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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 8 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 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 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: 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 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 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 4, 2008 - 6:57 am
Posted By: steveespinosa 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.localseoguide.com)
Category: Google SEO
Andrew Shotland explains when the appropriate use of the noindex and nofollow is and what the difference is between the two. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2008 - 6:02 pm
Posted By: ImJustCreative 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://on.eti.me)
Category: Google SEO
So, SearchWiki came, died, and rose from the dead. But whether you like it, is irrelevant. Why would Google launch this new product with no beta first? We had Google Suggest for a few months and then it was live for all to use and see. But Google Se read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2008 - 2:31 am
Posted By: rjonesx 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegooglecache.com)
Category: Google SEO
The smartest way to use PageRank flow to increase traffic by targeting pages that stand to gain the most from incremental rankings increases. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 27, 2008 - 8:43 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Google SEO
Tad makes some great improvements to Google's rankings for SEO, with a bit of help from SearchWiki! read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: jdevalk 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://eduardblacquiere.com)
Category: Google SEO
"Google calculates PageRank on the total network of sites Google has in its index. From that point of view a non-indexed page can’t accumulate PageRank, because Google can’t determine the relative value the page. Or can it?" read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 12:43 am
Posted By: renesilva 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://on.eti.me)
Category: Google SEO
Google recently announced amongst the inner SEO circle headed up but Matt Cutts that they have developed a way to penalize video bloggers who are ‘Stuffing’ their video blog posts with keywords! read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 5:43 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoblackhat.com)
Category: Google SEO
SEO continues to evolve. Need more evidence that Google uses bounce rate to test their SERPs?

Here’s are screenshots from one of my sites (it’s a “white hat” site or I wouldn’t be posting the footprint here). The first shows overall traffic: read more »
33 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 22, 2008 - 10:11 pm
Posted By: saadkamal 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.saadkamal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google has just added a new document inside the Google Webmaster Help archive which lists down all the best practices for a Blogger to succeed. The guide contains many tips for making the most of your blog....

....Pretty basic but useful :) read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 9:22 pm
Posted By: bbcarter 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.newedgemedia.com)
Category: Google SEO
By Manda Otto, from New Edge Media:
"I received my invitation to officially beta test the new SEOmoz toolbar late Wednesday afternoon. I was all over it a mere 5 minutes later."

They got permission to post this review- the first one. I verified read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 3:12 pm
Posted By: GetPageOne 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo.getpageone.com)
Category: Google SEO
I wrote a summary of the helpful Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide for our SEO clients to use as they develop new pages or make changes to existing pages. Sort of a bullet list of Google's SEO guidelines. Maybe it will be useful to you read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 11:52 am
Posted By: ViperChill 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bizcommunity.com)
Category: Google SEO
Working for one of the largest agencies in South Africa, I can confirm we haven't been contacted by Google to discuss certification in any way. In my opinion this is another bankroll for Google, there is no way they can monitor every single agency t read more »
17 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 8:59 am
Posted By: mvandemar 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
Can Matt Cutts detect paid links embedded in content when he is looking right at them? read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2008 - 8:16 am
Posted By: Wiep 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Shaun Anderson made a summary of Google's recently released SEO Starter Guide by highlighting all techniques you should try to avoid. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2008 - 3:21 pm
Posted By: hugogill 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Web standards and Google .... read more »
22 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2008 - 1:18 am
Posted By: robwatts 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Interesting move from Google, it's the 1st time I've seen them go granular, but hey, what's with the dig at shadyseo! ;) read more »
20 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2008 - 7:25 am
Posted By: JemimaGarthwaiteSEO 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Richard Baxter of SEOgadet uncovers and explores Quantcast's practice of including hidden links within its tracking code. It can be seen on pages such as Digg.com Last.fm and Technorati. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: November 8, 2008 - 5:29 am
Posted By: AffanLaghari 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google SEO
Seems like someone made a profile on SEOBook, threw some spammy links to it, and it made to Google's first page. Yahoo Site Explorer shows 200+ backlinks where many seem to come from guestbooks, forums, and .jp/.tw sites. The keyword 'lindsay lohan read more »
26 Comments     


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