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Avatar Went Hot: November 4, 2007 - 5:33 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 343 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.soloseo.com)
Category: Water Cooler
It's called "What The Customer Actually Wanted" and is both hysterical and dead-on accurate in so many ways. :-) read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 11:22 am
Posted By: g1smd 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Water Cooler
After what seems like forever writing and blogging for Bruce Clay, Lisa Barone is moving on to pastures new...


I hope your new venture still sees you writing online somewhere. The old place just won't be the same without The Lisa. read more »
18 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 7:26 pm
Posted By: chriswinfield 370 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Poignant, inspirational and extremely personal post by Marty Weintraub explaining why the IM-NY Charity Party (before SMX NY next week) means a bit more to him than a normal conference 'event' and how we can all give back... read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 12, 2007 - 8:11 am
Posted By: aimClear 366 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
(spoken like Dick Vatale) Who's going? It's SMX Social Media baby! Danny Sullivan (The folks who bring us Sphinn...we gotta support them), Neil Patel, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, great wine, SUSHI BABY! I KNOW you read Sphinn...I KNOW you're out read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 11, 2008 - 10:33 am
Posted By: aimClear 215 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Water Cooler
It's come to this... read more »
18 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2008 - 2:28 pm
Posted By: kenclark 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.onwardsearch.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Where can you earn the most money in search marketing? Reilly O'Donnell analyzes data from Indeed to show you the top cities to earn big salaries as a search marketer. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 3:59 am
Posted By: mpilatow 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-theory.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Michael Martinez
"There seems to be a growing misperception in the industry that I must have parted with Rand Fishkin on bad terms or something in 2006 after blogging for SEOmoz for almost a year. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and after read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 10:55 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chris-hooley.com)
Category: Water Cooler
The time has come to announced the winners for the 2008 SEO Superlatives. But before the announcement, I’d like to thank everybody who contributed. The SEO Superlatives Committee was awesome. All you crazy guys and gals who where socializing this, k read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 8:33 am
Posted By: JulieJoyce 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Dazzlin' Donna explains how new SEOs evolve, in her typically witty manner. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:34 am
Posted By: seanmag 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Happy 4th Birthday to SEO-Scoop and a huge thank you to the venerable and charitable Donna Fontenot for her tremendous and insightful contributions to the Search Marketing community! Truly one of the Queens of Search Engine Optimization. read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 12, 2008 - 1:09 am
Posted By: samirb 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Water Cooler
David from Huomah.com decides Marketer's and Reputation Managers don't work hard enough. He's come up with an anti-reputation-management company, who's singular goal is to "b*$%h slap" your competitors.

"If you’ve got a competitor (or even a fri read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2007 - 12:32 pm
Posted By: Sugarrae 375 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.qualitynonsense.com)
Category: Water Cooler
If you'd like to know the secret of being known as a successful SEO, check out the following tongue in cheek graph. Gave me a chuckle for the day. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2007 - 10:21 am
Posted By: mistercharlie 361 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.botwblog.org)
Category: Water Cooler
Take a rowdy group, add a bit of alcohol, and hilarity ensues. There's goes your chance at a seat in Congress :) read more »
18 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2007 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 364 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://saloonix.stripgenerator.com)
Category: Water Cooler
How Google spawned a new cottage industry: Negative Paid Linking. And lent a new twist to the old protection racket. (Cartoon) read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Jaan has a poll and I want ya'll to get over and vote for your fav Web Gypsy - I shall send gifts and much Plurk Karma your way.... bwaaa ha ha ha ha.... (oh it is too early for this...) read more »
34 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 12:45 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.longhornkate.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Kate Morris and Lisa Barone write "Idea so stolen from On365’s 21 Signs a Geek Girl Likes You. This is coming from a couple of the apparently few single SEOs. As I’ve said before, almost all SEOs are married! I realized this while stalking people be read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 3:59 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Why does Google celebrate obscure artists and architects with special logos, but they won't do one for Memorial Day? Makes no sense to me. Barry shows some of the other special logos today at various search engines and forums. read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 27, 2008 - 6:39 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 260 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Water Cooler
So, why is it exactly that Matt Cutts thinks that anonymous employees over at Yahoo have better decision making skills than the search engine industry leaders? read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 23, 2008 - 3:58 pm
Posted By: tamar 232 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://videos.webpronews.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Michael McDonald of WebProNews gets kidnapped! read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 23, 2008 - 7:12 pm
Posted By: nsmseo 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Shana or The Nanny to some has been nominated for the 'Hot Blogger Calendar', show your appreciation by giving your vote to 'The Hot Shana Albert' !!! read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 12, 2008 - 9:21 am
Posted By: DarrenSlatten 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Water Cooler
Tired of reading dry, boring SEO articles? Are you looking for a story that includes such topics as Luke Skywalker, hedge-trimming, and necrophilia? Then head over to SEOmoz and check out this tragic love story, starring Darren Slatten and a fugly r read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 11:16 pm
Posted By: hobsdv 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogineer.com)
Category: Water Cooler
A sphinn plugin that actually aligns with your text and appears on both the homepage and your actual posts page. read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 4:23 pm
Posted By: jstein 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I deliberately refrained from displaying the feed count in order to determine how many people will subscribe even though there is a lack of input from other information consumers. I didn’t guest post, advertise or provide incentives because I wanted read more »
19 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 5:31 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 261 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.northsouthmedia.co.uk)
Category: Water Cooler
A hilarious post comparing industry notables to action figures. See the alter egos of Danny Sullivan, Tim Nash, Rand Fiskin, Tamar, Lyndon, Bill Slawski, and more. Compare their pictures side by side.

What a great post! read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 12:24 am
Posted By: bigpond 353 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jlh-design.com)
Category: Water Cooler
The reduction of PageRank has proved too much for many Digital Point readers and they're now being put on suicide watch.

No. Really. They are. read more »
22 Comments     


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