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SEO Daily Reading – Issue 25

  Podcasting Becoming More Popular — Advertisers Take Notice Baidu Under Fire for Music Piracy — Major Music Companies File Court Proceedings Five Simple Linkbait Metrics — And How to Measure Them Cheaply Three Important Reasons for SEO and SEM — Three Reasons Why Businesses … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 24

SEO and the Hesitant Webmaster Syndrome — Overcoming the Fear of SEO Techniques How to Call to Action — Elements of a Successful Call to Action Google Running Scared? — Finds Microsoft’s bid to Buy Yahoo! Troubling SEO Pilot Projects — Why They Are a … Read More

Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 12

Google’s Final Score Google’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2007 financial results have at last been revealed. The Search Engine Journal has the full lowdown. It’s interesting to see that the expectations were short of some market bystanders. It’s staggering to me to see just … Read More

Microsoft Looks to Upset the Search Engine Balance with Offer to Buy Yahoo!

Microsoft has a history of either arriving too early or too late to the party. In the case of search engines, they were too late. However, Microsoft has a not-so-secret weapon — money! Regardless of when they get to the party, they often times simply … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 23

  SEO First Aid — What to do When the Rankings Crash In Search of Relevancy — Or Why You should be Buying Venice Etchings David Ogilvy on SEO — Does David Ogilvy’s Wisdom Apply to SEO? Google Properties Breakdown — Top 20 Google Properties … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 22

  SEO Industry Survey — Take the SEOMoz Survery and You Could Win an iPhone 15 Fundamental Truths About Social Media Marketing — 15 of the Most Important Things About Social Media Marketing Wall Street Journal and Microsoft adCenter Strike a Chord — Microsoft adCenter … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 21

Sculpting with Nofollow — Apparently Works Pretty Darn Well 7 Features That Will Make Mixx Huge in 2008 — Mixx to Make it Huge in 2008? Mahalo Moves to Include Social Profiles — Multiprofiles Now Include Pownce, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn, and … Read More

The Ultimate URL Shortener and Redirect List

Excessively long Internet links (URLs) have been with us since the onset of the Internet. College websites are notorious for having long URLs to their content — especially URLs that are difficult to remember or type. Search engines have also played a part in promoting … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 20

  Google’s Red Flags — A Step Inside of Google’s Mind: Understanding Their Red Flags Steve Martin Was an SEO Pioneer — Why Local Businesses Should be Like The Jerk The Role of the Search Engine in New Media — What Role do Search Engines … Read More

Google’s Blog Search is Broken

I’ve always found Google’s Blog Search to be less then stellar. It’s excellent at indexing, sorting and presenting current blog entries. What it’s not excellent at is returning quality results. However, today it hit an all time low. I was doing some research for a … Read More