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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 5 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://kensingtonvictoria.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Here's some fun for your late afternoon/early evening reading. Screenshot of what Twitter would look like during a zombie attack. :-) ProBlogger's Tweet at the bottom is awesome! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 1 day 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Another excellent chat by EE. We learn that Yahoo sometimes ignores the NOINDEX tag, is relying less on links in its algorithm today than before, and that social sites like del.icio.us can impact the Yahoo algorithm. (and more!) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Social Media
Creating great content for your social network starts with preparation. Get to know the community and the types of content they like before spending your time and energy on content development. Once you know the people and what content plays well, y read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Danny updates the earlier story about YouTube data/Viacom/etc. with news that the data in question may not be as detailed as previously thought. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbiztrends.com)
Category: Social Media
Let's step outside the echo chamber and hear what business owners think about using social media. Good experiences: blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more. Concerns: Time commitment, ROI, etc. Anita Campbell collects the stories from a conference this w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.kelseygroup.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Those innovative Ask.com/AskCity maps are gone. History. Must be part of the promise to focus on core search. ;-) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Networking
The San Diego Union-Tribune is the latest major newspaper to launch a local/social network, and sites like this can offer a great opportunity for business owners to network locally with potential customers. This post includes a fairly detailed look read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 8:53 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Other
From the official announcement: "If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 3:54 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Really, who still screws up their robots.txt file? Search marketers and others have been banging this drum so long, you’d think it doesn’t need to be said anymore. Well, well, well … have a look at what I found last week on Yahoo Answers. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.robwebb2k.com)
Category: SEM
No official announcement has been made, but you can now target ads on LinkedIn. "Advertisers will be able to dynamically target ads by age, gender, geography, educational institution, industry, and seniority." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://consumerist.com)
Category: Domaining
This Thursday, ICANN will vote on next fiscal year's budget, and included in that is a provision to charge 20 cents per registration for domain names that are deleted during the grace period. Network Solutions is urging ICANN to approve it, and has read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 1:59 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Blogging
Whether it’s part of a local blog network or just a guy in Seattle writing about his neighborhood, hyperlocal blogs have arrived and proven they can attract and grow an audience of interested readers. As blogging continues to spread out to a mainstr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google Trends now tracks and shows data on individual web sites, and can compare groups of web sites together. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 1:47 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
Whenever I take part in a Site Review session at some conference, one of my fellow panelists will inevitably tell a webmaster something like, "You don’t have an XML sitemap. Create one and submit it to the search engines as soon as you can." But I b read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 6:59 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webanalyticsworld.net)
Category: Web Analytics
Yes, there's more to free analytics than Google Analytics. :-) "Believe it or not, you don't actually have to have a big budget to do great web analytics work. Most people know about the wonders of free Google Analytics, but thought I would take the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.apogee-web-consulting.com)
Category: Paid Search
By default Google opts advertisers into everything. Whether you're launching a new campaign using Google AdWords or editing an existing one, follow these 4 steps to avoid the ignorance tax. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 5:19 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.domainnamenews.com)
Category: Domaining
Whoa. This is big news for anyone who owns a domain, and certainly for folks who buy and sell them. "The California Federal Court decision should make it crystal clear to would-be domain name purchasers that true ownership of a domain name is not ba read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Chris Garrett shares 5 influential books that bloggers will find useful. "...knowing about the books and the concepts they put forward can help you understand better when someone tells you that 'your blog needs to be a Purple Cow and leverage the Lo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 11:28 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://venturebeat.com)
Category: Networking
A scan of the Twitter search site Summize shows a large amount of people tweeting about lost followers over the past few days. No one knows for sure what is going on but a few have keyed in on the idea that Twitter may simply be deleting the account read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 14, 2008 - 7:24 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts explains what happened to the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards, and includes some good advice on filenaming conventions. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 15, 2008 - 8:41 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Google Other
Google offers a wide variety of products aimed at small business owners, and many of them are free — or very low-cost. But does that make these products and services a good idea? I’ve written before about Google products a small business should use. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sparkplugging.com)
Category: Blogging
Wendy Piersall wonders: "What can you say about making money blogging that Darren hasn’t already said? Or on WordPress that Lorelle hasn’t already said? Or on social media that Chris Brogan hasn’t already said? Or on community that Liz Strauss hasn’ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 10:21 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webanalyticsbook.com)
Category: Web Analytics
A clever idea for sorting out who the real pros are among web metrics analysts. Hint: It involves the Samsung web browser. :-) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 10:41 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoblackhat.com)
Category: SEO
QuadsZilla joins the fray over white hat/black hat and SMX Advanced. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.youtube.com)
Category: Social Media
Lee Lefever and CommonCraft does it again -- a short video (less than 4 minutes) that explains the force of social media. read more »
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