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TweetROI: “Return on Influence” Twitter Monetization Model
Avatar Story Found By: joshwilliams8525 951 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Social Media
"TweetROI unites influencers with marketers and protects the authentic personality that makes Twitter great. Twitterers recommend, in their own words, stuff they like. Marketers and PR professionals get valuable, previously unavailable Social Media… Read more
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How to Use Wildcards in Robots.txt
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1229 Days ago
News Source: http://seogadget.co.uk
Category: SEO
An extremely useful example of how to use wildcard (*) in Robots.txt for sites that use dynamic query parameters. Read more
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Nine lessons in search engine optimization
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1238 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo-theory.com
Category: SEO
Michael Martinez: Out of nearly 1600 query expressions that have brought recent traffic to SEO Theory, I have selected ten to discuss in greater depth. I chose these ten expressions for one or more of several reasons: the visitor counts were high, or… Read more
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Top Search Engine Marketing Tools
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1244 Days ago
News Source: http://blogoscoped.com
Category: SEO
Aaron Wall writes, "The number of internet marketing tools launched over the past couple years has been staggering. Many of them are both free and highly valuable. This article aims to highlight the best search engine marketing tools." Read more
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Handle Your Site Footer Wisely
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Usability
Ann Smarty writes, "As a sitewide element, footers used to be a widely used way to both interlink your own pages and add external sitewide links. It was then so much used and abused that it turned into a some kind of "red flag" for search engines… Read more
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Top 21 Signs You Need a Break From SEO (2008 version)
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 1243 Days ago
News Source: http://www.smallbusinesssem.com
Category: SEO
It’s that time of year again: Time to find out if you’re spending too much time on SEO and in desperate need of a break. Here’s the 2008 version of "Signs You Need a Break from SEO." Enjoy! Read more
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Why Over 90% of All Link Requests Fail
Avatar Story Found By: Lid 1251 Days ago
News Source: http://wiep.net
Category: Link Building
This post will show you why your link request may be getting deleted, rejected or ignored. Read more
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Link Building Notes of an SEO Kindergartner
Avatar Story Found By: rishilakhani 1252 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: Link Building
The author is relatively new to SEO, but has created a summary (in a well organized PDF) of link building tactics and ideas from various SEOmoz posts over the years.

If you decide to read only one Youmoz post this year, make it this one. Read more
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Cleaning Up the Retail Site Navigating Mess
Avatar Story Found By: stephan 1256 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Attribute-based (a.k.a. faceted) navigation systems make it easier for users to filter, sort, navigate, and buy. But this user benefit could cost you big-time in your natural search marketing performance if not SEO’d correctly. Read more
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Share Your Chrome Usage With Us
Avatar Story Found By: rustybrick 1256 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Vertical Search
I posted the browser stats from Google Analytics of SELand, SERoundtable and my personal blog, CartoonBarry.com at Search Engine Land. Chrome looked pretty impressive.

I encourage you to share your stats as well. So go to Google Analytics,… Read more
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The Dilemma Over Deep Linking
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1256 Days ago
News Source: http://www.bruceclay.com
Category: SEO
Lisa Barone: One of our fine Bruce Clay Account Managers forwarded me an article he stumbled across today and it was like a gift from God. How did he know I needed a good laugh today? Our AMs are always so helpful!

The article is from… Read more
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Could Google Chrome Change the SEO Field?
Avatar Story Found By: steaprok 1256 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Category: SEM
People far smarter than I have talked about the web becoming an operating system, and search being at the center of how we access the cloud. What better way for Google to position themselves as the C prompt than to turn the address bar into a search box? Read more
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Google Chrome Bait ‘n Switch?
Avatar Story Found By: NickWilsdon 1257 Days ago
News Source: http://www.johnon.com
Category: Vertical Search
As John Andrews writes, bait and switch is the practice of offering something attractive to draw an audience of consumers, to which you then sell an alternative. Has Google just done this to us with Chrome/Chromium? Read more
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This Month In SEO | More Resources To Shake A Stick At!
Avatar Story Found By: inkodeR 1260 Days ago
News Source: http://www.vanseodesign.com
Category: SEM
I’m not really sure what the term shake a stick at means?

But this list is just freaking mammoth. Read more
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The Last Website Checklist You’ll Ever Need
Avatar Story Found By: TCSM 1258 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com
Category: SEM
The ultimate checklist to make sure your website is going to be suck-free Read more
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Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project
Avatar Story Found By: ciaran 1259 Days ago
News Source: http://blogoscoped.com
Category: Vertical Search
Not content with acting as most people’s default browser, Google actually now wants to be people’s browser. It makes you wonder why they keep pumping so much cash into Mozilla (although for those guys I guess ’so much cash’ is a… Read more
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How To Get Started In Social Media | A Beginners Guide
Avatar Story Found By: steaprok 1263 Days ago
News Source: http://www.hobo-web.co.uk
Category: SEM
Getting involved in Social Media can be intimidating. So much so that you might not know where to even begin. There is Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, Mixx, Digg. There are blogs, forums, wikis, photo sharing, vlogging (video blogging), and others.… Read more
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10 Meta-Search Engines Reviewed and Compared
Avatar Story Found By: MarcoVittigni 1264 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: Searching
Meta-search engine is a web-based service that aggregates data from a number of search engines. A meta search engine doesn’t have a database of indexed pages of its own. Instead it “sends a user’s query to multiple search engines and blends the… Read more
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11 Slimy Internet Marketing Characters
Avatar Story Found By: DavidWalkerTV 1264 Days ago
News Source: http://www.affiliatedragon.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
The world of internet marketing can be a minefield of personalities, but there are certain characters you will see over and over again. These characters range from a little naive to downright dishonest… see how many of these 11 you recognise. Read more
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7 Google Suggest Effects on SEO, Search Usage and Business Predictions
Avatar Story Found By: TheMcHugh 1263 Days ago
News Source: http://seo2.0.onreact.com
Category: SEO
Useful summary of possible effects of Google Suggest and links to relevant posts. Read more
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AJAX and Non-JavaScript Experiences for SEO friendly websites
Avatar Story Found By: planetc1 1264 Days ago
News Source: http://tonyadam.com
Category: Searching
Tony Adams wsrites... With the “Web 2.0″ world that we live in, companies are inclined to create “snazzy” new AJAX experiences for users. I have been dubbing this the AJAX Dilemma lately because organizations/companies/website owners are… Read more
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33 Website Success Metrics Instead of Rankings, Google PageRank and Traffic
Avatar Story Found By: martinbowling 1269 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEM
Tad Chef writes "How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer traffic have gone the way of “hits”: All these older metrics become more and more meaningless in the current web environment.

Why measure ranking… Read more
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How to Adopt a Pro-SEO Culture at your Company
Avatar Story Found By: anthonyverre 1270 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Is your SEO is being left out of key decisions and discussions? Are projects going live without any SEO input until after the launch, or are SEO struggles to get changes prioritized and live on the site? Adopt a Pro-SEO culture in your workplace. Read more
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How Do You Measure Your SEO Campaign Success?
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1273 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "Keyword position should not be the ultimate goal of SEO campaign and hence it shouldn’t be an SEO process success metric. That’s the point I’d like to further discuss here. I’ve outlined the pros and cons of most popular SEO… Read more
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6 Common Website Mistakes That Are Costing You Money
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1277 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Great post from Jill Whalen, looking at six common SEO issues which effect a website’s performance. Read more
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