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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: tamar 1 day 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://en.wikipedia.org)
Category: Other Social Media
Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: Jill 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Over the past few weeks, I've had a few run-ins with plagiarism in various forms and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a little rant about it. My hope is that by discussing it, people will become more educated about the issue and perhaps it w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 5 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: July 2, 2008 - 11:34 am
Posted By: davidmihm 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: SEO
Gab Goldenberg releases a brilliant Wordpress Plugin to maximize the effect of your internal anchor text.

"So: You can rank like Wikipedia, without being Wikipedia. Ok, that’s maybe a slight exaggeration, but the tool should help you improve your read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty has put together a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 7:28 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ViperChill 5 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 »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 7:46 am
Posted By: tonyadam 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Looks like Google and Adobe are working together to get Flash content indexed... read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 8:44 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Other Social Media
Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 6:43 am
Posted By: vangogh 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: SEO
Nice rant from Donna about the escalating costs of SEO conferences read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 10:04 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: SEO
Where I've asked many of my SEO friends to share with me an example of SEO Fraud, an SEO Scam, or something other example of shady behavior that they've encountered.

Contributors include Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, Rand Fishkin, Chris Winfield, Van read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 5:51 am
Posted By: andrewsho 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Social Media
An interesting look at what your blog can expect from going hot at Sphinn. read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:11 am
Posted By: Wiep 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: SEO
URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes daily all over the place as if URLs wouldn’ read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 10:55 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 3 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 »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 6:28 am
Posted By: Maing 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Web Analytics
A term commonly used to measure visitor engagement is the bounce rate, which is the percentage of initial visitors who leaves your site after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Social Media
Creating great content for your social network starts with preparation. Get to know the community and the types of content they like before spending your time and energy on content development. Once you know the people and what content plays well, y read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: Wiep 1 day 20 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
"I do not like doing much traditional SEO client work, and see the business model as having limited longterm value for most SEO consultants. The best consultants could usually make more promoting their own sites and brands than they would working fo read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:32 am
Posted By: gyutae 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Social Media
It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social medi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 8:04 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
SEO’s, SEM’s and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -what read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:33 am
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
"One of the frustrations of doing SEO for large websites is the fact that Google makes it very difficult to see more than a small part of the search index. Even in Webmaster Tools, Google's index search is built on the same mechanics as its web sear read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:07 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Jenn Osborne defines the key elements that make a site, a community. Starting with this definition and principles, it should be easier to build a community for clients or yourself as a result. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 3:54 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 2:26 pm
Posted By: Teddie 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Test results proving Googlebot really has been effectively upgraded to include parsing of flash to find links. Let the flash bombing begin. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 6, 2008 - 11:16 pm
Posted By: hobsdv 3 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 »
11 Comments     


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