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Meg


The Lazy Bloggers Post Generator
Avatar Story Found By: Snoskred 1299 Days ago
News Source: http://www.aussiebloggers.com.au
Category: Social Media
I have seen it said around the web that a blogger should never write a blog post that apologises for not blogging - no matter how long it has been, no matter what happened to get in the way of blogging, you should return as if you never left. And now… Read more
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Day Two Recap - SMX Sydney SEO SEM Conference 2008
Avatar Story Found By: neerav 1400 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bhatt.id.au
Category: SEO
Day 2 of SMX Sydney started off solidly and finished with an unexpected twist before we headed underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the after party.

Any Aussie SEO’s who didn’t attend should kick themselves because of the… Read more
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Danny & Rand Discover Flightcentre Possible Blackhat Cloaking : SMX Sydney Day 2
Avatar Story Found By: neerav 1402 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bhatt.id.au
Category: SEO
In an unexpected twist to the end of Day 2 at SMX Sydney Rand Fishkin and Danny Sullivan exposed a possible case of blackhat cloaking by Flightcentre.com.au Read more
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Day One Recap - SMX Sydney SEO SEM Conference 2008
Avatar Story Found By: neerav 1403 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bhatt.id.au
Category: SEM
I’ve just spent 4 hours summarising 18 pages of notes for people who couldn’t attend SMX Sydney and also because I don’t think anyone else has blogged about it in any detail. Will do the same tomorrow for Day 2 of SMX Sydney.
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Exciting News - AussieBloggers Forums Are Go!
Avatar Story Found By: Snoskred 1505 Days ago
News Source: http://www.snoskred.org
Category: Social Media
Today the Aussie Bloggers Forums have opened the doors to the public. You don’t have to be an Aussie to join the forums, all nationalities are welcome. Unlike other forums out there on the web, questions are welcome and you will find lots of friendly… Read more
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Google Broke My Christmas * (Supplemental Result Query Changes)
Avatar Story Found By: bigpond 1515 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: SEM
Google have ruined Andy Beard’s Christmas. Bad Google. Bad. Read more
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Does Social Begging Work? Analytics Reveal The Truth
Avatar Story Found By: aimClear 1527 Days ago
News Source: http://ventureskills.wordpress.com
Category: Social Media
Mailing lists, IM groups, stumbles, forum posts...do these aggressive schemes to maximize social media traffic actually work? Tim Nash & "caring slaves" (researchers) pour over site owner provided logs. Read more
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Raping the Web 2.0 Australian Community
Avatar Story Found By: Meg 1529 Days ago
News Source: http://silkcharm.blogspot.com
Category: SEM
Sick of providing free social media consultations? Sound familiar? I’m sure this isn’t Australia specific. Read more
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Say Goodbye To Google Today.
Avatar Story Found By: Meg 1549 Days ago
News Source: http://www.snoskred.org
Category: Vertical Search
There’s a lot of people very unhappy with Google right now, and rightly so. We gave them too much power, and it is time to take it back. This post gives you everything you need to STOP using Google today, completely. Read more
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Track social media like a bloodhound with RSS and Yahoo Pipes
Avatar Story Found By: mblair 1550 Days ago
News Source: http://collective-thoughts.com
Category: Social Media
How to manipulate RSS feeds in Yahoo Pipes to keep an eye on the things that matter to you in Digg, Sphinn and Pligg clones. Read more
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How Host IP’s, Domain Blocking and Geo-location Influence SEO
Avatar Story Found By: kensavage 1557 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Loren Baker gives some nice tips on SEO friendly domain registration : Don’t block your WhoIs, just register in your DOG’s name, under a Mailboxes Etc. address... and other tips. Read more
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Google Cracks Down on the Mommy Bloggers
Avatar Story Found By: socialmedia 1553 Days ago
News Source: http://www.emomsathome.com
Category: SEO
It appears that mommy bloggers got hit in the last week with another Google smackdown. Wendy is livid as the Google SERPS are still full of junk. Read more
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7 Ways to Own Social Media Before it Owns You
Avatar Story Found By: AndyBeard 1552 Days ago
News Source: http://collective-thoughts.com
Category: Social Media
Who let those Sphinn misfits start a new blog - Brian fires off with a look at how disorganised our lives are becoming, and some ways to stay in control. Read more
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Hey You! Yes you, with the Partial Feed
Avatar Story Found By: Gamermk 1559 Days ago
News Source: http://blogpond.com.au
Category: Social Media
Meg starts on this rant attacking the often attacked partial rss feed and it only gets better ;)

Dear RSS Tease,

There’s a good chance I unsubscribed to your blog yesterday.

You see, I set yesterday aside to get… Read more
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Remarkable Traffic From Alexa Themselves?
Avatar Story Found By: AndyBeard 1563 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: Analytics
Having chanced upon appearing on the Alexa Top10 Movers and Shakers, I thought it worth mentioning it as a quite healthy source of traffic, however short lived. Read more
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Real or Fake PageRank Update In Progress (round 3)
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1570 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: Vertical Search
Many of the blogs highlighted in the update just a couple of days ago seem to have reverted to their previous position. Now for anyone who might be thinking otherwise, there are still some obvious penalties on place for a few sites, but it is less… Read more
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What would Google look like if they had to Optimize for Google? (Very Funny)
Avatar Story Found By: KangoTraveler 1581 Days ago
News Source: http://www.meangene.com
Category: SEO
I stumbled across this today, apparently this web developer was pissed about having to make more "SEO Changes" to his site ; hilarious! Read more
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DING DONG: Google PageRank Fracas = RIDICULOUS JOKE of The Blogosphere!
Avatar Story Found By: aimClear 1570 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: SEO
Our good friend Andy Beard suggests that Andy Greenberg of Forbes "got it totally wrong when he wrote GOOGLE Scares The SEARCH Crowd." In many ways GOOGLE should be "worried about the BLOGOSHPERE reaction" to the PR debacle. Read more
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PageRank changes: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google
Avatar Story Found By: Wiep 1572 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: SEO
"For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn’t take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans."
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The Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make
Avatar Story Found By: Lyndon 1581 Days ago
News Source: http://www.timeforblogging.com
Category: Social Media
Nice list of all those things you do that screw up your blogging. Don’t think this about marketing? Blogging is one of the best marketing tools you can use online when done correctly. Read more
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The Secret Statistics In Split RSS Feeds - Google Reader
Avatar Story Found By: AndyBeard 1581 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: Social Media
The new split RSS feed statistics actually reveal data you have never had available before, if you look carefully and understand how a reader came to subscribe to a particular URL. Read more
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Comments are King - Unfortunately
Avatar Story Found By: AndyBeard 1589 Days ago
News Source: http://blogpond.com.au
Category: SEO
Meg has been gaining tons of search traffic, however some of it she doesn’t actually want. Read more
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Google PageRank Update & Link Selling
Avatar Story Found By: EricLander 1588 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
This is obviously a wildly popular topic, but the implications go beyond a simple number representative of PageRank. Advertising programs and new organizations make it a point to game the system of links and PageRank -- so it’s interesting to see… Read more
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Penalty Confirmed - But I Don’t Sell PageRank
Avatar Story Found By: bartimus 1588 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: Vertical Search
The Google God has been angered once again. Looks like some sites got the big green finger. Read more
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Yes, Virginia, Google Will Hurt Your Site For Selling Links
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 1589 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
We’ve had several threads here on Sphinn debating whether Google will hurt a site for selling links. Now an official answer: yes. If you sell links, Google says it might drop your PR score, penalize you in the rankings or potentially ban your site… Read more
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