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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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Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2009 - 4:21 pm
Posted By: chenry 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
A limited test on if the submission of sitemaps affect crawlers coming to your site. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2009 - 9:59 am
Posted By: nina.anna 1 day 9 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchcowboys.com)
Category: Google SEO
Today we officially launch Searchcowboys.com about search with a focus on Europe! After almost two months and well over 200 posts Searchcowboys is coming out of beta. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2009 - 8:01 am
Posted By: Nishu 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google AdWords
This is a misconception of ad agencies and clients who have done more media placement than pay per click. In media placement, you place your ad somewhere for a set fee, and that’s it. We can make analogies between that and pay per click, but it’s no read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 7:22 pm
Posted By: hobsdv 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Google
Are your links invisible to the search engines? Every link building campaign is time consuming and resource-intensive. In order to be efficient and get the most “bang for your link”, it’s important that you know which types of links are valuable and read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 9:30 am
Posted By: vlbastek 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.zetainteractive.com)
Category: Google SEO
In an age when many companies need to scale back some of their costs while still increasing results, Google Analytics proves to be the best platform to track and analyze visits, conversions and other important data. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 6, 2009 - 3:59 am
Posted By: gyutae 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Greasemonkey is an addon for Firefox allowing users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages. To use the scripts you find in this post install the Greasemonkey extension first. This list of
Greasemonkey scripts i read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 5, 2009 - 5:13 am
Posted By: chrisblackwell 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
How to manage your reputation and monitor your rankings on Google. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2009 - 6:03 am
Posted By: Bakis 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google
Is Google going to kill all the "suspected" links that coem from social Media?

Are they gonna stop buying traffic from social media sites?

How is this gonna affect the community?


Check graywolf's post for more info :) read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 3, 2009 - 1:50 am
Posted By: planetc1 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Google
Fantomaster writes... So maybe it’s yet another fad, just like one of the many that have hit the SEO industry consistently ever since it came about to be. Remember the “theme based search” debates? Reciprocal links? Directory submissions as the be a read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 29, 2008 - 5:07 am
Posted By: saadkamal 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.kissmetrics.com)
Category: Google Other
An Excellent compilation of everything you need to know about Google Analytics. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 16, 2008 - 9:11 am
Posted By: vermasaurav 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Google
Here’s the reality - you’re not always going to rank #1 for all your keywords all of the time.

Faced with this constraint, you should put some serious thought into how you plan to legimately ’steal’ clicks from competitors ranked above you. Reme read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 16, 2008 - 5:22 am
Posted By: bwelford 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Google Searching
If you rely only on Google rankings, you'll miss what is really important. That's relevant website traffic, conversions and improved bottom-line results. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 15, 2008 - 12:11 pm
Posted By: planetc1 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Danny Sullivan writes: Google is testing a number of changes to its search results, including a way for select publishers to enhance their page descriptions, a way for searchers to jump to sub-sections of a web page and automatically correcting miss read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 15, 2008 - 6:33 am
Posted By: planetc1 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Danny Sullivan writes: Earlier this year, Google Suggest finally made it to the Google home page. The feature suggests queries as you begin typing in the search box. Now Google is testing providing links to web sites, direct answers and even ads tha read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: bbcarter 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Julie Joyce writes:
"Link development doesn’t just move forward…many times, a bit of digging into the past is in order unless you want to continue to paint over mold on the wall...

"As everyone in the industry knows, what works one day may hurt read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2008 - 2:31 am
Posted By: eduardblacquiere 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://eduardblacquiere.com)
Category: Google
I’d like to point you to this fabulous presentation which clearly outlines why Google is doing what they’re is doing. Heads up for the people at FaberNovel! read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 11, 2008 - 9:44 am
Posted By: Skitzzo 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
Graywolf calls out Google for their BS claim to have licked the duplicate content problem. read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 10, 2008 - 2:30 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Kinda shocked Google would admit to this. Honestly, I am not sure if Marissa would have the final say on this anyway... read more »
25 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 10, 2008 - 11:06 am
Posted By: ZakNicola 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Simple mistakes and myths of landing pages, and how they can affect your quality score in Google. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 10, 2008 - 8:52 am
Posted By: Ruud 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google Searching
Post stands by itself (valid, good stuff; balanced) but another key part I liked is: "I think what is the most troubling is how the SEO industry, generally speaking, seems to not only slowly begin to see the evolution of SEO, but makes bold statemen read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 9, 2008 - 11:06 am
Posted By: planetc1 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Google
Donna Fontent writes: What if you could associate your site, your niche, or your product with a hot new trend? What if the search results showed your site for that popular new gizmo or movie? What if I told you that you can create a subliminal conne read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 9, 2008 - 7:41 am
Posted By: EddyDeMelo 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Eric Lander of SearchEngineJournal.com talks about the effect our failing economy may have Google. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 8, 2008 - 8:42 pm
Posted By: bbcarter 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Ann Smarty writes:
"While I do not encourage anyone to rely too much on Robots.txt tools (you should either make your best to understand the syntax yourself or turn to an experienced consultant to avoid any issues), the Robots.txt generators and c read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 8, 2008 - 2:38 pm
Posted By: mpind 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Google
What he thinks... read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: December 7, 2008 - 7:17 pm
Posted By: graywolf 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.forbes.com)
Category: Google
Google likes to portray itself as a company that does everything in the open. But it appears that at least some of its employees are harboring a secret.

Web researcher Net Applications recently discovered that between 11% to 30% of traffic stream read more »
15 Comments     


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