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The other day SEOMOZ wrote about KeyCompete, a new service that uses scraping and a variety of ways to monitor competitor’s keywords and help a search marketer dig deeper into keyword research. Services like this are valuable because they provide another angle for real keyword data outside of the search engines tools. I know there […]

So Google just announced they are going to release more then a trillion unique words they have grabbed from pages. As a search engine marketer and general lover of words and phrases, this is like pure gold. Check out this example for Britany Spears
I think marketers in every aspect of the search industry should check […]

Saw this via searchenginewatch that OneStat had a study that less people are using one word queries then they were last year. Um, ok, yeah? As people use search engines more they will realize one word really isn’t enough.
Though I am not sure their sample size is a good one. 2 million visitors? Some websites […]

Recently there has been quite a lot of brouhaha (great word isn’t it?) about Google’s new Landing Page “Quality Score” and the effect it is having on some marketers. There are a range of rumors flying around from this is an attempt for Google to raise prices across the board to it is a conspiracy […]

The other day Seth Godin talked a bit about “astroturfing” and the efforts of some people on the web to campaign against it. What is astroturfing? Basically, faking grassroots enthusiasm for a product, politician, website, and so on.
It just made me wonder, isn’t a whole lot of “SEO” or search engine optimization really just some […]