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Sphinn Says Goodbye To Voting
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Administrator Story Found By: dannysullivan 529 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.sphinn.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Within a week or two, the voting model will end at Sphinn. Stories can still be submitted, but editors will consider those in addition to others they find. Why? Rather than build community, voting -- an activity which is also in decline -- seems to… Read more
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92 Online Marketing Terms and Metrics You Should Know
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 534 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.authoritylabs.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
Really enjoyed this breakdown.  Good resource that may come in handy with clients or people in our industry less familiar with all of the many terms we toss out.  Anyway, I thought it was a great reference piece. Read more
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Government to Classify Search Marketers: Uncle Sam Needs Your Help
Avatar Story Found By: TimDineen 615 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.onwardsearch.com
Category: Other Internet Marketing
The Dept of Labor is preparing to classify search marketers. So why should you care about this and why does this matter to Search Marketers? Read the interview: Hillary from Onward Search interviews Dana Todd and Kathleen Fealy from SEMPO about this… Read more
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The Google MayDay Algo Update - A View From The Other Side
Avatar Story Found By: DaveDavis 621 Days ago
News Source: http://www.redflymarketing.com
Category: SEO
A post answering the question "Where did all the traffic go?". A few based on a collection of sites that have benefited greatly from the latest Google Mayday algorithm update. Read more
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Why Becoming an Expert in Your Niche is So Important
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 620 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Search specialists know a lot of link building and keyword research but how many of them are experts in the industries where they work? Read more
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29 Tidbits from Eric Enge's Interview of Matt Cutts
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 700 Days ago
News Source: http://www.stonetemple.com
Category: SEO
Eric Enge summarizes a couple dozen of the nuggets from his recent interview with Matt Cutts. There's also a link to read the full interview. Good stuff. Read more
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Google Global Firefox Extension V2.2 Released
Avatar Story Found By: DaveDavis 698 Days ago
News Source: http://www.redflymarketing.com
Category: Searching
The Google Global Firefox Extension is a free add-on from Redfly Marketing that allows you to quickly and easily see Google paid and organic search results exactly as they appear in different locations that can be defined by the user.The new version… Read more
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6 Website Redesign SEO Secrets Your Developer May Not Know
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Moderator Story Found By: Jill 788 Days ago
News Source: http://www.highrankings.com
Category: SEO
The reason you need to keep SEO front and center during this time is twofold: so that you do not lose your previous traffic, but also so that you can gain additional targeted search engine visitors when the new site goes live. Here are 6 SEO redesign… Read more
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How to SEO for Google PlaceRank
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 797 Days ago
News Source: http://www.netmagellan.com
Category: Vertical Search
Google is choosing local businesses as "Favorite Places" based on something called PlaceRank. In this post, Ash Nallawalla introduces the concept and digs into a Google patent about how PlaceRank works. Must-reading for the local SEO crowd. Read more
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Search Engine Journal Merges with Search & Social, LLC
Avatar Story Found By: debram 1000 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
Search Engine Journal and it’s client services division headed by Loren Baker are merging with Search & Social, the company founded by Dave Snyder & Jordan Kasteler. They’ve formed a new full service online marketing and media firm; Search &… Read more
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The Best Niche Social Media News Sites Right Now
Avatar Story Found By: Harith 1047 Days ago
News Source: http://www.10e20.com
Category: SEM
Chris Winfield: Last week I gave a presentation at SES NY and included a list of 35 niche social media sites that we participate in regularly. Lots of people have asked me for this list so I decided to put it here. Read more
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Is Guy Kawasaki Singlehandedly Ruining Twitter?
Avatar Story Found By: Xurxo 1047 Days ago
News Source: http://www.traffick.com
Category: SEM
Andrew Goodman calls Guy Kawasaki out on his "dubious" twitter strategies.

"If you strip away the black turtleneck (please don’t), the Silicon Valley pedigree, and the attitude, Kawasaki can be boiled down to the equivalent of the… Read more
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The Big List Of Search Engines & Their Employees On Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: tonyadam 1080 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
Welcome to the big search engine Twitter list! Read more
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Using Google Alerts to Find Jobs, Rare Products, etc.
Avatar Story Found By: BrianChappell 1089 Days ago
News Source: http://nuudl.com
Category: Vertical Search
The key here is to use the “site:” search command. What “site:” allows you to do is search within a single website. An example is “SEO consultant site:craigslist.org“ This query will search all pages on craigslist that mention “seo” and… Read more
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Google Testing SearchWiki On AdWords
Avatar Story Found By: aimClear 1093 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seroundtable.com
Category: PPC
Say it aint SO! Malevolent industrial espionage creeps will be up LATE tonight building thumbs down bots...JEEEZ. Will it be part of QScore? Will it flag a hand review? Is it about eliminating Garbitrage sites? Read more
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The SEO Toolbar
Avatar Story Found By: Avinio 1123 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Category: SEO
What would happen if you smooshed together many of the best parts of Rank Checker, SEO for Firefox, the best keyword research tools across the web, a feed reader (pre-populated with many SEO feeds), a ton of competitive research tools, the ability to… 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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An Update On Javascript Menus And SEO
Avatar Story Found By: UtahSEOpro 1129 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
SEOs have traditionally recommended using search engine friendly menu systems such those based on HTML styled with CSS instead of those written in JavaScript. The primary language understood by search engines has been HTML, but now several search… Read more
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Indeed.com Wins Best Online Job Search Beating Monster.com
Avatar Story Found By: justifyleo 1143 Days ago
News Source: http://lifehacker.com
Category: Searching
The relatively new job search engine Indeed won top honors Read more
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To Sphinn or Not to Sphinn Your Own Stuff?
Avatar Story Found By: Xurxo 1146 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: Sphinn Zone
There seems to be a lot of discussion lately about the quality of Sphinn submits and how some content gets to the top artificially because of who submitted the content or who got asked to sphinn it.

I’m curious to hear what the… Read more
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Happy Holiday!!! Logos from the Industry
Avatar Story Found By: rustybrick 1144 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seroundtable.com
Category: SEM
Happy holidays Sphinners. I have compiled a very comprehensive list of holiday logos from the industry. Happy Holidays everyone! Read more
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It all comes down to search intent
Avatar Story Found By: TimDineen 1161 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ppchero.com
Category: SEM
Interesting perspective on trying "smaller" vertical search engines for different results:

Vertical PPC search engines and user intent: sometimes it makes sense to break out and try 2nd /3rd tier search engines – or better yet –… Read more
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Todd Mintz Talks on Resumes and Job Searching
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Moderator Story Found By: toddmintz 1180 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo-factor.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Josh Garner interviewed me about resumes & job searching with a search marketing focus. He did a great job with the piece. Read more
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Pagination for SEO - is javascript the answer?
Avatar Story Found By: saysomestuff 1165 Days ago
News Source: http://colewhitelaw.com
Category: SEM
Article pagination, can it be better handled by learning from the travel industry? A few different viewpoints and scenarios.

p.s. I know it’s a bit lame to Sphinn my own stuff but it’s my first post for a long time on a new blog… Read more
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Finding High-Value Links
Avatar Story Found By: debram 1166 Days ago
News Source: http://searchenginewatch.com
Category: Link Building
Obtaining links from authoritative sites is a must for any long-term Web site promotional plan. Eric Enge lists four steps to follow to increase your chances of finding high value authority links the next time you’re hunting for links. Read more
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