When we launched our Sphinn social news site for search and internet marketers last year, we quickly were hit by a huge number of Japanese-language submissions. Unfortunately, we had to go to an English-only rule, as we had no easy way to moderate those submissions, such as checking for spam. Now, problem solved — Sphinn [...]

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New satellite images that will eventually show up in Google Earth and Google Maps are now arriving from the Google-sponsored GeoEye-1 satellite that launched a month ago. GeoEye has just released the stunning image below as a preview of what’s to come:GeoEye says this image of Kutztown University, Pennsylvania, is the first image taken by [...]

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The continued success of Google Maps gives Google another growing revenue stream to tap into, and that’s what they’re doing with the placement of new AdSense ads immediately under maps on Google Maps.The ads don’t show up on all searches, but they do appear on enough searches to suggest this is more than a limited [...]

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Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It’s also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from September 2008, then a major story for various search topics along with other [...]

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Posted by rishil
There has been a spate of posts recently that talk about spammy SEO agencies offering guarantees, trying to con webmasters into linking to them.

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As a small business SEO/SEM, how do you deal with competition by these “guaranteed” page one results type SEOs? There are two elements to this situation: one [...]

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