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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 278 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Let's say some dev team with no SEO knowledge executed a site migration.

They didn't keep the file naming structure
They didn't 301 all old urls to new correspnding pages
Some pages linked from the home page are not even indexed
The site comma read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 341 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Other Social Media
Link Baiting is the search engine optimized version of Viral Marketing. A few technical changes can turn a viral campaign into a well organized link baiting campaign. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 346 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialseo.org)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Marketers are realizing the explosive power of linkbait and viral marketing which has to do basically with two variables:

· content creation, and
· networking

Both of which are easy to categorize as “Social Science” because they have to do wi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 348 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialseo.org)
Category: Other Online Marketing
If you think that SEO is a Social Science you want to read this post in its entirety.

Let me share something with you. I am a communication theory geek. Mc Luhan, Adorno, Horkheimer, Noelle-Neumann, Umberto Eco, Watzlawick, Van Dijk, Tufte, and m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 18, 2007 - 1:46 am
Posted By: GotanRaider 362 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.alistseo.com)
Category: Blogging
If you are not posting on a regular time frame you may be hurting your online reputation. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 11:44 pm
Posted By: GotanRaider 371 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialseo.org)
Category: Social Media
We all know that SEO is not an exact science. It is a social science.

The ulterior objective of any SEO activity is to influence on other people’s behavior. More specifically, we want them to perform an action on their end that will benefit our s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 371 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://honestknowledge.com)
Category: SEO
There is nothing you haven't heard about before, but sometimes is good to stop, sit back and get back to some of the basics. We can get too caught up on some social sites such as SU and forget about the value of some traditional techniques. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 374 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialseo.org)
Category: Social Media
Psychological experiments show that 6 out of 10 people will agree with their peers even if they know they are right and everyone is wrong.

This is incredibly dangerous. It means that given the right propaganda and public opinion manipulation, 60% read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 374 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blackhatseodiary.org)
Category: SEO
Shari Thurow wrote a post accusing me (a Black Hat SEO) of being a worhtless shady criminal. Will I defend myself? Nope.

I will just link to a post that describes why I think White Hat SEO Consultants Are Worthless Shady Criminals Themselves. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 375 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Usability
Another great one from Brian:

"If there’s one thing that gets repeated at Copyblogger over and over, it’s that the key to effective blogging and online marketing is a relentless focus on the needs of the people you are trying to reach." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 375 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialseo.org)
Category: Social Media
Chris Pearson described Facebook Applications as the key to unlocking the goldmines in micro networks. This is your chance to be there, where the goldmines are nurtured. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 376 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialseo.org)
Category: Social Media
What to do with a successful viral campaign? Does Buzz equals Profits? What about potential side effects of popularity such as negative criticism? What to do about Reputation? Chris Crocker spontaneous online popularity raises many questions. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 376 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Social Media
If you are already using Flickr as a part of your Social Media Optimization Strategy then skip this submission. If you are not, read this short and easy to digest post. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2007 - 11:20 pm
Posted By: GotanRaider 377 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialseo.org)
Category: Blogging
Do you feel that your best content slides through the social sites without getting the attention they deserve? Do you spend hours researching to write valuable posts only to see a trickle of traffic, a handful of votes, and no new subscriptions? Wha read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 378 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.alistseo.com)
Category: Usability
How do you make your busy readers take the time to write a post in your blog? Read along. Here's how. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 378 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialseo.org)
Category: Social Media
Do you have more than one blog? Do you have available real estate in your blogroll? Do you need more traffic and more links from social sites?

If the answer is Yes, Yes and Yes, keep reading. This post is meant for you.

This is what you need t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 382 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blackhatseodiary.org)
Category: Social Media
Today I feel like conquering the world. Here I am skimming through the headlines:

* Become Greater Than Alexander The Great In 6 Easy Steps
* 12 Reasons Why You Should Start Building Up Your Army Right Now
* Enslaving Prisoners: A H read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 383 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blackhatseodiary.org)
Category: Social Media
I have been a good boy in Digg. There I am not spamming and being decent and all when suddenly I start getting flood with Shout-Spam. Congratulations on the new Interface Digg, you just gave spammers a new tool to abuse. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 383 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.alistseo.com)
Category: Social Media
I thought it was strange how this excellent post from Mark was not already sphunn. So here it goes. Besides, I thought it would be fun to break one of his own rules "don't submit other people's posts" :-)
Enough rant. This is what the post is about read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 401 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blackhatseodiary.org)
Category: Water Cooler
You can guess where I would invest my money to get a comfortable 10% return per annum. I don’t think raising returns another 8 points justifies the risks involved in any internet venture.

On the other hand, I really respect Quadszilla and he obvi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 403 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blackhatseodiary.org)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Loren Baker, editor of Search Engine Journal blogged about my post on Technorati being f'ed up. He makes an excellent point, pointing out that Google is fueling all the Technorati Blog Spamming.

Well, Lauren hit the nail on the head. And he raise read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2007 - 4:54 pm
Posted By: GotanRaider 405 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blackhatseodiary.org)
Category: Water Cooler
Geeks turned Internet Marketers achieving fame and fortune because they can reverse engineer Search Engine Algorithms.

Gotta love it. Don’t believe me? See this real example. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 412 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blackhatseodiary.org)
Category: Blogging
The topic of today, as the headline mildly suggests is the following: I think Technorati is F'Upped. This is why... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GotanRaider 417 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blackhatseodiary.org)
Category: Google SEO
Create a bunch of Sitemaps. I’m not talking about xhtml sitemaps, just plain html pages full of links to your spammy pages. Don’t apply common knowledge here: don’t think that Google will only follow 100 links in your sitemap. Just dump tens of thou read more »
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