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The Secret of Getting a New Site to Beat an Old One or Content is King is Just a Cliche
Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://massa.techndu.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
I think The Guru ultimately wants us to increase the bonus Matt Cutts gets each Christmas so that ours are bigger too.

I wonder if he has read Shoe's latest... read more »
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Big time bloggers to their readers - You Suck!
Avatar Went Hot: January 20, 2008 - 1:45 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://pimpmypagerank.com) my network
Category: Blogging
Sometimes the best way to respond to being told you suck is to Sphinn the post read more »
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You Just Saved Your Online Reputation In Google, Yahoo & MSN
Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 12:22 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: SEO
A real reputation management disaster, the people upset are not going to take special care about how they can clean things up afterwards read more »
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Google Directory Update Showing
Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 11:48 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Google Other
Continued coverage on the Google Directory update and the data Google let slip read more »
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I Suppose This Is One Way To Deal With Comment Spam ;)
Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 6:49 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: Blogging
You know if I go back in my comment history, I am sure the first few comments Shawn left on my blog I edited and replaced his SEO optimized name field with something else, or just removed the link... this post shows how much he is a reformed charact read more »
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Tim Nash Assimilated - The Idiot’s Guide To Getting StumbledUpon
Avatar Went Hot: January 12, 2008 - 1:03 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: News Sites
I think these guys should spend more time drinking on Saturdays rather than conducting serious interviews divulging useful information about Stumbleupon.
This interview is important to reinforce why you shouldn't continually stumble the same sites. read more »
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Five Easy Ways to Piss a Blogger Off… For Good!
Avatar Went Hot: January 12, 2008 - 3:52 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://web-hosting.tophostingcenter.com) my network
Category: Blogging
You really don't want to make me mad ;) read more »
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Social Media Marketing, Interview With Brian Wallace
Avatar Went Hot: January 11, 2008 - 6:24 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com) my network
Category: Other Social Media
Conclusive proof, social media marketing can get you interviewed by the hottest chicks in town... the SEO Chicks read more »
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‘I Robot’ with SebastianX of ‘Sebastian’s Pamphlets’ > Robots.txt Help
Avatar Went Hot: January 10, 2008 - 7:12 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: SEO
Sebastian is an expert on the technical side of SEO, though sometimes his more in depth posts tend to challenge the neural nodes of accomplished experts.
Shaun grabbed his ear, and in this entertaining and educational interview they go into some of read more »
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What Do SEO/SEM People Put In Robots.txt Files?
Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 1:41 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: SEO
An interesting look at what different people use for Robots.txt, assuming a smart SEO isn't serving a different version to bots. read more »
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Visualising Neighbourhood, Website Structure, SEO Heat, Hot Links, Hot Spots & Viagra
Avatar Went Hot: January 4, 2008 - 11:27 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 129 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk) my network
Category: SEO
Shaun takes another look at visualising link equity, with hot links and hot pages. read more »
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I’m a brand not a product!
Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 6:10 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk) my network
Category: Other Search Marketing
It looks like Tim is now well in control of his vanity search results, but what is with those product listings? read more »
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Paid posts are the devil incarnate according to search engines
Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 3:24 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yackyack.co.uk) my network
Category: Google SEO
"If you knew of a blogger who was part of a system that was paid by an advertiser to write reviews about a product or service that you knew would contain nofollowed links to the core advertiser, yet was allowed to link out to other content to enhanc read more »
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Matt Cutts Repsonds, Confirms Double Standards
Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 2:49 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://community.izea.com) my network
Category: Google SEO
Ted Murphy responds to the comments and discussions he has recently had with Google's Matt Cutt's, and in particular looks into the double standards.
Ted suggests that Matt confirmed to him that Techcrunch "thanks" posts were in violation, and ques read more »
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Techcrunch Now Nofollow Sponsor Links
Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 8:26 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu) my network
Category: SEO
It would be interesting to find out if this was a decision they made on their own, or after feedback from Google. read more »
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Digg Traffic Has Questionable Value For Most Niche Publishers
Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 2:26 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://publishing2.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Takes a look at the value of social media for most sites - even WSJ which recently added Digg buttons doesn't seem to be relevant, or maybe they need to hire a SMM specialist read more »
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Google Dictating Nofollow For ALL Links From Compensated Content
Avatar Went Hot: December 28, 2007 - 9:06 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu) my network
Category: Google SEO
Comply with Google and become a pingback spammer read more »
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Technology Predictions for 2008
Avatar Went Hot: December 28, 2007 - 11:38 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.twentysteps.com) my network
Category: Water Cooler
Some alternative predictions for 2008 read more »
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A Three-Dimensional Approach to Organizing Your Feeds Using Google Reader
Avatar Went Hot: December 24, 2007 - 8:12 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 142 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://dmiessler.com) my network
Category: Blogging
How do you organise your feeds? read more »
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Kevin Rose Jumping Out of The Digg Boat?
Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2007 - 11:26 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com) my network
Category: News Sites
Daniel takes a look at the potential upcoming sale of Digg, looking at the reasons why they might be keen to sell now. read more »
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How to Hire a Dedicated Market Research Firm for $50
Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2007 - 4:58 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.compete.com) my network
Category: Web Analytics
A guest post by Aaron Wall on the Compete blog - one of these days I will have to go experimenting with the Compete data. read more »
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Ding Dong, Digg is Dead
Avatar Went Hot: December 20, 2007 - 10:26 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com) my network
Category: Bookmarking
Brian is now convinced that his site is on autobury read more »
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Before I deal the FUD "I’m going to ask you to put on your regular user hat"
Avatar Went Hot: December 16, 2007 - 9:30 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu) my network
Category: Google SEO
I know it is a little late... but I did have to write something in response. Hopefully you find it different to what has been said already though something might have slipped me by. read more »
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The Death of Do-Follow
Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 3:23 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com) my network
Category: Blogging
Looks like Google is preventing bloggers from determining whether a link from a comment should be followed or not.
Is this the death of Dofollow on Blogspot, or something that will signal a new exodus of people moving to Wordpress. read more »
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User voting on search results could kill Google
Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2007 - 10:16 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.oflaherty.dk) my network
Category: Google Searching
"Spammers, virus and malware peddlers and other such miscreants are generally organized and ahead of the curve. They’re certainly quick to find new ways to abuse a feature such as search result voting." read more »
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