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Relevance and Google Search Algorithm Factors

A recent study showing the power-law effect on Google search ranking traffic is enough to underscore what we already know: the
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Canonical Address SEO, the Trailing Slash and WordPress

Google has a nice post on their Google Webmaster Blog regarding the use of trailing slashes for pages and/or directories, e.g. google.com/blog vs. google.com/blog/. The Fetch-As Googlebot feature in the Google Webmaster Tools Labs is quite helpful in this regard. Note that the slash issue is one of a number of such canonicalization issues which [...]
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Wikitravel goes nofollow

Today I received an email from Wikitravel with the title An important announcement from Wikitravel.org re SEO. It read as follows...
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PageRank Update for April, 2010

It's been over 3 months since the last (December 31, 2009) PageRank update. This time, there were changes in slightly over 25% of our tracked domains. Sensible Changes to PageRank The changes mostly made sense. Two domains lost a page rank (both went from 4 to 3), but with obvious causes as one has been [...]
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SEO Chiangmai International SEO Offerings

International SEO Offerings and Experience SEO Chiangmai is an SEO/SEM/Internet Marketing/Ecommerce consulting company. We've taught marketing, innovation and entrepreneurship, public relations, and organizational communication at the university level for 7 years. We've done IT consulting for 10 years and Internet marketing consulting for 5 years. The point is that this experience and expertise is brought [...]
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Price of Web Content, Freelance Writing, SEO

Cost of Web Content and Pay for Freelance Writers How much should we pay for content? There is quite a range out there. How much should writers get paid? In-house, outsource or partnerships? These are strategic as well as tactical questions. For those of us who want or need to buy content, it is paid [...]
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Markdown, Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare - Plugins for WordPress

Markdown WordPress Plugin Markdown is a fantastic tool for providing document markup that is then transformed into HTML. Storage space is reduced from storing HTML, therefore queries to retrieve are reduced, and most importantly readability is increased. The Markdown WordPress plugin (v.1.2.2 in any case) works great though in our current template we have trouble [...]
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Dofollow plus PageRank equals Linkjuice (DF+PR=LJ)

Dofollow + PageRank = Linkjuice The nofollow attribute in HTML hyperlinks, along with the illustrious Google PageRank are two of the more obvious and important factors for the SEO professional. I think that for individual website owners, knowing about this is much less important. Better is hiring (on occasion) a good SEO/SEM consultant who has [...]
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SEM - Search Engine Marketing

Generally the SEM side of SEO/SEM means the paid aspect of search marketing.
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