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David Harry | SEO Training Dojo | @theGypsy

David Harry is an SEO and IR geek that runs Reliable SEO, blogs on the Fire Horse Trail and is the head geek at the SEO Training Dojo.

Weekly Search & Social News: 12/15/09

Welcome to another edition of '7 Days of Search and Social' - Well, maybe it’s the holidays or maybe it was SES, but the world was a little quieter than usual last week. But that’s no problem as the behemoth that is Google put out (yet another?) big announcement
oll-out with Real Time Search. That was enough to feed the savages on its own. Other than that, it was busiest in the Local...

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Why Conversions Can Be a Messy SEO Metric

Seems I am still running into SEOs that believe, however misguided, that conversions are somehow their domain. This seems speak to the fact that many search optimizers may not have a grip on the marketing model. While I’m not as well versed as I once was, let’s at least take a stab at this… For starters there are simply too many potential factors out of the average SEOs control that can affect...

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Weekly Search & Social Coverage: 12/08/09

Welcome ot another edition of '7 Days of Search and Social' - I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the trenches. It was a somewhat quiet week out there as far as kick ass blog posts, (although 'Dave baiting' is in season) but we did make up for it with a bunch of tools and even some patents of interest. Of course the big news was from the fine...

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Weekly Search & Social News: 12/01/09

Welcome to another edition of '7 Days of Search and Social' - last week was fairly quiet on most fronts except for the blogosphere which seemed to be churning out the goodiness with no slow down (for the US holiday). My personal fav, of course, was Yahoo's re-release of the 'User Sensitive PageRank' patent (also known as personalized PageRank). This method is used by both Google & Yahoo... here's some more on

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Weekly Search & Social Coverage: 11/24/09

Welcome ot another edition of '7 Days of Search and Social' - I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the trenches. Last week was a particularily busy one in the blogosphere which made it even harder to try and keep the list managable. Even in the world of patents it was a busy one. I sure hope you have your reading caps on because this edition is a HUGE...

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A week worth of treats for SEO geeks

Welcome ot another edition of '7 Days of Search and Social' - I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the trenches. As is the case with most conferences, things were a bit slow out there as the PubCon effect was in full swing. ut have no fear as they're always good for an announcement or two (Matt had a few interesting ones). Over the last week he spoke about...

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7 Days of Search and Social; the ultimate update

How are we this week my fine SEO geeks and phreaks.. last week was a pretty busy one out in the search blogosphere. Lots of great search stuff including another look at microformats and RDFa, some interesting patents and even an announcement here on SEJ for the new tools be offered in conjunction with the gang at Raven SEO tools (a newsletter sponsor no less). A lot of folks are at PubCon this week, for...

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Search Geek Weekly News Update; Google Social Search & More

It's been another week in the trenches and while it may have been a little slow out there, we did have some big news with Google Social Search. Question remains, will it really be a game changer or just another vertical? And what the SEO community lacked in activity, we did come across more IR geekiness, which makes this old horse a happy camper. We've also got a few interesting patents and more... I hope this...

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7 Days of Search and Social; more news than you can handle!

Hello my weary web warriors and welcome to another week of news for the search obsessed. It was an interesting week that had some big announcements, app updates, more Super Heroes and the usual collection of gratuitous goodiness that is the world of search. I hope things are going well for you…. Let’s get on with the show! Lead Story Google Analytics? WTF? Is probably what you’re asking right about now as far as our...

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7 Days of Search and Social; the source for search geeks

Hello and welcome to another week in the world of goodiness from the trenches. My name is Dave, and I am a Seriously Obsessed Search Geek (or SOSG). I shall be your guide in this is our second edition of weekly geek reading for those that can't get enough. It was a fun week with asshats, crap hats and SEO sucks to boot! And oh yea, there was also a TON of other great...

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