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Google Knol - Google’s Latest Attack on Copyright
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1295 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Category: Vertical Search
Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer… Read more
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Knol Does Indeed Give Pages A Google Ranking Advantage
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1298 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Vertical Search
We’ve been assured that just because content sits on Google’s Knol site, it won’t gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how’s that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages… Read more
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Is This The End For Matt Cutts?
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1298 Days ago
News Source: http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk
Category: 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
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Which Sections of Your Web Pages Might Search Engines Ignore?
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1306 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobythesea.com
Category: SEO
A Yahoo patent application was published last week which looks more deeply into how the search engine would follow directions not to recall sections of pages pursuant to robots-nonindex tags. Read more
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Reputation Crises Management: 8 SEO Triage Tips
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1314 Days ago
News Source: http://www.aimclearblog.com
Category: SEO
Enter the SEO sharpshooter specialist, focused on attaining organic prominence as quickly as possible under pressure. The objective is to push the nasty content as far down the SERPs as possible and, if necessary, debunk the credibility of the damning… Read more
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Google Bangin’ The "No Paid Links Drum" Again
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1335 Days ago
News Source: http://www.mattcutts.com
Category: SEO
Matt is at it again asking web folks to step up and help Google where they can’t do it themselves. Nice volley of words between Michael Martinez and Matt Cutts too. ;) Read more
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Online Marketing Tips From TopRank
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1342 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: SEM
TopRank’s Dana Larson shares a list of the TopRank’s favorite online marketing tips , which - as a team - makes them stronger than each individual. Read more
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Hey Google, Eat My Shorts!
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1343 Days ago
News Source: http://www.huomah.com
Category: SEO
I love Google as much as the next guy or maybe more than most… Not only the search engine and many apps and services I play with, but I also enjoy how the engineers think, but the whole link FUD has finally started to irk me.

I have yet… Read more
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Twitter Poll: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1350 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: Social Media
With the fast growth and uptime growing pains, debates about Twitter are plentiful so let’s settle it once and for all with a Twitter poll:Is Twitter the Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool? Read more
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Guy Kawasaki Talks SEO, Twitter And Blogging
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1364 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: SEM
In this interview, he talks briefly about his most recent project, Alltop as well as changes he would make to Twitter, business blogging advice and a curious admission that he doesn’t understand SEO. Read more
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Ask.com Kills Search Engine
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1440 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Searching
I think this stinks. I have been hoping Ask could build it’s search into a competitive engine. Their interface was nice but we all know that’s not enough. I’m surprised they didn’t stick it out longer. Read more
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How Google handles 301 Permanent Redirects
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1441 Days ago
News Source: http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca
Category: SEO
The interesting note here is that both the old URL and the new URL are showing in the SERPs. See the details of what Barry found in redirecting his site. Read more
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Network Solutions Sued For Defrauding Millions
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1446 Days ago
News Source: http://www.forbes.com
Category: Domaining
This scam was originally covered pretty well here at Sphinn and the blog world. People were ticked. Now we see the lawsuit....

Network Solutions has forced millions of people to buy Internet domain names from them instead of cheaper… Read more
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Social Media Smarts - Tips on Marketing with Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1474 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: Social Media
Not too long ago Lee Odden queried a number of online marketing and public relations peers ranging from Aaron Wall, Matt McGee and Neil Patel to Todd Defren, Triss Hussey and Peter Himler about sharing a few of their social media marketing tips. Out of… Read more
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Do You Swear on Your Blog? [POLL]
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1476 Days ago
News Source: http://www.problogger.net
Category: Social Media
Late this week at ProBlogger guest blogger Justin Dupre explored the topic of swearing on blogs in his post - Dropping The F-Bomb: Blogging with Naughty Words. The response to his post was a great discussion with a variety of opinions expressed. I… Read more
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Optimizing the Fortune 100 - Enterprise SEO
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1480 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: SEO
While the vast majority of search engine optimization projects performed by search marketing agencies are for small and medium sized businesses, SEO for large and complex organizations takes a unique combination of finesse and consideration. Read more
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Matt Cutts, Why Am I Still Being Punished?
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1480 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo-scoop.com
Category: SEO
I dumped text link ads. I nofollowed paid links. I javascripted links that might be mistaken for paid links. I canceled my sponsored review accounts....And I did all that for…what? Read more
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Reader Poll: Is Facebook Losing it’s Luster?
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1484 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: Social Media
Lee Odden says from a personal observation standpoint, he noticed he’s not logging into Facebook much anymore and many of the updates he gets are irrelevant to his interests.

Reader Poll: Are You Still Excited About Using Facebook? Read more
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Get Out of Your Incestuous Circle Jerk Already
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1490 Days ago
News Source: http://www.shoemoney.com
Category: Social Media
I see blogs… and even businesses that constantly advertise and promote themselves in the same mediums time and time again. You see it in blogs a ton. The same bloggers reach out to the same bloggers all the time. The same people goto the same… Read more
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Matt Cutts Tells How Google Can Read Your Flash Files
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1495 Days ago
News Source: http://blogs.cnet.com
Category: SEO
In this Stephan Spencer post Stephan highlights and expounds on Matt’s response to indexing flash files in the recent interview Stephan had with Matt. This is a great follow up post to a successful interview. Read more
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Want an Editorially Approved LinkFrom Google?
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1496 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: Vertical Search
In this mornings post Graywolf chastised Google for giving straight links to partners,... now he’s found a whole bunch more! Read more
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Sphinn Stories By Domain
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1496 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: Sphinn Zone
i wish we could view a list of sphinn stories by domain. right now we can view stories many ways including all the categories, what’s hot, what’s new, comments, and then also by sphinner. it would be handy to also form a list by originating… Read more
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If I Were Marooned in the Caribbean I’d Want These SEM Blogs
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1514 Days ago
News Source: http://www.aimclearblog.com
Category: SEM
If Marty of aimClear were marooned on a Caribbean island and could only read 6 search marketing blogs, these are the ones he would take..... A great year end kinda post. Thanks Marty! Read more
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A Career in SEO? Bad Move.
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1518 Days ago
News Source: http://www.allthingssem.com
Category: SEM
If you find the world of search engine optimization (SEO) interesting and you are considering stepping into it as a career goal for 2008, you should really give it some serious thought beforehand. The profession is maturing now and is full of challenges… Read more
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Here’s Why I Won’t Quit My Link Building Job
Avatar Story Found By: northrock 1521 Days ago
News Source: http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com
Category: Link Building
Debra Mastaler explains link marketing after the recent barage of in-house vs out-house approaches to link building. For an extra treat she shows off the family talents in acting and video production. Enjoy! :) Read more
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