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Google Adds Promote and Remove Buttons to Search Results
Avatar Story Found By: cre8pc 1179 Days ago
News Source: http://cre8pc.com
Category: SEM
Yep. You can "promote" or "remove"...

(http://searchengineland.com/google-searchwiki-launches-15561.php) Explains... Read more
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How to Build Links and Awareness by Pitching Bloggers
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1193 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Social Media
Great post from Ann Smarty about how to grab the attention of top bloggers and generating links back from them. Read more
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Google Updates AdWords Quality Score To Be “Fairer”
Avatar Story Found By: Jeremy 1199 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: PPC
The Google AdWords Blog announced that two new changes to the quality score is coming in the next few days... Read more
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Google, The Unbiased Company, Has CEO Backing Obama
Avatar Story Found By: roymitchell75 1199 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seroundtable.com
Category: SEM
How many people can trust Google as an actual technological innovation if its CEO cannot keep his distance from political endorsements? Further, did we not forget that Google has a huge digital footprint on us -- that Google knows our emails, searches,… Read more
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Take The Google Challenge
Avatar Story Found By: Xurxo 1201 Days ago
News Source: http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca
Category: SEM
What percentage of site visits come from Google searches? Take the Google challenge! Read more
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Spleling Iz Importent: 3 Scenarios
Avatar Story Found By: bbcarter 1203 Days ago
News Source: http://www.fuelinteractive.com
Category: SEO
There’s a very small, simple, yet very important skill needed in internet marketing. What is it?

Spelling

Whether it’s a keyword, ad copy, URLs, or what, the simple fumble of a few letters can cause major damage to… Read more
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NoFollow and PageRank Sculpting is it Worth the Effort?
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1208 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: SEO
Google have downplayed the importance of PageRank sculpting and Graywolf follows this up with a useful analogy. Read more
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SEO Rapper Back Again with CSS King
Avatar Story Found By: mayhemchaos 1214 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: Social Media
Chuck (SEO Rapper) and Sal Baldovinos just finished up a new song! Check out the teasers: http://www.mayhemandchaos.com/blog/css-king-and-the-seo-rapper Read more
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The Art and Evolution of SEO
Avatar Story Found By: bloggeries 1230 Days ago
News Source: http://www.huomah.com
Category: SEO
SEO Is an art form that’s evolving. Here’s David Harry’s take. Read more
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100 Companies Using Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1231 Days ago
News Source: http://www.beingpeterkim.com
Category: SEM
Some great examples you can probably take some ideas from. Read more
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Micro-Site Strategy for Link Building and Brand Awareness
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1234 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
Creating micro-sites around your main web resource is not necessarily done for the sake of interlinking and spreading the link power. When done wisely, the strategy can aim at multiple purposes. Read more
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7 Ways Self Submission Hurts Yourself on Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: hjortur 1234 Days ago
News Source: http://seo2.0.onreact.com
Category: Social Media
7 reasons from onreact why you should NOT submit your own stuff (yes, I’ve learned that now ;)

Good reminder, specially for the newbies. Be patient, it just takes time. Read more
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Scott Hendison Releases SEO Automatic: Awesome Free SEO Tool
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Moderator Story Found By: toddmintz 1235 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoautomatic.com
Category: SEO
Check out Scott’s awesome free SEO tool...input your domain and it evaluates your site on lots of different SEO criteria. Great job by the Search Commander! Read more
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Us and Them: Why Smart SEOs Should Guarantee Results
Avatar Story Found By: thePuck 1235 Days ago
News Source: http://hamletbatista.com
Category: SEO
From the article:

"The problem is scammers who claim to be SEOs and who disrepute all of us with what they do. Wherever we draw the line between who is and who isn’t a “real SEO” is not important. There is no central authority or… Read more
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The Ultimate Guide to Selling a Website on eBay
Avatar Story Found By: DavidWalkerTV 1235 Days ago
News Source: http://www.affiliatedragon.com
Category: SEM
Selling websites on eBay can be very profitable but you need to stand out from the crowd to be successful. The key is to market your product as a “website business” and not just a "website" and the 56 tips in this article can be the difference in… Read more
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Google Answers More SEO Questions
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 1236 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
The Google Webmaster Central Blog has answered some more questions asked in the Google Groups area at their blog. Remember, Google recently answered questions on image search ranking, Sitelinks, reconsideration requests, redirects and communication.… Read more
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FTC Warns of Upcoming Regulation for Online Advertising
Avatar Story Found By: MediaTrustpeter 1237 Days ago
News Source: http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com
Category: SEM
the Government is talking about regulating the online marketing industry. Read more
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Search engine rankings are NOT useless
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://seogadget.co.uk
Category: SEO
There’s been lots of buzz about the worth of search engine rankings recently. Problem is, rankings checkers (or at least the process of collecting rankings data on a regular basis) are not useless. Read more
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Adsense? In MY Video Game?
Avatar Story Found By: DarkMatter 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://news.cnet.com
Category: SEM
It’s more likely than you think.

Google is on the brink of buying noted video game maker Valve Software, according to a report in The Inquirer that cites "well-placed sources." Read more
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City forbids link to its web site, starts criminal investigation
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Member Story Found By: Ruud 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://www.jsonline.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
"Jennifer Reisinger says the Sheboygan city attorney ordered her to remove from her Web site a link to the city’s police department [...]

The city went further, the lawsuit claims, launching a criminal investigation of Reisinger for… Read more
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Top Search Engine Marketing Tools
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1244 Days ago
News Source: http://blogoscoped.com
Category: SEO
Aaron Wall writes, "The number of internet marketing tools launched over the past couple years has been staggering. Many of them are both free and highly valuable. This article aims to highlight the best search engine marketing tools." Read more
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Google can now run Javascript?
Avatar Story Found By: andymurd 1244 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ogletreeseo.com
Category: Searching
It’s long been suspected, but now an SEO claims to have proof. If true, this means a big upset for a lot of people - especially affiliates using Javascript to cloak their links. 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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Demystifying the the "duplicate content penalty" - Officially
Avatar Story Found By: JohnWeb 1248 Days ago
News Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Category: SEO
From the post, "Let’s put this to bed once and for all, folks: There’s no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that." Read more
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When Links Are Illegal
Avatar Story Found By: DarkMatter 1248 Days ago
News Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk
Category: SEO
A web developer receives a cease and desist notice for linking to the local police dept site. The C&D request was withdrawn, but the developer is suing for breach of 1st Amendment rights.
The article also outlines some cases where links were… Read more
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