Technology: From Desktop Software to the Web and All The People In Between
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Welcome to the Information Technology (IT) Consulting Guide. Hopefully you're a consultant in the information technology industry. The alternative is that some search engine has brought you here after you've searched for something I've written about. Either way, I welcome you.
First off, a little about me. I trudged my way through a computer science degree in the early 90's and then spent several years writing code on contract. For the last several years I've taken on more senior roles and have been involved with system architecture and project management. I was around during the dotcom boom and continued to consult when the bubble burst. I've seen the good and the bad of what a career in consulting can offer.
The purpose of this guide is to help you, the aspiring consultant, do your job better and to hopefully help you navigate the sometimes rough waters of a consulting career. In future posts I'll be writing about my experiences and about my thoughts on the IT industry both in the present and future. I'll also look at how things differ when you work through a recruiter and when you work as an independent.
Lastly, I believe keeping in touch with the IT industry is important. One easy way to spot trends and prepare for future work is to keep an eye on what market research companies are doing. These are the companies that make money off of spotting trends. So you can easily benefit from their legwork by keeping tabs on the press releases they put out. The ones I think are interesting will be re-published on this site.
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Consulting Jiu-Jitsu
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Project Management Jokes (They're Actually Funny)
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Portable Apps, the Way of the Future?
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Software Projects are Mostly the Same
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Breathe New Life into an HP Touchpad
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Strategies for Accurate Time Allocation in Projects
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Finding Work After A Layoff
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IT Certifications are Worthless
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9 out of 10 Managers Waste Time
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Independent Consulting Guide: Do You Have What It Takes?
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How Cloud Cost Optimization Saves Your Business Money
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Swoopo Review, Bid Strategy and Tips
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Don't Work Overtime for Free
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Foreign Outsourcing Companies Face Challenges
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Free PDF Reader and Writer
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Software Developer or Manager?
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Free Project Management Software
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IT Marketing
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Fixed Bid Follies
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Spam Fighting Tools
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Online Profile Benchmarks
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Professional Software Development
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Robots.txt Plugin for WordPress
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The Road To Organizational Change
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Consulting Process Model
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Jack Hidary, A Professional Presenter
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Staff Development Has Worst ROI
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Free File Comparison Software
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Answering Interview Questions
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Free Anonymous Web Browsing
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Presentation Tips for Consultants
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Consensus vs. Compromise
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Spiral Methodology
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Never Say You're a Consultant
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Hiding Your Job Search From Your Current Employer
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Social Media Email Alerts for WordPress
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Feedback from Fellow Project Managers
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Five Decision Making Traps
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Common Consulting Mistakes
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Ultimate Category Excluder for WordPress
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Free File Encryption
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Improved Include Page Plugin for WordPress
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Software Isn't a House
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Projects Are Strategy
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Sample Cold Calling Phone Script
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The Seeds of Project Failure
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The (Almost) Perfect RSS Feed Reader
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Report Writing for Consultants
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Feature Driven Development (FDD) Methodology
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How to Write a Memo
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Recruiters Don't Work For the Job Seeker
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10 Barriers to Job Effectiveness
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Rapid Application Development (RAD) Methodology
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DropBox Makes Google Drive Look Like the Work of a Script Kiddie
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Pull the Plug on Projects
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Phone Interviews
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10 Essential Gadgets for a Freshman
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Project Manager Duties
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Add Any Extension to WordPress Pages
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The Best Project Management Methodology
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Real-Time Find and Replace for WordPress
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WordPress On-Page SEO with the Real-Time Find and Replace Plugin
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A Critical Look At Executive Decision Making
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Excel-Based Password Manager
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Don't Work for Free
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How to Make BrowserShots Even Better
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TenStep Project Management Process
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Project Management Lessons from NASA
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3 Key Areas For Improving Your Team Skills
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Top Ten Things Ten Years of Professional Software Development Has Taught Me
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Surviving a Project Audit
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Strategy and Planning: Overcoming The Failures
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Show and Hide Author in WordPress
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Scrum Methodology
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First Link Priority with Images
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The Anti Side Of Social Media: A Wave of New Apps Is Upon Us
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Antivirus Freeware Recommendations
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Best Free Firewall
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Setting Your Consulting Rate
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Finding Work
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Setting Up a WordPress Site: DIY or Pay Someone Else?
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Is Project Management a Fad?
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Consultant Professionalism
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When Projects and Organizations Collide
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What I Learned At The Olympics About Managing
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Questioning Tips
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Answering SEO Client Questions Using Normal People-Speak
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Deconstructing An SEO Job Posting
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Challenger vs. Leading Brand SEO
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6 Excuses SEOs Love to Use
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The SEO Lie Factor
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SEO is About Beating Other Web Sites
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Resume of a Purple Cow
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Fixed Bid vs. Hourly Billing
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8 Reasons Why Power Sharing is Bad
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Software Testing
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Project Management Best Practices
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Software Development Books
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Free Resume Template
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Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
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My Rules of Feedback
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How NOT to Reach Out to Bloggers
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Domainers and the Business of Domaining
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16 Project Manager Traits
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Blogging Myth – Post Frequency Consistency
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Rob Enderle's Blog
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Two Secrets to Being a Better Blogger
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Corporate Blogs and Wikis
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What a Web Developer Can (and Should) Do For You
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Fixed Width vs. Fluid Designs
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Tactical, yes. Strategic, not so much.
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A New Form of Comment Spam
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Types of Websites: Choose Carefully
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Free Blogging Software
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Free FTP Client
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Next Up… Blogging CIOs
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Go to Lunch
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Fixed Fee vs. Hourly Billing
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The Battle For Control of Project
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And Then There's OpenOffice
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Batch Download Pinterest Photos from Multiple Boards
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W2 Umbrella Companies
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Switching from Employee to IT Consultant
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Is Your PC a Zombie?
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Setting Up Cloud Storage for Personal Use
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Internet Plagiarism
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Portable WordPress
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Consulting Relationship Stages
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Google AdSense Arbitrage
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Improving WordPress Performance
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Using Nextgen Gallery Plugin with Timthumb for Thumbnails
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Digg is Dead (So Very, Very Close Now)
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More Money From Your Web Site
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Monetizing Blogs Harder Than Expected
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AdSense Isn't for Everyone
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The Handiest WordPress Plugin You've Never Heard Of
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Blogging Myth – Don't Annoy Your Users
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The 5 W's (and 1 H) of Competitive SEO Analysis
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Pharmaceutical Companies Are Years Behind With SEO
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Google Panda 2.5 Strikes. What to Do?
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WordPress Plugins Actually Worth Using
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WordPress Theme Frameworks Are Overrrated
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A Guide to Publishing on the Web
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Use 301 or 302 Redirects For a New Domain?
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Getting The Most From Your SEO Agency
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Half of the Money Spent on SEO is Wasted
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5 Traits of Efficient SEO
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SES Toronto 2009 Presentation Recap
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An Agency SEO's Perspective on Nofollow
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SEO Clients: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and Umm… 2 More
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Hide SEO Under the Cloak of Usability
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Detecting Cloaking Algorithmically Is Not Easy
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Detecting Splogs with Self-Similarity Analysis
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Using Link Structures to Classify Web Spam
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Web Spam Taxonomy
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Is BrowseRank The New PageRank?
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Statistically Speaking, That Page Is Spam
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fRank Takes on PageRank
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Audience Driven Naming
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How to Build A Web Site
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The New Face of Keyword Research
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SEM Recruiters – Rise Above the Noise
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Rank Checking Lives On
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5 Black Hat SEO Terms You Need to Know
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Diminishing Returns on Investment Dollars
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Guaranteed Top Ten Search Engine Rankings
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Is the SEO/SEM Job Market Growing?
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SEOs Don't Need an Information Retrieval Degree
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Scaling SEO Services
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Long Live Traditional SEO
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SEM Agency Differentiation
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The Dark Age of SEO
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SEO Pilot Projects Are a Bad Idea
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Do Deep Folders Stop Search Engines?
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Eliminating Toolbar PageRank Would Be A Mistake
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A Career in SEO? Bad Move.
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Passing Link Juice with 301 Redirects
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Exploiting Google's Geographic Targeting
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Don't Bother with Link Building
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In You, Google Trusts
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Finding Keyword Rich Domains
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International SEO Keyword Research
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5 Reasons Why Google Likes SEOs
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Keyword Rich Domains
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Ranking in Google UK
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Bundling Content to Target Keywords
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The History of Latent Semantic Indexing
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SEO for Images
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A Career in SEO? Smart move.
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Writing with SEO in Mind
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Signals of Quality
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DMOZ Accepts Search Engine Spam
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Don't Forget About Your Landing Pages
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The CTR Conundrum
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CPM vs. CPC vs. CPA
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A Metaphor for SEO
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Can't SEO and SEM Get Along?
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When to Rename URLs for SEO
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Is SEO Creative?
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Dominate Branded Search Results
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AdWords Arbitrage Getting Harder
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Spam or Clever Marketing?
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3 Reasons Why SEO and SEM Teams Should Work Together
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50 Web Analytics Metrics Worth Tracking?
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AdWords for Site Traffic
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Duplicate Content and SEO
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Web Analytics – Statistics to Track
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Alpha Project Managers
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Dynamic Systems Development Model (DSDM) Methodology
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Beware The Mischievous Recruiter
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Salary Negotiations
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Free Registry Cleaner (update)
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Web Analytics – Definitions
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Virus Hits Client
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Include Pages in WordPress RSS Feeds
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7 Steps to Failure with Your Next Software Project
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Selling Consulting: It's Harder Than What You Expect
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A New Way of Thinking About Organizational Projects
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How Managers Cope With Information Overload
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Phishing: Don't Be Phooled By Phoney Emails
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Don't Forget to Defrag Your Harddrive
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10 Virtual Conference Ideas
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Free Windows Startup Manager
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Project Management as a Microcosm
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Redirects and SEO
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Determining Project Pricing
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Tagging Partial RSS Feeds in WordPress
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Add Any Extension to Pages for WordPress
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Control Your Online Profile
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Republish Old Posts for WordPress
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IT Pros to Broaden their Experiences
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WordPress Plugin Reveals a Black Hat's Network
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Measuring Organizational Change
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Quoted By PM Network Magazine
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The Problems Of Top-Down Leadership
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Waterfall (a.k.a. Traditional) Methodology
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From Developer to Project Manager
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Portfolios and Project Management Organizations (PMOs)
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How to Avoid Duplicate Content Penalties
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The Paradox of SEO Pricing
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How to Use SyncBack to Enhance WordPress Security
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7 Tips for SEMs to Survive a Recession
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How Many Keywords Should You Have?
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Twitter Will Die And I'll Tell You Why
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Free PowerPoint Templates
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Organization Success: It All Comes Down To Projects
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Web Development Methodology – Part 1
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Optimizing a Previously Optimized Site
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Basic Functions of Management
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Consulting Clients Don't Always Pay