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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 471 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Aawww.... ain't it just the sweetest? I guess Twitter is really becomming part of the lexicon huh? What next? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 471 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEO
Search Engine Watch - SEO-PR is a term that has been around for about 4 or 5 years now. When optimizing press releases first became an option the PR industry did not adopt the practice. SEO firms immediately saw the value, but they lacked the PR and read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 471 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Search Engine Land - The Google Analytics Benchmarking feature is now live for those users who have chosen to opt in to the program. You can access the data by visiting a site profile and clicking on "Visitors" and then on "Benchmarking (Beta)." Goo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 472 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dazzlindonna.com)
Category: Other Social Media
DazzlinDonna -- You know the old saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. There’s a lot of truth in that, and in the web 2.0 world in which we live and run our eBusinesses, that takes on new meanings. One of those new meanings can be applied t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 472 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanessafoxnude.com)
Category: Link Building
Vanessa Fox - Link Building Part 1: Even if you managed to get Matt Cutts to take a break from Sprite long enough to do some tequila shots so that he said what the hell and sketched out the complete algorithm on a napkin, you wouldn’t want to define read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 473 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://battellemedia.com)
Category: Google
John Battelle - You can find in the moment coverage of the news here. What I found fascinating about this - not just the data, but the chance to really think about universal search - is the age-old conflict that Google faces between being a pure nav read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 474 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
Sometimes I do just love the rants from M&M - this is one of those occasions -

SEO Theory Blog - Oh, and I’m sick and tired of seeing people promote Google’s date search function. You know, where you supposedly use a time frame like the last 30 d read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 475 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Search Engine Land - Slowdown? What slowdown? The future looks bright for search, according to SEMPO's annual State of Search Engine Marketing report. The survey of search marketers and advertisers says that search engine marketing spending exceeded read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 476 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://dinamehta.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Hey peeps - of late I have been looking into how qualitative research can be applied to the SMM tool box. Along the way I came across this VERY interesting post to that end. I thought some of you 'Twitters' and Social Marketers alike may find intere read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 476 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: In order to help the visually impaired find the most relevant, useful information on the web, and as quickly as possible, we developed Accessible Search. Google Accessible Search identifies and prioritizes sea read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 482 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Bookmarking
TechCrunch - There are a bazillion social network aggregators out there (Mike attempted to round up some of the most notable ones here). FriendFeed is the most visible of them all for two main reasons: it was founded a group of ex-Googlers and, as a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 482 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
This is a very important read IMO - with the spate of hacking going on over the last while, the issues Dave raises are important ones we are VERY wary of here, (I run a web design as well as a SEO company). Add in Social media blackmail and digg cre read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 487 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Search Engine Land - I finally got around to watching Whiteboard Friday - The Matt Cutts Interview and felt it was worth pointing out. Matt Cutts, Google Engineer, is a huge part of the SEM industry. Rand Fishkin's interview with Matt Cutts explores read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 487 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Social Media
During my research into the world of SMM lately I created a master list of Social Sites that have traffic or are up-and-comers. It has been categorized by type and niche.

If you have some suggestions let me know as the list is ongoing (already h read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 487 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.reuters.com)
Category: Networking
Reuters -- Facebook said on Tuesday it had named Google Inc's global sales head, Sheryl Sandberg, as the social networking site's new chief operations officer, accelerating a decline in Google shares to year lows.

Google shares slid as much as 4. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 487 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Google SEO
Ruud is having a meander through the fields of user performance metrics in Search. While we already understand behavioral and engagement data being used in personalized search and ad delivery - how long until passive data collection affects the glob read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 488 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.reuters.com)
Category: Other Social Media
What can I say but strange... and un-settling.

Reuters - Thai officials urged Buddhist monks on Tuesday to avoid using social networking Web sites to woo women after an advocacy group found some monks were doing just that.

The request came as read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 493 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Did you SEE THE QUESTIONS? Wow is all I can say. I took the 'test' myself and must say it is back to my history lessons for some of it. Kudos to Matt and Paul.. (and the SEL crew for coming up wih them). Danny should really create an on-site quiz ve read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 494 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://piloseo.com)
Category: SEO
Ok, there are 3 reasons I like this post - First it's ecommerce related and I work a lot in that area. Second it's aboot hockey sticks and I Am Canadian. Third, well its simply a good post. So whaddy waiting fer, go read it eh.

Pilo - Don’t just read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 494 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Looking for a HUGE list of all the great coverage from Day 1 of SMX West??? This is it... grab a cold one and get ready to read. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 496 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Search Engine Land - "It's no big secret that the Web is the platform," said cDc spokesmodel Oxblood Ruffin. "And this platform pretty much sucks from a security perspective. Goolag Scanner provides one more tool for web site owners to patch up thei read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 498 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Search Engine Land - Many search agencies say they're committed to SEM best practices. But establishing standards will take more than lip service. Real people will have to stick their neck out to get this done. It will take leadership by individuals read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 501 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Social Media
One of my new mates, James decided to get into the whole 'value of Social Media Marketing' conversation. He takes a look at some of his efforts and takes a run at engagment metrics to make some sense of it all.

| Online Marketing Banter | In the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 501 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo! Search Blog: Those of you who listened to Yahoo!'s fourth quarter earnings call may remember Sue Decker mentioning our embrace of open source infrastructure. On a very related note, we're announcing today that we implemented what we believe i read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 502 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
DealBook - New York Times - In an escalation of its fight for Yahoo, Microsoft will authorize a proxy fight at the Internet company this week, people briefed on the matter told DealBook. Unless Yahoo quickly reverses course and enters into talks, Mi read more »
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