with a simple and comprehensive breakdown of what SEO is, what it entails and how it operates. Along with the ‘How to SEO‘ Manual, Position Gold is providing both a glossary of terms, to equip the readers with a basic SEO vocabulary and also an SEO toolbox, to allow users to practice SEO tecniques.

Link Building Methods
Links are the core of your search engine optimization campaign. Quality authority and trust-building links are tough to get. Here we outline 35 methods you can use to attract links to your website….
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Buying & Selling Websites
Some good tips about buying, selling, and flipping websites.

An SEO Eyeful: Interview with Ronald Herskowitz
Some SEOs choose to specialize in particular fields. Ronald Herskowitz focuses on the eyes — literally. In this interview you ll find that even the specialists learn plenty of tricks that can be generalized to many different kinds of web sites….

Clean Up Your Contact Us Page!
Would you buy from someone you couldn t contact Most people wouldn t. It makes you wonder why so many businesses on the web hide their contact information. If you want to increase your conversions you need to stop hiding and start making it easy for your customers to reach you….
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An SEO`s Experience: 21 Rules for Performing SEO
Every so often an experienced SEO in our SEO Chat forums makes a post with the goal of answering most of the concerns of those who are new to search engine optimization. Since newbies often ask the same kinds of questions this gives them one thread to turn to and saves time and space. Here s the lowdown from the most recent version of this thread….
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Re: 2008 Democrat National Convention, heh
Oh, I'm alright. I just wish Dink wasn't right-leaning. I like the guy.

Re: George W’s War
Whatever Nops. Actually I think people in Iraq have valid stories that are real and meaningful whether they are told in first person or not.
Its a …

Robots.txt vs Rel=Nofollow vs Meta Robots Nofollow
I created a chart comparing how Google handles the blocking of indexing and/or PageRank flow via robots.txt, robots meta tags and link rel=nofollow.

Thirty Day Challenge: Why Must Traditional Email List Internet Marketers be so Sleazy?
Pretty sleazy stuff there Ed Dale. Thumbs down for you.

Social Media Free For All Pages
How much longer will SEOs promote social media for? What comes next?

Youlicit Invites Us to Rediscover Search
Google owes its success to automated search algorithms but many niche sites and search engines put their faith in the wisdom of crowds. Youlicit approaches search from this angle. Founded in 2 6 the discovery engine hopes to show you parts of the web you ll like based on what you already like….
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Video Content Tips
Have you done much audio and video recording? What are some of your favorite tips, and what courses/books/products/etc. would you recommend?