BrendanPicha

Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 4:06 pm
Posted By: BrendanPicha 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://hamletbatista.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Hamlet Batista has a great write up here about how automatic ranking software (WPG, WebCEO, SEO Studio) is being blocked by Google. He goes on to say why you shouldn't fixate on ranking reports and offers a solution(s). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Blogging
This post is mainly about a ranking experiment but contained within there is a huge list of pinging services and Wordpress plugins that will assist in content distribution when publishing WP posts. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Social Media
We are seeing some significant discrepancies between what we've paid SU ads to show and what our analytics is recording. Has anyone else noticed issues with this? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 177 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: News Sites
A successful Digg submission considers an appropriately written title, good references, and your influence within the network read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 177 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google
The robotic nature of the Google SERPs can occasionally paint a personally damaging picture, especially in the case of Rep. John Breaux, D-La. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Blogging
"...Ariel Waldman started receiving "multiple accounts of harassment" from another user of the microblogging service and that when she petitioned to Twitter's community manager, he opted to remove the Twitter posts in question from the site's "publi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 197 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://baltimoreseo-by-murph.com)
Category: Social Media
George Murphy, an SEO from Baltimore has a great article here about how large corporations are successfully embracing Twitter as a means for customer feedback management read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thirstypony.com)
Category: Social Media
Dave Pye goes over twitter in all it's intricacies and idiosyncrasies read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Shaun Anderson touches on nofollow sculpting and why nofollowing his contact page is less important than nofollowing links to bad neighborhoods. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Social Media
Twitter > search terms > RSS > webpage = fun! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The former folks of Meetro have just released Lefora. A free service that allows for incredibly simple, rich media forum creation. The service is free to use and has some great functionality...who's starting the first Lefora search forum? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 267 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Slightly Shady SEO is considering outing someone from seo.com who was recently gaming Sphinn. He's taking votes on how to proceed. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 282 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yooba.com)
Category: Online Marketing
I received an email from a Gabriel Jonsson this morning about a some new service called Yooba. You're going to have to see this for yourself. I don't completely understand it but apparently it's an all-inclusive creation, publication, and evaluation read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 11, 2008 - 12:39 pm
Posted By: BrendanPicha 285 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://danzarrella.com)
Category: News Sites
Dan Zarrella has been crunching some Digg stats and has compiled an extensive report on what constitutes a successful submission. He's organized several charts by cross checking the number of backlinks a story generates by title and description keyw read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 309 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: News Sites
"We are surrounded by other species that are equally as social as we are. What makes these ants so interesting is that they are an example of this social construct on the most basic level...So how do they talk to each other? How do they spread the w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 10, 2008 - 3:07 am
Posted By: BrendanPicha 318 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.venture-skills.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Tim Nash is quite an advanced user so some of what is being said here might fly over a few heads. In a nutshell he talks about how you can show your Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit users one version of your linkbait and your regular visitors another. Ther read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Well the Post Toaster project has gone exceptionally well. We’re getting a lot of good responses and requests from people asking to add new sites to the list. I think my best media mentions were from Lee Odden on TopRankBlog and WebProNews. Post Toa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2008 - 9:37 am
Posted By: BrendanPicha 321 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.posttoaster.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Post Toaster allows you to submit your content to up to 60+ bookmarking sites. It also provides an option to select only sites that are missing the nofollow attribute. Lastly, you can enter up to 4 different titles and 4 different descriptions and P read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Quite a list. I came across this via the Search Engine Marketing Facebook group. Happy Holidays!

SEM Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211885060 read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 344 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://gigaom.com)
Category: Google
In some strange twisted sort of a way, Google’s foray into social content, aka Knols, is a tip of the hat to entities whose results have started to show up really high in the search results - Wikipedia and Mahalo for example. Mathew Ingram points ou read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Blogging
I wrote this up for a client just now and thought it might make for some good blog fodder. All the plugins that I currently use on my own blog are listed here with links to their download locations. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Need an .htaccess file generator? A way to search through dozens of various engines from one location? Or maybe you need to know which of your keywords rank within Google's top 20. These web tools are a valuable resource that no SEM'er should do wit read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 346 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: News Sites
If you’re interested in adding Mixx to the Share This Wordpress plugin from Alex King, I’ve made it very simple for you. Right click... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 9, 2007 - 8:24 am
Posted By: BrendanPicha 352 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: News Sites
Happy Holidays! :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fastcompany.com)
Category: Networking
At 17 going on 37 (at least), Ashley is very much an Internet professional. In the less than two years since Whateverlife took off, she has dropped out of high school, bought a house, helped launch artists such as Lily Allen, and rejected offers to read more »
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