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According to a new Juniper Research report, 1.3 billion mobile users are expected to use local mobile search services by 2013. While the trends bode well for for the mobile search industry (agencies and marketers alike) the report goes on to caution that these numbers are based on good a user experience.
Mobile devices however [...]

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Those who have been in the industry since the late 90’s have seen huge changes in SEO. The industry has really matured. But in the grand scheme of things, if you were to plot SEO on a product life cycle chart you would see that the industry is still in its’ infancy.
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This post is part of an ongoing series: How Search Really Works.
Previously: Relevance (2)
Instead of painstakingly grabbing the absolute best matches for your query to then rank those with infinite precision, one time saving strategy has search engines go for "close enough".
Painstaking Precision

Given all the time, money and resources in the world, here's what we'd [...]

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There are three types of people in the world: Those who think anyone can do PPC. Those who think it takes a very special kind of idiot-savant. And those who understand that the truth lies somewhere between the two.

Image: Corbis
I spend my typical PPC day pulling bunnies from hats.
The prestige — the [...]

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So it would seem that everyone is in a race to become as transparent as possible.� It has become (clearly) evident that there is more revenue potential out there by opening up everything and making it available than there is by keeping it all horded and secret and [...]

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Great news this a.m. from the land of hockey … Yahoo has finally acknowledged that yes, we Canadians live in Canada. What you ask?

In essence, this means that Yahoo is finally automatically redirecting Canadians searching via Yahoo Search (ie. Yahoo.com) to Yahoo.ca, presumably based on IP. The result is more Canadian sites will be found [...]

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When a blog becomes a community destination it is more than writers writing and readers commenting. Readers get to know the names and avatars of blog authors, and check to see what they are thinking and reading. Readers who have questions may feel that the blog's collective expertise is available to them, and [...]

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Ever wonder why some Digg submissions go hot at 25, while others don't at 270+? Same with Stumbleupon … why do some posts do exceptionally well while others with similar numbers of thumbs ups get substantially less traffic?

One word … TRUST!
Trust plays a huge role in organic search algorithms, so why wouldn't it in social [...]

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Its true! Matt McGee and I have had a long time bet who would be the last to join Twitter. Following Michael Gray's session at SMX Social, we both saw the light and mutually agreed to join Twitter. Though in true fashion, we've still got to settle our bet, so we decided to each wager [...]

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