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NickWilsdon


8 Predictions for SEO in 2010
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 789 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
Rand Fishkin tackles some of the recent trends we've been observing from the engines and talk about his personal perception of what's to come over the next 12 months. Read more
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Why Twitter’s New Retweet Feature Sucks
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 817 Days ago
News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Category: Social Media
Lisa Barone's thoughts on Twitter's new Retweeting feature. It's intrusive, badly thought out and counter-intuitive to the way people use the system #TwitterFail Read more
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Using Network Features On Sphinn
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 823 Days ago
News Source: http://nickwilsdon.com
Category: Social Media
In this post, I wanted to show you one of the useful additions to the new Sphinn platform; networking. This feature lets you filter the articles on the site to submitters you trust and want to follow. Read more
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Majestic-12 Confirms Google’s Milestone of 1 Trillion URLs Found
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 858 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.majesticseo.com
Category: SEO
Majestic have managed to increase their web index to 1,026,035,494,521 unique URLs. An impressive achievement by their backlink tool but also means they can independently verify Google's claim last July to have reached the 1 Trillion URL milestone. Read more
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Twitter Plans to Squash Google’s Spider?
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1011 Days ago
News Source: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com
Category: Social Media
Frank Reed writes about Twitter’s new search facilities. They plan to index sites linked within the system. Could this provide a real time search engine that will rival Google? Read more
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Optimising Your 250 Character SuperTweets
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1054 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoconsultants.com
Category: Social Media
Pageoneresults is taking his exploration of Twitter even further with a look at the 250 character SuperTweet. While Twitter limits the viewable tweet to the famous 140 characters the true maximum is 255. He’ll be experimenting this weekend with the… Read more
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New Tool To Help Fight Web Site Hackers
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1056 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dazzlindonna.com
Category: SEO
DazzlinDonna has released a new tool called MonitorHackdFiles, which acts as a sentry for your site. It watches your site, and when it detects a file has changed (or been added), it notifies you via email and tells you which file(s) was changed. Read more
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ToysRUs Throws Away Ranking on $5.1M Toys.com
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1059 Days ago
News Source: http://www.brafton.com
Category: Domaining
In a move which can only be described as genius, ToysRUs have managed to de-index the URL Toys.com by forwarding the entire domain. Toys.com previously dominated the SERPS for the keyword "toys", holding 1st, 3rd and 4th place. Read more
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Getting Links AND Content From Flickr
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1059 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
According to Lisa Barone, you can get more than just links from social media. You can also get really great content. And one of the best places to find free content is on Flickr. Read more
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Google News No Longer Requires Numbers In The URL
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1060 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blogstorm.co.uk
Category: Vertical Search
Patrick Altoft reports that the 3-digit set of random numbers is no longer required for Google News as long as you are generating a news sitemap for them. Read more
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Introduction To Google AdWords Conversion Tracking
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1061 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: PPC
Brian Carter gives us a comprehensive introduction to Google Adwords Conversion Tracking. Why this tracking is important and what insight it can give your campaigns. Good overview post to bookmark on the topic. Read more
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The Optimization of Twitter Titles
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1070 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoconsultants.com
Category: Social Media
Edward takes an in-depth look at twitter titles and gives advice on character limits, scrubbing retweets and avoiding RT frenzies that can obscure your brand keywords. Read more
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The 50 Most Popular Celebs On Twitter - Times Online
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1077 Days ago
News Source: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk
Category: Social Media
Probably the most damning evidence yet that Twitter has burst into the mainstream. Times Online has published their list of the 50 most popular celebrities who have jumped onto the bandwagon. Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) tops the list but you can now… Read more
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No More Talk Of Conversations
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1083 Days ago
News Source: http://www.altogetherdigital.com
Category: SEM
Ciaran explains why he’s steering clear of the buzzword "conversation" when describing a relationship between a brand & a consumer. Despite the hype, real, honest-to-goodness conversations so rare as to be remarkable when they do exist. Read more
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Sugarrae Reviews PRWeb Press Release Service
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1117 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sugarrae.com
Category: SEM
As someone who has spent thousands of dollars at PRWeb, Sugarrae is well positioned to give an in-depth summary of their service. If you’re considering using press releases as a tactic then this is a must read post. Hopefully someone can do the… Read more
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SEM Basics: How to Use a Proxy IP in Firefox
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1197 Days ago
News Source: http://nickwilsdon.com
Category: SEM
Using an IP proxy is an essential skill for an SEM, it allows you to test websites and redirection rules based on geolocation of the user. It’s also surprisingly simple once you know how. This quick 10-minute guide will get you up to speed. Read more
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Greedy BBC Blocks External Links
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1198 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blogstorm.co.uk
Category: Link Building
In an outrageous act of selfishness and greed the BBC has decided to stop giving real links to the websites featured in the “Related Internet Links” section on the right hand side of each news story. Read more
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Remove The Category Base From Wordpress
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1199 Days ago
News Source: http://www.themadhat.com
Category: Social Media
Essential SEO fix for WordPress, it will increase internal PR/linkjuice on category pages and reduce URL length. Aaron Chronister (aka TheMadHat) finally brings us a hack to solve this problem. P.S. pressure him for a plugin in the comments. Read more
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The 7 Simplest Ways To Lower Your Bounce Rate and Get More Conversions
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1203 Days ago
News Source: http://seo2.0.onreact.com
Category: SEO
Every website or blog has a purpose, be it a sale, a subscription or simply conveying the message, whatever it is. Achieving this goal is called conversion. The worst enemy of the conversion is the bounce rate. Tad gives us 7 ways to reduce this and… Read more
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Donna’s New Tool: Introducing The Ad Rate Calculator
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1208 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dazzlindonna.com
Category: Display Ads
Donna has created a new tool to help site owners determine how much to charge for standard 125×125 ad blocks. Enter your pageviews for the advert period and the calculator will do the rest. Already selling ads, let us know how these numbers compare? Read more
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Does Google Have A Glass Ceiling?
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1213 Days ago
News Source: http://dixonjones.com
Category: SEO
A small “Google awakening” happened on Tuesday night. There seems to to be a “Google Glass Ceiling” in the serps for certain types of sites. Mileage might vary, but if your site is pulling more weight than Google thinks it should, there is… Read more
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Yes Virginia You Can Hurt Yourself With Duplicate Content
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1244 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: SEO
Michael Gray refutes the post last week by Google, entitled Demystifying the “duplicate content penalty”. In his opinion you really can hurt your site with duplicate content. He gives some examples where you may want to pay close attention to this… Read more
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Using Free Applications Within Your Link Building Strategy
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1250 Days ago
News Source: http://nickwilsdon.com
Category: Link Building
Hamlet Batista wrote a useful post last week on using applications to build links. My first online job was in the shareware industry so this is a familiar technique for me. Here are a few notes to add to the conversation Hamlet started. Read more
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Germany Warns Users To Stay Away From Google Chrome
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1253 Days ago
News Source: http://mashable.com
Category: Vertical Search
Germany’s Office for Information Security (BSI) is advising users to steer clear of Google’s brand new beta, citing privacy fears. Germany’s oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news channel "Tagesschau" are carrying the story. Read more
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10 Myths about Google Chrome Browser
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1255 Days ago
News Source: http://profy.com
Category: Vertical Search
Yeah I know *enough already* with the Chrome posts. This is a great read though on why the much hyped features of the new browser are nothing new to the browser market. It certainly made me respect the power of Google’s marketing. Read more
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