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Avatar Story Found By: sammy 849 Days ago
News Source: http://sebastians-pamphlets.com
Category: SEO
Derek Powazek didn’t do professional Web development –as an industry– a favor. Sebastian's answer to Dereck Powazek Read more
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The Link Hookup (Fiction)
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Moderator Story Found By: toddmintz 1076 Days ago
News Source: http://toddmintz.com
Category: Vertical Search
A while back while reading one of the numerous paid link debates, I had a random thought (not shared on Twitter) as to whether a certain type of "link barter" would violate Google’s TOS. I felt compelled to blow that idea out into a full-length… Read more
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Big Brand Shift On Google: Good, Bad Or In-Between?
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 1081 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: SEO
Aaron Wall had a really interesting post about how it seems as if Google has started shifting its algorithm to favor big brands in search results. That started quite a Twitter storm today between @mattcutts and @stuntdubl, in particular. I found the… Read more
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Google Needs to Change It’s Conference Presentation Policy
Avatar Story Found By: demib 1091 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: Vertical Search
Michael Gray once again show the double standards of Google. They really need to work on this. It makes them look totally stupid. Read more
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SMX West Liveblogging Coverage
Avatar Story Found By: Sugarrae 1094 Days ago
News Source: http://outspokenmedia.com
Category: SEM
Three full days (15 sessions covered in extreme detail) of Liveblogging coverage from SMX West written by none other than Super-Liveblogger Lisa Barone. Read more
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Link Love - Nothing Says I Love You Like an Inbound Link
Avatar Story Found By: danzarrella 1098 Days ago
News Source: http://linklove.hubspot.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Send Your Valentine Some Link Love! How? Fill out the form below, and we’ll embed your Valentine’s web address on this page, giving the one you love SEO credit and enhanced web authority. How romantic! Read more
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How to Disagree With Style
Avatar Story Found By: mpind 1098 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: Social Media
Pick a topic, any topic. No matter how small or insignificant, somewhere on the internet there are two people right at this moment threatening each others’ lives, mothers, and sexual orientation over it. Read more
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Give Google feedback on “noresults” pages
Avatar Story Found By: MattCutts 1125 Days ago
News Source: http://www.mattcutts.com
Category: Vertical Search
I asked what people wanted Google to tackle in webspam for 2009. The #1 complaint was "No reviews found"-type pages. So I’m putting out a call for examples and we’ll use the feedback that people send us. If these pages annoy you, now is the… Read more
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Blog Advertising is BROKEN, Here’s a Guide To Fix It.
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Moderator Story Found By: graywolf 1128 Days ago
News Source: http://www.patrickgavin.com
Category: SEM
I have done a LOT of advertising on blogs over the last few years pouring hundreds of thousands into ad campaigns with mixed results. I am the typical advertiser on your blog: I get started and I see less than expected traffic from your blog in the… Read more
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You Don’t Need SEO to Rank in Google
Avatar Story Found By: MariosAlexandrou 1129 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sugarrae.com
Category: SEO
SEO is still valuable. SEO is still important. But it doesn’t run the show. Read more
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My 5 favourite YouTube search engine videos
Avatar Story Found By: vermasaurav 1134 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEM
Many of our prospective clients want to research the usefulness of search engine optimisation (SEO) but prefer to view a few videos rather than read relevant articles and visit forums. Read more
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The Big List of 2009 Marketing Predictions
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1133 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
From Matt McGhee: "If you’ve been thinking about what’s in store for 2009, join the crowd. The start of a new year always brings out the proverbial crystal ball, but perhaps this year more than most, online marketers are trying to figure out… Read more
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Tweetbacks Beta: Trackbacks for Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: bbcarter 1132 Days ago
News Source: http://danzarrella.com
Category: Social Media
Dan Zarrella continues to rock the social media world. Unbelievable.

He’s created a script you can install in your blog posts that will show tweets about the post, just like trackbacks, but for tweets.

Um... AWESOME Read more
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YouTube Video SEO Tips
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1152 Days ago
News Source: http://www.reelseo.com
Category: SEO
Panelists on the Video Search Engine Optimization session for Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference and Expo – Gregory Markel, Greg Jarboe, and Steve Espinosa – shared their expert insights on YouTube’s algorithms, popularity, conversion,… Read more
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How Hacked Servers Can Hurt Your Traffic
Avatar Story Found By: Sugarrae 1150 Days ago
News Source: http://www.webmasterworld.com
Category: SEM
Unfortunately there are all kinds of devious server hacks making the rounds these days. They usually depend on two factors: sites that use a common CMS (such as Wordpress) and site owners who do not update their software to keep security solid. Read more
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What’s in a Retweet? Data Behind Viral Messaging on Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: bbcarter 1157 Days ago
News Source: http://danzarrella.com
Category: SEM
Wow, I need to subscribe to Dan’s RSS feed I think. Because this didn’t get posted on Sphinn yet and it’s AWESOME.

Dan Zarrella writes:
"I started collecting ReTweets a few weeks ago and have collected just over 84,000.… Read more
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Block Web Content Scrapers and Downloaders - Net Builders
Avatar Story Found By: MikeDammann 1159 Days ago
News Source: http://www.netbuilders.org
Category: Sphinn Zone
Bot Trap works by placing a hidden link on your homepage. That link can only be seen in the source code to the page. Ergo, the only things that should see and follow that link are web robots. But, that link is Disallowed in robots.txt, so polite robots… Read more
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Twitter Rockstar Revisited: ATwitterverse Experiment
Avatar Story Found By: martinbowling 1167 Days ago
News Source: http://www.prospectmx.com
Category: SEM
David Brown aka NeOBlog does a follow up post on his Twitter Rockstar case study. Talks about using twitter to promote your other social network profiles and how that can increase your relationships on other networks. Read more
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The Evolutionary Role of Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1168 Days ago
News Source: http://socialmediarockstar.com
Category: SEM
Social media is exciting. People sense that a paradigm shift is taking place. Many of us are taking a leap of faith… believing that that social media is “the next big thing.” We’re jumping in, both personally and professionally, trusting it will… Read more
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Forget Everything You Ever Learned in High School
Avatar Story Found By: mpind 1172 Days ago
News Source: http://www.webuildpages.com
Category: Social Media
Lisa’s take on Jim’s post http://www.copyblogger.com/blogging-high-school/

Very thought provoking...reminds me of my college days! Read more
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SEO Bailout Proposed
Avatar Story Found By: JamesDuthie 1173 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.clickfire.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Unless action is taken to free up links, firms are expected to report losses in search engine rankings. Congress must act to pass SEO bailout legislation. 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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4 Main Reasons you should be linking in Blogs
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1174 Days ago
News Source: http://tonyadam.com
Category: SEM
We create blogs with tons of great content and we base our content on Social Media that attracts a link or two. (Boy, isn’t that the understatement of the year!) We rely on this content to create user engagement and get people to keep coming back. But… Read more
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Google’s User Data Empire
Avatar Story Found By: SlightlyShadySEO 1175 Days ago
News Source: http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com
Category: Vertical Search
Google keeps expanding, there’s no doubt about this. But more interesting is how each expansion allows them to handle an entirely different type of data(be it credit cards, cell phone contacts, or email contacts) that can be used to better classify… Read more
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How Unexpected and Shocking Imagery is Used In Viral Advertising
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Moderator Story Found By: graywolf 1174 Days ago
News Source: http://www.viralconversations.com
Category: Social Media
One of the core concepts of viral advertising is to make it as shocking or unexpected as possible, the idea is to push viewers outside of their mental comfort zone. The following advertisement is a perfect example, since you aren’t sure what it’s… Read more
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