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Google Privacy: It’s Only Getting Worse
Avatar Story Found By: PocketSEO 724 Days ago
News Source: http://pocketseo.com
Category: SEO

Continued criticism of the growing threat to privacy by Google: Nexus One, Chrome OS, Google Buzz, Google Fiber for Communities, etc.

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Cloud Jacking: 7 Steps to Dominate Your Niche
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 839 Days ago
News Source: http://www.viperchill.com
Category: Social Media
Cloud jacking is simply taking over the market in your niche and gaining mindshare. It doesn’t have to be as dirty as it might sound though. I completely believe in honest engagement and quality content to help you rise about the competition. Read more
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Google Sidewiki: Hijacking Your User-Generated Content
Avatar Story Found By: PocketSEO 838 Days ago
News Source: http://joshnotes.com
Category: Social Media
Google Sidewiki is more than just a way to vandalize your competitors websites. Google Sidewiki makes it so easy for visitors to comment on your website that they are going to comment on Google Sidewiki and not register to comment on your own site. If… Read more
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Optimizing for Product Colors: Duplicate Content or Long Tail Gold?
Avatar Story Found By: Drupal 1384 Days ago
News Source: http://www.getelastic.com
Category: SEO
A case study on how you can optimize color-specific product pages, even when on-page content is 100% duplicate. Because product-color searches are long tail and convert higher, this can be a profitable strategy. Read more
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Why StumbleUpon Users Hate Us: Impressive SEO?
Avatar Story Found By: onreact 1397 Days ago
News Source: http://www.stumbleupon.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Wow, indeed "Very Impressive SEO Service" as one of the 150+ bots stated. Read more
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Google’s Creepy Obsession With Your Personal Data
Avatar Story Found By: PocketSEO 1396 Days ago
News Source: http://pocketseo.com
Category: Vertical Search
Why you shouldn’t trust Google, including how Google tracks you, indefinite storage of data, secret government access and Google’s creepy obsession with your personal data. Read more
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"Psst...Hey mister...Wanna buy a .EDU subdomain?" - Linkadage
Avatar Story Found By: SEOinSeattle 1398 Days ago
News Source: http://www.conversationmarketing.com
Category: SEM
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This takes the cake and IMOH opinionated O is as sleazy as they come. Linkadage is selling .edu subdomains for $50 a month.

"PI.edu is now offering sub-domain blogs that will allow you to educate your potential customers on… Read more
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A Problem with StumbleUpon?
Avatar Story Found By: fogofeternity 1399 Days ago
News Source: http://pandemiclabs.com
Category: Social Media
Thoughts on the algorithm of Stumbleupon and how stumbling your own site might permanently harm its traffic. Read more
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Are We Giving Google too Much Credit?
Avatar Story Found By: SlightlyShadySEO 1418 Days ago
News Source: http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com
Category: SEO
After reading the leaked "Quality Rater Guidelines" I was absolutely amazed at how basic a lot of the things are they have people looking for. Things that EASILY should be detected by the crawlers, not humans. Webmasters have long lived in fear of… Read more
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Google Switches from White to Black
Avatar Story Found By: lorenbaker 1417 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
In an effort to raise energy awareness, Google Israel has issued a black out for the day; serving a black screen with white letters instead of an all white screen with black letters. The results pages however, are still in classic Google white. Read more
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25 Paths to an Insanely Popular Blog
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1419 Days ago
News Source: http://www.skelliewag.org
Category: Social Media
Some bloggers spend more time with a whiteboard or notepad than they do actually writing content, and dedicate more words to outline a growth strategy than they do to actually writing content! Some of the world’s most popular blogs are the result of… Read more
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MetaCarta’s GeoSearch News : News and Maps Mashup
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1420 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Vertical Search
MetaCarta has launched GeoSearch News, a Google Maps mashup which serves as a geographic news search engine that displays current news from over 1,400 global news sources on a map. Read more
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A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites - New York Times
Avatar Story Found By: kevinheisler 1420 Days ago
News Source: http://www.nytimes.com
Category: SEM
Google’s search-within-a-site feature launched about 3 weeks ago. Discussed in-depth at SES New York. Today: NY Times. So why post old news? Ann Smarty (SEOSmarty) is quoted in NYT article! Very cool.

So are Pinny (Ice, Ice, baby) and… Read more
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New Wordpress 2.3.3 Exploit/Vulnerability - Adds Spam Directory /wp-content/1/
Avatar Story Found By: mvandemar 1421 Days ago
News Source: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com
Category: Social Media
Different from the hidden links injection reported earlier this month, this one involves the attacker creating a new physical directory in your Wordpress installation, and populating it with HTML files that then use Javascript to redirect visitors to… Read more
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Skype & Importance of Phone Numbers in a Meta Description
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1422 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
Loren Baker writes, "I’m not a big Internet Explorer user but today I’m using IE as my browser of choice. I noticed that when I launch Skype and IE, Skype highlights phone numbers on web sites in the browsers for calling via SkypeOut." Read more
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Ten Strategies For Avoiding Search Marketing Burnout
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 1424 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
Search Engine Land - Search marketing is the ultimate seductress. It lures you in with the promise of an interesting, exciting career that can actually pay the bills, but soon you’re regularly pulling 12 hour days with no vacations. There’s intense… Read more
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Official - Mahalo is Spam, According to Google’s Internal Spam Documents
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 1423 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Category: Searching
SEO Book.com - Lets take a look at a typical Mahalo page
mahalo.com/Best_Computer_Speakers
That page has a #1 ranking in Google with 0 unique content and 0 value to the searcher (according to Google’s above guidelines).

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Natural SEO : Reciprocal Linking and Interlinking
Avatar Story Found By: rafiq 1424 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
This is my second natural SEO post attempting to foster FUD-free approach to search engine optimization. This time it’s about two most overused (but still effective if done wisely) link building methods: reciprocal linking and interlinking. Read more
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Successful Networking Tips for LinkedIn and Facebook
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1423 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Social Media
Loren Baker offers 9 tips on using LinkedIn & Facebook to maintain a well balanced network that will help you connect with your colleagues online and help to brand yourself. Read more
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How To Defend Your Clients Against Porn Link Injection
Avatar Story Found By: PocketSEO 1423 Days ago
News Source: http://pocketseo.com
Category: SEO
Here is an easy way to protect your clients’ sites from becoming casualties of porn link injection and losing their search engine rankings. Read more
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Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek!
Avatar Story Found By: jcolman 1448 Days ago
News Source: http://beth.typepad.com
Category: SEM
An interview with Jonathon Colman of The Nature Conservancy to discuss the secrets behind how non-profit organizations can better leverage web 2.0 sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and Facebook to help create social change.

We discuss how to… Read more
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How to Say "Your Site Sucks" Nicely
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1447 Days ago
News Source: http://www.usereffect.com
Category: SEM
No matter what your area of expertise, there comes a time in every web developers life when you have to tell a client that their site, to put it plainly, sucks. Read more
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Yahoo - An Open Approach to Search
Avatar Story Found By: patrickaltoft 1447 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ysearchblog.com
Category: SEO
That’s right -- you heard it correctly -- the Yahoo! Search experience will soon be open. Read more
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Jason Calacanis Thinks Affiliate Marketing is BS - ASW08 Keynote
Avatar Story Found By: gyutae 1447 Days ago
News Source: http://www.winningtheweb.com
Category: Affiliates
Honestly, I thought Jason’s keynote was a bit too harsh, self promotional and hypocritical even though it did have some good tidbits of information. Don’t get me wrong. I love Jason’s work and his vision for the Internet. However, much of what… Read more
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Hiding the Sphinn Button When a Post Fails to Go Hot
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1448 Days ago
News Source: http://www.allthingssem.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
One of the things I don’t like about Sphinn is that if a post fails to go hot within a couple of days of being submitted, it will NEVER go hot. I’m not arguing that the system isn’t fair, I’m just saying I don’t like it. A… Read more
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