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Widely recognized as the world's most popular search engine, Google defines searching to the degree that some people say they "googled" something as a synonym for searching. For more background, see Google news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Black Hat SEO Lessons: Indirect Promotion
Avatar Went Hot: May 12, 2008 - 2:12 pm
Posted By: gunjanpandya 1 day 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
At SEJ Ann said about Black Hat SEO and How to promote your website indirectly in Google. read more »
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What Google Knows About Spam
Avatar Went Hot: May 12, 2008 - 8:14 am
Posted By: planetc1 1 day 13 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com) my network
Category: Google
What Google Knows About Spam: A video presentation by Matt Cutts (recorded recently at a Web 2.0 conference). read more »
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Landing Page Load Time Coming To AdWord Quality Score in June
Avatar Went Hot: May 10, 2008 - 9:48 am
Posted By: rustybrick 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
Ready or not, the landing page load time is coming to the AdWords quality score in June. I have screen shots of the new report Google is displaying so you can be prepared. Good luck! read more »
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Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Drink While Doing Google Adwords
Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 8:51 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semgeek.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
If you have ever had a few glasses of Cabernet Sauvignon or a couple bottles of beer while working over the weekend at home, it could be pretty easy to get a little side tracked, especially if you have many diverse clients with similar keyword segme read more »
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Post-Launch PPC Process and Optimizations
Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 7:45 am
Posted By: gordonchoi 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
Post-launch Adwords process from strategies, split testing, ad optimization to content targeted campaign optimization. read more »
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The Times: Linking To The BBC Will Boost Your Google Ranking
Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 12:54 pm
Posted By: patrickaltoft 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk) my network
Category: Google SEO
O.K. I am going to pick on The Times because it is funny. Today they published an article entitled Searching to get to the top of Google.

Most of the article is O.K. and it is nice to see SEO getting mentioned in a major newspaper, however some o read more »
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Split Testing Adwords: You're Doing It Wrong
Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
I'm sure the title of this post is going to make a few folks upset. Don't worry, the content is going to really make you mad. Not at me, but maybe at yourself, and especially at whoever taught you how to split test.

That's because, for most Adwor read more »
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I Believe In the Google -60 Penalty
Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 6:50 am
Posted By: mike.tekula 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Barry Schwartz posts at Search Engine Land about the Google -60 penalty and some interesting indications from Google reps that seem to acknowledge the penalty exists. read more »
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Indexing Search Results: Why Google Is Going Against Its Own Advice
Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: janecopland 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ciarannorris.co.uk) my network
Category: Google Searching
It now seems that Google is ignoring its own advice, and the use of noindex, and is indexing search results pages. If you look at Computer Weekly’s robots.txt file, you’ll see their search pages are noindexed. And yet the pages have been indexed. read more »
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A Search Engine Fairy Tale
Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 1:11 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Search Engine Journal - The tale uses metaphors and comparisons, but else completely fictitious. It is in part meant to entertain and in part to provide a different perspective on old and known issues. Who knows, it might triggers new ideas and a ch read more »
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Tesco 1st UK Brand to Take Stand Against Brand Bidding
Avatar Went Hot: May 2, 2008 - 6:32 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
With brand bidding opening up on Google AdWords next Monday, Tesco have become the 1st major UK brand to announce they won't be bidding on their competitors. read more »
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How Much is a Top Google Ranking Worth to Your Business?
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 10:23 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://training.seobook.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Superb, in-depth look into the value of a top Google ranking from Aaron Wall. Must read! read more »
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Google's Eric Schmidt: Exclusive 6-Page CNBC Interview
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 5:17 am
Posted By: tamar 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnbc.com) my network
Category: Google Other
CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with Google CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt Tuesday at the Milken Conference in Los Angeles to discuss Google's growth and U.S. slowdown, the possibility of a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo!, online advertising growth rates, Go read more »
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Blackhat Techniques Which Shouldn’t Work in Google But Still Do
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 4:01 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Very surprised these tactics actually still work! read more »
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Will Your Website Pass a Google Review?
Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 7:33 pm
Posted By: annie7 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Google keeps strengthening their control over search and the web. They can easily use usage data to automatically flag websites for human review. Does Your Site Look Good to Google's Relevancy Algorithm? read more »
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Google's Whois Domaintool Pages Have Paid Links Passing PageRank
Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 2:38 pm
Posted By: beussery 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.beussery.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Yep, that is correct and I've got the details... read more »
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Google 'VisualRank' - A Prototype for Precision Image Search
Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 8:49 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com) my network
Category: Google Searching
NY Times: "Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages." read more »
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Court Orders Negative Keywords Used To Block Trademark Terms
Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 7:00 pm
Posted By: scottclark 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
A Florida court made judgment that requires including negative keywords in search advertising to ensure broad match does not include their trademarked term. read more »
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Google Leaks Max CPC and Quality Score Variables (Pscore, mCPC and thresh)
Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 9:48 am
Posted By: EricLander 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
Earlier this morning a colleague of mine was conducting a search and called me over to show me something interesting. Immediately below each of the sponsored search results (AdWords) were three separate variable names and values. The numbers that ha read more »
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How Keyword matching is just a little like online dating » SEO Chicks
Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 9:12 am
Posted By: Lisadit 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
New SEO-Chicklet, Rebecca Scott writes a hilarious analogy how Google AdWords content matching is a bit like online dating. One for the ladies =) read more »
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Sitelinks at #60 - A Warning Shot From Google
Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Explains why (and when) we see sitelinks at #60, what the penalty is likely to be resulting from, and what it may mean for the future of that site. Definitely worth keeping this information tucked away in the brain for possible future needs. read more »
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7 Tips for the Paranoid SEO: Masking Your Intentions
Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 9:36 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
With Google’s recent “shading in” of many whitehats by killing off even widget bait, more and more people are getting worried. Even for non blackhat sites.
So I've put together some tips for paranoid SEOs to resist the penalization power as long as read more »
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Holy Mother of Linkbait
Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 4:38 am
Posted By: janecopland 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org) my network
Category: Google Searching
Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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Google Shaking Up URLs in Search Ads?
Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 3:16 am
Posted By: Drupal 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.getelastic.com) my network
Category: Google AdWords
Google appears to be testing new displays of paid search ads with URLs above ad copy rather than below in certain regions. See screenshots. read more »
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Tell Google How to Treat Your Content : Disallow, Nofollow, NoIndex
Avatar Went Hot: April 24, 2008 - 6:40 am
Posted By: chrisblackwell 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Ann Smarty discussing the various ways you can have Google treat your content. read more »
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