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Mahalo Is The New MFA Scraper Wikipedia Combination
Avatar Story Found By: TheMadHat 1501 Days ago
News Source: http://www.johnon.com
Category: SEO
Forget Scoble getting booted from Freakbook. The real story is how quickly Mahalo scraped together the news and started ranking. John Andrews has the scoop. Read more
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Google on Reading Text in Images from Street Views, Store Shelves, and Museum Interiors
Avatar Story Found By: billslawski 1501 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobythesea.com
Category: SEM
Real picture taking robots, coming to stores and museums near you? Plus, how well can Google really understand text within images? Possible very well. Read more
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The Web’s Best Content Has One Thing in Common
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1501 Days ago
News Source: http://www.skelliewag.org
Category: Social Media
In this post, I’ll be discussing the kind of content which does more than get links, comments and votes. It leaves a mark on everyone who engages with it. It changes, in some small way (or some big way), the way they act. Here’s how you can create it. Read more
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Visualising Neighbourhood, Website Structure, SEO Heat, Hot Links, Hot Spots & Viagra
Avatar Story Found By: AndyBeard 1501 Days ago
News Source: http://www.hobo-web.co.uk
Category: SEO
Shaun takes another look at visualising link equity, with hot links and hot pages. Read more
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Paid Link Spending Per Industry by Nielsen
Avatar Story Found By: Wiep 1502 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEM
These Nielsen numbers show which verticals are spending the most on sponsored search, including a category for Image/Text Links. Read more
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My first social media induced server crash!
Avatar Story Found By: SpostareDuro 1501 Days ago
News Source: http://www.ask-kalena.com
Category: SEM
Kalena’s blog traffic jumped from 480 visitors to 25, 321 visitors in 1 day thanks to the power of Social Media! (The Ninja Network...lol) Read more
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Should Social News Be a Republic Rather Than a Democracy?
Avatar Story Found By: danzarrella 1502 Days ago
News Source: http://muhammadsaleem.com
Category: Social Media
If we assume that the average user on a social media site is ‘fairly intelligent’ (though it’s true that not all users are equally savvy and in the end some users will rise above others to be stronger contributers) then it makes sense to give a… Read more
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Caroline Middlebrook Releases Her Ebook - How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress
Avatar Story Found By: jeffquipp 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com
Category: SEM
Haven’t read it in depth yet, but here’s some info from her blog post:

The ebook is 35 pages long and these are the major sections:

* Chapter 1: Getting and Installing WordPress
* Chapter 2: Basic WordPress… Read more
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SEO Copywriting for Ecommerce Product Descriptions
Avatar Story Found By: danzarrella 1502 Days ago
News Source: http://www.advmediaproductions.com
Category: SEO
A lazy SEO can write an ecommerce product description in minutes; a thorough SEO professional will need at least 15 minutes, maybe more, but the difference in quality and results is so tremendous that the small time difference hardly seems a… Read more
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Introducing NonProfits on the Web and Cre8tive Tomorrow Forums »
Avatar Story Found By: cre8pc 1501 Days ago
News Source: http://cre8pc.com
Category: Social Media
Cre8asiteforums has launched two new forums and invites new and old members to visit, teach and network. They are called "Nonprofits on the Web" and "Cre8tive Tomorrow".

These forums are the start of several new projects taking place this… Read more
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Using StumbleUpon to Get on the Radar of Other Bloggers
Avatar Story Found By: yeepage 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.problogger.net
Category: Social Media
bloggers can use stumbleupon to get the attention of other bloggers Read more
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Promote Your website online in 2008
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.yackyack.co.uk
Category: SEM
Rob Watts offers 8 general SEM tips that will help your website succeed online. Read more
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The New England Patriots Won’t Win The Super Bowl (The Blog Bet)
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Moderator Story Found By: toddmintz 1501 Days ago
News Source: http://www.semportland.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
In which I explain the concept of "blog bets" and offer 3 bloggers who believe that the Patriots will win the Super Bowl the opportunity to "blog bet" me. Read more
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Bloggers Rejoice! We’re Now Covered by the Freedom of Information Act.
Avatar Story Found By: TimDineen 1501 Days ago
News Source: http://mashable.com
Category: SEM
Citizen journalists are now covered... This “Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007” is now law!

Perhaps the presence of citizen journalism is merely too difficult to ignore any longer? Read more
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Linkbait Graphics: How Would I Do This?
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.10e20.com
Category: SEM
Last week I touched on the creative process and how I create linkbait graphics for articles and content. Today I am going to take a look at a particular site and see what the approach to creating graphics or using photography is for them. Read more
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Google Lodges Patent For Reading Text In Images And Video
Avatar Story Found By: jeffquipp 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.techcrunch.com
Category: SEM
Techcrunch reports: "A patent application lodged by Google in July 2007 but recently made public seeks to patent a method where by robots (computers) can read and understand text in images and video.

The extension of the application would… Read more
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Top Ten Tech ’Solutions’ Your Small Biz Can’t Use
Avatar Story Found By: michellereno 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com
Category: SEM
Gene Marks says SEO only works for larger companies that have "oodles of money" to spend and that it does little for small businesses. Marks indirectly says blogs should only be written by people in media or technology markets and who have the time and… Read more
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Interview with Jeff Quipp - CEO of Search Engine People
Avatar Story Found By: Eavesy 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.northsouthmedia.co.uk
Category: SEM
A great guy and a great interview. Read more
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Time Stamps for Sphinns
Avatar Story Found By: scottclark 1502 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: Sphinn Zone
Sphinn time-stamps things when you START a submission rather than when you finish. But sometimes I get interrupted during the submit (or I forget that last bloody "confirm" click) and my submits end up starting halfway down the "what’s new" page.… Read more
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Why my Wife would make a Great Internet Marketer
Avatar Story Found By: yeepage 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.problogger.net
Category: Social Media
See why Darren’s wife would make a great Internet Marketer Read more
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SEO and the Social Networking Happy Place
Avatar Story Found By: SpostareDuro 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://learningseobasics.com
Category: Social Media
SEO and Social Networking can be your happy place. It doesn’t have to be your job. Read more
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5 Reasons why the Need to Blog Outweighs the Desire
Avatar Story Found By: swags2804 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.essence-seo.co.uk
Category: Social Media
... The initial desire to blog came from a want to do something because I enjoyed it. The need comes from the feeling of having to do it because I enjoy it so much. Or am I just kidding myself with that last line? ... Read more
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My Privacy. Your Privacy. Our Privacy.
Avatar Story Found By: SexySEO 1501 Days ago
News Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com
Category: Social Media
"It seems obvious that privacy is going to be a major point of contention in the near-term future. It’s only going to get hotter as major online services compile huge amounts of data about us, as Open Data advocates push for that data to be freed… Read more
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Why SEMPO is Worse than the Defunct Search Marketing Associations
Avatar Story Found By: Kalena 1500 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Category: SEM
Aaron tells the story of how a SEMPO tutor apparently used his position at Search Engine Watch to undermine Aaron’s book. Ouch! Read more
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Matt Cutts corrects IZEA’s Ted Murphy’s mistakes
Avatar Story Found By: AndrewGirdwood 1505 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.arhg.net
Category: SEO
Should all links within a pay-per-post review be nofollowed? The current drama over what Matt Cutts allegedly said is a drama based on a mis-quote. Read more
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