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Register Country Specific Domains To Help With Local SEO
Avatar Story Found By: DaveDavis 1364 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sparkinternetmarketing.com
Category: SEO
With the recent changes in the way Google and Yahoo are ranking country specific TLDs, Adam has put together a fantastic post listing all the official or best domain registrars for each ccTLD. Read more
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Google Offers Best Practices For Moving A Site
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1396 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEO
Google’s Webmaster Central blog wrote a best practices for moving your site to a new domain. I am happy with Google’s write up and it is a great first step, but I am a strong advocate of a Google Certified Domain Change process within… Read more
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Google Website Optimizer Steps Out Of The AdWords Box: Open To All Users & Urchin 6.0 Comes Out Of Beta
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1397 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
Google has announced that AdWords is no longer a requirement for Website Optimizer. In fact, you can now go to google.com/websiteoptimizer and register, for free, to use Website Optimizer, even if you do not have an AdWords account. Read more
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Google Hits High for Market Share of Searches
Avatar Story Found By: shimsand 1399 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
Hitwise released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States for March 2008, showing Google at an all-time high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit all-time lows. Read more
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Study: 80-Percent Of Searches Are Informational, 10% Are Navigational & Transactional
Avatar Story Found By: jeffquipp 1403 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
A great new study out of Penn State with reasonable accuracy suggests that only 10% of search requests are for transactional purposes.

Good information to have when constructing new content for client sites! Read more
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"Previous Query" Refinement Coming To Hit Google Results
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1403 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
Danny’s interview with Marissa Meyer... how "Previous Query" refinement will soon come to natural listings on Google, plus how Australia is to get StreetView mapping, Google testing how well Yahoo monetizes, how Orkut might have to be replaced in… Read more
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News Corp, Google, AOL,
Avatar Story Found By: timcohn 1403 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
The Days of Our Lives in Search continues as Sterling sees it... Read more
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Confirmed: Yahoo To Test Google AdSense For Search Ads
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1404 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: SEM
The Wall Street Journal said this is a very limited test, triggered by a "very limited percentage of Yahoo’s Web search queries." Why would Yahoo do this? Reportedly, Google’s ad generate more revenue and Yahoo may have areas where they have… Read more
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Sphinn & The Hidden Value of Social News Bookmarking Immersion
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1406 Days ago
News Source: http://www.aimclearblog.com
Category: Social Media
In an environment where other users are literally competing to bookmark up-and-coming news, speed often matters or someone beats you to the punch. Composing compelling titles and descriptions takes a lot of concentration and skill. I’m sharing… Read more
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SEO Maturity Model: Where is Your Organization?
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1406 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginuity.com
Category: SEO
A framework to help you evaluate where your organization’s SEO practices are and where they need to go.

All organizations, big and small, go through a SEO maturation process. Many start with a rough plan to make a website search engine… Read more
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Making Sense Of The Google CTR Debacle
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1446 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginuity.com
Category: Vertical Search
I’m amazed at the logic (or lack thereof) behind the recent sell-off of Google stock amid Comscore’s report of flat YOY January paid search click-through rates. Read more
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How to Use LinkedIn to Create Authoritative Content
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1452 Days ago
News Source: http://www.copyblogger.com
Category: Social Media
Looking for a credible source to strengthen your article, blog post or white paper? There’s an excellent source you may not have considered—LinkedIn. Chances are you have received dozens of emails from friends, colleagues and total strangers asking… Read more
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Kidnapped: The SMX West 2008 Trailer
Avatar Story Found By: tamar 1451 Days ago
News Source: http://videos.webpronews.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Michael McDonald of WebProNews gets kidnapped! Read more
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The Semantic Web & Search
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1451 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginuity.com
Category: SEM
If you’re a search marketer (paid or organic) and you’re not familiar with the emerging semantic web than you’ve got some reading to do. Read more
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SEO Beginners Guide from Google
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1454 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginuity.com
Category: SEO
Google has released a very useful SEO beginners guide entitled: Making the Most of Your Content: A Publisher’s Guide To The Web. The guide doesn’t provide any earth shattering insight (it’s for beginners) but it is a useful tool to back up your… Read more
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Ask Launches Digg-style News Service
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1467 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginuity.com
Category: Searching
Ask has launched a Digg-style news portal called Ask Big News. Read more
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How to Herd Organic Search Traffic to Your Blog
Avatar Story Found By: SiteMost 1470 Days ago
News Source: http://www.problogger.net
Category: SEO
A guest post on ProBlogger that gives some basic, yet still helpful and informative advice on how to achieve good organic rankings. Read more
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Nofollow Killed Google Social Graph API 3 Years Ago
Avatar Story Found By: aimClear 1471 Days ago
News Source: http://andybeard.eu
Category: Vertical Search
Andy Beard, founding father of the DOfollow movement of holistic linking, offers a brilliant breakdown of how Google’s NOfollow position RUINED social graph data. This is a must read folks. Read more
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Congrats to the 2008 SEMMY Winners!
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 1472 Days ago
News Source: http://www.smallbusinesssem.com
Category: SEM
Roll out the red carpet: We have winners in the inaugural SEMMY Awards, honoring some of the best content from the search marketing industry. We started with 127 authors representing 111 blogs/sites, and now we have one winner in 15 categories. Read more
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Three Tips For An Effective Super Bowl Search Marketing Campaign
Avatar Story Found By: claypots 1472 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginuity.com
Category: PPC
The Super Bowl is always a fun time of year for search marketing and you don’t have to spend millions to benefit from the massive audience. Here are three tips to an effective Super Bowl search marketing campaign... Read more
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