Hundred Dollar SEO

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Looking back at some older post I revisited the SEOmoz post on government susceptibility to cross site scripting. The results of their test over 2 years ago make me curious how government sites interact with the search engines today.
So I went to Google and searched: “robots.txt” “disallow:” filetype:txt [...]

Last week I saw an influx of Advanced SEO posts. I think that they are all off the mark in one sense or another. To me they all seem like this guy:

What Shimon Sandler thinks is Advance SEO:

An Excerpt:
“A silo is a vertical page linking design. You have your landing page, or your main page, [...]

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In college I had a friend who said “If it’s not worth doing, it’s not worth doing right.” I think that is a moment of genius. He communicates a subtle message — and it is NOT laziness. It is about priorities. If you have limited time you have to choose what [...]

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Today I started a discussion with Eric Layland of Point It about content management systems (CMS) and it occurs to me that there is a serious tension between the intended function of CMS and their use. Content management systems are intended to reduce the barriers to content change and to allow people [...]

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Social Media - content that allows user interaction.
There are three types of social media interaction, listed in descending authourity:
Identity Media: Content that is produced under the authors real name and fully backed as their work. Blogs like this one are Identity Media - good, bad, or ugly I generally believe the [...]

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What is the Internet?

A series of tubes? - Sen. Ted Steven
For porn? - Avenue Q
Widely misused?
Where I found my last job

Whatever you answer is ok with me. Whether you see it as an informational resource, a way to pirate content, a source to make money, or a hurtling dump truck — it [...]

URL: http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/a_statement_followed_by_a
Title: A Statement Followed By A Question Separated By A Colon | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Meta: The Onion, America’s Finest News Source, is an award-winning publication covering world, national, and * local issues. It is updated daily online and distributed weekly in select American cities.

The Onion warms my heart by forcing [...]

A couple of months ago I had a wonderful day — I was the undisputed 2nd Sexiest Man in SEO. Not only that I was the first result for Sexiest Man in Search, which is more of an accomplishment considering that there are 29 times the number of results and the search for the sexiest [...]

Url: www.FoundationSeattle.com
Title: Foundation v5
Meta: N/A

The Foundation Seattle is a group that throws parties for charity events for organizations in Seattle and gets matching funds from companies like Microsoft. Right now they only show up for the domain name. Which is unfortunate, they really could use search both to their advantage and to the advantage of [...]

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Craigslist is both a bane and a boon to your work. It is popular, easy, highly effective, and frequently abused.
Here are some tips for getting better results from Craigslist:

Get a Craigslist account – This will make posting and reposting quicker and easier.
Write like you are advertising – You are given plenty [...]