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Aaron Pratt is a friendly guy and runs SEO Buzzbox, a very interesting blog.
On this blog he has interviewed known profiles in the SEO/SEM industry. And so far in the SEO/SEM field he has interviewed:

Aaron Wall
Greg Boser
Jeremy Zawodny
Jill Whalen
Jim Boykin
John Scott
Lee Odden
Michael Gray
Mike Grehan
Rand Fishkin
Sebastian

I had some contact with Aaron and helped him on answering [...]

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Se denna tråd istället: http://www.webmasternetwork.se/f8t13353.html
När du har läst den tråden så läs sedan denna tråd och denna artikel i IDG.
Det förklarar allt …
För er som är intresserad av riktigt SEO så har jag just nyligen startat ett svenskt forum [...]

Want to know what the pros are thinking about buying and selling links? What people like Eric Ward has to say?
Here is the write-up from SE Roundtable.
Nothing really new but it is interesting to read what they have to say.

From the Search Engine Strategies in New York there are perhaps 50 pages blogged already by SE Roundtable, Matt Cutts and many more. From what I have read so far the most interesting is the presentation by Randfish on the Search Engine Algorithms.
See this blog post from Rand.
The powerpoint presentation can be seen here.
One of [...]

Google and the other engines are getting more and more sophisticated.
It is no longer just relevans and popularity (links, PR) but the factor of trust is now a major factor.
It has been speculated that by placing your postal address on your web site you add to the trust factor which seem very logical.
It dawned on [...]

ShoeMoney just recently posted a teaser on a new original contest he will launch.
“something original…”, “different…” and “a new approach”.
Well, I might as well also win that one

March 27 update
In Matt Cutts latest post:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/q-a-thread-march-27-2006/:
Q: Is the RK parameter turned off, or should we expect to see it again?
A: I wouldn’t expect to see the RK parameter have a non-zero value again.
Q: What’s an RK parameter?
A: It’s a parameter that you could see in a Google toolbar query. Some people outside of Google [...]

Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building.
It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire [...]

The way I learn SEO is by observing and testing. I don’t listen to all that junk on forums and articles except the very few sources that are my favorites such as randfish.
In my tests I have all of the test pages with an exact amount of generated random Lorem Ipsum to not hit the [...]

Affiliate and adsense marketer Jeremy Schoemaker (known as ShoeMoney) introduced in a blog post today about IPU - Income per unique. His own acronym.
We know about CPM, CPC and CPA but by reading his post you get more insight in how to measure your revenue in a new way.
Interesting.

In a forum thread of StatCounter Robin posted an answer to a person that was impatient with Google in regards to ranking.
This is what he wrote:
Lady Google does not provide immediate gratification. She considers that kind of thing to be undignified. She expects to be romanced for a considerable time.
She’ll pay attention to you only [...]

This is a white hat Carcasherdotcom Seocontest SEO Contest page, managed by Jim Westergren of SEO Fusion.

First of all you must enable the permalinks, but that you probably already have done.
Now to the point. Did you know that these are all different URLs for the same blog post?
http://www.myblog.com/my-blog-post
http://www.myblog.com/my-blog-post/
http://myblog.com/my-blog-post
http://myblog.com/my-blog-post/
Google sees this as 4 different URLs and 4 different pages when in fact it is only one. One of them will rank higher [...]

This is a white hat V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest page, managed by Jim Westergren.

I am happy to announce that I now have a SEO Site for my international clients set up with all my services and their info listed!
Let me present:
SEO Fusion
This will start my SEO business for real and moving into english speaking clients. I found it much easier doing link building for english sites with for [...]

What is the Google “sandbox”?
In my own words I would say it is an observation of an algo effect implemented by Google in March 2004 that makes new sites not rank at all for a period of many months. It is a dampening effect that was most probably created to stop spam sites from getting [...]

Is Google detecting and penalizing unnatural link growth?
Case Study
Sites used for the test:

NetMarketing.us
WebRelatedArticles.com

Release dates of the two sites:

November 27, 2005
November 25, 2005

Both sites are new domains that was not before indexed by Google.
Links added to the sites within the first 3 days of release:

Links from 35 unique web sites + around 0,7-1,2K coop ad weight.
(Details: [...]

SEO For Real - all the latest SEO information for SEO Professionals automatically collected in one place. Instead of checking 5 different SEO blogs and news sites daily - you just have to visit this one.
I paid a person on DP that was offering to set up these kind of sites and then I put [...]

How is the correct way to check backlinks?
This is what I have learned from own observations and I feel like it would be good to share.
First I can tell you that Google only shows a random fraction on the backlinks they know of - so it is totally useless using Google for this purpose. Probably [...]

There are 7 different tools and one new discovery that can be used in additional to looking at backlinks if you are interested in finding out what your future PageRank will be.
I say already now that they are not accurate …

Backlink and PR prediction tool from online-utility.org
Comments: This is the only PR prediction tool that [...]