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Sphinn Says Goodbye To Voting
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 529 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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Five Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO Companies
Avatar Story Found By: leftthebox 1031 Days ago
News Source: http://smallbiztrends.com
Category: SEO
"Deceptive SEO companies use ‘black hat’ or unethical techniques to get your site to the top of the search engine rankings. The techniques may work well in the short term and bring lots of traffic or great rankings. However, over time they won’t… Read more
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Adobe SEO Critique
Avatar Story Found By: beussery 1030 Days ago
News Source: http://www.beussery.com
Category: SEO
You be the judge on this video recently posted by one of Adobe’s Senior Technology Evangelists.... Read more
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Practical Tips To Improve Site Findability In Search!
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1033 Days ago
News Source: http://radar.oreilly.com
Category: SEO
Vanessa Fox: This post is about quick wins in crawlability. In many cases, ensuring crawlability also ensures accessibility (particularly access via screen readers). From this standpoint, many government web sites have an advantage over other sites… Read more
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Graywolf, Matt Cutts, g1smd and Halfdeck discuss robots.txt disallow & meta noindex exclusion!
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1037 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: SEO
I have followed today (11th April 2009) a very interesting informative discussion on Twitter between Graywolf and Matt Cutts. During the said discussion g1smd and Halfdeck “puped up” and Graywolf had enough energy to discuss the subject with them… Read more
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Latest Image Optimization Techniques
Avatar Story Found By: beussery 1067 Days ago
News Source: http://www.beussery.com
Category: SEO
Before Google Universal, users viewed search results one vertical at a time but that trend is changing..... Read more
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Google Refutes Accusations
Avatar Story Found By: peterryan 1098 Days ago
News Source: http://tins.rklau.com
Category: Social Media
An article from LA Weekly has received some attention by reporting Google to be removing archived posts from blogs hosted on blogger (owned by Google). Matt Cutts tweeted this blog response from Rick Klau. Read more
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My Blog Hacked, Yet Again - Wordpress 2.6.5 Vulnerability / Exploit?
Avatar Story Found By: mvandemar 1122 Days ago
News Source: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com
Category: Social Media
Ok, hacked again. This time was definitely after I had upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.5. Check your blogs people, upgrade if you haven’t yet! :) Read more
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Google Creates Smart Sitemap Generator Tool
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1124 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Barry Schwartz: The Google Webmaster Central blog announced that they have just released a new Sitemap generator that works on both Linux/Apache and Microsoft IIS Windows-based servers. The Sitemap generator is different and possibly smarter than other… Read more
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Do Sitemaps Affect Crawlers?
Avatar Story Found By: chenry 1133 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
A limited test on if the submission of sitemaps affect crawlers coming to your site. Read more
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Hackers stealing your PageRank
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 1162 Days ago
News Source: http://johnmu.com
Category: SEM
- Johnmu.com - A different angle of attack is to redirect only search engine crawlers to a different site. By doing this, they can make it look like the pages of a website moved to a new domain name. In general, when search engines find redirects like… Read more
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A new look for our Webmaster Help Group
Avatar Story Found By: vermasaurav 1165 Days ago
News Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Category: SEM
Googlers strongly believe in dogfooding our own products. We manage our work schedules with Google Calendar, publish our blogs on Blogger, and store scads of documentation on Google Sites. So, ever since we launched our first Webmaster Help Group,… Read more
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Crappy MP3 Sites, Comment Spamming & Enough Already
Avatar Story Found By: AlhanKeser 1173 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
Danny Sullivan goes off on everyone who uses subversive marketing tactics. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and take it in. Read more
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Google Gives out SEO Advice
Avatar Story Found By: robwatts 1187 Days ago
News Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Category: SEO
Interesting move from Google, it’s the 1st time I’ve seen them go granular, but hey, what’s with the dig at shadyseo! ;) Read more
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How To Block The Bots SEOmoz *Isn’t* Telling You About
Avatar Story Found By: mvandemar 1213 Days ago
News Source: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com
Category: SEM
Some insights into the data that SEOmoz revealed today about what their sources for the Linkscape tool are, and what those sources reveal about things behind the scenes. Read more
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Lisa Barone Joins We Build Pages
Avatar Story Found By: Rhea 1216 Days ago
News Source: http://www.webuildpages.com
Category: SEM
Search industry blogger, Lisa Barone, joins the We Build Pages team as Senior Writer. She’ll be responsible for writing, setting the direction and tone for content creation, and will serve as a brand evangelist. Read more
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Advanced Website Diagnostics with Google Webmaster Tools
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1230 Days ago
News Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Category: SEO
Running a website can be complicated—so we’ve provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot there are relatively small (such as having… Read more
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Ask a Google Engineer!
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1235 Days ago
News Source: http://bit.ly
Category: SEM
This is your chance to interview Google engineers! Feel free to ask anything to:

Matt Cutts
Adam Lasnik
Erick Tseng
Jeff Dean
Andrew Morton
Ken Thompson
Guido van Rossum
Taliver Heath
Colby… Read more
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Google Webmaster Tools made easier in French, Italian, German and Spanish
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1244 Days ago
News Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Category: SEM
Rebecca Steelman, Google Search Quality: We’ll launch a series of six video tutorials in French, German, Italian and Spanish over the next couple of months. The videos will take you through the basics of Webmaster Tools as well as how to use the… 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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John Mueller Answering Webmaster Questions on Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1248 Days ago
News Source: http://nickwilsdon.com
Category: Vertical Search
John Mueller works as a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Zürich. He’s also a regular on Twitter under his familiar username JohnMu. As a test, he will be running Q&A sessions on the application each Friday. Let him know what you think. Read more
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Google’s Cost Per Query Revealed, the cost of ranking software
Avatar Story Found By: beussery 1264 Days ago
News Source: http://www.beussery.com
Category: Searching
Interesting findings that illustrate why popular ranking software packages aren’t approved by Google. Read more
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Mark Berghausen’s last day at Google
Avatar Story Found By: beussery 1311 Days ago
News Source: http://www.jlh-design.com
Category: Vertical Search
Google Webmaster Help guru Mark Berghausen aka "Bergy" announced late today that he was leaving Google! John Honeck has more details here.... Read more
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Official Google Blog: Using data to fight webspam
Avatar Story Found By: AndrewGirdwood 1325 Days ago
News Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com
Category: SEO
As Matt writes, "As the head of the webspam team at Google, I’m in charge of making sure your search results are as relevant and informative as possible." Read more
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Free search engine optimization tips for beginners from Matt Cutts
Avatar Story Found By: steaprok 1323 Days ago
News Source: http://www.mattcutts.com
Category: SEO
Jefferson Graham didn’t just write an article of free SEO tips — he also brought his video camera along. The result is a five minute video interview with more easy, free search engine optimization tips. Again, this is targeted at beginner SEO and… Read more
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