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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoish.com)
Category: Social Media
Pat with a great article: " I don’t believe Google is just fighting for YouTube revenue.

I believe Google is fighting for an entire new ad revenue sector and for the survival of YouTube’s dominance.

Google allowed an entire internet advertisin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google
Aaron's take on the whole "We swear, this deal with Yahoo won't allow us to raise prices for advertisers" comment to the DOJ.
Typically cynical, but typically a great read :)

SEObook: "Aspects of that statement are categorically untrue, perhaps read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: Burgo 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEO
If you've been on twitter today, you would have seen a lot of people voicing their disgust at Jason Calacanis' words during todays keynote. In particular, Rand Fishkin twittered that he left in disgust. And it was bugging me that I couldn't find out read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smartcompany.com.au)
Category: Google
Pretty interesting news for anyone involved in the travel industry and local SEO: Expedia has signed a deal with Google Maps which will see it's hotel inventory and attractions listed on G Maps. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media
Talk about link baiting... Mike Arrington is suing Facebook for $25 Million for their advertising product’s incorporation of his image.






Ps. I think this might have been posted a day early :P read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 214 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
So I just thought I would drop a quick line and get a feel for who else here will be headed to SMX Sydney? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.calacanis.com)
Category: Google
Heh. Has no one submitted this yet, purely because it's a JC post? Still, I think it's worth a read... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
A great post from Michael Martinez, discussing three contemporary SEO posts... 2 right, and 1 flat-out wrong (in MM's opinion).
Also touches on Shari's recent "no-follow this piece of advice" post. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 231 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
Ok... just a quick question, but is anyone else seeing any MAJOR fluctuations in the TBPR of their stable of sites? Some of mine are jumping up and down for no apparent reason... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 231 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.networkworld.com)
Category: Domaining
Just a bit of a follow-up submission here, regarding the numerous posts on Network Solutions and their nefarious ways last month (ish):

"This one was as predictable as lawsuits ever get: A Los Angeles firm this afternoon has announced a class act read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 232 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Search Marketing
As always... a great post from Aaron.

"Search engineers can't stop everything, but by the time a technique is cheaply and reliably outsourced the value has already been diminished or will soon become worthless.

* lower cost and automation read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 250 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
"So Andy Beard called me out yesterday on the subject of whether SEO Theory is really better indexed than most SEO blogs. He resorted to a smoke-and-mirror tactic of implying that articles on SEO Theory are not indexed because some date archive page read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 263 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: News Sites
Interesting post from MA dealing with traditional media losing out to online media.
"When the business model of “real journalism” fails, what should society do in response? When things are considered important, but can’t be supported with a busines read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 264 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Does anyone else ever have a problem when messaging your friends on Sphinn?
Sometimes, there won't be a problem. But the majority of the time when I try to send messages through, it will come back with "There was an error. Error number 1."

Is th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoegghead.com)
Category: Social Media
"When myspace decided to protect your 14 year old daughter from the "Army of Pedophiles," they initially only prevented level "1." from being viewed. So if a user contrived a method to guess or derive the latter type of URL, nothing stopped that fro read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 265 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
Is it just me, or does it look like Google has reshuffled the options under their "more" drop down section on a search? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.scoreboard-media.com)
Category: Water Cooler
A great inspirational post from Brian over at Scoreboard Media:
"I don’t know about y’all, but I’m sick and tired of this “make money online” ecosystem that is monopolizing the online marketing blogosphere. I spent some time this weekend catching read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 272 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google AdSense
"What makes Proximic different is that it does not come up with contextual matches based on keyword search like Google or Yahoo would. It doesn’t use semantic or statistical methods either to figure out what a page is about. “Semantic systems are no read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 277 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
"If you’re in the real estate business one of the best things you can do for yourself is to pick a few queries related to the care and feeding of bears and watch them.

If you spend most of your search results page analysis time looking at your ow read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 277 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joostdevalk.nl)
Category: SEO
Joost releases another great Wordpress plugin:
"It was actually a plugin requested by Shoemoney, who wanted to make the scrapers work for him too, by getting some more backlinks from them. I thought it was a great idea, and this is actually quite a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 278 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: Link Building
"Links are not THAT important to SEO. If you find yourself agonizing over how to build links to your Web site, you’re not engaged in search engine optimization.

I’ve said that many times before. Some people are struggling with their search placem read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 9, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Posted By: Burgo 279 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Domaining
"A friend tipped me off to a Domain State thread that warns you not to look up a domain name at Network Solutions. If you go to the Networks Solutions site and look up a domain name to see if it’s registered then Network Solutions, within seconds, w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 279 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Google
Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, the world's largest consumer electronics maker, has teamed up with Google Inc and YouTube to commercialize flat panel television sets that allow users to access and view videos online, the Nikkei reported o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 4, 2008 - 8:41 am
Posted By: Burgo 284 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google
Guest post by Ryan Durk -

For 24 hours on 1/1/08, Google's logo kindly began linking to my site.

Starting New Years Eve, Google redirected all clicks on its homepage logo to a search for the term January 1 TCP/IP. Recognizing the opportunity read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 285 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google
I know, I know... yet another?
But could Rick Skrenta (who created the first computer virus [Elk Cloner], co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix) be the person to take on Google? read more »
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