JamesDuthie

Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:12 pm
Posted By: JamesDuthie 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seopscentre.com)
Category: SEO
There are all sorts of metaphors and analogies you can use to illustrate various aspects of link theory, from the buckets full of link juice used to explain PR flow and sculpting, through to examples where Links=Votes.

Ken has devised a new analo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 7:36 am
Posted By: JamesDuthie 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.northsouthmedia.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
Paul proclaims Plurk as the new micro blogging king, leaving Twitter in its wake. And he ponders just what micro blogging can offer an SEO. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Social Media
Do you desphinn your colleagues when you visit Sphinn? If so, what criteria you use? Do you simply have to disagree, find the content offensive, or maybe you only desphinn when something is blatantly spam? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Social Media
Danny from from SEO Moz puts Digg and StumbleUpon head to head in an attempt to determine where to invest social media optimization efforts. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jonathancrossfield.com)
Category: Link Building
The saga continues... money.co.uk issues a formal apology for the linkbait saga. Maybe this will close it once and for all... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seodesignsolutions.com)
Category: SEO
Jeffrey Smith talks about the 'grandfather effect' and the impact it has on a search engines level of trust/authority in a web site. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Blogging
Debate on the value of buying an existing blog, and discussion of the blogging elements money can't buy (relationships, authority etc). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://broadcasting-brain.com)
Category: Social Media
Mark Dykeman debates the impact online persona's & behaviour will have on marketing tactics in the future. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Online Marketing
Rand Fishkin analyses recent research from Jakob Nielsen regarding users reading habits on the web... and gives his two cents on the implications for webmasters/SEOs. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Posted By: JamesDuthie 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
The first of many guest posts likely to sprout on Dave Harry's blog until Dave's hand mends. From the article:

Without quality content why would anyone come to your site? Without quality content why is your site relevant enough to rank? Without q read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fogofeternity.com)
Category: Social Media
Amusing take on Twitter addiction. From the list:

1. You recognise Robert Scoble on sight.
2. You have no interest in baseball but know that the Astros are two down in the ninth inning.
3. tinyurl.com is the only domain name in the world.
4. A read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Social Media
Even a local ice cream parlour has learned how to use social media to build positive customer relations! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Darren Rowse tackles the issue of self esteem and self perception in the blogosphere. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seopscentre.com)
Category: SEO
Ken rants on the semantics of the term SEO. From the article:

"I don’t Optimize Search Engines. That’s what Matt Cutts and the rest of the algorithm-tweakers in the Googleplex do. If anyone deserves to be called Search Engine Optimizers, it’s t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://courtneytuttle.com)
Category: Blogging
Courtney Tuttle joins the discussion of whether selling ad space on your blog is evil. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: SEO
Kim Bock takes a swipe at Search Engine Watch, and rants on the need to write web copy for people (not just search engines). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fogofeternity.com)
Category: Social Media
Robin continues a series outlining his (newbie) experiences with social media, and the traffic growth outcomes. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fogofeternity.com)
Category: Social Media
Robin outlines the best apps to help us social media junkies use our time more efficiently. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fogofeternity.com)
Category: Social Media
A blogger's personal account of social media tactics that have and haven't worked. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Social Media
Customers use social media every day to talk about brands. Either join the conversation, or risk losing them to savvier competitors. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clickz.com)
Category: SEO
Are blogs really the most useful and relevant information for a user? Do they deserve to get the kind of rankings they receive?

From the article:

A colleague in another area of marketing said to me the other day, "I've noticed the organic sear read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
Dave Harry vents after not being listed in Guy Kawasaki's new SEO aggregator site allTop. Seems his rant paid off as he's now been listed. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Social Media
Marty Weintraub talks about the marketing opportunities social media bookmarking presents savvy marketers, and how to exploit them in a non intrusive manner. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clickz.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Bryan Eisenberg discusses the importance of web site conversion and optimisation during difficult economic times. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesDuthie 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Social Media
Danny from SEO Moz talks about viral marketing's tendency to appeal to the lowest common denominator. read more »
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