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Search and Social? Eh, no.
Avatar Story Found By: Badams 565 Days ago
News Source: http://seobullshit.com
Category: Social Media
‘Social is the new search’, ‘forget about SEO and start going social’, ‘social media will replace search’. Eh, no. It’s not, I won’t, and it won’t. Read more
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Link Building: It's a Popularity Game
Avatar Story Found By: Wiep 574 Days ago
News Source: http://www.linkbuilding.nl
Category: Link Building
This infographic shows how the game of link building should be played... Read more
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Exclusive Insights – Bruce Clay Talks TopSEOs
Avatar Story Found By: pageoneresults 588 Days ago
News Source: http://searchmarketingwisdom.com
Category: SEO

I was going to write this article right after SMX Advanced, but instead of settling, the dust has actually kicked up big time but since this is a holiday weekend, I figured it’s time to write up the one on one conversation I had with Bruce Clay… Read more
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How Content Syndication Can Backfire
Avatar Story Found By: mercylivi 616 Days ago
News Source: http://www.huomah.com
Category: SEO
In the present world of SEO (and internet marketing in general) we all know that the 'build it and they will come' approach just ain't going to cut it. One way to get the word out and even build some authority is the use of content syndication. This is… Read more
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Google Went Belly-Up: SERPs Sneakily Redirect to FPAs
Avatar Story Found By: pageoneresults 641 Days ago
News Source: http://sebastians-pamphlets.com
Category: Searching
It’s sad that a browser vendor like Google (and yes, Google Chrome is my favorite browser) feels the need to mislead its users with propaganda for a competing browser that’s slower and doesn’t render everything as it should render it. But when… Read more
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Google search engineer answers reddit's questions
Avatar Story Found By: andymurd 753 Days ago
News Source: http://www.reddit.com
Category: Searching

Not the usual Sphinn submission but there are some gems in there:"...we take an active role in ignoring p**n search" - um, what?"The big languages here are C++ (most of search and infrastructure), Java (a lot of ads stuff), and Python...""Trust is a… Read more
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Do I need to know Blackhat SEO?
Avatar Story Found By: richardbaxterseo 753 Days ago
News Source: http://explicitly.me
Category: SEO
Rishi Lakhani asks the question of a group of well known SEO's - brilliantly written and a great list of Black Hat SEO resources for the curious bookmarker... Read more
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33 Copywriting Tips Found on Twitter
Avatar Story Found By: AbsolutelyTrue 754 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seohosting.com
Category: Social Media
Who would have thought that some of the best copywriting advice you’ll ever receive could be delivered in 140 characters or less? I’ve come up with a list of 33 killer copywriting tips I’ve found on Twitter. Enjoy. Read more
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UK proposal gives copyright immunity to Google
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Moderator Story Found By: graywolf 760 Days ago
News Source: http://thehill.com
Category: Searching
A proposed amendment to a UK bill would give Google and other search engines immunity from copyright claims, basically giving Google permission to copy anything it pleases. Read more
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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 761 Days ago
News Source: http://sebastians-pamphlets.com
Category: Social Media
For example Twitter, where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to p-nis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly… Read more
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Launching SAScon – THE Search, Analytics & Social conference
Avatar Story Found By: Pinje84 763 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sascon.co.uk
Category: SEO
Infomation about the new Search, Analytics and Social Media conference thats taking place in Manchester, UK in April with key note speakers including Joost de Valk, Richard Gregory and Jon Myers. Read more
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How SEOs Win the War on Personalized & Real-Time Search
Avatar Story Found By: username1 removed by request 777 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Personalization has been in place on Google for over 4 years. This isn’t a new algorithm, it’s simply a new delivery mechanism. It’s important to remember that a large number of Google users are logged in to a Google account of some kind when… Read more
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How Google Can Combat Content Farms
Avatar Story Found By: Gab 776 Days ago
News Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com
Category: SEO
Demand Media and others illustrate the drive to schlocky content. RWW gathered some suggestions to eliminate such junk from the search results. Read more
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Google Uses ccTLD Over Server Location for Localizing Search Results
Avatar Story Found By: echwa 776 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seroundtable.com
Category: SEO
Great insight and one which really makes sense. Read more
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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 774 Days ago
News Source: http://sebastians-pamphlets.com
Category: Usability
Assuming you’re slightly familiar with my opinions, you already know that third party URI shorteners (aka URL shorteners) are downright evil. You don’t want to make use of unholy crap, so you need to roll your own. Here’s how you can (could)… Read more
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Why link building may not work
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 805 Days ago
News Source: http://www.best-seo-blog.com
Category: SEO
Michael Martinez' follow-up on "Secrets of How to Escape the Link Building Trap Now" provides lots of food for thoughts. Read more
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Google Nukes NME Message Boards for Viagra Spam
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 805 Days ago
News Source: http://www.hobo-web.co.uk
Category: SEO
Shaun Anderson walks you through a case where Google penalized parts of a trusted site for poor moderation of user generated content. Read more
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Here’s Hard Data for Headlines that Spread on Twitter
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 804 Days ago
News Source: http://www.copyblogger.com
Category: Social Media
Dan Zarrella shares his "research into various factors surrounding retweets and found a handful of factors that you may want to take into consideration when writing headlines for posts that you hope to share and spread on Twitter." Read more
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Use twitter to find out when to send your email newsletter
Avatar Story Found By: andymurd 804 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toddle.com
Category: Social Media
A clever way to use Twitter with Google Reader's trends to find out what day/time people are talking about your niche. Read more
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List of Every Google Search Operator
Avatar Story Found By: jalvini2300 817 Days ago
News Source: http://www.graphicseo.org
Category: Searching
This is a complete list of every single Google search operator. I found it while searching around on Google. I also turned it into a PDF and included a download link for anyone wanting to download it and reference it at a later time. Read more
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You Sell SEO? really? REALLY?
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 817 Days ago
News Source: http://www.thehodge.co.uk
Category: SEO
SNIP - I get angry quite often at the SEO industry, I try not to take part in forums or read a lot of the bitching that goes ahead but what I do take a look at is what work other people are doing, yesterday a Manchester based agency that I hadn’t… Read more
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How to use multiple sitemaps on one domain for geo-targeting
Avatar Story Found By: BasvdBeld 816 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchcowboys.com
Category: Domaining
Working with websites that targets several countries is always challenging, especially from an SEO point of view, people just don’t seem to get that doing SEO in different countries goes way beyond different languages. Lisa Myers adresses this topic… Read more
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Use Google Speed Tool to Speed Up Site
Avatar Story Found By: weboptimist 817 Days ago
News Source: http://www.rustybrick.com
Category: SEO
Great article on speeding up your pages and so simple! Good stuff here! Read more
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21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries
Avatar Story Found By: jboeckman 817 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Link Building
Advanced link building queries, for the link builders who use them extensively, remain a closely guarded secret. Read more
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YouTube Ranking Factors: 15 Guerrilla Tactics
Avatar Story Found By: scottclark 899 Days ago
News Source: http://www.aimclearblog.com
Category: SEO
Youtube is one of the largest search engines on the web and sends tens of thousands of visitors a month to some websites.  Marty does a great job breaking down some of the well known (and some lesser known) ranking tactics for this mega-site. Read more
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