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Google Maps Now Merging Competitors Business Listings
Avatar Story Found By: mblumenthal 1018 Days ago
News Source: http://blumenthals.com
Category: Vertical Search
Google, has always merged some business records inappropriately based on address & phone similarities but they are now merging LBC claimed listings of nearby competitors based on a new algo that has been released. Time to fix unkown! Read more
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Google Study On Sitemaps
Avatar Story Found By: tomcritchlow 1020 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
A fascinating study published by Google which goes into some detail on XML sitemaps. Read more
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It’s all about the secondary links silly
Avatar Story Found By: AngieH 1019 Days ago
News Source: http://www.huomah.com
Category: SEM
"Time and time again I see folks in the SEO world talking about getting links from social media websites. Many times this advice will include finding ‘followed’ links and even lists of ‘dofollow’ social media sites. This is quite strange and… Read more
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11 Pitfalls Small Businesses Make When Creating Their Websites
Avatar Story Found By: pervez 1020 Days ago
News Source: http://www.webdesignerhouston.com
Category: SEM
This is also a way many small business owners try and save money. They tend to think a website is a website is a website. They haven’t even heard of the usability, server sided includes, or cascading style sheets. And there is a good chance that Uncle… Read more
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Mobile SEO Myths Exposed
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1021 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sitepoint.com
Category: SEO
2008 was a year abounding in articles about mobile SEO and mobile sites. The buzz dropped down in the second half of the year; however the number of “mobile SEO” and “mobile site” inquiries is constantly rising – at least in my experience. I… Read more
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35 Non-Google SEO How tos, Tutorials & Other Resources
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1021 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEM
Awesome post from Tad Chef, looking at how you can promote your site using non-Google methods. Read more
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25 Social Media Marketing Tips from Major Corporations
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1021 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: SEM
Awesome post from Lee Odden....

25 Must Read Social Media Marketing Tips from major social media talent. Read more
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Google Forcing Your Hand, Stealing Your Thumbprint
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1024 Days ago
News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Category: SEM
Lisa Barone writes, "Earlier this week there was a lot of buzz about the new Google Profiles. I tried to ignore it because I find the idea of gift wrapping your online thumbprint and then hand delivering it to Google completely absurd. But people were… Read more
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Yes, You’re An Attack Site That Contains Malware, Now Here’s What To Do About It
Avatar Story Found By: vbpoutsourcing 1026 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
What can you do if Google flags your site as malware Read more
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10 Killer Tips to make you Social Media Rockstar
Avatar Story Found By: iVinay 1027 Days ago
News Source: http://socialmediarockstar.com
Category: Social Media
Brett lists best ways people get recognized in social media, follow the 10 and you could be the next Social Media Rockstar! There is an extra tip (11th) "Get hired by a famous company". Read more
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Is Backlink Age an Important SEO Factor?
Avatar Story Found By: Hakicoma 1026 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Apart from well-known characteristics of backlinks like relevancy, diversity, acquisition rate, etc, are there any other that might be considered as well? Some people wonder if age of backlinks is a factor either. Read more
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10 Non-Google SEO Ways to Promote your Business Online in 2009
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1032 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEO
While Twitter has become the perhaps single most important social site for marketers this year it’s time to reevaluate the ways to promote your business online in 2009. Read more
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Is Google Set to Change Ranking Algorithm?
Avatar Story Found By: pageoneresults 1027 Days ago
News Source: http://www.webpronews.com
Category: Searching
"Google is set to make changes to its search ranking algorithm to combat the spate of links leading to malicious web pages appearing at the top of Google’s search results, according to an inside source." Read more
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70 Do Follow Social Media Sites
Avatar Story Found By: netgeek06 1028 Days ago
News Source: http://digitallabz.com
Category: Social Media
A staple of successful internet marketing is a quality link building campaign. There are many resources on the web on link building and I will not bother going into those details here. Read more
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SEO Since 1999
Avatar Story Found By: vermasaurav 1028 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
In the past few months I have been doing a lot of thinking about the changes that have occurred on the web since I started. I managed to get some of them down in a list and looking it over reminds me of so much, probably in the same way as cracking open… Read more
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How to use adCenter to improve CTR of Organic Results
Avatar Story Found By: jdevalk 1029 Days ago
News Source: http://adcentercommunity.com
Category: PPC
Dave Naylor wrote a splendid post on the adCenter blog on how to use AdCenter to test title and meta description copy using MS adCenter, well worth the read! Read more
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Demystifying Google Quality Score & the Click Thru Rate Factor
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1031 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: PPC
I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about Quality Score (for search networks) lately. I usually don’t think much about quality score (QS) and over time, I got fed up with people who were obsessed with it. I suspected it was just people’s… Read more
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How to Check Rankings in Google Analytics with Googles new Referring URL
Avatar Story Found By: berneboy 1031 Days ago
News Source: http://www.berntjohansson.com
Category: Analytics
You can’t have missed the fact that Google is changing the referring URL from the SERP. Here is a blog post explaining how you can start monitor rankings with Google Analytics and the new referring URL today! Read more
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Develop an Avatar Strategy for Social Media & Blogs
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1032 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
Another great post by Ann Smarty...

"A lot has been said about avatar strategy already. However there is still something new to add. Choosing the right avatar is so crucial for a number of the very important reason it creates first… Read more
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Advanced Search Operators to Find the Best Backlinks
Avatar Story Found By: Garrett 1031 Days ago
News Source: http://www.socialseo.com
Category: Link Building
Brian Gilley: "My team and I have built up a list of over 300 of these queries that come in very handy in our quest for links. Below I’ll share just a few of these searches that are very specific to link building from popular CMS/blogging platforms… 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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MSNbot 2.0b is ignoring robots.txt and No Index meta tags
Avatar Story Found By: janecopland 1032 Days ago
News Source: http://www.chewie.co.uk
Category: SEO
Microsoft appears to be having a spot of bother with robots.txt files. That is, it’s messing them up completely. Dean Chew writes about how MSNbot 2.0b’s been in ur server, crawling ur files. Read more
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Methods To Never Sell Anything On Craigslist
Avatar Story Found By: mollermarketing 1034 Days ago
News Source: http://www.dreamsystemsmedia.com
Category: SEM
Great tips on what NOT to do if you want to sell stuff on Craigslist! Read more
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How to Do Keyword Research for an Established Site
Avatar Story Found By: vermasaurav 1035 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
...this is the first time that I’ve decided to share my way to do keyword analysis for a well established resource. Read more
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An upcoming change to Google.com search referrals; Google Analytics unaffected
Avatar Story Found By: peteyoung 1034 Days ago
News Source: http://analytics.blogspot.com
Category: Analytics
Google announces changes to refferal URL. Google analytics unaffected - one hopes they have consulted with other analytics vendors Read more
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