At first I thought I saw a cat, then a tree stump. No... it really was a garden gnome!

Google honored the 129th birthday of the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach with an interactive doodle showing various ink blots.

We called them "Rorschach tests" when I was young, and I was always afraid I was going to fail it. Some time later it was more common to just call them "inkblot tests." Perhaps Rorschach was too difficult for Americans to say?

Time passes much too q...
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I've decided to bring in the New Year with a pretty challenging task over in the jWAG offices. I'm riffling through our collection of webmaster and SEO magazines, re-watching hours and hours of training videos and pouring over our own mountain of what is now 8 years of analytical data.

What's my goal? I'm compiling a massive list of SEO techniques and directions.

Honestly, with our recent realization of the incorrect usage of rel=nofollow that we mentioned in yesterday's Daily Gold Nugget, I realized I needed to compile a book of verified SEO notes. Sort of like an SEO training and consulting book to rule them all!

For a long time now my philosophy has been "think for yourself, question authority." Basically that means you should not blindly trust anything that someone tells you if there is at all the...
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I have many colleagues within the internet marketing business.

Many times I participate in forums where they talk about "spinning" articles in order to create more content on the web with links back to their websites. I've been saying for quite some time that all this spinning is nothing more than spam website content and eventually someone will come up with a way to filter it.

Enter Stage Left: blekko.com

Perhaps Google will learn this importance and figure out a way to do it. Unfortunately that means many of my friends will suddenly be out of business.

Nothing is better than original, human written content... written by someone truly knowledgeable in their industry.

You should never pay someone to spin articles for you. It's just stupid inter...
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So INSTORE Magazine is supposed to be the current industry best source for information, right? Every jeweler we know swears by the magazine for its fresh take on things and business worthy information.

Unfortunately, they are a print magazine, and that means by the time their magazine is mailed out they run the risk of their information being out of date. Staff writers tend to do what they were trained to do. That is to say, when they need input on a topic they seek out sources for information, except there's just never enough time to provide investigative reporting or to cooperate their first source.

Let me add another caveat here before I tell you why I'm upset. I do enjoy my monthly infusion of INSTORE Magazine information, and I've had the pleasure of and editorial and interviews with Trace Shelton. I also ...
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Matthew A Perosi provides 3 examples of how you can use Google AdPlanner to find the best websites to run your PPC campaigns on. Thank you to Kendra Weinman from Manhattan, NY, USA for the question.
This is part of a series of videos records in Nice France discussing online marketing for jewelry stores.
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