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The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 8:09 am
Posted By: ShaneEubanks 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org) my network
Category: SEO
Need a cheat sheet that covers most of the SEO tasks that go into your web development projects? This guide covers just about all of the basics...and then some. read more »
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How Much is a Top Google Ranking Worth to Your Business?
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 10:23 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://training.seobook.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Superb, in-depth look into the value of a top Google ranking from Aaron Wall. Must read! read more »
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Yes Shoemoney SEO Does Have a Future
Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 3:17 am
Posted By: shimsand 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com) my network
Category: SEO
Now Shoemoney is a friend of mine, but regarding his post SEO Has No Future today, I am forced to disagree with him. read more »
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SEO Career Advice from an Out-of-Work SEO
Avatar Went Hot: May 2, 2008 - 3:33 pm
Posted By: bledsoeut 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com) my network
Category: Search Marketing
This is a great article about career moves and getting a solid start in the SEM arena. Anyone new to SEM or that has gone through/considered a career move should read this post in its entirety. read more »
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Jason Gambert - New Low in the SEO Trademark Saga
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 7:13 am
Posted By: theGypsy 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: SEM Industry
Rhea Drysdale - Search Engine Journal - We’ll let “Jason’s” actions speak for themselves and we ask that you draw your own conclusions based on the evidence before us. If Jason Gambert has such noble aspirations for the search community, why then is read more »
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The Evolution Of A Newbie SEO
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 8:33 am
Posted By: JulieJoyce 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com) my network
Category: Water Cooler
Dazzlin' Donna explains how new SEOs evolve, in her typically witty manner. read more »
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Want That Post to Go Popular? Here's The Best and Worst Times to Post It
Avatar Went Hot: May 4, 2008 - 9:16 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
Connecticut software developer Jake Luciani has run 10k items on Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit and Mixx through the API of popularity ranking engine AideRSS to analyze the connection between popularity and timing. He determined the best days and times f read more »
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SEO and Web Site Redesign
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: planetc1 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com) my network
Category: SEO
Lee Odden writes... It’s a near nightmare situation really. A client sends an email on Friday saying, "We’re launching a new web site on Monday, can you take a look at it to make sure our site optimization is ok?". read more »
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Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know About
Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 7:36 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com) my network
Category: Social Media
Lee Odden writes, "Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community o read more »
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SEO has really gotten expensive
Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 2:06 pm
Posted By: nowsourcing 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.maxyro.com) my network
Category: SEO
Interesting look at some of the bloated pricing models that some "SEO Experts" still try to pawn off others. read more »
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13 Twitterers Confess Why They Unfollow
Avatar Went Hot: May 2, 2008 - 3:18 pm
Posted By: kevinheisler 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com) my network
Category: Social Media
You know why there's "nofollow" and "dofollow." Now you need to know why "unfollow" happens. A lucky 13 microbloggers share why you may suffer the ultimate Twitter FAIL. Great post by Brian Carter (follow-up to his 14 reasons he'll unfollow you) read more »
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How to Stand Out on Social Media: Avatar Trends Analyzed
Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 1:55 pm
Posted By: onreact 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.getelastic.com) my network
Category: Social Media
Your avatar is the first thing that catches attention, make sure not to lose out on that. read more »
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Just Another Crappy SEO Article
Avatar Went Hot: May 2, 2008 - 8:19 pm
Posted By: mpilatow 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com) my network
Category: SEO
Here we go again. SEO guidelines or advice that sucks, is not true or is just poop on a page being published on a big popular website. read more »
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Top 10 Favourite Social Media Sites
Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 6:59 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.northsouthmedia.co.uk) my network
Category: Other Social Media
First things first, let me say that although I am an SEO guy I love social media to bits and have been involved with various sm sites for some time now. This post has been sitting on my to do list and at last I have found time to rank my top ten fav read more »
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See a webpage like a SEO
Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 2:55 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk) my network
Category: SEO
Very cool breakdown and tool from DaveN - very handy.

Snippet - I can see that I have too many internal links, I still like the 100 links on a page rule, so that means I need to do some culling, most probably in my NAV .. any way externals links read more »
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Some Thoughts on SEO Ethics by Matt McGee, Michael Gray, Jeff Quipp, Jim Hedger and More
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 9:44 pm
Posted By: MelissaF 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoaware.com) my network
Category: SEO
Some thoughts on SEO ethics by some industry experts- Matt McGee, Michael Gray, Jeff Quipp, Jim Hedger and more. read more »
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Hey ShoeMoney (and Andy) SEO DOES have a future
Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 1:10 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com) my network
Category: SEO
Today, ShoeMoney and Marketing Pilgrim provided great insights into why they think search engine optimization has no future.

I don't agree. Times infinity. Nyah nyah phbltbltbltblt. So there. read more »
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What SEO/SEM Professionals Should Know About Website Usability - Part 2
Avatar Went Hot: May 2, 2008 - 10:09 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Usability
In part 1 of What SEO/SEM Professionals Should Know About Website Usability, usability experts Peter Morville and Susan Weinschenk answered the question, "What should SEO professionals know about usability?" For this installment, website usability g read more »
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Target the Long Tail with Better Writing
Avatar Went Hot: May 4, 2008 - 4:43 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com) my network
Category: SEO
As personalized search and universal search continue shaking up an industry that used to be dominated by "top ten results," more and more small businesses are learning the valuing of focusing on the keyword long tail. While there's no doubting the v read more »
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7 Habits Of Incredibly Effective Bloggers
Avatar Went Hot: May 3, 2008 - 3:30 pm
Posted By: fogofeternity 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: Blogging
Excellent and insightful outline of the behavioural habits that are important for making a success of blogging. read more »
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The Art of Opportunistic Linking
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 5:11 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Link Building
Any links a person can pursue and obtain just because that person has certain defining personal characteristics should not be able to positively affect search rank. That in essence, such links are irrelevant to the site and products being sold and a read more »
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Top Search Marketing Blogs by RSS Subscribers
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 7:51 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com) my network
Category: SEO
Online Marketing Blog manages a list of over 500 search marketing blogs called the BIGLIST, but it’s not ordered other than alphabetically. A year ago I took a sample of SEO and SEM blogs that were publishing Feedburner counts and posted a list rank read more »
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Building Link Targeted Content That Works: Creating Content & Preparation
Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 11:57 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net) my network
Category: Link Building
The first part of this series was a selection of tips on how to use your surroundings to come up with interesting ideas that can lead to great amounts of traffic, attention and links. After you’ve carefully selected the idea of your choice, it’s tim read more »
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7 Things Twitter Can’t Do
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 8:22 am
Posted By: streko 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://worstseoblogever.wordpress.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
Out of all of the Twitter posts that are being pumped out by the minute - this is the only one I have found that makes sense. read more »
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The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg
Avatar Went Hot: May 4, 2008 - 5:04 am
Posted By: isaSuperstar 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com) my network
Category: News Sites
You are probably familiar with the rather rocky relationship that Digg has with its core community. Fueled partly by a need to counter false accusations from disgruntled community members who claim that Digg is rigged, partly by the desire to encour read more »
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