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If Google Places usage is to be extended, then Google Places needs fixing
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 543 Days ago
News Source: http://www.holisticsearch.co.uk
Category: SEO
SNIP -  There have been some very interesting developments with regards to the expanded use of Google Places over the last couple of months, with Google not only increasing the usage of Google Places within their mainstream SERPs but also increasing… Read more
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Organic ClickThrough Rate - Brand vs Intent vs Research Keyphrases
Avatar Story Found By: jaamit 616 Days ago
News Source: http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk
Category: SEO
A very thorough statistical analysis of Google WMT data (hey, it's all we got, so lets put inacurracies to one side for now) segmenting keywords by brand keywords, intent keywords and research keywords.  The results show some very interesting trends… Read more
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Handle your (UGC) feeds with care!
Avatar Story Found By: DaveDavis 814 Days ago
News Source: http://sebastians-pamphlets.com
Category: Social Media
Guess why Google encourages you to make your ATOM and RSS feeds crawlable. Guess why FeedBurner publishes each and every update of your blog via PubSubHubbub so that Googlebot gets an alert of new and updated posts (and comments) as you release them.… Read more
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You Know You Work In Search When You…
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 957 Days ago
News Source: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com
Category: SEM
Great post from Chelsea Blacker; 40 ways you know you work in search. Read more
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Feedburner Adds Friendfeed – Subscriber Data For Socialstreaming and Lifestreaming
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 969 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: Social Media
Andy Beard takes a look at FeedBurner’s change to now include tracking of FriendFeed subscriber data. Read more
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Big Geo Problems Still Exist In Google UK SERPS
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 969 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ppcblog.co.uk
Category: SEO
Here’s an interesting review of the geo-targeting issues which have been affecting the Google UK SERPs for most of this month. Read more
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UK Brands Setting a Prime Example of How Not to Market Yourself Online
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 978 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEM
A review of how UK high-street retailer Primark are missing a big opportunity by not offering an online store to it’s users and potential customers. Read more
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41 Ultimate Tips from SMX London 2009
Avatar Story Found By: guylevine 998 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: Vertical Search
A great round up of tips from SMX London Read more
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SES London Video - What Should Google do with the Black Hats?
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 998 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEO
Awesome video from SES London asking tons of SEO’s what Google should do with the black-hats. Read more
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Google Adds Ranking Data to Referrer String
Avatar Story Found By: SeoMyVideo 1033 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blogstorm.co.uk
Category: SEO
Matt Cutts said this post is a must read for every SEO. Read more
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Google Decides To Slow Down Search Results & Cloak Their New Tracking URLS
Avatar Story Found By: Skitzzo 1032 Days ago
News Source: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com
Category: SEO
Once again, Michael sifts through Google’s doublespeak:

"This not only nullifies any benefit that would be gained by switching to AJAX in the first place, in many, many cases it will actually cause the searches to be slower than if… Read more
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Google’s Disappearing Blog Post Phenomenon
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 1056 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ppcblog.co.uk
Category: SEO
(I’ve noticed this too, by the way.) From the post: "...while blog pages can be indexed and ranking within minutes, a couple of days later the blog post is nowhere to be seen anymore. It disappears. The page is still in Googles cache, but when you… Read more
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Useful Linkfromdomain Command fom Live/MSN
Avatar Story Found By: merrillg 1061 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ppcblog.co.uk
Category: SEM
How to find old domains with established pagerank / links using Live/MSN linkfromdomain command. Read more
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Social Media Links On The Brink Of Extinction?
Avatar Story Found By: vermasaurav 1133 Days ago
News Source: http://www.webuildpages.com
Category: SEM
Right before the New Year, Michael Gray asked if social media links were on death row, citing Google’s SEO guide (pdf) which includes a line about not “involving your site in schemes where your content is artificially promoted to the top of these… Read more
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The Big List of PPC Resources & Articles
Avatar Story Found By: MarcoVittigni 1150 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: PPC
I’ve scoured the web, my bookmarks and twitter (thanks guys!) for all the very best articles about PPC that I can find. Read more
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30 Web Trends for 2009
Avatar Story Found By: AlhanKeser 1157 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEM
A great rundown by Tad Chef on trends to expect in the coming year. Some things to look forward to in 2009:
- IE6 will be out of the picture.
- Websites will be lighter.
- People will shift from PPC to SEO

Okay, so maybe a… Read more
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Top ten tips for brand engagement via social media
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1164 Days ago
News Source: http://www.e-consultancy.com
Category: Social Media
Interesting post on e-consultancy about how brands should be promoting themselves using social media. Read more
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Are Google Now Penalising “Free Gift” Blog Reviews?
Avatar Story Found By: MattSawyer 1202 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEM
Google have obviously been clamping down on paid links during the last year, but it now looks like they may also be taking a stance against blog reviews made in exchange for free gifts! Read more
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Should You Allow Closed Group Affiliate Brand Bidding?
Avatar Story Found By: andrey 1206 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ppcblog.co.uk
Category: Affiliates
I think the majority of the time everyone would agree with a big fat no on allowing affiliates to bid against their brand. Why pay an affiliate a commission for something you will get 99% of the time anyway?

However, there are times where… Read more
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Travel SEO – How to Target Searchers at the Right Stage of the Buying Cycle
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1207 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEO
A look at how to attract targeted search engine traffic to travel websites from potential customers. Read more
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14 Free Tools That Reveal Why People Abandon Your Website
Avatar Story Found By: QualityNonsense 1209 Days ago
News Source: http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com
Category: Analytics
Ben and Karl from Conversion Rate Experts on free tools to help you learn why more of your users don’t become customers. Read more
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How To Add 7 Billion Pages To Your Index Overnight
Avatar Story Found By: firebreatherseo 1210 Days ago
News Source: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com
Category: SEM
A couple of days ago Micheal posted his assertion that Rand Fishkin had lied about the details of the new Linkscape tool on SEOmoz. This caused Sphinn comments to be closed and a lot of fireworks. Now, read more about the bots that never were on SEO… 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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2009 Google Flash SEO Update
Avatar Story Found By: beussery 1217 Days ago
News Source: http://www.beussery.com
Category: SEO
Months of research and cases studies to illustrate how Google handles Flash since the update in July. Read more
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Pay Per Chick - What PPC taught me about pulling the ladies...
Avatar Story Found By: kelvinnewman 1227 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: PPC
Casanova-ish KevGibbo shows how a career in PPC will give you plenty ideas for charming the ladies or the guys Read more
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