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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hyperdogmedia.com)
Category: Google Searching
Googlebot is hungry and looking for data in previously inaccessible corners of the web. Recent changes to search technology mean previously uncrawled sites are going to receive a visit from the search behemoth. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 2:48 pm
Posted By: andymurd 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEO
Kevin Gibbons gives us a list of very well-known companies that were too cheap to pay the £2.50 to protect their brand. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://trevorcrookblog.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Good, solid copywriting information that should give you some great ideas for blog post titles. The author seems obsessed with baldness, though. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 57 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Is it just me, or is the character count required for a DeSphinn completely inaccurate?

Since twitter I've got pretty good at tailoring posts to 140 characters so the DeSphinn requirement of 50-200 chars should not be a problem. But today, I tri read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Wait, what? WTF is OAI-PMH?

Oh hAI, Punch Mai Hed.

Guess that's why they've stopped supporting it. Too many black eyes.

I can't be bothered with this crap anymore. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clicknewz.com)
Category: Link Building
A clear and concise post listing reasons and techniques to deep-link into your site from comments, guest posts, forums and more. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 20, 2008 - 11:05 am
Posted By: andymurd 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seosmarty.com)
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty follows up on her series covering SEO branding with a look into logos of SEO companies and the messages that they communicate. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yeepage.com)
Category: SEO
A great list of tweaks for Wordpress bloggers using the "All In One SEO" plugin, by yeepage. We even get to see how he's configured it on his own blog. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cabel.name)
Category: Searching
Japanese adverts no longer show URLs for products, but search terms instead. If this phenomenon goes worldwide, there will be huge implications for the SEO/SEM industry.

Maybe written Japanese makes it harder to find snappy, memorable domain name read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mikeduncan.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Another blogger gets his content ripped off, yawn. The comments make for interesting reading as readers discuss whether to ignore it or reach for the lawyers. Great headline, though. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gottaquirk.com)
Category: Google SEO
GottaQuirk posts about a potential change to the Google ranking algorithm that will penalize links from social bookmarking sites. Still very much a rumor... for now. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gottaquirk.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Lyndi Lawson follows up on her earlier post "5 Tips For Online Reputation Management" with another great list. This time she emphasises the mindset you need to communicate effectively online and stand out amongst the information overload. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 113 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joe-whyte.com)
Category: Networking
Joe Whyte posted this list about a year ago and almost all sites seem to still be around. It's a really useful list for us all, and the categorization is very useful. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sixrevisions.com)
Category: Bookmarking
This Top 20 list of sites for web designers is (at the time of submitting) the #1 most popular link on del.icio.us with 9 of the 20 links on the del.icio.us front page. 34 comments on the article too.

As well as a great piece of link bait, it's a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: SEO
A great list of useful Firefox extensions from ShoeMoney. Some are of particular interest to SEO/SEMs. It's also an interesting tolook into which tools Shoe uses. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 126 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joeconsumer.info)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Think your e-commerce site is optimized to get the last dollar out of your visitors? You've got nothing on Wal-Mart, pick up some tips from traditional retailers. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: andymurd 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.estebanpanzera.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Here's a great list of social bookmarking sites that don't nofollow their links. I bet there are some sites here that you don't know already. read more »
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