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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While laying in bed this morning I decided I would write about the difference between the skill set of successful agency SEOs and in house search marketers.
Skills that can really help agency style workers:

Have very strong basics - much of your day is getting sites to basic compliance.
Be methodical - when you [...]

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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 [...]

Some days it is difficult to come up with a quality topic, especially when you have been away for a few days. What can I say as I am trying to switch gears from vacation to work. I know that I need to produce content, at least to get my brain back on subject.
I should [...]

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 [...]

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Search Marketing is more than just search engines. One of the most amusing things to me is when people boast that they get the vast majority of their traffic from Google — sometimes as high as 80%. It is difficult not to laugh at that. Having a business that is entirely contingent [...]

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In the early weeks of April there has been an explosion in a very odd phrase, Bacon Bra, go search it. I’ll wait. There is quite a bit of content. But alas, no image content. The web results contain numerous versions of the original image from Flickr, but image search doesn’t [...]

Today’s SEO review is of James Kinloch site. Yesterday he stopped by to comment on “Are you Doing Opt-in Wrong?” and invited me to check out his site. He wants the phrase creative SEO.
What is Creative SEO?
To qualify as creative you need to be doing something that is notably out side of the norm. Link [...]

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Today there is a lot of coverage of SEO Standards. If you want a list of some recent articles visit this post at SEOmoz and Slightly Shady. I think that most of the people talking about standards are coming from the wrong position. They are largely talking about it from [...]