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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ciaran 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 11:55 pm
Posted By: aimClear 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Google SEO
So how does this drastically change the keywords we will see in referrer logs? The author brainstorms possible implications for SEOs. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 5:15 pm
Posted By: BrianChappell 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitecreations.com)
Category: Google SEO
"The Google Suggest feature, long a part of Google labs has behavior that will feel familiar to most readers of my blog. But for the remaining millions of casual users, we may see some changes in search behavior. Now, a rumor once again has emerged read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 6:23 am
Posted By: SiteMost 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to.

The remedies to this may vary but here are some read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Posted By: seoafloat 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-space.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Video of Matt's comments about why they don't mention big name sites that get penalized for playing with black/grey hat tactics during SES San Jose 2008 read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2008 - 8:51 pm
Posted By: danzarrella 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Google SEO
I have been asked countless times how to get included in the Google “One Box”. That’s when there used to be a “one-box”. Now we have Google Universal Search results. They contain listings from Google Products, Google News, Google Images, Videos, etc read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 2:18 am
Posted By: DarrenSlatten 18 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: August 18, 2008 - 10:13 am
Posted By: sodapopseo 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
a link builder had the 'nerve' (for lack of a better word), to post a public link exchange offer in not just a Google Group but in the the official "Google Webmaster Help" group, for all Googler's to see. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: infatex 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessol.com)
Category: Google SEO
PDFs in Google Search Results Showing Author & Cited in Description Snippets. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 9:34 pm
Posted By: Harith 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
GrayWolf: Ask any advanced SEO to describe what they want in a link and you’re likely to get something like this …

“A keyword rich link from a well linked/important/popular page on a trusted and authoritative website, that is preferably topic read more »
55 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 9, 2008 - 4:30 pm
Posted By: mercylivi 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
SEJ explaining When, Why and How to Use Noarchive read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 2:57 am
Posted By: TCSM 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchlightdigital.com)
Category: Google SEO
The ultimate guide to where people click. This data is the result of 36,389,567 searches and 19,434,540 clicks. The results make for interesting reading... read more »
27 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 12:49 am
Posted By: ThirstyPony 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
WebCEO, WebPositionGold and other automated rank reporting software may be going the way of the Dodo. read more »
32 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 10:58 am
Posted By: onreact 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.google.com)
Category: Google SEO
Forget Google Zeitgeist, Trends and Adwords Traffic Estimator as well as the Keyword-Tool. Google Insights for Search is the new killer keyword research tool we will work with daily and gladly. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 11:31 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Wow - Patrick knocks another one out of the park. A simple but elegant idea for getting lots of traffic from your competitors. Look how the URL is bolded in the title - really nice idea. read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 8:00 am
Posted By: mercylivi 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
To ensure that search engines understand your website structure correctly you should control each page HTTP headers. Your server should handle all requests properly - by this you will both achieve better crawl rate and higher rankings. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Google SEO
The dragons were keen to invest in an online diamond website's potential due to its high search rankings in Google. read more »
23 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 27, 2008 - 3:28 pm
Posted By: Skitzzo 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
I don't care what you think about Toolbar PR, you know you're gonna check it... read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 6:21 am
Posted By: jdevalk 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martijnbeijk.com)
Category: Google SEO
Martijn provides an excellent insight into why you should be using KML files on your site, and how to do that! read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: northrock 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Twice now I have have personally seen private conversations that Matt has had with web masters appear on the net, personally I’m in two minds on this.... read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 9:51 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "In my previous post on the topic I summarized the theories behind Google Sitelinks. Now I would like to look into and also to ask for your experience on what’s the real benefit from them. Many webmasters are eager to get them but read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 4:52 am
Posted By: aimClear 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://marcgrabanski.com)
Category: Google SEO
What happens when you do everything right and Google is just broken. read more »
26 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Google SEO
Great post by Gab explaining a real trick to competing in hyper competitive markets such as the Real Estate sector. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 18, 2008 - 9:20 am
Posted By: Gab 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Rich Baxter lays the smackdown on non-best practices in URL canonicalization by Matt Cutts. Yes, I did just use 'lay the smackdown' and 'url canonicalization' in a single sentence. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: ViperChill 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
That question would be much easier to answer if Google demonstrated any definitive behavior when treating hyphenated terms; instead when using a hyphen in a search term, you will most likely see the mixture of hyphenated, single-word and two-word sp read more »
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