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Google Needs to Screen Ad Purchasers More Closely

Earlier this morning, I reported on Search Engine Roundtable that Google users are becoming infected with malware after clicking on Sponsored Listings. The problem was discovered on April 10th. Another victim of a similar Google AdWords hack reported the issue on April 23rd. Yesterday, I also addressed a consistent concern about...

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Google Personalized Search … Buggy? (Or is that a Feature?)

Okay, this is a rant that I’m going to get out while I have a chance. I’m logged onto my Google account and I’m looking for some images. One image caught my eye. When I moused over the image, I realized it was related to an article I wanted to follow up on. I accidentally closed out of the page with the results...

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Internet Marketing Best [Blog] Posts of 2006: The Year in Review

Given that I’ve only recently become involved in Internet Marketing, it still is something that I am learning more and more about, and there are a lot of blog posts and books that have helped me along the way. In light of my anti-Digg post, I wanted to take this moment to appreciate the best [blog] posts in the Internet...

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Is Dean Hunt for Real? (Can Matt Cutts Confirm?)

I read with interest about Dean Hunt’s bizarre Google request where an online store owner threatened him via email since Dean’s blog ranks better than the store for a particular keyword term. He writes for a partial SEO-themed blog, yet he needed more advice from individuals on a number of forums (with a link to his...

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Successful Verbal Link Bait from the Mouth of Jason Calacanis

SEOs worldwide were shocked by the Search Engine Strategies Chicago Keynote of earlier today given by Jason Calacanis, who said “SEO is BS, if you generate a web page with good content Google will rank the page properly.” Despite the fact that many SEOs did get offended, I’m beginning to wonder if Calacanis had...

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College Statistics 2006: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Google!

According to the 2006 GenX2Z Anderson Analytics survey (PDF link), the top five websites of choice by college students are: MySpace (13% of visits, a 258% increase from 2005) facebook.com (11.5%, a 41% increase from 2005) youtube.com (4.5%, with no data from 2005 recorded) collegehumor.com (3.7%, a 61% decrease from...

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