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Wikia’s Wales Slams Mahalo’s Calacanis for Speaking Too Loosely
Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://xrrg.com) my network
Category: Other Searching
Things not quite so chummy in the Wiki based search space read more »
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IncrediMail Gets A Stay Of Execution From Google
Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com) my network
Category: Google AdSense
Whilst this might end up being good for IncrediMail to recover some of their lost share price, I think it also highlights Google's shoot first, ask questions later approach to Adsense bans, and smaller publishers are rarely given that second chance. read more »
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The Secret of Getting a New Site to Beat an Old One or Content is King is Just a Cliche
Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://massa.techndu.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
I think The Guru ultimately wants us to increase the bonus Matt Cutts gets each Christmas so that ours are bigger too.

I wonder if he has read Shoe's latest... read more »
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Dear AdSense, You Heard My Pleas - Another Open Letter to AdSense
Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net) my network
Category: Google AdSense
It looks like Darren's not so secret lover still loves him... at least a little read more »
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Big time bloggers to their readers - You Suck!
Avatar Went Hot: January 20, 2008 - 1:45 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://pimpmypagerank.com) my network
Category: Blogging
Sometimes the best way to respond to being told you suck is to Sphinn the post read more »
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You Just Saved Your Online Reputation In Google, Yahoo & MSN
Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 12:22 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: SEO
A real reputation management disaster, the people upset are not going to take special care about how they can clean things up afterwards read more »
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NASA and Google Moon Saga
Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.phil-butler.com) my network
Category: Google Other
I am slowly working my way through a Stumbleupon backlog inspired by Lyndon - this one is a corker. read more »
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Controversy At the Semmys - A Scene Out of Deliverance
Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://controversialmarketing.blogspot.com) my network
Category: Water Cooler
Has Sam got his knickers in a twist, or did he just use his joker? Introducing the SAMmys... read more »
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Google Directory Update Showing
Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 11:48 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Google Other
Continued coverage on the Google Directory update and the data Google let slip read more »
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I Suppose This Is One Way To Deal With Comment Spam ;)
Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 6:49 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: Blogging
You know if I go back in my comment history, I am sure the first few comments Shawn left on my blog I edited and replaced his SEO optimized name field with something else, or just removed the link... this post shows how much he is a reformed charact read more »
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Tim Nash Assimilated - The Idiot’s Guide To Getting StumbledUpon
Avatar Went Hot: January 12, 2008 - 1:03 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: News Sites
I think these guys should spend more time drinking on Saturdays rather than conducting serious interviews divulging useful information about Stumbleupon.
This interview is important to reinforce why you shouldn't continually stumble the same sites. read more »
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Social Media Marketing, Interview With Brian Wallace
Avatar Went Hot: January 11, 2008 - 6:24 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
Conclusive proof, social media marketing can get you interviewed by the hottest chicks in town... the SEO Chicks read more »
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Five Easy Ways to Piss a Blogger Off… For Good!
Avatar Went Hot: January 12, 2008 - 3:52 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://web-hosting.tophostingcenter.com) my network
Category: Blogging
You really don't want to make me mad ;) read more »
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‘I Robot’ with SebastianX of ‘Sebastian’s Pamphlets’ > Robots.txt Help
Avatar Went Hot: January 10, 2008 - 7:12 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: SEO
Sebastian is an expert on the technical side of SEO, though sometimes his more in depth posts tend to challenge the neural nodes of accomplished experts.
Shaun grabbed his ear, and in this entertaining and educational interview they go into some of read more »
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What Do SEO/SEM People Put In Robots.txt Files?
Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 1:41 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: SEO
An interesting look at what different people use for Robots.txt, assuming a smart SEO isn't serving a different version to bots. read more »
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Visualising Neighbourhood, Website Structure, SEO Heat, Hot Links, Hot Spots & Viagra
Avatar Went Hot: January 4, 2008 - 11:27 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 129 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: SEO
Shaun takes another look at visualising link equity, with hot links and hot pages. read more »
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Matt Cutts Repsonds, Confirms Double Standards
Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 2:49 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://community.izea.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Ted Murphy responds to the comments and discussions he has recently had with Google's Matt Cutt's, and in particular looks into the double standards.
Ted suggests that Matt confirmed to him that Techcrunch "thanks" posts were in violation, and ques read more »
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Paid Links - The Solution
Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.twentysteps.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
There are all kinds of ways to comply with even Google's most recent stance on paid reviews, unless you are never allowed to give an editorial link to a site that has previously paid you for a 50 word review. read more »
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How to Show the Sphinn Button Only AFTER the First Sphinn
Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.allthingssem.com) my network
Category: Sphinn Zone
I am fairly sure Lee was looking for something like this, so that a Sphinn button only shows up after a post has been submitted. read more »
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Techcrunch Now Nofollow Sponsor Links
Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 8:26 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu) my network
Category: SEO
It would be interesting to find out if this was a decision they made on their own, or after feedback from Google. read more »
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Paid posts are the devil incarnate according to search engines
Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 3:24 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yackyack.co.uk) my network
Category: Google SEO
"If you knew of a blogger who was part of a system that was paid by an advertiser to write reviews about a product or service that you knew would contain nofollowed links to the core advertiser, yet was allowed to link out to other content to enhanc read more »
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I’m a brand not a product!
Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 6:10 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk) my network
Category: Other Search Marketing
It looks like Tim is now well in control of his vanity search results, but what is with those product listings? read more »
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What We Can Learn From Criminals
Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.michelfortin.com) my network
Category: Other Online Marketing
Once upon a time, long long ago, there was this thing called email, and then half the online marketing community forgot that it is a good tool to use to communicate with your customers.

Michel gives some tips on how to learn a few things from ema read more »
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AOL Says Goodbye to Netscape Navigator
Avatar Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com) my network
Category: Other Online Marketing
I wonder if they even tried to find a buyer? read more »
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Google Dictating Nofollow For ALL Links From Compensated Content
Avatar Went Hot: December 28, 2007 - 9:06 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu) my network
Category: Google SEO
Comply with Google and become a pingback spammer read more »
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