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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 2:45 am
Posted By: Ruud 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.googletutor.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
"simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, then click Google Insights Bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically open a new tab/window with Google Insights showing the stats for the keyword you were just looking up at a search engin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2008 - 1:55 pm
Posted By: mbeijk 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Mike Blumenthal shows why it is important to claim your business. It important that this is being brought to the attention to Small Business Owners like Eric Stein said on SMX East on monday read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 18, 2008 - 9:06 am
Posted By: mbeijk 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Mike Blumenthal got up early to report about the newly posted Quality Guidelines for the Google Maps / Local Business Center and the option to apply for re-inclusion. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2008 - 6:54 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Mobile Search
We keep saying mobile is around the corner, but are our sites really ready for it? Learn how to get ready with these 8 great mobile friendly tips. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2008 - 12:05 pm
Posted By: steaprok 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cellphones.org)
Category: Mobile Search
We asked Aaron Wall of SEO Book if he could answer some of our questions, and he graciously did so. Aaron runs SEO Book and is a world renowned SEO Expert and Blogger. In addition to running his own company and providing consulting services, he some read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 16, 2008 - 9:12 am
Posted By: dailymoolah 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://devbasu.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Effective local business landing pages are imperative to getting good local search rankings. Dev Basu discusses 10 Best Practices for Local Biz Landing Page design that are tried and tested methods to gain great rankings. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 15, 2008 - 1:19 am
Posted By: steaprok 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Searching
Anyway as I said above I am good friends with the owners of BOTW so obviously I am biased. I am curious to hear your thoughts on the deal if in fact BOTW is the new owners of the DMOZ directory. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2008 - 10:46 pm
Posted By: Maing 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Like I previously pointed out SEO and web accessibility should come hand in hand. So here is the collection of web accessibility tools that can be also effectively used for SEO purposes. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 9, 2008 - 12:22 pm
Posted By: davidmihm 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.usereffect.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Dr. Pete looks at some innovations and shifts in local and mobile search:

"As search marketers, it's hard not to be a little worried by these recent changes - as a group, these advancements are undeniably game-changers and represent a significant read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 9, 2008 - 7:51 am
Posted By: TomSeo 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Other Searching
Oriango.com is a Dictionary Style Search Engine. With Oriango you can perform searches, add and share the Web alphabetically. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 9, 2008 - 6:33 am
Posted By: barnaseo 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty covers Majestic SEO: "A new backlink analysis service allowing for the exhaustive backlink report that can (potentially) be a fully legitimate competitor of and a great alternative for Yahoo! SiteExplorer." read more »
18 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: Maing 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
FireFox is the most customizable browser I am aware of and hence it is my favorite one. A while ago posting a huge overview of SEO tools I promised to compile a similar list of available FireFox SEO extensions; and so here I am. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 1:14 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Searching
Now that Google Chrome is live, I [Danny Sullivan] spent some time looking at the search features within it, especially to see -- as I did recently with Internet Explorer 8 -- whether Google was going to try to stack the deck in its own favor. Like read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2008 - 4:20 am
Posted By: Maing 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Searching
Meta-search engine is a web-based service that aggregates data from a number of search engines. A meta search engine doesn’t have a database of indexed pages of its own. Instead it “sends a user’s query to multiple search engines and blends the top read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: SiteMost 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty loves playing with visualizing tools because they allow her to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time she has compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 12:10 pm
Posted By: planetc1 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://tonyadam.com)
Category: Searching
Tony Adams wsrites... With the “Web 2.0″ world that we live in, companies are inclined to create “snazzy” new AJAX experiences for users. I have been dubbing this the AJAX Dilemma lately because organizations/companies/website owners are creating si read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 9:49 am
Posted By: annie7 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
A list of 13 services that will help you monitor your website read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 7:15 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty writes, "Being automatically updated once a page is changed opens up a wealth of (probably missed) opportunities. There are two handy ways I personally use to keep track of changes introduced to any webpage" read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 12:32 pm
Posted By: Gab 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Mike Blumenthal shares a new monetization technique spammers are using in conjunction with exploiting Google Maps' long suffering mass upload feature. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: pittfall 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Searching
When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search?

A new patent application from Yahoo explores how a search engine might handle the singular and plural versions read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 6:18 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Mobile Search
Jeff Quipp writes, "Are iPhone type PDAs the way of the future. Will most searches be performed from such devices? I don’t think any of us can argue against it … it will happen … and in fact the transition is well under way. Accordingly, I thought t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 6:08 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsultants.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Pascal Casing : The first letter in the identifier and the first letter of each subsequent concatenated word are capitalized. May also be referred to as Studley Caps. e.g. PascalCasing

Edward (Pageoneresults) Runs us through Pascal Casing - we a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 9:04 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
I'm doing a talk at Gnomedex about how search continues to be part of our everyday lives -- and the issues that come with it, such as privacy. This post looks at some of those issues. I'm hoping to spark some discussion that will feed into my talk. read more »
19 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: graywolf 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://webworkerdaily.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
It’s okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 11:29 am
Posted By: Sebastian 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Other Searching
Here is Joost's guide 'how to provide usable WP-SERPs', titled
"Make WordPress' search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. read more »
2 Comments     


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