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Steve Hammer on September 15th, 2011

I’m always impressed when people take a challenging concept and make it more user friendly.  Search Engine Optimization is in many ways about getting all of the details right.  ScribeSEO is a pretty nice tool to check your work.  It’s not free, but it is worth the price.  Check out Scribe Plans and Prices here. See [...]

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Steve Hammer on August 11th, 2011

Google plus burst on to the social networking scene just a few short weeks ago.  Many reports have claimed it has signed on as many as 25 million users within the first month of creation.  It’s a truly startling pace.  To be honest I’m jealous compared to my experience in running Stir, which had under [...]

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Steve Hammer on July 21st, 2011

It wasn’t that long ago that NYT began a series of hit jobs investigative articles about Google and shady search engine optimization practices.  Fox News has now decided that they need to jump on the Google-bashing bandwagon now with an article that is even less deep and accurate than those in the  New York Times.  [...]

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Steve Hammer on March 30th, 2011

Today Google unveiled it’s latest attempt at social media with the plus one (+1) button.  In many ways it’s an exciting development that could eventually be a strong signal for search.  It’s not hard to imagine how having users vouch for the quality of search results could lead to less junk in search results.  However, [...]

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Steve Hammer on March 10th, 2011

We’ve all seen parrots at conferences.  I’m not talking about the birds, I’m talking about so called experts that repeat the wisdom of true experts over and over again.  There’s no data to back up assertions, but the truth has been spouted so often no one would dare question.  For that matter these parrots are [...]

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Steve Hammer on March 5th, 2011

With a number of high profile brands getting attention in the media for questionable SEO tactics, it’s easy to see the suspicion of the career of SEO rising in the public opinion.  It hasn’t risen to Enron accounting levels yet, but hitjob pieces are starting to pop up everywhere, including a recent mashable article.  I’d [...]

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Steve Hammer on December 1st, 2010

A bit ago I became aware of project honey pot, a clever way to dangle traps for malicious spammers.  These traps allow them to gather data on some of the worst violators of email address harvesting and other nasty techniques.   Personally I think these guys are doing a great thing to reduce the clutter of [...]

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