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Avatar Posted By: northrock 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://northrockpub.com)
Category: Other Social Media
With this Twitter is packaging it’s content in such a way that will draw attention from folks outside of the typical Twitterer. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://northrockpub.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Twitter finally did integrate search and I didn’t even notice. Did it happen in the recent Twitter redesign? I can’t say for sure but I wouldn’t doubt it. So where is it? Did you not see it? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo describes how they might use robot programs to help identify emails, IMs, chat rooms, and Web sites where inappropriate activities take place. The document goes into detail on how a Yahoo robot might interact with others in a chat room, and th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2008 - 8:52 am
Posted By: northrock 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Other
Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 2:37 pm
Posted By: northrock 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: northrock 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Twice now I have have personally seen private conversations that Matt has had with web masters appear on the net, personally I’m in two minds on this.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 5:26 pm
Posted By: northrock 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: SEO
A Yahoo patent application was published last week which looks more deeply into how the search engine would follow directions not to recall sections of pages pursuant to robots-nonindex tags. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.summize.com)
Category: Other Social Media
It's with great pride that I officially confirm Twitter’s acquisition of Summize. The rationale for this transaction from Twitter can be found here. I’ll outline my motivation to sell our beloved Summize, talk about our experience soup to nuts, an read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo! has just unveiled the next phase in their plan to spur search innovation by providing search-related resources to developers. The Yahoo! Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) enables developers to access Yahoo! search results, combine them wit read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 6:42 am
Posted By: northrock 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: SEO
Enter the SEO sharpshooter specialist, focused on attaining organic prominence as quickly as possible under pressure. The objective is to push the nasty content as far down the SERPs as possible and, if necessary, debunk the credibility of the damni read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Twitter may buy Virginia-based Summize, a Twitter search engine, says Jason Calacanis. A source close to Twitter says that the two companies have been in discussions around a merger over the last couple of weeks, but won’t comment on whether an actu read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Other Social Media
3 Tips for Renting Social Media Properties

I think the main tip that I’d give with exploring any sort of ‘rental’ approach to social media is to enter into it with clear goals, realistic expectations and balance. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEO
For those who don't know Adobe already (did) have a Search SDK for Flash, indeed I have it on my machine now and Google have been using it for some time, so is Flash SEO Friendly? (answer no) So I was a bit surprised to see an announcement and went read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: SEO
Adobe has come up with a way for the search engines to read SWF files and index all of the information they contain. That means any text or links in a Flash application can now be indexed. This is a huge step forward for Adobe and anyone who develop read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
When people are angry they are anything but rational, so the amount of brand damage they can do for you is near limitless. Imagine if a person or small group has reach to a group of people entering your space, and tells them that you are unethical, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google is effectually forcing advertisers into buying more AdWords PPC by systematically setting out to neuter SEOs. They’re eviscerating organic paid link-building tactics which historically have been so critical to attaining prominence in natural read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Blogging
Could social news aggregators such as Digg, Techmeme & Technorati be sued for copyright infringement because the frequently used lead for a story often encompasses the core story? Larger concerns will no doubt have their own team of lawyers, but do read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 1:59 am
Posted By: northrock 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt is at it again asking web folks to step up and help Google where they can't do it themselves. Nice volley of words between Michael Martinez and Matt Cutts too. ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 9:32 am
Posted By: northrock 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
TopRank's Dana Larson shares a list of the TopRank's favorite online marketing tips , which - as a team - makes them stronger than each individual. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2008 - 10:05 pm
Posted By: northrock 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google SEO
I love Google as much as the next guy or maybe more than most… Not only the search engine and many apps and services I play with, but I also enjoy how the engineers think, but the whole link FUD has finally started to irk me.

I have yet to write read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 1:23 am
Posted By: northrock 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Social Media
With the fast growth and uptime growing pains, debates about Twitter are plentiful so let’s settle it once and for all with a Twitter poll:Is Twitter the Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.feedburner.com)
Category: Google AdSense
We've been hinting at this for awhile, but it's finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we'll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers "co read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Other Social Media
It might appear that powerful competitors offering free services will benefit from Twitter’s problems. However, when it comes to brainstorming, I think Twitter in all its simplicity beats the complexities of SecondBrain. A little reflection on this read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://northrockpub.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
The Saint Paul Saints baseball team are well known for their grandiose and popular promotions and they have hit another homerun with the Bobblefoot promotion saluting Larry Craig and National Tap Dancers Day. But how does this type of promotion tran read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
Lyndon, now hailed by many in the link world and here in the DaveN camp as the ”Master Baiter” has also been rebuffed by others for exploiting journalistic boundaries could now face the Google penalty guns with Matt holding his finger on the trigger read more »
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