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Does The Country Tweets Come From Impact How A Page Will Rank
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 394 Days ago
News Source: http://sharkseo.com
Category: SEO
Will a lot of tweets about your page from the UK get you ranking on Google UK but not Google US? This story suggests so. Read more
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FTC - 1; Cookie Monster - 0: Impact of “Do Not Track” Legislation
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 423 Days ago
News Source: http://actionableinsights.covario.com
Category: SEM
I thought this was an interesting look at what "Do Not Track" might do in terms of online advertising, especially from the perspective of someone with experience in the wake of "Do Not Call." Read more
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Yes, Google Knows You Have Bad Reviews -- And Maybe That'll Hurt You, In The Future
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 439 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
My own take on the big New York Times story about the guy who says bad reviews still help him rank on Google. Maybe -- but I doubt it. What I don't doubt is that Google can indeed understand if a merchant has bad reviews or not. While it currently… Read more
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How ratings and reviews work on Google Places
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 445 Days ago
News Source: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com
Category: Vertical Search
From Google, an update on how ratings and reviews end up on Google Places pages. Read more
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Key Takeaways From Matt Cutts Talking At PubCon
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 457 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
We've had the PubCon round up post earlier on Sphinn, but this deserves special attention -- and overview of interesting and some new things that Matt Cutts shared during his talk that will be of interest to SEOs. Read more
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18 Things A New Site Should Do To Measure Success
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 459 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: Analytics
This was a really nice, detailed list of things any new site owner may wish to consider about how to track visits, mentions and other metrics to help in their marketing. Read more
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AFP: Argues Tweeted Pics Are Its To Take
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 460 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.ericgoldman.org
Category: Social Media
I always was annoyed at the wire services and mainstream media that take pictures that have been tweeted and just use them without permission. Unlike web publications, there's no way to link credit or easily pull down if there's a complaint. The wire… Read more
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Google Gets Instant Previews
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 461 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Searching
Now Google is showing large images of pages right within the search results, called "Instant Previews." My detailed look at how the system works. Read more
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SEO Audit Tool Comparison
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 464 Days ago
News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Category: SEO
Doing an SEO audit? Outspoken Media does a big review of five major tools. Read more
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After Bing Partners With Facebook, Google Gets More Social
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 481 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Searching
Last week, Bing added links to things your friends are sharing on Facebook. That led to a lot of "how's Google going to react." Answer? This week, Google started testing new links to content being shared on social networks, as well as to what people are… Read more
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10 Biggest Factors For Success In Facebook's News Feed
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 482 Days ago
News Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com
Category: Social Media
The Daily Beast set out to do some reverse engineering of what Facebook's news feed algorithm (EdgeRank, I guess) likes. They followed what happened to a 60 year old newcomer on the service. Findings? If you're new, your content can be invisible to… Read more
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The Anatomy Of Google Search URL Parameters
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 488 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blueglass.com
Category: SEM
Know your PWS from your NUM, as a way to make Google Search do what you want right from the address bar? Learn your query parameters alphabet, and you'll be a "command line" whiz plus learn about what Google's tracking. Read more
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Losing Trust In Google's Keyword Research Tool
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 492 Days ago
News Source: http://www.aimclearblog.com
Category: SEM
At SMX East, there was a session entirely devoted to talking with Google about its keyword research tool. Over the course of the session, several reasons emerged about why you might not trust the data so much, at least for now. Read more
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SMX East 2010: The Full Recap
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 492 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
Missed SMX East? Attended but couldn't get to all the sessions? Here's a recap of all the live blogging out of the show. Read more
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White Hats: You Can't Win, So Go Black Hat
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 502 Days ago
News Source: http://searchenginewatch.com
Category: SEO
While I think Search Engine Watch knew this was link-baitish in running it, writer Gary-Adam Shannon seems pretty serious that it's all over for white hats and black hat is the way to go. OK, what do you all think. Is he right? Read more
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Everything You Wanted To Know About YouTube Embed Codes
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 503 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blueglass.com
Category: Vertical Search
How do you turn off auto-play when embedding a YouTube video? Make it start at a particular point. The answer to this and other controls are covered here. Read more
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Twitter To Provide Free, Real Time Analytics
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 508 Days ago
News Source: http://blogs.webtrends.com
Category: Social Media
How are your tweets doing on Twitter? To help you understand more, Twitter says it will be releasing new Twitter analytic tools later this year -- apparently to everyone -- and for free. Read more
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Google Instant: What Are Your Findings & Thoughts?
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Administrator Discussion Started By: dannysullivan 508 Days ago
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Category: SEM
We've had Google Instant for about two weeks now. Some predicted huge changes would come in the wake of it. Some predicted it was no big thing. What are your thoughts. Any impacts you've noticed? Life as usual? Read more
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The SEO's Handbook – Resources For 1st Time SEOs
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 510 Days ago
News Source: http://www.quicksprout.com
Category: SEO
A nice, simply list of top blogs, news sites, forums, conferences and tools about SEO. Read more
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A Groupon Success Can Also Be A Disaster
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 514 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.redfin.com
Category: Social Media

Posies Cafe found that a Groupon offer brought in plenty of people -- but cost them way too much money. Easy to blame Groupon for wanting to keep too much of the cut. But note the comments, too -- more a lesson for business owners to think carefully… Read more
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Google Instant Doesn't Change Google Analytics Tracking
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 521 Days ago
News Source: http://raventools.com
Category: SEM
I started working on my own piece about this, then Raven tipped me to this article from them on how yes, Virginia, there's still perfectly fine tracking of Google referrers from search despite Google Instant. Read more
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Sphinn Says Goodbye To Voting
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 530 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.sphinn.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Within a week or two, the voting model will end at Sphinn. Stories can still be submitted, but editors will consider those in addition to others they find. Why? Rather than build community, voting -- an activity which is also in decline -- seems to… Read more
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How Buying Links Cost A Flower Vendor $4 Million In Google Traffic
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 531 Days ago
News Source: http://www.inc.com
Category: Link Building
Debate whether Google should penalize over paid links all you want. The bottom line remains that Google DOES penalize, when it finds them, and when it wants. And in this case, an online flower shop's SEO firm bought links for them. Penality ensued, and… Read more
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Inside The Google Garbage Factory
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 563 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has talked about how much garbage there is on the internet. In this piece, I looked at how his own company is responsible for some of it, failing to curb the excesses caused by Google Trends and indirectly profiting from the… Read more
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Paid Links Aren't Bad -- Disruptive Links Are
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 593 Days ago
News Source: http://www.rosshudgens.com
Category: Link Building
It's been said before, but here's a fresh take on the paid link debate. Shouldn't search engines forget the issue of whether someone was paid and instead try to figure out if a link is deserved or not? If a paid link isn't disruptive, why be upset with… Read more
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