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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 1:02 am
Posted By: theGypsy 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialtimes.com)
Category: Social Media
The Social Times » What is social discovery exactly? Well social discovery is the usage of social tools to find relevant content. A social tool is a system which enables the sharing of content with other users. That content can be as simple as the a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 3:55 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://leftthebox.com)
Category: Blogging
A great post on getting up and running with a Blog for the uninitiated. While it's certainly for the noob, a good article to pass on to peeps in need.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 10:49 am
Posted By: theGypsy 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
A great little guest post on SD from Mark Hayward - I noticed the words 'Hell' and $hit in my reader... knew it had to be a guest post...lol read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 3:04 am
Posted By: theGypsy 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Some interesting forward thinking from the folks at Yahoo as translated by the one and only Bill Slawski

SEO by the Sea - With an increase in recent years of social sites that contain lists of sites or songs or videos, search engines may be cons read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 2:01 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
The Link Spiel: That old saying "it's not what you say, it's how you say it" is spot on in this situation. If you send out the old "swap with me for PageRank" type letter you'll find lower results than if you offer an incentive to act and develop yo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialtimes.com)
Category: Networking
The Social Times » If you avoided the grid for the weekend you probably missed out on a conversation going on yesterday about the default users recommended when you start FriendFeed. Then today a new conversation began about how FriendFeed is sucki read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialnewswatch.com)
Category: News Sites
| Social News Watch | A Digg Analysis post on popFAIL
reveals an alarming “widening of the gap” between the top users and the middle users. In the report, an analysis was done of the last 500 stories to reach the front page of Digg, ... 31.4% of th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Blogging
One James Duthie has taken a break from his World Blogging Tour to write a post at his home sweet home. Of course because he's been away he's decided to write about his adventures in guest blogging...

| Online Marketing Banter | The principle i read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 6:38 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
Wiep - The most important factors of a successful campaign, however, are planning and dedication. If you can manage to think one step ahead, you’ll manage to stay ahead of your competition as well. And sure, you might have success with something tha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 10:38 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sucomments.com)
Category: Networking
This is part three of a GREAT series on Plurk - this edition is one cliques, but I suggest reading Part I and II as well - I have been using cliques increasingly and they have a value... Check your Privates!! (lol) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 10:28 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Social Media
A great rant from Li towards the social media spammers... Does SMM = Social Spamming? Or is it about building relationships?

Search Marketing Gurus - Along with that, I was just flabbergasted at a submission on Sphinn about gaming Twitter for " read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 4:32 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanseodesign.com)
Category: SEO
Steven Bradley (aka VanGogh) Holy optimization Batman! Are search geeks no longer relevant in the world of SEO? Nothing of the sort my caped companion in ranking. Search geeks are still highly relevant and likely will be as long as search engines ex read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Search Engine Land - So what am I trying to accomplish with this article? Honestly, I would really like the search industry to re-evaluate what they consider to be advanced SEO skills. I do not believe that advanced SEO skills are necessarily "black read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 1:11 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I invite you all to hop on over to Donna's blog, grab a piece of cake and chat it up in the comments - it's a party after all.

MODS - this is a dupe... please nuke it ;0) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Greg Sterling via SEL - Privacy is dead, get used to it. In the effort to rescue display advertising from its historically dismal performance and so-called "banner blindness" behavioral targeting (BT) was born a few years ago with Tacoda. It has bot read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: theGypsy 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://plurkable.com)
Category: Networking
For those that are playing in PlurkWorld here are some toys and tools to start broadening your experience. I haven't played with them all much yet, so do share any experiences here if you could... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 7:35 am
Posted By: theGypsy 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chris-hooley.com)
Category: Water Cooler
In preparation for the greatly anticipated (tongue firmly planted in cheek) - SEO Superlatives Contest - the committee members have been announced. Leave nominations in this thread for consideration

Some of the hardware up for grabs include;

S read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 9:50 am
Posted By: theGypsy 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Blogging
Tis' time for a story; Set in a far, far away land. So, snuggle up get cosy and I'll tell you how being a serial blogger has been the most financially rewarding move I have ever made.

Guest Post from Paul Steven read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
| Search Engine People Blog | If these calculations are correct, how can a company that has spent years building its reputation, not engage in Pre-Emptive Reputation Management? There is just too much at risk! . It just takes one really bad piece, a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 30 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Ok, maybe I am being a tad cheeky today, but Matt decided to highlight the interview he did, so why not? Reading the article on USA Today he mentions;

“In a nutshell: Google ranks sites based on popularity. If authoritative sites link to you, you read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Barry via Search Engine Land - Last night, during the Webmaster Help Group chat session, the question was brought up in the Q&A box. John Muller of Google was the first Googler to admit that Google may, on some occasions, take case into account on a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 22, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanseodesign.com)
Category: SEO
Guest post from James Duthie - at TheVanBlog this time out - seems he's becomming quite a Gypsy himself!

SNIP - Riddle me this… If I asked you to imagine a picture of a stereotypical SEO what would they look like…? Glasses, buck teeth, bald, badl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: theGypsy 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://plurkable.com)
Category: Networking
Love it, hate it or indifference; Karma is talked about more than enough - some perspective on the road to Nirvana

- Plurkable - Now, real quick, I would like to say that I think the ALGO is good for new Plurkers, but I think it stinks for more e read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEO
Lisa gives some perspective on the SEO start-up process. So, does it match yours? I know ours is a little different.

Lisa Barone - In many instances, the search engine optimization process officially starts with the site review. It's when your op read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Search Engine Land - It is important to clarify that Google will still index your site if you do not have a robots.txt file. If you simply do not have the robots.txt file on your server, it does not mean Google won't index your site. As long as Goog read more »
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