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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: billslawski 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.uic.edu)
Category: Tips & Tools
The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.

Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out diffe read more »
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Avatar Posted By: billslawski 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://corporatejoseph.wordpress.com)
Category: News Sites
Is Digg too large a community for the level of moderation that it has? Raises questions about the sensationalism of titles, the narrowing of focus of submissions, and the squashing of commentary. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: billslawski 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://everydotconnects.com)
Category: Networking
What kinds of dangers might lurk on social networks when people set out to use them for nefarious reasons?

The article explores a scam that happened on Plurk and Twitter, but raises questions about how any social network can be abused. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 5:40 pm
Posted By: billslawski 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
The growth of the social web, increases in search engines understanding sentiments and opinions in reviews and user created content, and greater scrutiny of misleading business practices urge businesses to become more socially responsible.

What read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Posted By: billslawski 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Social Media
Linkbaiting false stories, using sockpuppets in social voting networks, engaging in comment spam and forum spam, being solely self promotional in venues where self promotion is frowned upon?

Small business can benefit from engaging in conversatio read more »
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Avatar Posted By: billslawski 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Web Analytics
A Yahoo patent application strangely strays away from processes involving search engines to explore Web Mining. It focuses upon analytics involving specific queries from search engines and site search, and how those can be used to improve the conten read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 10, 2008 - 9:30 pm
Posted By: billslawski 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: Social Media
What makes a title a good one for the personalities that you see in a social setting? In your personal networks?

An insightful and fun exploration on the topic of creating page and article titles for the many people you may find in different soc read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: billslawski 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seodesignsolutions.com)
Category: SEO
A nicely done high level overview of search algorithms and the role of SEO in optimizing sites. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 29, 2008 - 10:05 am
Posted By: billslawski 146 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: Social Media
Mixx shares the news that just about anything you could do on Mixx, you can now do in Mixx on Facebook.

Good move, bad move? I don't know. But it's interesting to see social sites being social like this. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 15, 2008 - 7:17 am
Posted By: billslawski 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://chancefavors.com)
Category: Social Media
Stumbleupon is a great way to discover new websites, and the lessons learned, and shared, in this article about SU are helpful and insightful regarding stumbleupon and social networks in general. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 7:52 am
Posted By: billslawski 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seodesignsolutions.com)
Category: SEO
Does the evolution of search and the web point towards search engines favoring sites that update and change frequently,and follow the conversations between site owners and their audiences?

Nice discussion of the topic. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Posted By: billslawski 180 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
A quick run through the "Hot Topics," the "What's New," and "Sphinn's Greatest Hits" shows that news posts outnumber discussion posts on a grand scale.

I think it's great that news posts are so popular, I wondered if discussion posts could gain i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 5:31 pm
Posted By: billslawski 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: SEO
I like looking at primary resources like patents and white papers. I also like exploring the history of the Web and the .net to understand those better.

SEO is constantly changing, as noted in the article, and 1998s SEO has evolved a great deal read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: billslawski 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: SEO
There are a number of reasons why rankings within search engines may decrease. Some of them might not be that obvious. Provides a number of things to explore, and resources, to understand why rankings may have dropped. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 18, 2008 - 5:13 am
Posted By: billslawski 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Kim offers encouragement to people considering the Search Marketing industry, and thinking about entering into jobs in the SEO field.

What would you tell someone contemplating becoming an SEO? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Posted By: billslawski 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Searching
Frequently used words, or stop words, were often ignored in search engine indexing, but sometimes they can be significant to a search, like one for the opening line of a Shakespearean soliloquy, "To be, or not to be?"

If using compression inte read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 16, 2008 - 8:05 am
Posted By: billslawski 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo
It’s good to see folks in the search community challenging some assumptions behind PageRank, while introducing a new flavor of PageRank which replaces those assumptions with user data.

A patent application from Yahoo, published last week, takes read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 12, 2008 - 12:57 am
Posted By: billslawski 194 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEO
Ruud dives into how search works, with a review of the usefulness of meta keywords and how off page factors act as meta data. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 10, 2008 - 9:12 am
Posted By: billslawski 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.newyorker.com)
Category: Google
This long New Yorker article provides some intriguing insights into the leadership, operations, and ambitions of Google. Lots of great quotes from many conversations with people inside and outside of Google.

One of my favorite passages:

"What read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 4, 2008 - 10:59 am
Posted By: billslawski 202 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google
Real picture taking robots, coming to stores and museums near you? Plus, how well can Google really understand text within images? Possible very well. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2007 - 1:53 pm
Posted By: billslawski 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Blogging
From the patent application:

"Search engines are increasingly implementing features that restrict the results for queries to be from blog pages."

Do you think that search engines purposefully push down search results from blogs? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 11, 2007 - 7:45 am
Posted By: billslawski 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google SEO
How does Google mine anchor text from links, and what kind of text around links might it also use to determine relevancy for pages being linked to?

What role might PageRank play in a page being included in a Base, Daily, or Realtime crawling proc read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 23, 2007 - 5:28 am
Posted By: billslawski 246 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
A thoughtful and helpful look at how personalization in search may impact search results, and an exploration of a handful of the key metrics involved in that personalization.

Very nicely done. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 6, 2007 - 1:16 am
Posted By: billslawski 261 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: News Sites
People are talking: Carbon offsets, plug-in hybrids, species extinction, debt-for-nature swaps, urban sustainability, permafrost meltdowns, carfree days.

Links to Green Communities and Social Networks, so that you can join in on the conversations read more »
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Avatar Posted By: billslawski 267 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.merjis.com)
Category: Google AdWords
The Merjis Internet Marketing Blog explores the spread of "wildly inaccurate information" from Google and other commentors on geotargeting, and some of the experiments they've conducted involving those myths. read more »
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