Geary Interactive have announced acquiring Fathom Online, an SEO company.
Fathom was formed in 2002 and is based in San Francisco. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Geary is a full service digital marketing agency based in San Diego. Some of Fathom’s employees are now working out of the [...]

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Posted by Ann Smarty
The number of subscribers is the main metric of a blog’s popularity (I am pretty sure everyone knows that but I needed an introductory sentence ). Recently, I’ve been exploring and experimenting with some creative looking blog RSS buttons and came to an interesting conclusion: no matter how unique and prominent it [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Search In Pictures: Google Shooting Range, Yahoo Asia Schwag, Google Pizza In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine [...]

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WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, [...]

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Posted by great scott!
This week Rand discusses Trust as a ranking factor: how it originated, what it may look like, and how you can use it when planning your link building campaigns. The closer you can get to major authority sites, the more trust your links are likely to have, and as we all know, [...]

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