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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: October 15, 2007 - 9:06 pm
Posted By: KangoTraveler 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.meangene.com)
Category: Google SEO
I stumbled across this today, apparently this web developer was pissed about having to make more "SEO Changes" to his site ; hilarious! read more »
22 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 272 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
We've had several threads here on Sphinn debating whether Google will hurt a site for selling links. Now an official answer: yes. If you sell links, Google says it might drop your PR score, penalize you in the rankings or potentially ban your site a read more »
78 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 8:27 am
Posted By: Wiep 255 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google SEO
"For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans."

Most of t read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 9:12 am
Posted By: Rhea 255 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Loren Baker reports a page rank drop for Search Engine Journal as well as sites like Forbes.com, Engadget and the Washington Post. What are you seeing? read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 5:56 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 272 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Google SEO
The interview appears to have taken place on September 24th, but was published today.

Covers following of links (mentions javascript being followed)
Robots.txt (pages blocked can be returned in search results, and can accrue PageRank)
Noindex a read more »
31 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2007 - 11:27 am
Posted By: skinner 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google Other
Has anyone else here heard about this (apart from Danny Sullivan that is)? read more »
22 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 1:02 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlespam.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for "loans", "credit cards" and "mortgages" 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it? read more »
42 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 4:38 am
Posted By: janecopland 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
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 »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 10, 2007 - 11:00 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 299 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
A look into how hit counter spam and hidden links are ranking a site at #1 on Google for a million dollar term : Payday Loans. read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 29, 2008 - 12:55 am
Posted By: DaveN 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google
I can't believe that google have come out and said they are use people's IP and Cookie data for search relevancy read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 18, 2008 - 2:44 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://startupearth.com)
Category: Google
Google employee says "Webmasters who rely heavily on bookmarking their own sites to gain traffic will likely see a drop in pagerank before the end of 2008, and we will be working closely with two major social bookmarking sites to find a solution tha read more »
39 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 11:37 am
Posted By: PPCblogger 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
While I don’t expect either of our viewpoints will change, I have to say I find the disclosure that Google will now be taking steps against hoax marketing an amusing bit of hypocrisy. What we have is another in long list of double standards and sele read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: annie7 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has proven that they can monetize conversations with GMail and GTalk. Should we be expecting a test of AdSense on Twitter anytime soon? read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 13, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: bwelford 84 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blog.marketmou.com)
Category: Google SEO
A great interview with Aaron Wall. Sometimes I find interviews are of lesser value than you'd expect from the interviewee. In this case, you won't be disappointed. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 10:23 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://training.seobook.com)
Category: Google SEO
Superb, in-depth look into the value of a top Google ranking from Aaron Wall. Must read! read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 8:50 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 271 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Google
Jennifer Laycock writes, "My daughter has a shirt that reads 'it seemed like a good idea at the time.' I sort of wish they made it in larger sizes. I can't help but think it'd be a nice Christmas gift for the team at Google. After all, I'm hard pres read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 22, 2008 - 2:35 pm
Posted By: DanThies 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Not satisfied with fooling Adwords advertisers via expanded broad matching and "free campaign optimization," Google has invented a new way to empty your wallet. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 26, 2007 - 6:05 am
Posted By: Lyndon 254 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
I will feel left out if I don't blog about this. read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 19, 2007 - 10:51 am
Posted By: gyutae 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Google SEO
This is a tough post for me to write, but I’m going to write it because it should serve as an example. Let me first give you a little history. Picture it (kudos to anyone who got that intro)… I wasn’t always known as Sugarrae online… I switched to t read more »
20 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 8:46 am
Posted By: DanielScocco 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Perf read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 9:48 am
Posted By: EricLander 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
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 »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google Trends now tracks and shows data on individual web sites, and can compare groups of web sites together. read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
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 »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2007 - 9:17 am
Posted By: Harith 229 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Here is what Matt Cutts posted today on his blog:
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Thanks for weighing in, everyone. I especially appreciate the well-thought-out comments. Lots of people say that they don’t mind snark, but a lot of commen read more »
33 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2007 - 8:32 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 250 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
Matt Cutts on last week's Google Toolbar PageRank Changes : "The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding PageRank selling and the forward links of sites. So paid links that pass PageRank would affect o read more »
17 Comments     


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