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Google has introduced the rel=canonical attribute allowing webmasters to specify the single canonical URL for a page where duplicates may be produced.
Does Social Media Breed Conformity?
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In the age of social media, will anything be private anymore and if our lives are public before the world, what are the implications to society and governments?
Should you choose your keywords or should your customers choose them for you?
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Choose the keywords your customers use to describe you, even if they're not accurate and then re-educate your customers. Otherwise you may never get targeted visitors to your website.
Google ignoring robots.txt?
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Google is showing pages blocked by robots.txt in its index when using the site: command and even passing PageRank to these pages.
Online Reputation Management of Offline Marketing Blunders
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A small business owner tries to fix an offline marketing blunder with even worse online reputation management. Always present your business in a professional manner.
In the end, SEO is, in fact, all about the content
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If Google in 2009 is going to use user and searcher behavior as a metric in search engine rankings then SEO professionals will have to finally admit that content is king.
One rule for them when it comes to paid links and another rule for us?
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Buying links when done correctly is nothing more than cheap, effective advertising so Google will never be able to eliminate paid linking altogether.
WCAG 2.0 Finally Released
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The WAI has released WCAG 2.0 from draft into their official accessibility recommendations suggesting best practice for web design to accomodate all users.
Live Tweeting - How Much is Too Much?
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Before live tweeting an event via Twitter, consider how a deluge of updates will affect your followers and perhaps consider describing the event in a blog post instead.
Why I hate online video (and why you should ignore me!)
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As much as I hate online video with no accompanying text, most people prefer video content to written content and will remember and understand your website better with a combination of both.