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Is Your Web Server Limiting Your SEO Performance? » SEOpittfall
Avatar Story Found By: pittfall 313 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seopittfall.com
Category: SEO
What does your web server say about your site?Digging into three main topics regarding web servers and SEO performance including:- Sub-Domains- Response Codes- Efficiency Read more
Measuring the Value of Page Elements for Search Engine Rankings
Avatar Story Found By: clickfire 737 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seopittfall.com
Category: SEO
Onsite test results showing what everyone assumes is right isn’t always the case. Neither is what others say, including a Yahoo engineer. Read more
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Nofollow is Dying: The Impact of Micro-Blogging and Nofollow on SEO
Avatar Story Found By: richardbaxterseo 1084 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
Distilled’s Will Critchlow discusses his seo theory for the morning. Nofollow is dying.... Read more
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Sphinn.com no longer belongs to the people
Avatar Story Found By: johnandrews 1094 Days ago
News Source: 1
Category: Sphinn Zone
It seems the "elite" mods and company have finally taken Sphinn away from the community. I saw it coming last fall when select articles were removed despite genuine community support, recently when unfavorable comments were deleted by mods with no… Read more
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Bounce Rate SEO Fallacies
Avatar Story Found By: amabaie 1146 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo-writer.com
Category: Analytics
The relationship between bounce rates and SEO have been discussed at Sphinn and elsewhere lately. This post brings together 9 major objections to linking SEO and bounce rates, and refutes 8 of those 9 objections. Read more
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How Hacked Servers Can Hurt Your Traffic
Avatar Story Found By: Sugarrae 1150 Days ago
News Source: http://www.webmasterworld.com
Category: SEM
Unfortunately there are all kinds of devious server hacks making the rounds these days. They usually depend on two factors: sites that use a common CMS (such as Wordpress) and site owners who do not update their software to keep security solid. Read more
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Are SEO Blackhats Turning White or Is The Industry Melting?
Avatar Story Found By: matthewdiehl 1153 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seroundtable.com
Category: SEO
The convergence of blackhat as whitehat and the outing of two blackhatters as actual whitehatters(or soon to be)! Read more
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10 Rules for Digg Success from the Beatles
Avatar Story Found By: robwatts 1157 Days ago
News Source: http://www.latitudegroup.com
Category: SEM
Getting content from a website to go hot on Digg and other social media websites is one of the most effective ways of getting high quality natural links to the site, however it isn’t easy and there are a number of pitfalls that you need to consider… Read more
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5 Tips for Successful Blog Optimization
Avatar Story Found By: pittfall 1157 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: Social Media
A follow-up of "3 Reasons Why Blog SEO Fail," this explores the how’s of blogging success from planning and oversight to properly using social media to promote a blog without loosing site of your goals. Read more
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10 Tips for Doing Link Development Research
Avatar Story Found By: Wiep 1222 Days ago
News Source: http://seoblog.intrapromote.com
Category: Link Building
When you are hunting for links for your site or for a client’s site, there are lots of avenues that you could pursue. Some work, some don’t. Angela Moore listed her 10 favorite tips, of which #1 is my favorite. Read more
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41 Internet Marketing Tactics - Take the Poll
Avatar Story Found By: losangelesinternetmarketing 1244 Days ago
News Source: http://www.toprankblog.com
Category: SEM
Lee Odden’s Poll of his readers on what methods of online marketing they are going to be focusing on in the next 6 months. Not surprisingly, so far the top 3 are... Read more
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This is What Innovation is All About
Avatar Story Found By: SpostareDuro 1254 Days ago
News Source: http://werfacebook.org
Category: SEM
This approach means consumers win, marketers/advertisers win, the environment wins, FB looks good. We look good. Win win for all. Read more
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Firefox counters Google’s browser speed test
Avatar Story Found By: pittfall 1257 Days ago
News Source: http://news.cnet.com
Category: Vertical Search
Mozilla fought back on Wednesday with some performance results to show a forthcoming version of Firefox outpacing Google’s new Web browser, Chrome.

During a launch event Tuesday, Google was eager to toot its horn about Chrome’s… Read more
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Google Chrome Comic Book
Avatar Story Found By: pittfall 1259 Days ago
News Source: http://www.scottmccloud.com
Category: Vertical Search
Is this a webcomic?

No. It was designed as a printed comic for journalists and bloggers. Lots of people have had fun scanning those advance printed copies and posting them however, which is fine with Google (and me) since it’s… Read more
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Be A Search Conference JackA - - In 8 Easy Steps
Avatar Story Found By: pittfall 1267 Days ago
News Source: http://www.aimclearblog.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
We have all been there, in fact, much like a night out, you are most likely going to run into at least one!

Editor’s note: This post is our continued dissemination of content from this week’s Search Engine Strategies San Jose… Read more
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SEOmoz Expert Seminar 2008 Recap
Avatar Story Found By: DanaLookadoo 1269 Days ago
News Source: http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com
Category: SEO
Brian Carter wanted to be the first to post about SEOmoz’s Expert Training Session in Seattle. Without giving away the content, he links to photos, speakers bios and discusses how SEOmoz knows how to throw a party. IMHO they did a 5-star job! Good… Read more
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Reputation Management Jujitsu - Take Advantage of a Bad Reputation For Fun & Profit
Avatar Story Found By: andrewsho 1269 Days ago
News Source: http://www.localseoguide.com
Category: SEO
If you are looking for high quality links there is no better way to get them than to say something nice about someone who may not deserve it... Read more
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What Is Social Media?
Avatar Story Found By: SpostareDuro 1271 Days ago
News Source: http://learningseobasics.com
Category: SEM
There are so many definitions for Social Media. What is Social Media really? Read more
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Do Search Penalty Discussions Worry You?
Avatar Story Found By: pittfall 1277 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seroundtable.com
Category: SEO
With the variety of penalty discussions we read about, one who starts following the forum discussion is bound to get paranoid. At least, that’s the case for one WebmasterWorld member who considers himself "white hat," but still is worried about the… Read more
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How a Search Engine Might Handle Singular and Plural Queries
Avatar Story Found By: pittfall 1279 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobythesea.com
Category: Searching
When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search?

A new patent application from Yahoo explores how a search engine might handle the singular and plural… Read more
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Adobe trying to marginalise Silverlight?
Avatar Story Found By: robwatts 1318 Days ago
News Source: http://www.latitudegroup.com
Category: SEO
Interesting take on the recent Flash now crawlable by Google announcement: It is no coincidence that Adobe’s press release pointedly states that the new Flash crawling technology is only accessible to Google and Yahoo. Read more
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SEO Scoop’s List of Search Bloggers
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Moderator Story Found By: DavidWallace 1335 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo-scoop.com
Category: SEM
DazzlingDonna (Donna Fontenot) has put together a list of bloggers who routinely write about search-related topics. Read more
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Thinking that Paid Link and Link Exchange Value Has Been Extinguished - Think Again!
Avatar Story Found By: MattSaunders 1336 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seopittfall.com
Category: SEO
An interesting overview of a widespread black hat link building scheme. The party responsible can be tied back to a variety of ’big name’ clients in some very competitive industries. Great read! Read more
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6 Educated Theories Behind Google SiteLinks
Avatar Story Found By: ViperChill 1340 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Another great post over at Search Engine Journal by Ann Smarty, looking at theories behind Google Sitelinks. Read more
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Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search
Avatar Story Found By: DoshDosh 1355 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Searching
Previously I’ve covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can… Read more
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