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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://footinmouthdisease.net)
Category: Google AdWords
This morning my friend and Manager noticed that Google's Keyword Tool for Adwords is displaying 'Insufficient Data' for 'Approx Search Volume: July' and 'Approx Avg Search Volume' fields. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://footinmouthdisease.net)
Category: Other
Rae Hoffman (Sugarrae) thinks live bloggers at conferences contribute to freeloaders and shouldn't be allowed.

Lisa Barone on the other hand thinks it is no different than WebProNews reporting on conference panels.

So how about it? Should Liv read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Search Marketing
Aaron Wall recently volunteered to guest post on other blogs. I took him up on his offer and asked him a few questions on long tail keywords. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 219 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Many industry experts have weighed in their predictions for 2008; curious... what are your top three predictions? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Social Media
ClaimID Does a Little Social Reputation Management

Even Social Networks need a little reputation management from time to time. Technology isn’t always perfect, never thought of before additions to the network might cause bugs to already functioni read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 254 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Social Media
Today I had a social network take my account for their further benefits. They claim that it was due to their system not recognizing that it was a restricted username. Personally my guess is that they forgot to reserve the username. However, I’ve read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 263 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google SEO
Eric Enge does a very nice review of Matt Cutts most recent post, "Subdomains and subdirectories". (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/)

I however still have a question that I don't feel is being addressed by Matt, Eric o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 305 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://zaknicola.wordpress.com)
Category: Google
While Google’s home page has yet to change for the Halloween festivities, I did notice a change in their Street View icon. Their is now a Witch in place of the marker that is used for navagating around Street View’s available streets. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 314 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://footinmouthdisease.net)
Category: Search Marketing
I found this green thumb approach to SEO to be a good read. How many people have used the words ‘fertilizer’ and ‘bull shit’ when discussing SEO? This guy did and it made for a quick laugh.

You’ll need a few minutes to read through this but if read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 322 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Google SEO
Four ways you could possibly be guilty of violating Google Guidelines. A short post on something that has probably been pointed out before but I always enjoy seeing it so thought I'd share it with those who may not have seen it yet. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 331 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Google Searching
Having the option to approve the ability for an in bound link to pass link juice might help solve or reduce a few problems with Index trash and a few other issues. Can a little extra work on the marketers end be worth the fuss of entertaining this read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 339 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Can it be that Dmoz has life in it still?  Many people don't think so but in a surprising twist, Dmoz has decided to launch an official blog to set the record straight. - Originally addressed by Barry Schwartz at http://searchengineland.co read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 24, 2007 - 10:25 am
Posted By: jfj3rd 343 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Social Media
What's the purpose of spending hours on building a Social Reputation if in the end the Social Network(s) you’ve chosen to target doesn't result in a sale of the product or service that you are probably promoting? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 344 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Originally posted by Barry Schwartz aka Rustybrick on September 20th

Today, Rand Fishkin takes a long look in the issue in What Makes a Good Web Directory, and Why Google Penalized Dozens of Bad Ones and decides yes, Google went after some direct read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 353 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Link Building
Applying T-Mobiles, "Who's in Your Top Five" concept to the world of SEO. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2007 - 12:09 pm
Posted By: jfj3rd 355 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://zaknicola.wordpress.com)
Category: Google Other
This may shape up to be a great case study for those of us who haven't thought about utilizing Google Alerts as a marketing tool. Matt Cutts, Rand, Aaron Wall and others are all brought up in this blog posting; will this post work? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: SEO
Someone told me tonight, “It’s really a dark zone where nothing is official and everything is based on assumptions / trial & error” This came right after he said, “There is a lot of contradictory information out there about SEO” read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2007 - 3:10 am
Posted By: jfj3rd 361 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Google SEO
I think Lyndon said it best when he said, “The rules have changed but the directories have not.” read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 380 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Google
Google has gone public when announcing its decisions to remove listings from their index when they receive DMCA complaints. I’ve found one instance of where this is true and would like to know about others. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 381 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.computerworld.com)
Category: Google
For the first time, Yahoo Inc. has replaced Google Inc. as the No. 1 portal of choice, according to a customer satisfaction survey released today. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 386 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Sphinn Zone
A glimpse into a blog which receives the majority of its traffic directly from Sphinn postings. What kind of traffic can a new face attract to their blog from Sphinn? Take a look and judge for yourselves. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 387 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Other Search Marketing
76 useful Internet marketing websites to have in your arsenal. Download-able tools, on-line tools, forums, blogs, educational sites and other SEO, SEM & Internet Marketing related links. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2007 - 12:20 am
Posted By: jfj3rd 389 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
So far I’ve read two really great articles through various sources that I wanted to Sphinn. The first was on “Google Dumps The Supplemental Results Label” which Danny Sullivan wrote. That Sphinn went HOT right away and just left the front page yes read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 389 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Thanks to Barry Schwartz for providing us with several good resources on all things Google. IP Addresses, Domains and useful operators are among the other Google goodies that should be known by everyone. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jfj3rd 391 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.10minutes.org)
Category: Jobs Offered
"Warning: Reading on may prove to be too challenging. Only 80% of people who followed this link will continue reading."

*** This is a job listing I found on CareerBuilder.com; Not only is this a great read but I think the writer should get the jo read more »
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