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Clear evidence of UK Brands now ranking higher in Google
Avatar Story Found By: born4thesurf 958 Days ago
News Source: http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk
Category: SEM
It seems a while ago now when we were discussing ’brands’ ranking higher in search results in US. The same has now being applied in the UK with a recent Google update effectively boosting the rankings of big brands in the UK search results.… Read more
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UK Brands Setting a Prime Example of How Not to Market Yourself Online
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 978 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoptimise.com
Category: SEM
A review of how UK high-street retailer Primark are missing a big opportunity by not offering an online store to it’s users and potential customers. Read more
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Large Site Migration and SEO Impact – The Story So Far
Avatar Story Found By: MarkeD 1101 Days ago
News Source: http://econsultancy.com
Category: SEO
Blog post from Econsultancy detailing their problems with a large site move. Very informative if you’re looking to do similar with other large websites.

From the post:

"On 14 December 2008 we relaunched the… Read more
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The top Google Analytics Consultants and Website Optimisers Head to Head In Go Karts !
Avatar Story Found By: mellowmuppet 1167 Days ago
News Source: http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk
Category: SEM
OK. In reality we were the top fastest racers in the (GAAC) Google Accredited Analytics Consultants, (WOAC) Google Website Optimiser Accredited Consultants Go-Karting race in Burlingame, California. The early heat was pretty easy and I got a really fast… Read more
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Google Real Time Quality Scores- The Perfect 10…
Avatar Story Found By: MarkeD 1207 Days ago
News Source: http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk
Category: PPC
As everyone in the PPC world knows ever since Google implemented the ‘real time’ quality score system, keyword QS has been ranked between 1 & 10. Since this change in the quality score metric advertisers have been striving for this perfect 10. Read more
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Bad weather is good for Google Adwords
Avatar Story Found By: willneu 1349 Days ago
News Source: http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk
Category: PPC
As we’ve had to explain many times in the past the internet does not exist in an impervious bubble, and that Google Adwords like any other type of business activity is affected by real world external factors..... Read more
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The Implications to Google Indexing Forms
Avatar Story Found By: willneu 1398 Days ago
News Source: http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk
Category: SEO
So Google have launched the latest of their indexing features - form content, this article discusses the implications of such searching and the possible work around’s that could be implemented/developed by Google. Read more
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Piwik the Google Analytics Killer!
Avatar Story Found By: sajal 1454 Days ago
News Source: http://www.sajalkayan.com
Category: Analytics
Can Piwik become the next Google Analytics? Atleast for me it does. I explain in the post how it specifically applies to people who want to analyse traffic from countries where transparent proxies messes up the stats. Read more
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Crossing the Whitehat Rubicon into Grayhat SEO
Avatar Story Found By: demerzel 1454 Days ago
News Source: http://www.micahfk.com
Category: SEO
The main question is: At what point after crossing the rubicon into Grayhat SEO can you justifiably (or morally) limit yourself to various grayhat techniques and not go full swing into Blackhat SEO? Read more
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Social Networking Sites I Love and Depend On
Avatar Story Found By: Makakman 1454 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blog.marketmou.com
Category: SEM
I’d agree on Twitter and SU, I depend on both now. Much more user orientated and intuitive to use than others. Read more
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Link exchange in 2008
Avatar Story Found By: kevgibbo 1453 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.seoptimise.com
Category: Link Building
Exchanging links is decidedly unfashionable in SEO circles and yet it’s the first thing most new sites do when they launch so who’s right? Read more
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The truth about shocking (and having success on) social media websites
Avatar Story Found By: CoenJacobs 1453 Days ago
News Source: http://webhypes.com
Category: Social Media
You really should write your content as you would normally do. Social media is about rating content on websites, not for posting articles on it that can also be used as regular content. The content is king and social media won’t change a single thing… Read more
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The real value of StumbleUpon
Avatar Story Found By: JamesDuthie 1456 Days ago
News Source: http://onlinemarketingbanter.com
Category: SEM
Traffic generation is undoubtedly one of StumbleUpon’s greatest features. But another button exists on the toolbar that may deliver even greater value to smart users. Read more
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What Tools for a Linkbuilder?
Avatar Story Found By: mellowmuppet 1455 Days ago
News Source: http://search-engine-war.co.uk
Category: Link Building
An excellent post by a colleague about some of free link building and social media tools that can be utilized for the link builders linking. Read more
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Why Rand Fishkin’s nofollow post was wrong
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 1472 Days ago
News Source: http://seo-theory.com
Category: SEO
A well put together post from Micheal....

SNIP - Let’s look at Rand Fishkin’s recent premature declaration that his implementation of Rel=Nofollow on many internal links magically increased the number of search referrals to SEOmoz.… Read more
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Mine The Web’s Socially-Tagged Links: Google Social Graph API Launched
Avatar Story Found By: LtDraper 1472 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Vertical Search
Very interesting take on Google’s Social Graph API.

I think reputation management just got a whole lot harder. How hard would it be for someone to spam links to something you don’t want to be connected with? Read more
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The Ultimate Resource For Free WordPress Themes
Avatar Story Found By: DawudMiracle 1475 Days ago
News Source: http://dmiracle.com
Category: Social Media
WordPress is the most advanced platform for blogging. Yet it’s robust enough to handle content management on traditional websites as well. And what’s great about it is there are literally thousands of free themes to give your site the look you… Read more
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Top 10 search engine optimization techniques
Avatar Story Found By: dustinbrewer 1475 Days ago
News Source: http://dustinbrewer.com
Category: SEO
Article goes over the important factors for on-page SEO. 10 great tips to do every time on any web site to make sure your site gets indexed and visitors click-through. Read more
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Is Google taking the p1ss out of Microsoft and Yahoo?
Avatar Story Found By: mellowmuppet 1472 Days ago
News Source: http://search-engine-war.co.uk
Category: SEM
Teen girls aren’t the only ones who dwell on how their bodies look. This was the Google News headline in the Sci/Tech section earlier today! Read more
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What’s Vanessa Fox worth?
Avatar Story Found By: AndyBeard 1549 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.arhg.net
Category: Sphinn Zone
No hints, this made me chuckle... Read more
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How to Shave Ten Hours Off Your Work Week
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1549 Days ago
News Source: http://www.michaelhyatt.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Cultivate the habit of non-finishing. Not every project you start is worth finishing. Sometimes we get into it and realize, “This is a waste of time.” Fine, then give yourself permission to quit. Read more
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WARNING! Spammers Farming Digg For Email Addresses, Remove Yours Now
Avatar Story Found By: aimClear 1547 Days ago
News Source: http://muhammadsaleem.com
Category: Social Media
Muhammad.Saleem [top Digger & social media expert] reports "really weird" spam attacks on diggers. He recommends removing email information from your profile now. Read more
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Google Universal Search Confuses SEO Inc with SEOmoz!
Avatar Story Found By: MattSawyer 1548 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.seoptimise.com
Category: Searching
Having a quick glance at the image and headline I assumed the story was about SEO Inc, but clicking on the headline shows that the story CEO Puts fresh face on SEO article, from the Seattle Times, which is infact about SEOmoz instead! Read more
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Social Media and the monetization of sheep
Avatar Story Found By: fantomaster 1547 Days ago
News Source: http://www.buzzlogic.com
Category: SEM
This concept of never-ending friending has spawned a new breed (or rather generation) of consumer...one that wants brands to befriend them, not market to them.
While it’s obvious that these branded friendships can mean cha cha ching to a… Read more
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