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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 451 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 »
27 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 459 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 »
80 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 8:27 am
Posted By: Wiep 442 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 442 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 458 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 511 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 347 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 259 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 486 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 194 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: 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 2:18 am
Posted By: DarrenSlatten 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
This is a post I wrote about my failed attempt to get my SEOmoz profile penalized in Google for keyword stuffing. My profile still ranks #1 in Google for [World's Greatest SEO], despite the fact that I repeated that phrase back-to-back, like 250 tim read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2008 - 2:14 am
Posted By: beussery 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.beussery.com)
Category: Google SEO
Months of research and cases studies to illustrate how Google handles Flash since the update in July. read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ViperChill 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scientist.com)
Category: Google SEO
So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 157 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Great post from Ann Smarty: "I’ve been compiling the list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate. Today I am sharing the list and expect you to share yours too!" read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 11:37 am
Posted By: PPCblogger 226 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 223 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 271 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 252 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 »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 8:50 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 458 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: July 3, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 22, 2008 - 2:35 pm
Posted By: DanThies 321 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 441 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 386 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 302 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     


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