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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2009 - 4:31 am
Posted By: MarkBarrera 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoverflow.com)
Category: Google SEO
Great post shows how to setup tracking of Google 10 pack results read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2009 - 7:43 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts of Google has been producing daily videos answering questions from the SEO community. Many of these videos have useful information for all levels of SEO. I wanted to share Matt’s most recent video and then point you to his other videos.Th read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2009 - 7:38 am
Posted By: rjonesx 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegooglecache.com)
Category: Google SEO
A new methodology for coaxing Google to respider otherwise orphaned pages when performing sitewide URL rewrites. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2009 - 6:17 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ppcblog.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Here's an interesting review of the geo-targeting issues which have been affecting the Google UK SERPs for most of this month. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2009 - 1:35 pm
Posted By: vermasaurav 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
So what happens when you have a page with “ten PageRank points” and ten outgoing links, and five of those links are nofollowed? Let’s leave aside the decay factor to focus on the core part of the question. Originally, the five links without nofollow read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2009 - 7:04 am
Posted By: Sebastian 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
What I can’t stand is when a search engine tries to tell me how I’ve to link (out).

Dear Googlers, please –WRT to the implementation of hyperlinks– leave us webmasters alone, dump the rel-nofollow crap and rank our stuff in the best interest of y read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2009 - 9:36 am
Posted By: Skitzzo 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt explains his comments about nofollow links & page rank sculpting. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2009 - 7:27 am
Posted By: MattSiltala 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Are niche sites dead because of new Google rules on PageRank sculpting? read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2009 - 7:16 am
Posted By: htownseoguy 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
You’ve had your domain for a long time and it has served you well. Today, though, you’re looking to expand your online business and the old domain just won’t do the trick. You need something new, fresh and exciting and perhaps you’ve already regis read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 14, 2009 - 11:29 am
Posted By: planetc1 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google SEO
John Andrews writes... I just read Google’s self-published “Top Ten Myths About Google Analytics” and I have to say, I thought Google had more integrity than this. Oh sure, everyone knows that marketing departments aren’t always 100% truthful about read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2009 - 4:56 pm
Posted By: scottclark 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: Google SEO
If you're planning to move your site to a new domain, use the Change of Address tool to tell Google about your new URL. If this is old news, I sure didn't see it anywhere.

Note that when I went through the process I got a message that said "Hm. S read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2009 - 10:40 am
Posted By: bhartzer 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google SEO
In the past, we have known that there's no direct correlation between editorial rankings and paid advertisements. Well, it seems that has now changed. Here is proof that paid search really can affect organic search. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2009 - 3:28 pm
Posted By: bwelford 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
To understand recent concerns re nofollow, etc, I am wondering if this indicates something about the way PageRank is calculated. The Null Hypothesis is that PageRank as it applies in the Google search algorithm may possibly be calculated in two pha read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2009 - 11:20 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
I have excellent news for the SEO world today. It seems like Google has finally pushed through a change with the reconsideration request process that SEOs and webmasters have been asking for since the reconsideration request began. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2009 - 1:09 am
Posted By: BrewsterHouseBB 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://outspokenmedia.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google profiles SEOs as “high risk” and so are all of their associated projects. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2009 - 12:15 pm
Posted By: bwelford 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
A simple description of this problem based on recent Googler statements and review of possible solutions. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2009 - 9:17 am
Posted By: jeremymartin 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
At SMX one of the more contentious subjects was the debate over Google’s Android Phone giveaway, and demonstration that they are in practice profiling SEO’s. read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2009 - 12:56 am
Posted By: Sebastian 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts discussing various sorts of (!tasty) link condoms, Google's death penalty on rel-nofollow, err ... Google's no-longer-existent support of links to crap (?) implemented with client sided scriping or microformats ... read the source for you read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2009 - 7:16 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.traffick.com)
Category: Google SEO
Great post from Andrew Goodman: "Long term, search fails when site owners try to "tell" search engines which pages are important, short of burying the unimportant ones in their architecture so they're literally invisible. Importance shouldn't be arb read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2009 - 7:16 am
Posted By: theGypsy 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
I am personally starting to believe that host level issues might actually be something we should be looking at more. Ann has some interesting info to add to the fray... read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2009 - 4:31 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.arhg.net)
Category: Google SEO
"Matt didn’t need to set the record straight – we may never have known." Andrew Girdwood gets this spot-on with an excellent summary of the nofollow debate. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2009 - 8:11 am
Posted By: theGypsy 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Danny via Search Engine Land - One of the changes really shouldn’t hurt many sites, impacting only a “power SEO” technique commonly called PageRank sculpting that I’d say fairly few use. The other has a bigger impact and potentially means thousands read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 31, 2009 - 3:06 pm
Posted By: planetc1 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Google SEO
Ruud Hein asks: You've said "links simply aren't everything if you want to achieve rankings" yet the majority of SEO these days is built on links, links, links. If links aren't everything, what are those link-focussed people missing? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2009 - 2:08 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Great post from Ann Smarty, showing what you should be checking to see if you've been hit by a Google penalty. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 26, 2009 - 2:15 am
Posted By: netgeek06 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
One of the most important SEO decisions you make is the selection of your content management system (CMS). Your CMS can make SEO easy, or, in some cases, make SEO virtually impossible. Here are 14 crucial elements you should verify in a CMS before y read more »
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