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adsense.blogspot.com

• A Global Greeting
  Members of the AdSense team from all over the world say hello from Mountain View, CA!Posted by Katri…
• AdSense email preferences: Get the most from your account and from Google
  Have you checked your AdSense email preferences lately? If not, you may be missing out on important…
• Blogger’s 11th Birthday Party
  Attention all Bloggers! We know many of you use AdSense to monetize your blog, and we wanted to be s…
• Sensitive category blocking now available for Japanese, Chinese, Polish, and Portuguese
  In an effort to expand the availability of sensitive category blocking (also known as category filte…
• Site maintenance on Saturday, August 21
  This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You'l…
• Getting to know you at AdSense In Your City: Boston
  Last week I was given the opportunity to attend the Boston AdSense In Your City event. Though Boston…
• Introducing the Google Small Business Blog
  We wanted to give you all a heads up about a new Google blog that is focused on helping small busine…
• A new look for AdSense for content ad units
  We're excited to announce a revamped design of three of our AdSense for content ad units! After anal…
• Inside AdSense - Meet Katrina
  You may have noticed a few posts from me recently, so I wanted to introduce myself to all of you, ou…
• Switch to the new version of AdSense for search
  Over the last two years, the AdSense team has offered the powerful Google Custom Search Engine (CSE)…

• AdSense: Behind the Scenes - Meet Evanne
  In the last video of this series, Evanne, a member of the Partner Development team, talks about her…
• Watch our latest webinar recordings
  Over the last few months, we held a number of webinars to help you further optimize your site:Optimi…
• AdSense: Behind the Scenes - Meet Alton
  In the next part of our video series, Alton, our Optimization specialist, shares with us his experie…
• Announcing the AdSense in Your City program
  This summer and fall, the AdSense team is coming to visit you! In an effort to work more closely wit…
• We’d love to hear your feedback
  Your opinion matters to us! So we’ve put together a short survey so you can tell us how we're doin…
• AdSense: Behind the scenes - Meet Alejo
  Continuing our Behind the Scenes video series is Alejo, our AdSense for video and AdSense for games…
• AdSense Facts & Fiction Part IV: Program policies
  Fiction: AdSense disables accounts and issues warnings at random.Fact: We rely upon a detailed set o…
• AdSense: Behind the scenes - Meet Debby
  Do you ever wonder who’s helping you optimize your webpages? Who works hard to ensure your payment…
• An update on the AdSense Product Ideas page
  A few months ago, we created a Product Ideas page for AdSense, where you could tell us what product…
• AdSense Facts & Fiction Part III: The stats pipeline
  Fiction: Site maintenance periods and delays in my AdSense reports mean that data isn’t being reco…
• Keep current on all things advertising
  The rapid pace of change in the advertising space can be dizzying. From new ad formats to new ad sys…
• Introducing the Google Display Network
  We’re always focused on improving AdSense by bringing more advertisers to your sites, giving you m…
• AdSense Facts & Fiction Part II: Electronic Funds Transfer
  Fiction: Google doesn’t support Electronic Funds Transfer in my country because they don’t like…
• AdSense Facts & Fiction Part I: Placement targeting
  Fiction: Targetable placements are difficult to set up and don’t do anything for my siteFact: It o…
• Join us for a top tech tips webinar this week
  This Wednesday, May 26th at 5pm GMT, we’re hosting a live webinar to share some top tech tips with…

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analytics.blogspot.com

• Back-to-Basics: How much mobile traffic do you get?
  More and more people are surfing the Internet from their phones these days. Take a look at the follo…
• New Tools to Debug Your Tracking Code
  Raise your hand if any of this sounds familiar to you:You just set up your tracking code and you're…
• Back to Basics: Fast Segments with Analytics Intelligence
  Did you know that there’s a quick way to create advanced segments from automatic alerts? This is o…
• Introducing Weighted Sort
  Have you ever sorted a report by bounce rate and seen nothing but entries with a 100% bounce rate? H…
• New Verification Integration With Asynch
  Nobody likes to duplicate effort. Unfortunately, sometimes it's a fact of life. If you want to use G…
• A Better Developer Doc Experience
  Now that the excitement of the new Management API launch has just passed its zenith, you might have…
• New Google Blog For SMBs
  Most every business, including Google's, starts small. These days, technology is giving businesses e…
• Launched: New Google Analytics Management API!
  Many developers have asked for a faster, more powerful way to access Google Analytics account config…
• Launch: Intelligence Just Got Smarter!
  Hopefully, by now, you’re making good use of the Intelligence report in Google Analytics. If you�…
• Back to Basics: Filtering Keywords
  If you’ve ever wondered how to make sense of the long lists of keywords that appear in your report…

• Web Analytics TV #11 with Avinash and Nick
  Yay! It’s another episode of Web Analytics TV!In this exciting series, with Avinash Kaushik and Ni…
• Segment Your Funnels Through The API
  Say your website has a check out lead generation process and you want to understand funnel abandonme…
• Back to Basics: Keyword/Landing Page Combinations
  Starting today, we’re reinstating the Back To Basics series. Each Wednesday, we’ll share a Googl…
• Summer Excuses?
  Google Analytics workshops and seminars are happening everywhere this summer! If you've had excuses…
• A Shout Out About Annotations
  A few months ago at the Google I/O conference, we were approached by Zach Steindler, a co-founder at…
• Will Using Google Analytics Have A Negative Effect On My Ranking?
  Good news from the horse’s mouth. We don’t mean to call Matt Cutts a horse, but, well, if you kn…
• Using The Wrong Tracking Code Can Cost You $500k a Year
  This is a guest post from Tom Critchlow who is an excel ninja, data geek, analytics nerd and head of…
• Analytics Intelligence Tips: Custom Alerts
  Last week, we shared a video on how to get the most out of your automatic alerts. Now that you’re…
• Analytics Intelligence Tips: Automatic Alerts
  When was the last time you checked the bounce rate for visits from Hong Kong? You may never have nee…
• Campaign Data Issue Being Corrected
  Late last week, we made a change that caused some visits and campaign data to be processed incorrect…
• Web Analytics TV #10 with Avinash and Nick
  It’s the 10th Anniversary of Web Analytics TV! Happy Birthday to us!In this exciting series, with…
• Like Web Analytics? Check Out The Beyond Web Analytics Podcast
  Do you like Web Analytics? Do you want to stay up to date on the latest developments in the industry…
• Advanced: E-Commerce Roll Up Reporting For Websites With Different Languages
  If you're a business owner of any size, you've at some point considered expanding. And as the web ma…
• New Edition Of A Great Book
  A few years ago, Brian Clifton was working at Google in London, leading our team in Europe. Since th…
• Use Case: Twiddy & Company
  We’re excited to hear from users that are able to attribute some incredible growth to Google Analy…

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googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

• New ways to view Webmaster Tools messages
  Webmaster Level: AllNow there’s a new way to see just the messages for a specific site. A new Mess…
• Rich snippets: testing tool improvements, breadcrumbs, and events
  Webmaster Level: AllSince the initial roll-out of rich snippets in 2009, webmasters have shown a gre…
• Google now indexes SVG
  Webmaster Level: AllYou can now use Google search to find SVG documents. SVG is an open, XML-based f…
• Showing more results from a domain
  Webmaster Level: AllToday we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will make it much…
• Verification time savers —  Analytics included!
  Webmaster Level: AllNobody likes to duplicate effort. Unfortunately, sometimes it's a fact of life.…
• To err is human, Video Sitemap feedback is divine!
  Webmaster Level: AllYou can now check your Video Sitemap for even more errors right in Webmaster Too…
• Video Sitemaps: Understanding location tags
  Webmaster Level: AllIf you want to add video information to a Sitemap or mRSS feed you must specify…
• New Message Center notifications for detecting an increase in Crawl Errors
  Webmaster Level: AllWhen Googlebot crawls your site, it’s expected that most URLs will return a 20…
• Video Sitemaps 101: Making your videos searchable
  Webmaster Level: AllWe know that some of you, or your clients or colleagues, may be new to online vi…
• Sitemaps: One file, many content types
  Webmaster Level: AllHave you ever wanted to submit your various content types (video, images, etc.)…

• Quality links to your site
  A popular question on our Webmaster Help Forum is in regard to best practices for organic link build…
• Google Videos best practices
  Webmaster Level: AllWe'd like to highlight three best practices that address some of the most common…
• Our new search index: Caffeine
  (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexi…
• Crawl Errors now reports soft 404s
  Webmaster Level: AllToday we’re releasing a feature to help you discover if your site serves undes…
• Grab bag videos are back!
  We’re kicking off June with the start of a new round of webmaster Q&A on the Webmaster Central You…
• Chrome Extensions for web development
  Webmaster Level: All The Chrome Developer Tools are great for debugging HTML, JavaScript and CSS in…
• Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and Stars
  Webmaster Level: AllSince we released the latest version of Top Search Queries in Webmaster Tools we…
• Call for webspam reports in Thai, Indonesian, Romanian, Czech and Farsi
  Webmaster Level: AllUpdate on May 19, 2010: We have several translated versions of this post! If you…
• Do know evil
  (Cross-posted on the Google Online Security Blog)UPDATE July 13: We have changed the name of the cod…
• URL removal explained, Part IV: Tracking your requests & what not to remove
  Webmaster Level: AllIn this final installation in our URL removal series, let's talk about following…
• You and site performance, sitting in a tree...
  Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate...k, i, s, s, i, n, g! Perhaps you heard our announcement…
• Rich snippets go international
  Webmaster Level: AllAs part of our efforts to make search results more useful to our users around th…
• To slash or not to slash
  Webmaster Level: IntermediateThat is the question we hear often. Onward to the answers! Historically…
• URL removal explained, Part III: Removing content that you don't own
  Webmaster Level: AllWelcome to the third episode of our URL removals series! In episodes one and two…
• Help Google index your videos
  Webmaster Level: AllThe single best way to make Google aware of all your videos on your website is t…

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battellemedia.com

• More Thoughts On Demand: A Referendum of Sorts on Google and Social
  
• Bing Targets Firefox, Chrome Users For IE Upgrade - But Not Safari
  Back in the day, it was news when Google used its massive home page distribution to push its new Chr…
• It's All The Web
  Fred points out apps and services that are Mobile First Web Second. I don't like the distinction. To…
• That Was Fast: TellApart Implements A Searchblog Suggestion
  Earlier this week I mused out loud about retargeting, suggesting that perhaps it's time for marketer…
• Google and AOL Renew Pact
  One of the best cards in AOL's difficult hand has been its search deal with Google, which was up for…
• Ping: "Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes" Except...
  ...as far as I can tell, they in fact don't ever meet. You can't leverage your networks on Facebook…
• blekko Explains Itself: Exclusive Video (Update: Exclusive Invite)
  And in case you are wondering what the big deal is, besides all the data you can mine, to my mind, i…
• On Retargeting: Fix The Conversation
  The New York Times published a story on the practice of retargeting today, entitled Retargeting Ads…
• Web 2 Summit Points of Control: The Map
  (Cross posted from the Web 2 Summit Blog...) As themes for conferences go, Points of Control is one…
• Gnar Gnar Epic Apple #FAIL
  ...that was the subject of an email sent to my by my Apple-loving son when the image above showed up…

• The Week In Signal
  Here you go, all you 188K or so RSS readers. I know you really count on this round up, so you know w…
• Is Google Objective?
  I was struck by this headline from TechCrunch: Has Google Purged Places Of Yelp? All Signs Point To…
• Finding a Yogurt Shop A Mile Away: I'm Not Feeling Lucky.
  I don't know about you guys, but I see way too much of this when I search Google lately. Tonight I w…
• AT&T Weighs In: Trust Us, We Know What You Want
  So I've read this post - Wireless is Different (AT&T blog) - several times now, and while AT&T is a…
• The Gap Reads The Gap Scenario
  Gap Offers 25% Discount for Foursquare Checkins (Mashable, Sunday 8.15) The Gap Scenario (Searchblog…

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searchengineland.com

• Google Power User Tips: SERP URL Parameters
  In Part 1, we looked at query operators for refining our searches. Now for Part 2, let’s look at p…
• Google’s New Mobile Ads Take Users From Search To Store
  Earlier this summer Google rolled out Expandable Map Ads for mobile devices. These ads appear on the…
• Google’s Spinning Buckyball Logo
  If you visit Google on Saturday, September 4th, or visit a Google property where it is already Septe…
• Google Adds Breadcrumb Support To Rich Snippets & Improves Testing Tool
  The Google Webmaster Central blog announced improvements to their rich snippets feature. The improve…
• Think Like A Generalist So You Can Act Like A Specialist
  As I keep working on the message of “how” we get things done online, I’m getting clearer about…
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 2, 2010
  Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places acro…
• Official: Google Experimenting With Four Ads Above Search Results, In Mortgage Searches
  Historically, Google has shown a maximum of three ads above its unpaid “editorial” search result…
• Consumer Watchdog Airs Anti-Google Cartoon At Times Square
  A Consumer Watchdog group is airing a cartoon that is named “do not track me.” The video depicts…
• SMX East: Possibly Our Best Yet
  Still wondering whether to attend SMX East in New York on October 4-6? You can get a great overview…
• How To Use Social Media Monitoring Tools For Outreach Marketing
  Social media is all about engagement. Because of this, it is the perfect tool for outreach marketing…

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seomoz.org

• Four Creative Link Building Tactics - Whiteboard Friday
  Posted by Aaron Wheeler In this week's Whiteboard Friday Rand Fishkin clues you in on four link bui…
• A New Day, A New SEOmoz
  Posted by randfishIt's been a wild few weeks at the mozplex. Today wrapped up the amazing mozinar wi…
• Day 1 at the SEOmoz Training Raceway
  Posted by Dana LookadooThis post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because…
• From Clicks to Conversions at the SEOmoz Training Raceway
  Posted by Dana LookadooThis post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because…
• Mobile SERPS & Usability
  Posted by SuzzicksSo here is the deal: Traditional websites frequently rank in mobile search results…
• 7 Different Visualisations of Link Profiles
  Posted by Tom_CWe all love backlinks. We all love visualisation. Boom! Let's mash those two things t…
• Linkscape's August Update: New Domain Authority Numbers, Partners and More
  Posted by randfishToday I'm happy to announce that we've just updated Linkscape's web index (which a…
• E-Commerce SEO: Making Product Pages into Great Content - Whiteboard Friday
  Posted by Danny Dover In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand Fishkin explains how to turn boring pr…
• Dear Google: Big Brands Aren't Enough
  Posted by Dr. PeteGoogle's recent brand update has gotten a lot of buzz this past week. Previously,…

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seobook.com

• How To Write Good
  Yes, deliberate mistake :) It grates when people write poorly, huh. When writers write well, the wo…
• Selling SEO Services: A Consultative Approach
  Does the thought of selling fill you with dread? If you see yourself as a technologist, or marketer…
• How Many Companies Has Google Bought?
  One of the best ways to track Google's strategies is through visualizing & analyzing their acquisiti…
• Alexa Site Audit Review
  Alexa, a free and well-known website information tool, recently released a paid service. For $199 p…
• Your Favorite Eric Schmidt Quotes?
  Do you want Google to tell you what you should be doing? Mr. Schmidt thinks so: More and more search…
• Raven SEO Tools Review
  Everyday it seems like a new SEO tool or toolset is launching. I've been quite impressed with the i…
• Yahoo! Search Now Powered by Bing
  Pretty exciting day in search seeing Bing results live on Yahoo! Search results. There were some que…
• Why 'Spam' is Everywhere & Why That Means Nothing!
  Sigh, not this again. ;) Recently Rand highlighted his surprise at how prevalent search spam is. But…
• Jon Glick Interview
  Jon Glick is one of the leading experts on search, having literally both wrote the code at leading…
• How To Lie With Statistics
  There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics - Disreli We get presented with gr…

• Financial Steroids
  One of Wordnet's definitions for slave is someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; 'a…
• Ryan Deiss Perpetual Traffic Formula Review
  Marketing generally has 2 core strategies in terms of customers: finding new customers & keeping you…
• Infographic: History of Search Timeline
  PPC Blog has another cool infographic out. This one is called The History of Search: How Finding Stu…
• Google Shows You How to Talk Out of Both Sides of Your Mouth (BETA)
  Rel=nofollow to the Rescue Years ago Google introduced rel=nofollow, claiming it as a cure-all for c…
• Demand Media's eHow.com Using Interesting Expired Domain Redirect SEO Strategy
  Perhaps part of the interesting data Richard Rosenblatt was talking about was link anchor text on ex…
• Portrait of an SEO
  The following is a guest post by Kpaul. :) A long time ago, on an Internet far, far away (when I wro…
• Yahoo! Tests Microsoft Search Results
  Straight from the horse's mouth: We’ve started testing organic (also referred to as algorithmic) a…
• Blekko Cozy Up to Webmasters, Offers Killer SEO Data Free
  Both Yahoo! and Microsoft have confirmed that they will start testing the Bing algorithm live on som…
• What Creates Digital Ghettos?
  Open source software is awesome, and I am much richer for it existing. But the concepts that work in…
• Multi-Level Marketing BS
  Excellent Penn & Teller program on multi-level marketing. BTW, NSFW. Those who are easily offended,…
• Google's Brand Debacle Backfires
  As Google reached the limits of returns in direct marketing they started pushing the value of brandi…
• Content Farming - SEOs Get It, Journalists Don't
  Recently, there have been a series of negative articles about content farms. Content farms, such as…
• Google As Publisher...
  Widgets Video content Video games Product comparison Travel eBooks They might prefer to use differe…
• I Like it, I Love it, I Want Some More of It
  In information retrieval some words are powerful / potent. They are really descriptive and get right…
• Excessive Worry About Competition
  Excessive Worrying = Missed Opportunities Do you worry too much about who you are competing against?…
• Free Data
  The other day a person contacted me about wanting to help me with ad retargeting on one of my sites,…
• How Does Google Work?
  This image might need updated in the years to come, but it does a great job laying out how Google wo…
• The Inside Line On SEO
  There are so many blogs on search marketing. Then there are so many forums. And Tweets. So much SEO…
• Building a Business by Focusing on Angry Overly Important Individuals?
  I just read a WSJ article about how some hotel chains are trying to woo people leaving negative rema…
• An Interview with Johns Wu
  Internet success stories rarely get any sexier than the story of Johns Wu.  In 2006, while still an…

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searchenginejournal.com

• Google Brings “Search-to-Store” to the Mobile Web
  Google Maps for Mobile has a new feature that could help you get exactly where you want to be. Earli…
• Google Makes Changes to Their Privacy Policy That We Can All (Almost) Understand
  Google has decided to give it’s privacy policy a little bit of a makeover. According to the Google…
• Reddit Prospers From Digg v4 Debacle
  Since the release of the newest version of Digg, v4, launched last week, the less-than-warm receptio…
• Google Opens Local Merchant Inventory Feature to All
  In June Google started beta testing it’s Local Shopping inventory feature which allows merchants t…
• ASAP Utilities – SEO and Productivity Addin for Excel
  I’ve said it many times and I’ll say this again: Excel if the ultimate SEO tool that can help yo…
• CEO Eric Schmidt Creepily Portrayed in Consumer Watchdog’s New Anti-Google Ad
  On a 540-square-foot jumbotron in Times Square an ad by Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer advo…
• Yahoo Search Gives Users Geographically Relevant Suggestions
  Yahoo Search blog announced today that it is introducing a new Search Assist that is enhanced with t…
• SVG Files and Documents Are Now Indexed by Google
  Google has announced that they are now going to be indexing SVG documents and files. SVG (Scalable V…
• Happy 2nd Birthday, Google Chrome!
  Two years ago, Google launched Google Chrome – a browser based around the open-source program Chro…
• Google and AOL Renew and Expand Long-Time Search Partnership
  After almost a decade of being in a search partnership, Google and AOL have announced this morning t…

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toprankblog.com

• Win a Free Pass to MN Blogger Conference
  TopRank Online Marketing is proud to be a founding sponsor of the first Minnesota Blogger Conference…
• Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Google
  Aaron Goldman is an accomplished digital marketer that I know through MediaPost’s Search Insider S…
• The Real Cost of Buying Links for SEO: $4 Million
  I was reading a copy of the Inc. 500 issue on my flight back from Dallas this weekend and came acros…
• Social Media SEO Success with Blogging
  My presentation on how to leverage Social Media SEO to improve the reach and effectiveness of blog c…
• Brian Clark Interview: Copyblogger on Content Marketing with Blogs
  OpenCamp’s Sunday schedule included presentations on blogging that included Chris Pirillo, Brian C…
• Chris Pirillo on SEO & Social Media @ OpenCa.mp
  At the OpenCa.mp conference in Dallas this weekend I was able to re-connect with Chris Pirillo of Lo…
• OpenCamp Blackhat SEO with Social Media
  The first content session I’m attending at OpenCamp is by Gio, aka Giovanni Gallucci, a longtime s…
• Army Golden Knights: Jumping in to Social Media
  Army Strong Stories is a program to draw attention to the real life and experience of being in the A…
• Video Interview: Dave Roth of Yahoo
  Dave Roth works as Director of Search Marketing at Yahoo. That means Dave is a Search Engine Markete…
• SES San Francisco 2010 Wrap-Up
  Last week the West Coast SES Conference and Expo moved from San Jose back to its roots in San Franci…

• Solving Duplicate Content And Multiple Site Issues
  More and more website owners are concerned that they might get penalized accidentally or overtly bec…
• Enterprise Level SEO Is Not For The Weak
  Thanks to Ray ‘Catfish’ Comstock for providing the title of this post with his opening remarks d…
• The Four Pillars of Building Instant Trust Online – Tim Ash Keynote
  Websites and landing pages face very real trust issues – for consumers they can be a scary and unc…
• B2B Marketing Tips From SES SF
  What’s the quickest way to catch a fish? Offer the right bait. What’s the quickest way to get a…
• Real Time Storytelling – SES SF
  For mainstream media to survive, if not thrive, it must integrate with the social web and create eng…
• Is It The SEO Metrics Or The Connections Between?
  Ultimately, to measure Search Engine Optimization (SEO) success, you aren’t necessarily looking at…
• Website Analytics vs. The Myth of 100% Accuracy
  Let’s get this out of the way.  100% accuracy does not exist in website analytics.  Repeat. 100%…
• Mobile SEO: It’s About The Value, Not The Viral
  Take a deep breath if you feel one step behind in terms of mobile Search Engine Optimization (SEO).�…
• Blog Marketing & SEO: A Recipe For Success At SES SF
  It’s been several years since I have seen TopRank CEO Lee Odden contribute to the panel ‘SEO Thr…
• SES San Francisco Keynote: BJ Fogg On The Power to Change Behavior
  BJ Fogg, Director, Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University gave the opening keynote on day…

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seoptimise.com

• 40 Title Tag SEO for Google Ranking Factors & Optimization Techniques + Resources
  A few months ago one of my clients has changed platforms. The new platform changed almost everything…
• 50+ Advanced Web Analytics Tools for Business Use [2010 Edition]
  Web analytics is perhaps the most important discipline for businesses online. In case you don’t kn…
• Top 10 tips & things you need to know about AdWords Remarketing
  This is a guest post from Rob Hillyard at Return on Digital. Create a brand new campaign for Remarke…
• When Not to Blog
  Grumpy Face by ellie. I’m blogging all day. Most of the time at work I spend blogging. I write for…
• WTF is Going On With Ad Group Bid Simulator?
  On July 19th I noticed that I could us the AdWords Bid Simulator tool at the ad group level rather t…
• Top SEOptimise posts in July – a monthly recap…
  July has been another busy month at SEOptimise – and seeing that we are currently writing around t…
• 30 Content SEO, Marketing, Creation, Strategy & Promotion Insights + Resources
  Chess by Alejandro Fernandez Everybody seems to agree with the “content is king” mantra. At the…
• How to achieve excellence in joined-up marketing – #JUMPchallenge
  This post is part of the #JUMPchallenge, a blogging competition designed raise awareness on how to…
• How to Write Highly Popular 30+ Item List Blog Posts to Get Links and Traffic
  Time flies by. It’s more than two years by now that I write the highly popular “30+” list blo…
• Top 16 Tweets from #BrightonSEO
  Following my BrightonSEO presentation yesterday, I thought it would be a good idea to use one of the…

• Top 20 WordPress Plugins to Supercharge Your Blog
  Today I presented at the excellent BrightonSEO mini-conference. My talk looked at 20 WordPress plugi…
• 35 SEO & Social Media Expert Interviews
  Three of the most trusted SEO and social media experts, Rhea Drysdale, Tamar Weinberg and Lee Odden.…
• 10 Online Ways to Advertise for Jobs Without Recruitment Agencies
  This week you may have noticed we have started recruiting for an SEO executive – rather than just…
• SMX Advanced 2010 – Best of Seattle & London
  Having attended both SMX Advanced conferences in London and Seattle earlier this year, I thought it…
• Google China: Just Abiding by the Laws? No, Censoring!
  So China just renewed Google’s license to operate there. Google has tried to “abide by Chinese l…
• Will Facebook Search Become the Dominant Player?
  In recent months I have been reading all kind of material on Facebook, search and SEO. I’m not her…
• The Twitter Hype is Over
  Dear Readers, at the end of last week I haven’t published the “Twitter weekly” column. This ti…
• 30 Multivariate & A/B Split Testing Tools, Tutorials & Resources
  Crossroads by Captain DJ. Getting targeted traffic for a website is just the first step in a thoroug…
• We’re on a Boat – SEOptimise Summer Party 2010…
  Last Friday was the SEOptimise summer party, being such a sunny day we made the most of it by going…
• Why Google Won’t Buy Twitter & What They Will Buy Instead
  Welcome back to the infamous “Twitter Weekly” attack where I dissect the hype around Twitter lik…

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seroundtable.com

• Google Buckyball Logo / Doodle
  If you visit Google New Zealand today, you will see a special animated logo. The logo is a buckyball…
• Google Slow To Remove Legally Seized Sites?
  Have you ever stumbled upon a web site that was legally seized by the U.S. government? Sometimes, no…
• Microsoft Cloaking MSNBots Again?
  A WebmasterWorld thread has webmasters complaining that Microsoft is cloaking their MSNBots again, s…
• Google Adds Better Error Reporting For Rich Snippets & Breadcrumb Markups
  Google announced two new webmaster features. The first is related to rich snippets testing tool and…
• How Do You Cancel Google Place $25 Tags?
  Google has been pushing the local maps Google Place tags. They have been giving them away for free f…
• Just Cause You Spend $65k On A Site Does Mean Google Should Like Your Affiliate Site
  Yesterday I tweeted, Just cause you spend 65k on a web site, doesn't mean Google will like it and re…
• Daily Search Forum Recap: September 2, 2010
  Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine R…
• Bing Web Search Update?
  This is very very early and I don't have evidence of this myself, since I don't monitor rankings, bu…
• How Does Google Maps Decide To Show Labels (Points of Interest)?
  Yesterday I reported Google is testing sponsored map icons in the US. They are basically enhanced po…
• Sphinn Drops Voting & SEO Community Revolts
  I doubt you missed the big SEO community news from yesterday. Danny Sullivan announced in a Sphinn t…

• Google Webmaster Tools Bug Prevented Unverifying Users
  Some users have recently been having difficultly removing verified users in Google Webmaster Tools.…
• GoogleBot Crawling Less or More Efficiently?
  The obsessed (in a cool geeky way) webmasters at WebmasterWorld are discussing recent patterns they…
• Logged In/Out: Google Keyword Tool Gives Different Results
  Sheara Goldenthal pinged me with a question yesterday about why the Google Keyword Tool shows differ…
• Daily Search Forum Recap: September 1, 2010
  Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine R…
• The Big Paid Search Merge Begins: Yahoo to Microsoft adCenter
  So Yahoo web search, the organic results, are now powered by Bing, Microsoft search. The next to fal…

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hyperlocalseo.com

• Local SEO News Portal Launches
  Yesterday LocalSearchEngineOptimization.net launched and will provide news focused on local SEO as w…
• Farmington Marketing Company Grows With Local Search Engine Optimization
  Localtek, a Farmington marketing company, continues to grow with a focus on local search engine opti…
• Offline Purchases From Your Online Presence
  One of the major challenges from local businesses that have had success with local search engine opt…
• PPC Advertising: Is It Really Worth It?
  If you’ve got the funds, PPC advertising may be something that a marketing company is encouraging…
• Mobile Marketing: Local Search King?
  Mobile marketing isn’t something that people take into consideration much when getting involved wi…
• Target Market Marketing
  Target, target, target. Always know your target market! If you can’t name the type of audience you…
• Flash: Not So Flashy for Search Engines
  Sometimes flashing a bit of Flash can be a good thing (excuse the pun), but if your wanting to optim…
• Social Media: The Driving Force of Local Search
  If you own one of the few people in the world who hasn’t heard of social media campaigns or the su…
• Link Building – Why You Need It
  Link Building is an important part of hyper local search. If you choose to implement only SEO keywor…
• Building your SEM campaign
  To build your digital advertising campaign, there are a number of tactics you can use. One SEM tacti…

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blog.alexa.com

• The Alexa Site Audit
  Today I thought I would write about one of our newest offerings, the Alexa Site Audit. The Site Audi…
• Alexa for Google Chrome
  Over the past months we have gotten a large number of requests for an Alexa Toolbar for the Google C…
• Advanced Demographics
  You may be familiar with Alexa's demographics data, but if not then you're in for an extra treat. Th…
• Amazon Universal Wishlist
  We've added a new optional button to the Alexa Toolbar for Firefox, the Universal Amazon Wishlist! N…
• Get Notified!
  Do you have an Alexa or IMDb toolbar for Firefox installed? Do you use Gmail? Then you might want to…
• Are you in the San Francisco Area?
  If you use Alexa.com and you're in the San Francisco area, then we would love to have you participat…
• Search Analytics with Alexa
  Some time ago we released some new Search Analytics features, and so far the feedback has been very…
• IMDb Toolbar
  If you're a movie fan,  check out the new toolbar for the Internet Movie Database!   You can sear…
• What Does it Mean to be Number 1?
  Last week there was quite a bit of press around the fact that Facebook was the most popular site on…
• Advertise on Alexa.com!
  Did you know we have a new self service advertising solution for Alexa.com? This is a great way to r…

• Toolbar Updates
  We've made some small updates to all of the Alexa Toolbars. These include the Alexa Toolbar for IE a…
• What's Going On With My Alexa Rank?
  There are two questions that seem to come up quite often in both our forums and out in the Blogosphe…
• We're Listening
  We are always interested in hearing what you think, your ideas, your suggestions, and even your comp…
• Finding Sites with the Site Finder
  Have you tried the Alexa Site Finder recently? If not, we've made a few improvements that you might…
• Search Analytics with Alexa
  When we search for something on the internet, either through a search engine like Google or a site's…
• Webmasters, Own Your Site!
  The Alexa help forums have been great for letting webmasters provide us with ideas for new services,…
• New Sites Linking In and Demographics data now live!
  In addition the the Alexa Traffic Rank, Alexa's Site Info pages provide a plethora of information ab…
• Network with the Alexa Toolbar for FireFox!
  If you use Twitter or Facebook, then we have something cool for you. I am happy to announce that we…
• 2009 Year in Review
  For those of you using the Gregorian calendar, Happy New Year! It has been an amazing year for us he…
• Get a Reviews Widget for your site!
  Since we reintroduced website reviews on Alexa, we have received a number of requests from webmaster…
• Move over Sparky, there's now a full fledged Alexa Toolbar for Firefox
  I am happy to report that you can now download an Alexa toolbar for Firefox with the same look and f…
• Alexa in Chinese continues to grow
  59E4ZA2KEN8EThe amount of positive feedback we've received about the Chinese version of the Alexa we…
• Alexa, Now in Chinese
  To better serve our Chinese users, today we are releasing a beta Chinese language version of the Ale…
• In toolbar reviews
  Since adding the ability to review websites back to Alexa.com, the response has been phenomenal. Rev…
• It's good to share
  As the father of a toddler, I'm constantly reminding my little one how important it is to share. For…

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blog.traffick.com

• Canadian Real Estate Brokerages to Challenge MLS Site?
  In the U.S., real estate search sites like Zillow have attracted huge enormous user bases and record…
• The Google AdWords ‘Tourist Tax’
  On a recent trip to Italy, I was struck by the pricing gap between “insider deals” you might get…
• Google vs. 3M
  Looking for investment ideas? In this corner: Founded in 1902 and relocated to Duluth, Minnesota, in…
• Blekko Update: Mechanical Turk Meets Algorithmic Web Search
  Blekko, the stealth search engine startup co-founded by Rich Skrenta (of ODP fame), has recently lau…
• Google’s Shuttered Projects: Does it Come Down to Trust?
  Danny Sullivan offers a thoughtful piece “celebrating” and reviewing Google’s failed (closed)…
• Five Quality Score Myths Busted
  In search marketing, it’s easy to get people obsessed with a particular metric: you express it on…
• Freedom Sold Separately
  Well, this is bizarre. About a month ago, I posted some incoherent ramblings about number crunching�…
• Will the BlackBerry Slander Never Stop?
  When a company is #1 at something — or close to it — any hiccup that comes along is proof their…
• If You’re a Linchpin, You Have Nothing to Fear from Trada
  Trada, the paid search management environment that enables crowdsourcing in a bid to help advertiser…
• The Real Impostors
  There was a bit of an unanticipated dustup in response to Mona Elesseily’s perfectly sensible colu…

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ysmblog.com

• Advertisers, Begin Your Account Transitions
  You’ll be ready for the expected October move of Yahoo! Search ad serving to adCenter Last week, w…
• Yahoo! Organic Search Transition to Microsoft Now Complete
  What this means for you Big news from the Yahoo! Search blog today—we’ve completed the work of…
• Important Updates on Search Transitions
  Organic transition beginning this week; paid search transition testing happening now As we continue…
• A Virtual Yahoopalooza at SES
  Meet top Yahoos at Search Engine Strategies, San Francisco, August 17–19 This is going to be fun.…
• Back-to-School Ad Tips
  Adjust your ads and keywords for maximum results this shopping season It might seem like summer just…
• Geo vs. Geo
  A mysterious stranger offers direction on geographical targeting Editor’s Note: This is the last�…
• A Look Ahead at the Transition to Microsoft adCenter
  The latest update on the search alliance, and what advertisers will be doing once the transition win…
• Building a Foundation with Strong Keywords
  Go wide—with a range of specific and general words and phrases Editor’s Note: This is another i…
• Ad News and Views from Around the Web
  Online spending up double digits; tweeting at Harvard Biz; hitting the Hispanic market; giggling for…
• Free Ship = Good Tip
  It’s the wonder offer that works wonders for your sales Editor’s Note: This is another in a ser…

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redflymarketing.com

• How to Maximize Your Click-Through Rate and Add More Control to Your Landing Pages Using Ad Sitelinks
  In the organic search listings you’re probably familiar with Sitelinks. They are the collection of…
• Google Global Extension For Chrome
  Last week, due to popular demand, we quietly released the beta version of our Google Global extensio…
• View From The Other Side Of The May Day Update
  A post about the Google MayDay update, how it has impacted countless webmasters, site owners and bus…
• The Newest Member Of The Redfly Team
  A blog post about our the latest member to the RedFly family. Sinéad Cochrane, Irish tech blogger o…
• Redfly Ireland’s First Google AdWords Certified Partner
  Redfly has become Ireland's very first Google AdWords Certified Partner. After years of experience,…
• Google Global Firefox Extension Version 2.2
  It’s been a while since our last Google Global update. We’ve been kicked into gear by the forcef…
• What Every AdWords Advertiser Should Know About Quality Score – The Ultimate QS Improvement Guide
  A lengthy and detailed post, that goes into quite a bit of detail on the subject of the Google AdWor…
• Mulley Communications Online PR Workshop
  On Saturday, the 23rd of January, I attended an online PR workshop run by Damien Mulley from Online…
• The RedFly 2010 Marketing Conference & Event Schedule
  Want to meet with us in 2010? The Redfly team will be traveling the globe to attend a wide verity of…
• Geo Target Your Way To A Higher CTR & Quality Score
  A post about using AdWords Geo Targeting to improve your quality score. By using searchers location…

• Google To Become The World’s Biggest Search Affiliate?
  In this post I examine the recent changes Google has made to it's paid search offering, the loss of…
• How AdWords Can Be The Best SEO Tool In Your Arsenal
  A post with examples of how AdWords can be used as an incredibly effective SEO tool in many ways. Fr…
• Website Redesign – A Sometimes Essential SEO Tactic
  A post discussing the increasing trend towards website redesign as a prerequisite to any effective S…
• Search Engine Ranking Checkers – Why They Still Matter
  A post about search engine ranking checkers, organic SEO monitoring and the need to track many long…
• Is Your Business Model In Line With Google’s?
  A post about how Google has dealt a death blow to advertisers using AdWords for affiliate marketing…
• How AdWords Determines How Much You Pay Per Click
  Google's Chief Economist, Hal Varian has posted a fantastic video that simplifies the whole system a…
• Introducing The New AdWords Networks (Placements) View
  Post detailing some of the great new features of the new AdWords beta interface including content ne…
• 5 More Ways to Improve CTR
  A follow on post on different methods to increase not only Adwords, YSM and MSN click through rates,…
• Irish SEO, SEM, Webmasters & Designers Meetup Take 2
  The time has come again. Irish SEOs, online marketers, webmasters, all members of the Irish Webmaste…
• How To Use The Content Network To Invest In Domains
  A detailed article on using placement performance reports from the google content network to source…
• RedFly Interview With Aaron Wall Of SEO Book
  An interview with the man who literally wrote the book on Search Engine Optimisation. Dave Davis fro…
• Should You Jump Into Social Networks to Promote Your Business?
  There’s a lot of buzz in the online PR world about social networking, whether that be traditional…
• Free $100 Facebook Coupon Courtesy Of Redfly
  For those of you who are not advertising on Facebook already (and even if you are) and want to give…
• Use PPC To Dominate Your Typo SEO Landscape
  PPC advertising is not only great for generating sales and qualified traffic, it’s also the BEST p…
• Take The Guesswork Out Of PPC Campaign Setup
  As we grow and take on more and more clients as well as consult with smaller clients, there has been…
• Dublin SEO, SEM & Webmaster Meetup
  The stage has been set and flights to Dublin from most European and domestic locations are fully boo…
• How Too Many Press Releases Can Damage Your Credibility
  As an online PR consultant, there are a few questions I repeatedly get from webmasters and online en…
• 7 Tips For Finding & Expanding Your Negative Keywords
  A detailed how to guide on building an effective negative keyword list for your PPC campaigns to imp…
• A Press Release is NOT a PR Campaign
  Article explaining how an effective online PR campaign is a lot more than a simple press release. Th…
• Google Global Video Guide – How To View Google Results In Different Countries
  Our good friend Vittorio over at Tech Savvy Marketer has created a video tutorial on the installatio…

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seobythesea.com

• SEO Quiz
  I thought it might be fun to put together an SEO Quiz. How many of the following can you get right?…
• Apple to Take on Google in Showing Immediate Search Results?
  About ten days ago, Rob Ousbey posted a video on his blog showing Google streaming updates to search…
• How Google May Rank Blogs
  Interested in finding a blog about a particular topic or place, rather than individual blog posts? A…
• Hornet’s Balls and Gold Mining
  As much as I love exploring search engines, and how they tick, sometimes its good to get away from b…
• Google’s Affiliated Page Link Patent
  Might Google rank links to pages differently based a perception of how related or affiliated those p…
• Facebook Places vs. Yahoo’s Who, What, When, Where (W4) Communications Network Patent?
  A new location-based service from Facebook is rolling out this week, known as Facebook Places. The a…
• Not Brands but Entities: The Influence of Named Entities on Google and Yahoo Search Results
  Does Google favor big brands when showing search results? That question has been bandied about on th…
• How a Search Engine Might Interpret Ambiguous Queries through Entity Tags
  When someone performs a search at a search engine they tend to use only a handful or less words to t…

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phoenixrealm.com

• Introducing Open Site Explorer
  I attended SEOmoz’s Open Site Explorer (OSE) webinar last Thursday, January 28, and learned some t…
• PPC Management Software and Tips
  One of the best ways to drive interested visitors to your site is through pay per click (PPC) advert…
• Social Search and SEO
  So how is the social search engine relevant to SEO? It is obviously important because we see how mor…
• Google Social Search
  Google launched its Google Social Search this week. The new product is still in its experimental pha…
• Google News Rank Boosters
  Last time I gave some tips on how to rank better in Google News. Today I’ll be giving some more ti…
• Ranking in Google News
  If you are aiming to rank in Google News but doing exactly the same thing you do in your ordinary we…
• Observations on Google Caffeine
  Last month Google unveiled their secret project: Google Caffeine. According to Google, Caffeine is �…
• Bing Ignoring Instructions Not to Index Pages
  Bing has been having problems with its indexing. Just recently Brett Yount, Program Manager of Bing…
• Microsoft-Yahoo Tie Search Tie Up
  Earlier this year there was a lot of talk about a possible Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo. As we ver…
• The Power of the Hash # in SEO
  Early this month I promised a post detailing the uses of the # in SEO. Here it is. As I have mention…

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seo2.0.onreact.com

• You Need Better Not More
  Traffic Jam in Beijing by poelog. In the recent weeks I haven’t published many new posts on SEO 2.…
• 101 Ways to Make Your Blog More Popular and Successful
  This way by the monnie. After 13 years of online publishing, 7 years of blogging for a plethora of b…
• Blogging vs Writing
  Image: Timeless Books by Lin Pernille. Is there a difference between blogging and writing? Yes, ther…
• Panama Hat SEO
  I confess: I’ve been lying to you all these years! I don’t wear a white sombrero like my avatar…
• The New SEO – Search Engine Organization!
  Mexican Fans by Celso Flores (image added by sombrero expert optimizer Tad of SEO 2.0) “The New SE…
• Quick & Dirty SEO or Quality Optimization?
  Most Hair Cuts 6.99$ by a4qpa. Last week I went to the barber. Actually she’s a female barber so s…
• Search Marketing Standard: The Future of Print & SEO – Interview with Associate Editor Frances Mary Krug
  The Search Marketing Standard is not only the oldest search marketing print publication I know of, i…
• Why People Hate Ads and Love SEO
  Love by jimscottIMD. I hate ads. I’m not the only one. Most people hate annoying ads. People hate…
• The Best StumbleUpon Resources Outside of SU
  This is an updated post. To enhance your StumbleUpon experience there are great third party StumbleU…
• Sometimes Success Lies in Moderation
  Balance by Liber. Just yesterday i noticed that I entered the Adage 150 top marketing blog list at #…

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all-about-content.com

• I’d Be #1 … If It Weren’t for All Those Other Sites
  Years ago I was teaching a friend how to drive. She wasn’t feeling very comfortable pulling into t…
• Media 2.0 Day: Pew Internet & American Life
  This is Part 3 of a series of notes from Media 2.0 Day, part of the Digital Capital Week conference.…
• Media 2.0 Day: Jeff Pulver’s “The State of Now”
  This is Part 2 of my little foray into live blogging a day of conference sessions. I’m not a “li…
• Media 2.0 Day, Digital Capital Week
  Live blogging on DC Week's Media 2.0 Day. Opening session on Social and Traditional Media: How News…
• Change. Brought to You by the Letters P, B, and S
  Wow, it’s been more than a year since I last posted on this blog. I’m dusting it off because I h…
• Google’s One-Line Sitelinks Explained
  Last Thursday (April 2), Google unveiled new shortcuts in their SERPS, displaying a single line of f…
• Yahoo Enhanced Results Allows Embeds Directly Into SERPs
  Yahoo Enhanced Results (via Search Monkey) - by adding a small bit of markup around an embedded obje…
• Back to Basics: Finding Flickr Explore Photos
  Although it’s been a while since I’ve been active on Flickr, my posts on Flickr Explore and the…
• Are Behavioral/Interest-Based Ads More Relevant?
  With the new buzz about AdSense going the route of behavioral targeting (or “interest-based advert…
• Revving Up with RedEngine Digital
  When faced with scary economic times, the instinct is often to dig in, batten the hatches, hunker do…

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wiep.net

• Link Building this Month (08.2010)
  SEO seems to have a questionable reputation, unfortunately, which is comparable to the reputation of…
• 5 Reasons Why I Won’t Link to Your Website
  When I’m in the middle of creating a new website or an in-depth blog article, one of things I usua…
• Link Building: It’s All In the Details
  When it comes to link building (but with most other things as well) most people try to find shortcut…
• Need Local Links? Use the Local Keyword Tool
  A few weeks ago, Aaron Wall and Geordie Carswell launched a new PPC Training and Community Forum. Th…
• Link Building this Month (07.2010)
  We’re only halfway during the summer, but I think that this years winner of the SEMMYs is already…
• Link Building: Just Another Popularity Game
  You can come up with all the explanations you want, but link building basically is nothing more but…
• Link Building this Month (06.2010)
  “Link building is becoming more difficult lately. People don’t link out anymore and Twitter is p…
• How to Create World Link Maps With Majestic SEO & Google Spreadsheets
  Managers love visuals. Nice charts, infographics or pivot tables make excellent excuses for not havi…
• Link Building this Month (05.2010)
  Newspapers are asked to remove links, natural links become a rarity, and more and more webmasters be…
• 10 Link Building Tools Reviewed
  I have written about useful link building tools here in more than one occasion, but I still get ques…

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jenniferslegg.com

• Giving your older content an SEO audit
  When most people sit down to do SEO on an established site, chances are pretty good that a lot of t…
• Could your employees sabotage your social media campaigns?
  Now that social media is the big thing that many companies are trying to roll out, those (often inex…
• Choosing a Killer Avatar for Your Online Profiles
  When you first thought to choose an avatar, you probably didn’t put much more thought into it than…
• What’s your social media personality?
  Think about the last 10 things you Twittered? Was anything personal? Did you mention what you were h…
• Creating new hot content for trending topics
  Sometimes the best articles or blog entries can be something you have written off the top of your he…
• Gaining pageviews on older blog posts through commenting
  Whether you have a old blog that has racked up hundreds of blog posts, or if you are just a newer ye…
• Why Twitter should monetize with advanced features for users
  As Twitter has been gaining more popularity, there has been lots of talk about what Twitter should (…
• How to prevent competitors from seeing your AdWords ads
  For whatever reason, you might decide you don’t want your competitors from seeing your AdWords ads…
• Is your web dev team losing your PPC conversions?
  I was on a conference call today and I had said how many people misunderstand what click fraud actu…
• Are you losing traffic to Google’s new “Did you mean” change?
  Like most people, I do tend to type quickly enough that I can occassionally transpose characters or…