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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.contrast.ie)
Category: SEO
Post from an Irish web design agency. Yawn. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e-consultancy.com)
Category: Networking
An excellent overview of what its foray into music might mean for Facebook, as well as those who have built their businesses around it. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Online Marketing
Not an obvious topic for a search forum, but the news that a major US paper is going to, to all intents & purposes, abandon print (there will still be a weekend edition) is a huge milestone in the development of the web. Epic 2008 anyone? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Online Marketing
A really useful collection of articles, tools & resources for anyone working in internet marketing read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Online Marketing
Whilst it looks like search may have hit a ceiling, and online advertising in general isn't growing as quickly anymore, they're still the only things keeping the UK ad market going read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Overview of online ad market in the US.

I like this sort of data & analysis, but wish that Danny & the team would do the same for the UK's figures (which also just came out). I realise that you can't do it for every country, but as far as I'm aw read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nma.co.uk)
Category: Ask.com
Ask.com will introduce significant changes to its UK search engine on 20 October as it attempts to provide the most relevant search results on the web.

The new-look results page is focused towards giving users answers to questions directly within read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 2, 2008 - 8:43 pm
Posted By: ciaran 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Jane follows up Danny's post about his conversation with a truthfully challenged (if you see what I mean) search marketer. She mentions the 'e' word. Twenty quid to the first person to mention Lyndon-gate in the comments.

;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 3:02 pm
Posted By: ciaran 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Ohhh, I love stupid people. No, really, they make my day a lot of the time. Like the person who decided to ask Danny Sullivan to put paid links on Search Engine Land and then tried to reassure him that there are no dangers involved in such actions. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Rand weighs in on why he thinks we should all ignore Google's recent advice on no longer rewriting dynamic URLs and I tend to agree with him. There's also a nice little conspiracy theory in the comments - is Google doing this just because it believe read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Fascinating piece by uber-blogger Jeff Jarvis offering his feelings on how Google reached its position of dominance, why regulation isn't the way to put it in its place, and what people should be doing to compete with it read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 5, 2008 - 10:29 am
Posted By: ciaran 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Jane thinks that there is a lot of hot-air which passes for insight in the search industry. I think she should just get on with creating good content....

;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 2:58 pm
Posted By: ciaran 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Final proof if it were needed that Google is now too powerful - they've redrawn the map of Europe and ceded the Benelux countries to Germany... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 3:16 am
Posted By: ciaran 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google Other
Not content with acting as most people's default browser, Google actually now wants to be people's browser. It makes you wonder why they keep pumping so much cash into Mozilla (although for those guys I guess 'so much cash' is a relative term) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 3, 2008 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: ciaran 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fireflyseo.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Hey, any list that gives me a namecheck is gonna get a Sphinn. There's a few names that should probably be up there that aren't, so drop a comment if there's a search Brit you think deserves a plug.. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bbdo.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
So the guy whose image British paper the Daily Mail said was a Googlebomb (http://sphinn.com/story/68956) points out that he has explicitly stated that he doesn't want them using his images - something which they did with no credit. Nice. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ciaran 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://voices.washingtonpost.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
The Washington Post reports on a planned feature of IE8 that could have grave repercussions for anyone using 3rd party analytics or ad serving software, as users may be able to block them.
"It has the potential to undermine the economies of the Int read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2008 - 9:15 pm
Posted By: ciaran 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Patrick thinks that Google is reducing the weight it puts on anchor text in setting rankings: it's not based on a huge amount of evidence, but it's an interesting proposition.. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.altogetherdigital.com)
Category: Link Building
For many in SEO (especially those in the UK) a link from the BBC would be the Holy Grail of a link building campaign. Well, now it just got a bit more likely. Or did it? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 5:22 am
Posted By: ciaran 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google AdWords
Some nice, practical advice on how to manage competitive, high-volume keywords that can't be dumped even when the CPA is too high to fit ROI targets. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Other Social Media
British tennis player Andy Murray is using Twitter. Kevin at SEOptimise reckons it might help improve his reputation. But only if anyone is watching.. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.onemanandhisblog.com)
Category: Blogging
Adam, a colleague from my days in publishing, writes a great post about why many mainstream journalists still don't 'get' blogging: "Community is not a place. Community is an approach to publishing." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:44 pm
Posted By: ciaran 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Rand lets off about paid links:
"This perfectly explains why you have to discount perturbances like paid links. Make it about the business, and the business owners and operators in the room will respect you. Make it about the lack of morality among read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
They really don't want Microsoft to buy them, do they? read more »
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