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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 1:21 am
Posted By: Gab 1 day 16 hours ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: News Sites
Well, you might still get indexed, but spamming sphinn no longer gets you a dofollow link if you don't go hot. Will this affect the quality of submissions? Only time will tell. What do you guys think? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google Other
Rambler Media has sold Begun advertising agency to Google for $140 million. Begun serves up contextual ads. Rambler will also contract search technology from Google as part of the deal. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwords.blogspot.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Have you ever wanted to bid more (or less) for a specific content network site you're contextually targeting? Or write customized ad text for a precise group of pages, such as news articles or relevant discussions on social networks? Now you can. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 18, 2008 - 9:20 am
Posted By: Gab 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Rich Baxter lays the smackdown on non-best practices in URL canonicalization by Matt Cutts. Yes, I did just use 'lay the smackdown' and 'url canonicalization' in a single sentence. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Measure either your domain, blog or page strength with SEOmoz's new Trifecta tool, which replaces the old Page Strength. Click here to try the tool out. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: Gab 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Web Analytics
My post builds on a great article (and plugin) from Joost De Valk. What if, like me, you’ve created a bespoke sidebar, that isn’t quite dynamic enough to talk to a plugin like this? I’ve hard coded my sidebar links. How do I track what exit clicks t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ppcblog.com)
Category: Google AdWords
It turns out that when you buy site targeted ads you typically first get exposure on the least valuable pages and ad units. If the site has an offbeat category, or an AdSense ad block that is below the fold in the right column, those are the ad posi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Google SEO
Earlier this year, Wiep.net received a PageRank penalty I said that I’ll leave the links up (which is mandatory when you use the template) until I have a new design.

All posts that were published before this date (including the PR penalty post) s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Google
You heard it here first folks: Google has recently updated its keyword tool to share precise volume numbers. Whereas the tool only returned relative numbers before, it now shows the precise amount of monthly search that occurred last month, as well read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca)
Category: Search Marketing
Maverick investor Carl Icahn is urging Yahoo investors to elect a new board, as the only way to salvage a deal with MSN. MSN has gone on record agreeing, saying it can't do a deal with the current board. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 6:03 am
Posted By: Gab 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
[...]Go as far to the back of the index as you possibly can, because that’s where the good bad stuff usually hides. You’re looking out for malformed urls, query strings (like ?=sessionid or ?first_page etc) [...]

Rich goes on to provide a case st read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 6:07 am
Posted By: Gab 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google AdWords
Kate writes her first post at Youmoz sharing advanced tips on segmenting your analytics data to find all your broad match phrases! Sweeeeeet tutorial :D. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nasa.gov)
Category: Google Other
Guess who's getting closer together in bed? Google and NASA. Today the moon, tomorrow the earth? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Spend more time blogging, and less moderating, with this nifty little guide to footprints, by XMCP. Great material, and useful for linkbuilding as well for those creative minds out there. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fool.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
That's what makes Yahoo!'s decision to ban freelance stock analyst David Phillips from its message boards for purported terms-of-service violations so absurd.
[...]
Shares of Raser, which hit its 52-week high at about $18 a stub last December, ha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 12:46 pm
Posted By: Gab 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Link Building
Twitter has 3 million indexed user feeds.
Writing applications to automatically post to twitter is super-easy. They suggest doing it with their twitter api.
Twitter posting apps get dofollow links.

Sounds like Twitter Fox and Twurl are goi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:51 pm
Posted By: Gab 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
"I invited 20 experts active in the Local Search Marketing community to participate in this study, with the goal of identifying the factors that would be most helpful for ranking well in the Google and Yahoo Local Search algorithms, as well as techn read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 9:39 am
Posted By: Gab 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Search Marketing
Veteran recruitment SEO Richard Baxter gives us the downlow on what to do with those vacancy pages that both target the longtail yet also get filled/change quickly. Useful for ecommerce detail pages too! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://gizmodo.com)
Category: Google SEO
Gizmodo has the inside scoop. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Google Other
Did you know that an official Google blog is linking to spammers scraping and republishing SEL content? Well, you do now. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 8:15 pm
Posted By: Gab 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I want to do it the right way, so am reaching out to you Matt for some advice. I could do a hoax press release about some gossipy fake story - hey include a porn star and a search industry leader (Danny smart move introducing me to your wife now I c read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingcharts.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Nielsen netratings' panel have an interesting list. YOu can learn a lot by observing their checkout processes, uability, conversion etc. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Self-explanatory, and pretty interesting look at the different ways to measure your internet marketing success. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://altsearchengines.com)
Category: Other Searching
A study of 1000 Internet users found 1 in 5 felt overwhelmed by the volume of search results. 1/2 never went past the first SERP. Is this hit-or-miss approach the best choice for info retrieval?

Considers two forms of personalization that can ma read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.usatoday.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
A handful of Sphinners and search marketing folks got theirs in a piece by USA Today, focusing on how reviews generate leads for local businesses. Attago guys! read more »
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