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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 1:21 am
Posted By: Gab 1 day 22 hours ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: News Sites
Well, you might still get indexed, but spamming sphinn no longer gets you a dofollow link if you don't go hot. Will this affect the quality of submissions? Only time will tell. What do you guys think? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 18, 2008 - 9:20 am
Posted By: Gab 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Rich Baxter lays the smackdown on non-best practices in URL canonicalization by Matt Cutts. Yes, I did just use 'lay the smackdown' and 'url canonicalization' in a single sentence. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: Gab 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Web Analytics
My post builds on a great article (and plugin) from Joost De Valk. What if, like me, you’ve created a bespoke sidebar, that isn’t quite dynamic enough to talk to a plugin like this? I’ve hard coded my sidebar links. How do I track what exit clicks t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 6:07 am
Posted By: Gab 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google AdWords
Kate writes her first post at Youmoz sharing advanced tips on segmenting your analytics data to find all your broad match phrases! Sweeeeeet tutorial :D. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 6:03 am
Posted By: Gab 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
[...]Go as far to the back of the index as you possibly can, because that’s where the good bad stuff usually hides. You’re looking out for malformed urls, query strings (like ?=sessionid or ?first_page etc) [...]

Rich goes on to provide a case st read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 12:46 pm
Posted By: Gab 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Link Building
Twitter has 3 million indexed user feeds.
Writing applications to automatically post to twitter is super-easy. They suggest doing it with their twitter api.
Twitter posting apps get dofollow links.

Sounds like Twitter Fox and Twurl are goi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:51 pm
Posted By: Gab 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
"I invited 20 experts active in the Local Search Marketing community to participate in this study, with the goal of identifying the factors that would be most helpful for ranking well in the Google and Yahoo Local Search algorithms, as well as techn read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 9:39 am
Posted By: Gab 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Search Marketing
Veteran recruitment SEO Richard Baxter gives us the downlow on what to do with those vacancy pages that both target the longtail yet also get filled/change quickly. Useful for ecommerce detail pages too! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 8:15 pm
Posted By: Gab 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I want to do it the right way, so am reaching out to you Matt for some advice. I could do a hoax press release about some gossipy fake story - hey include a porn star and a search industry leader (Danny smart move introducing me to your wife now I c read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 13, 2008 - 12:42 pm
Posted By: Gab 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Google Other
Mike Blumenthal published a fascinating interview/case study into how one personal injury lawyer in LA got himself banned while the competition continues to spam. As usual, Google is unresponsive on the whole (Maps guide Jen is the tiny exception). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 6:53 am
Posted By: Gab 80 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: SEM Industry
The conferences have already had link buying panels, but they were pretty tame as far as things go. Would you attend a panel that focused solely on greyhat SEO at an SMX/SES show?

There's nothing shameful about wanting to learn and even use greyh read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 2, 2008 - 11:24 am
Posted By: Gab 85 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
You've probably run into stuff like this crap in what's new: Bangladeshi thoughts on Salahuddin, Diesel Generators etc. Obviously, Sphinn's counter-spam measures aren't working, so I'm offering $100 for the best idea to fight spam on Sphinn.

It' read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 31, 2008 - 9:11 am
Posted By: Gab 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Search Marketing
Ian Lurie shares a frustrating case study of a recent/former client who couldn't even implement analytics! The post goes on to share practical tips for anyone working enterprise level seo. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 1:33 pm
Posted By: Gab 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Google Other
Update: Matt and Mike VanDeMar have shown me Mike's blog, which apparently had this problem withOUT using GA - so it could be some other issue. However, Google is still indexing site searches. So it appears that Google Analytics is exonerated, (I lo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 6:46 am
Posted By: Gab 119 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Search Marketing
1) Where do you think are the most promising areas for testing and experimenting, as far as discovering new, actionable SEO insights?

3) What are some of the simpler ways for indie webmasters to generate an offline-income-stream? In other words, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 3:10 pm
Posted By: Gab 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google SEO
If Google works this deal, they will likely end up with a lot more usage data - and a strong starting point to triangulate other usage data against. With links becoming a commodity, how hard would it be for Google to find a better signal? In 5 years read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: Gab 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Months ago, MSN changed bots to detect cloaking. Result?
"Every single domain I had is still in Yahoo or MSN. That is not a good sign for them. Some of these are way older than a cloaked domain should be." - XMCP read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 8, 2008 - 3:11 pm
Posted By: Gab 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://promote-my-site.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Just what the title says. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 23, 2008 - 5:57 am
Posted By: Gab 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Jane follows up a story some have been intently following on linkbait, and specifically the banning of certain linkbaited sites. Jane points out the elephant in the room and now it's time for SEMs to join the fra -- err, conversation. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 21, 2008 - 11:15 am
Posted By: Gab 154 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Other
Flickr, once a popular source of dofollow links for SEOs has recently turned its links to nofollow automatically! Whereas you could link to your site(s) before and pass juice, now external links are nofollowed. This raises important issues:

1) Is read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 19, 2008 - 8:02 pm
Posted By: Gab 157 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I’m aka "Bookworm-SEO". So I’m reasonably well-placed to give out some Charity Awards for for Search Education. The way it’s going to work is that everyone who wins an award gets a shiny badge and has their name added to the donation I’m making to t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 8:33 pm
Posted By: Gab 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
Jeff's a power user on Digg, SU, and Sphinn, and here he shares a large part of his technique for building up these profiles. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 10:26 am
Posted By: Gab 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seosmarty.com)
Category: Social Media
Ann explains the elbow grease side of social media and how to avoid getting ticked off by its regular petty annoyances such as insults, spam etc. Read this for the long haul! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 1, 2008 - 4:58 am
Posted By: Gab 175 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
If you've spent any time around here, chances are you've had a chat with, or participated in on involving, Ian aka g1smd. Three cheers for a great guy, generous with a tip and a sphinn!

Note: I couldn't find any sites he owns, and Ian's never tol read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 8:59 pm
Posted By: Gab 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Online Marketing
XMCP/Shady hits it out the ballpark with a great look into the world of porn promotion and SEO, showing how they've become Google-independent, while still leveraging it for the long-tail. Some topics Shady covers:

Why Is the Pornography Marketin read more »
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