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Twitter SEO: 4 Simple Tips to Help Your Twitter Profile Rank
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 976 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Social Media
Matt Leonard says; Twitter SEO can help you take one more step towards owning your online reputation. Read more
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The Definitive List (75+) of Link Building Techniques in 2008
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1153 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: Link Building
Jeff Quipp writes, "Below, I’ve compiled a list of techniques I personally know of being utilized in the industry. It is by no means comprehensive, but is one of the most complete lists I’m aware of. I’ve tried to keep each technique as mutually… Read more
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Example of SEO Strategy Document
Avatar Story Found By: shimsand 1535 Days ago
News Source: http://www.shimonsandler.com
Category: SEO
Getting back to business basics. Besides the executional/tactical work, some clients like to see Strategy. Read more
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Google Says, Don’t Rewrite Dynamic URLs To Static URLs
Avatar Story Found By: paisley 1237 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Hrmm... so what about all thos DNN, Joomla, TYPO3 rewrites i’ve written, do i have to change them back? Read more
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Outdated but Powerful Pages : How to Handle Them?
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1307 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "An interesting discussion over at SearchEngineWatch Forum covers the way(s) of treating out-of-stock product pages that cannot be of any use to a visitor but still carry a lot of weight (in the form of inlinks, rankings and traffic).… Read more
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Domain Age: How Important Is It for SEO?
Avatar Story Found By: dsnyder 1308 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Ann is a genius and my seventh favorite woman in SEO:

"One SEO related question which is often asked throughout webmaster forums is how much domain registration age is important for SEO. " Read more
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SEO Best Practices for URL Structure
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1320 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty has put together a short all-in-one guide to summarize what we know about SEO for URLs. Read more
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Google Announces Improved Flash indexing
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 1322 Days ago
News Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Category: Vertical Search
From the official announcement: "If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms in… Read more
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Am I an Advanced SEO?
Avatar Story Found By: WayneSmallman 1340 Days ago
News Source: http://www.timnash.co.uk
Category: SEO
Tim Nash weighs in on the recent controversy surrounding Danny Sullivian’s comments regarding SEO... Read more
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Plurk to UnVeil New Karma System
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 1341 Days ago
News Source: http://plurkable.com
Category: Social Media
Kinda interesting as I was just whining about the double edged sword that is *Karma* - nice to see some activity from the developers

Plurkable - Many dedicated plurkers will attest the Karma system is cool but at the moment it basically… Read more
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Quality Score, Relevance Score and Search Engine Optimization
Avatar Story Found By: WayneSmallman 1343 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seodesignsolutions.com
Category: SEO
Jeff Smith makes a thorough case for quality as "the new token of stability in search", claiming that "the days of pulling the wool over the eyes of search engines with stuffed meta tags, off topic content written with poor grammar ... has come to a… Read more
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4 Alternative Uses of Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1347 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Category: Social Media
Sometimes, looking at things from a different perspective helps. Here are 4 ways to look at social media from a different perspective … and none require the submission to go ‘hot’ to receive benefit. Read more
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Website Usability: Is Your Website Designed to Be Easy to Use
Avatar Story Found By: WayneSmallman 1356 Days ago
News Source: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Category: Usability
Find someone in your organization who isn’t part of the web development process, people in accounting, bookkeeping or HR usually make excellent test subjects. Put them down at a computer on your website, and ask them to purchase your most popular item… Read more
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Image Optimization 101
Avatar Story Found By: onreact 1429 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seosmarty.com
Category: SEM
This how to covers the most important factors for image optimization for all relevant media. Read more
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The Social Loop — to write, share and promote
Avatar Story Found By: Khook20 1362 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blahblahtech.com
Category: Social Media
Getting the most out of the time you spend writing great articles, optimizing them and then being active on your favorite Social Network is an on-going challenge for just about all of us. Understanding the strengths and the order in which we use our… Read more
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Image Hotlinking and SEO : Are There Any Benefits?
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1363 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
If we look into hotlinking from an SEO perspective, are there any benefits in getting your images hotlinked by another website? Would hotlinking be worth as much as regular links?

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My big social web app’ wish list!
Avatar Story Found By: Khook20 1370 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blahblahtech.com
Category: Social Media
Getting the most out of social media websites and social networking services relies on we, the users, getting what we want from them. Here’s one guys wish list. Read more
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The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg
Avatar Story Found By: isaSuperstar 1382 Days ago
News Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com
Category: Social Media
You are probably familiar with the rather rocky relationship that Digg has with its core community. Fueled partly by a need to counter false accusations from disgruntled community members who claim that Digg is rigged, partly by the desire to encourage… Read more
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Why corporate business blogs are important to your marketing strategy
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1379 Days ago
News Source: http://www.jenniferslegg.com
Category: Social Media
It is becoming more and more important for corporations - as well as businesses of all sizes - to have a blog in today’s world where so many people own computers. But if your business has put off starting a blog for far too long, here is why you… Read more
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Subdomains or Subfolders : Which are Better for SEO?
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1377 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Subdomains or Subfolders? What’s better for a blog/forum/etc: a subdomain (eg. http://jobs.searchenginejournal.com/) or subfolder (eg. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/)?

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SEO for URLs and externally linked files on websites & ‘blogs
Avatar Story Found By: annie7 1378 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blahblahtech.com
Category: SEO
Google will read almost anything — or should I say almost any file… Because the world wide web isn’t just about web pages written in HTML (Hyper-Text Mark-up Language), Google will happily read (and, if deemed appropriate) index a number of file… Read more
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Making Sure Your Content Looks Good to Google
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1378 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "Very often if you have some issues with Google ranking your site, you should search for problems with your own site (instead of rushing to get as many inlinks as you can). Checking that your content appeals both to your human… Read more
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What Price Social Networking?
Avatar Story Found By: swags2804 1399 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blahblahtech.com
Category: Social Media
Are social networks becoming barren wastelands, ruled by the spammer and those looking to turn a quick shilling? Could the ’social interaction’ in social media become redundant? Read more
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SEO’s to Google - We’re Your Best Friends, Stop Treating Us Like Enemies
Avatar Story Found By: jackspirko 1406 Days ago
News Source: http://www.businessindallas.com
Category: SEO
The SEO community gets a lot of blame for Google’s problems. Here are a list of solid reasons Google is better because of professional SEOs and how even the true spammers should get some of the praise for making Google what it is today. Read more
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Who’s really reading social media?
Avatar Story Found By: 4cdawgs 1407 Days ago
News Source: http://onlinemarketingbanter.com
Category: SEM
Are people just voting for content and not really reading? Is blind support acceptable social media behaviour? What say you? Read more
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