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Its been noted in several forums that Google has not updated the PR bar for about three months. Along with that, looking at backlinks appears to be wildly innaccurate as the results contain only a sampling of the backlinks.
I’m not a big fan of the PR bar but we have to rely on it […]

Here are three SEO tools that were sent for me to review. It’s always good to investigate to see if any can be truly benficial.
1. Keyword Harvester
Price $10.00
System Requirements
Unix or Linux Operating System
Perl 5 with sockets library installed
“This script allows you to scan for popular search engine words and phrases derived from your search word. […]

You’ve got to love this: copyscape.com will analyze your page content and show you where its been stolen and placed on someone else’s site. Its not perfect as it shows link descriptions which are most often legitimate but can be a great find for catching anyone stealing large portions of your text.

The PageRank and Related Technologies white paper has been updated to reflect recent research. A foreword has also been added.

I discovered an interesting and useful marketing resource MarketingProfs.com. This site is geared towards providing a broad range of tools and information for marketing professionals. The site also contains an information section that discusses search engine marketing from a traditional marketing perspective, that archive can be found here.

The Las Vegas Business Press has a good article on Traffic Power. Here is a quote I found most intersting:
While business developer Powers sympathizes with Ohrum - with whom he spoke over the phone - Powers says Ohrum failed to understand that getting banned by Google is part of the business.
Part of the business? […]

A fairly comprehensive resource guide that I stumbled upon called “Killer Tips and Tools for Search Marketers”, is a catalogue of internet resources dealing with various aspects of Internet Marketing. It’s available as a .pdf download from Smart Search Marketing. Downloading does require registration and the download URL is then e-mailed to […]

Here is an interesting business concept for SEO. SEO Testing. $99/year allows you to submit SEO concepts for testing purposes to see if they work.
With so many variables to potentially optimize, I’m not sure how single concepts can be tested. It seems that any one concept may pass or fail on the basis of […]

I have begun Research on the I.R. Reverse Engineering Project, which will attempt to identify the technologies and methodologies employed by major Search Engines in regards to the way that search results are retrieved and organized. This project is a continuation of previous research which I conducted that addressed PageRank and other Google technologies. […]

Internally we’ve been discussing link quality. I’ve started a couple of threads on the subject as well as written a few newsletters. Here are some links to contribute to those conversations.

Search Engine Watch
Search Engine Forums
Pole Position News #32
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SEW Forums has an interesting debate about offering service Guarantees. Read here.

I started a thread over at Search Engine Watch forums to generate a discussion on how to measure a successful SEO campaign. I’ve been less than thrilled by the lack of response and there have been few real insights, but I think its a good conversation worth watching and throwing in your $0.02 worth. […]