It is interesting to me what people view as the test of an SEO.  “Really Smart People” is the Google Search that prompted Robert Scoble recently tweated was how he pick his “SEO of the Year”.
Really Smart People for me isn’t an ideal test because while the words appear in articles quite often people aren’t [...]

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Snap On tools hired a Scumbag SEO firm to send C&D's to sites who included Snap-On in the title of posts. The SEO Firm ( here to referred to as SCUMBAGs ) is attempting to get sites to remove pages that compete with Snap-on In search.
The SCUMBAGs convince companies that the easiest way to rank [...]

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Today Google’s doodle entitled Unexplained Phenomenon is creating some strange trends in search.  The image links to a search for “Unexplained Phenomenon” and features a UFO beaming up an O from the Google Name.  Being the top hit for the most searched term on Google is bouncing from Site to Site as the day tracks [...]

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Remember the good old days when search was about mastering Boolean expressions so you could find what you want?  You could say you wanted “((bing OR kumo)) AND search) NOT crosby NOT bada” and get exactly the result you were looking for.  Yeah those were the days.  Then we decided the Internet was too large [...]

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Microsoft is soon to announce/release Kumo/Bing.com a rebranding of Live.com Search.  While Microsoft has been trying to consolidate brands in to a single “Live.com” in order to get away from preconceptions it is rebranding at Microsoft Bing.
Bing is really just Live.com with an easier “Modify my search” function.  Basically Google Suggests for Live.com.  The Interface [...]

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DuckDuckGo.com appears to be a Yahoo powered search engine that has just a few modifiers, such as the addition of FavIcons and a Cutesy UI.
Duck Duck Go is clearly looking to capitalize on the Popularity of WolfRam.com in the press.
Everyone wants to see Google Fail, and with Search being a Multi-Billion Dollar business even a [...]

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Godaddy.com Promo Codes get you $7.49 (plus icann fee) for the first year you have a Domain.  But at 749fora.com you get the $7.49 price for as many years as you want to register, and when you renew you will get the best price available as well.  You just can’t beat this offer.  Even the [...]

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And One Ring to Rule them All!  With Ping.fm, and Onlywire.com and Friend Feed, and Face book, I think I may have more Social Networks than I have friends.  Actually it is pretty close.  I have about 500 “Friends” fewer than that followers, and I have logins for 146 social networks, that is before you [...]

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I have posted on BlackwaterOps.com How to know be the greatest SEO on the planet.  Well that may be a bit too far, but certainly I tell you everything you would need to read to be better at SEO than I am.

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Search Engine Land is talking up a Twitter Search, John Battelle is explaining why Google doesn’t have one.
Well I have had a pretty decent Twitter Powered Search Engine for the last 6 months.
The thing about twitter is that it only works because people aren’t trying to game it.  Yet.  Google was an Amazing search engine [...]

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Radio has a higher penetration of reach than any other medium on the planet.  Nearly 100% of Americans will hear radio at least once each week.  This may just be in the elevator, or on the bus, but it is hard to argue with the amount of reach which is possible with radio.
Google being aware [...]

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Getting the most out of Google Adsense doesn’t involve anything dirty or deceptive.  It involves implementing Adsense the way Google intended.  These “hacks” will help you get the most money out of your content, and will do so with in the TOS of Adsense.
Google Adsense Hack #1:  Write Good Content
This would seem like a no-brainer [...]

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So I really liked the concept of Eli’s PingCrawl plugin over at BlueHat SEO.  But it conflicts with some of my other plugins, and it requires you to tag your posts, which I don’t 90% of the time.  SO… Since I had planned to build something similar anyway I was inspired to get off my [...]

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Check this out.  I am on results 230-235 of about 1.  This is what happens when you get indexed quickly.  Most sites work pretty hard to get 200 pages a day indexed.  Yes, My SEO God status is maintained.  If I can convince Google to index all 6.5 Million products in my store I'll be [...]

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So Stage 1 was making the thing work at all, but Stage 2 is doing SEO to improve how it scores in search engines.  So I replaced all the Query based Category links with nicely formatted Search Friendly Human Readable ones. 
Doing the copy and paste to put these in this list was a good [...]

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I'm announcing a project I put together in a few hours, that will get some revisions in the near future, but is a good first start. The Digerat.com everything you could ever want to buy store. Yes right now it is just powered by Amazon, but I'm working on some ways to make it a [...]

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This guide will walk you through how to install wordpress.  It includes illustrations where useful, and links to everything you should need to get started.
1 Manual Installation
1.1 Getting The Code
First go to http://wordpress.org

From here you can go to all of the different parts of this site, including:
Support (http://wordpress.org/support) forums where you can [...]

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There was a lot of news recently about if Powerset should sell, or play David and Goliath with Google.  I vote sell. The concept is good, but they are more of an Ask competitor than a Google competitor, and we know how well Ask is doing.
So let's Play.
Question one, which I posed a few days [...]

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Digerat.com is being put back online.  This was my domain nearly 8 years ago.  I covered such exciting things as an exclusive interview with Scott Miller the Creator of "The Kingdom of Kroz".
Well it is being brought back as a Human/computer powered Research Engine.  My other domain was defective but I liked the name better, [...]

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www.isayhello.com went live last night.  The front page is ugly, I don't have as many human edited pages as I would like, but it is day one, and this is the first step.  In the coming days you will start to see better and better results pages, and more "Category" templates.
Not all results will be [...]

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Maybe not all of them, but a good deal.  There is a simple rule when it comes to advertising, go where the people are.  The people are online.
Sure there are people at Starbucks, and watching TV, and driving in their car, but can you reach them for 14 cents per thousand?
The web is a [...]

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Google Trends which was hourly, has gone to being a seemingly random interval, and features repeats a lot. 
Google Trends was updating every hour at about 45 minutes after the hour, telling users what the top 100 terms for that hour were.
But the last couple of days those updates are sometimes 5 hours apart and [...]

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While attempting to search for a way to fake the power of my huge brain.  I came across a weird search result on Google.
A search for "facebook biggest brain game cheats" results in the top two hits being from MSN, and a result part way down, being for Maps.live.com

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It's beta, and it has a few quirks, but this tool combines the hot 100 searches of the Hour from Google Trends with Suggested Search Phrases from Google Suggest. Then if you click on the links you get a further mash up that is the results run through Youtube and Flickr. One Killer SEO tool.
I [...]

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My core readers may have noticed that I have been doing a lot of work with Google Trends lately.  But Man555.com has done something reasonably impressive.  They "hacked" their way on to Google Trends using SMS Messages.  Sending 100's of thousands of text messages to cell phone users, and using a trojan to access e-mail [...]

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Getting found is not only about having the right stuff on your page, but also having the right people to link to you.  So if you want to really boost your own page rank you need to get one of these guys to link to you.  Good luck, with very few exceptions these sites don't [...]

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In an interesting turn, my most popular page today, made me $0.  Google seems to not run Adword's on pages with Assasin's Creed in the title of the page.  I don't know if it is just because the word has Ass in it twice, or if there is some other reason, but I'm tempted to [...]

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Google is going to make it easier to manage your Adsense Ad code with a new tool that allows you to change the preferences of an ad block from with in the adsense management tool.  The Manage Ads Button is starting to be advertised in the tips section of Google's Adsense, but currently doesn't resolve [...]

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Google Trends got dominated by Earthquake Searches.  The funniest of which is "Current Earthquakes"  yes when you are experiencing an earthquake race to Google and search what to do during the Earthquake.  Recent Earthquakes would be more useful but what can you do?  I was at dinner and the restaurant didn't skip a beat.  A [...]

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If Facebook is worth $15 billion, and Myspace is $65 billion XYHD.tv is worth $571k.  The math would seem simple.  If Facebook has 42 million users and you calculate the value of a user to be 15billion divided by 42million you see that each User has a value of $357.14.  My 1622 users results in [...]

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Dane Carlson has a calculator on his site that tells you your blogs worth.  Mine is worth about $136k.  But I'd take half of that.
To say that the value of my blog is worth $136k, and Jake's is worth $182k is absurd since Jake is making that a year on his site and I'd take [...]

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After my Greatest Living American stunt I'm glad I don't live in Poland, where a man Bombed Kutas the Polish word for penis to Lech Kaczyński's home page. 23 years old Marek W. from Cieszyn was tracked down by local police using his home IP address.
Google Claimed Bombing no longer works, but we reasonably know [...]

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Ok, so rich is all relative, but the truth is blogging for profit is 90% Pimping your site to your friends co-workers and random strangers 8% writing content, and 2% finding a snazzy Template for your wordpress.
So here are some Great themes to help optimize your rankings in Google, because SEO is going to be [...]

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I bet you visit your own site somewhat frequently, did you know that if you had the Alexa Toolbar installed that you would counts as thousands of visitors to your site? Just like being a Neilson's viewing family you can represent thousands of your peers by installing the Alexa Tool Bar this can boost your [...]

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New York Times has a story about the Shift In Google News.  Google is going to enter the content business linking to Associated Press.
Google has been a source of traffic for a great many content providers but thus far has always stayed out of the content business.  Google is entering competition with its customers.  I [...]

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I was recently approached to help a friend buy names for a mailing list, and the customer was only looking for names that had made a purchase in the last 30 days.  Neowin.net sent me an e-mail because I hadn't posted in90 days.  Ello.com hasn't updated their site in 3 years and is still doing [...]

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Ryan Block who doesn't run ads on his site, wrote an open letter to other bloggers asking them to not use IntelliTXT.  The Problem Ryan, is that it is hard to make the money to do what we love if we give up the several hundred dollars a month in Ad Revenue.  I don't know [...]

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RPC Pinging Blog Directories is one of the best and easiest ways to get additional traffic for your blog.  A Ping lets these services know that your blog has been updated.  This is done using a Standard XML that all RPC Pingers, be it Pingoat, Pingomatic, or any other of the Ping services.
I will update [...]

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Driving Traffic to your WordPress blog can be made a lot easier with the right set of plugins.  This is one of the most comprehensive lists of plugins for Socializing your blog.  These are not so much SEO tools, but rather a way to drive your reader base which can be almost as good.  Readership [...]

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I am working on an experiment that uses Yahoo Pipes to start many of my blog posts for me.  This was partly to keep my blog moving while I go on vacation, but it is also turning into a way for me to Optimize my content for Search Engines.
SEO relies on a lot of factors, [...]

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There are a lot of people who do the "No Follow" thing, and people like Jack who don't give trackbacks to strangers.  And then there are sluts like me.  If you link to me, and someone follows that link, I reward you.  BIG TIME.  I have code in my page that when ever you link [...]

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Jack Vinson gets the award for being my biggest fan.  At BlogHer UnConference he apparently through it out as a session topic.   If you haven't read my Front Porch Elevator Pitch you can pick it up in my archives. 
It has been a long time since I updated it, and I probably should.
Blogging is more common [...]

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Article marketing is an important component of external SEO, or search engine optimization. Irrespective of how much internal SEO is carried out on a web page, article marketing can make a massive difference, not only to the traffic to your site, but also your link density and search engine listing.
The term 'web page’ is [...]

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Ok, I am convinced. I should put a sitemap on my blogger site. But, what steps do I take to add a sitemap?
First, I better define a sitemap. It is simply a map of your website and lists of all your sections and pages. A sitemap speeds up the indexing of your pages in [...]

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Search engine optimization is a means of making your website attractive to spiders and if you know of to use SEO to get listed on the search engine indices, you have a fabulous way of getting free advertising at your fingertips.
Many people spend a lot of money on pay per click advertising because they [...]

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Search engines are very difficult to completely understand. There are no complete explanations of how their ranking algorithms work. But the very fact that the average person does not intuitively know how to crack the search engine algorithms leads to all sorts of the same questions, usually variations of: "How do I get my website [...]

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Do you have a website on the internet that is getting little or no traffic? Lets face it.Starting a new website with the hope of achieving a large amount of targeted visitors is a very difficult task to achieve for most internet newcomers. This is mainly due to the fact that one has to go [...]

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In this age of information overload people are desperate to find the most accurate information within the minimum time possible. The internet is one such area where any kind of information is always at your fingertips. The crucial objective is to search through the huge volume of data and arrive at the information that is [...]

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Improved search engine rank can lead to high listings in search engine indices. The major page rank measurement is the Google PageRank that you find on the Google toolbar, but many people are confused at the difference between PageRank and search engine rankings, or listing positions, in the indices for specific keywords.
Google PageRank is [...]

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SEO to me was very much just like fishing, you sit there for ages waiting for a bite, never knowing if you are in the right place, have the right bait or technique.
Coming from a sales background where results in many cases was instant to SEO where much of your efforts become unnoticed for [...]

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With the numerous websites in the internet right now, you would wonder how they manage to get a lot of people to view their sites everyday to be able to survive. Most search engines have the most number of traffic, mainly because people use the internet to search for something they need to know about, [...]

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