Wiep

Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2008 - 12:39 pm
Posted By: Wiep 2 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
I don't know if this is here to stay, but I just noticed that all the external links from stories that haven't reached the front page yet are being nofollowed now. Great!

Hopefully this puts an end to the invasion of spam. I almost got RSI from c read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: Wiep 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
"I do not like doing much traditional SEO client work, and see the business model as having limited longterm value for most SEO consultants. The best consultants could usually make more promoting their own sites and brands than they would working fo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:11 am
Posted By: Wiep 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: SEO
URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes daily all over the place as if URLs wouldn’ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 3:29 pm
Posted By: Wiep 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
A reference sheet for those doing email marketing campaigns. It's primarily aimed at newsletters, but can also be applied to sales messages, transactional emails, or even discussion lists. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 3:37 pm
Posted By: Wiep 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copywritingmaven.com)
Category: Blogging
Headline Bonanza: a handy tip sheet of 52 ways to kick start your own brilliant headline. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 3:09 pm
Posted By: Wiep 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEM Industry
Last week I attended my first search conference. I gleaned a lot of valuable info and met many interesting people. Throughout the conference I compiled a mental checklist for my next conference. My hope is that my experience and the corresponding ch read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 1:43 am
Posted By: Wiep 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: SEM Industry
As the web matures and Google improves its search results with the most relevant sites, it’s going to become increasingly difficult for small publishers to get ahead. Get going before it’s too late. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 5:30 am
Posted By: Wiep 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Our industry is hot. Red hot. As such, just about every idiot who has ever coded a page of HTML will tell you that they "do SEO." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 1:26 am
Posted By: Wiep 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.audettemedia.com)
Category: SEO
Adam Audette explains the concepts of designing optimized site architectures for efficient spidering by search engines. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 7:18 am
Posted By: Wiep 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jenniferslegg.com)
Category: Link Building
With paid links so high up on the radar at the Googleplex these days, it has become even more crucial that your website’s link profile is as natural as possible… even if the links themselves aren’t 100% natural. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 7:22 pm
Posted By: Wiep 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
As this short guide should hopefully illustrate, SEO is not a “one size fits all” service - it is an umbrella terms for a range of usually very specialised approaches. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 8:08 am
Posted By: Wiep 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.distilled.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Tom Critchlow mentions how implementing the twin brother of the 302 redirect, the robots.txt'ed out 301 redirect, resulted in 267,700 links that are not passing any value to the main Times website. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 3, 2008 - 2:51 am
Posted By: Wiep 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.97thfloor.com)
Category: News Sites
This is not a how to spam article, this is an article that will hopefully help you better understand the life of your stories on Digg. If you better understand the stories and the process you can increase your chances for a front page Digg. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 12:21 pm
Posted By: Wiep 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Now that a savvy online marketer can build a profile, continuously grow a network and strategically contact said network with updates about the company and products themselves, it is time to bring in the advertising. This post lists 5 things to know read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 11:28 am
Posted By: Wiep 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Blogging
Tad made a list of simple rules of blog commenting netiquette, they might not apply everywhere but they will help you not be thrown out at SEO 2.0 and in other places probably too. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 19, 2008 - 7:16 am
Posted By: Wiep 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Managing an international website isn’t as straightforward as running a site focussed on a single local market. There are several issues that need to be handled very precisely in order to maximise your traffic while maintaining a user friendly desig read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: Wiep 129 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Let's say that on your homepage, you have two links to your blog. The first link is in the navigation, the second link is in the body. That second link's anchor text is NOT going to help the blog page rank for the anchor text used, because Google do read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 13, 2008 - 10:02 pm
Posted By: Wiep 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
An advanced SEO is more interested in mastering the trends and less concerned with studying the day-to-day tasks associated with optimization. You know how to write good content, you know how to get links. Advanced SEO is not about link building and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 13, 2008 - 5:31 pm
Posted By: Wiep 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://hamletbatista.com)
Category: Link Building
I like to refer to the combinations of positive and negative link value factors of a page as its Link Mass. The link mass of a page is the sum of the importance (or real PageRank) contributions from incoming links, minus the reductions in the reputa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 1:15 pm
Posted By: Wiep 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Andy Beal guest posts at Mashable, where he outlines ten tactics that could prevent your company suffering its own online reputation meltdown. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 9, 2008 - 12:11 pm
Posted By: Wiep 139 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Link Building
Whether you're selling clothing, car parts, luggage, or even cameras, your approach to link development matters most. Let's face it: most e-commerce sites primarily consist of a shopping cart on steroids. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 9:31 am
Posted By: Wiep 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Other Social Media
To me the linkerati are the connectors, they are ones who have ultimately created the web. Creating connections to related and sometimes unrelated pieces of information dotted around the web. And thus, they are all powerful and very popular. If you read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 12:49 pm
Posted By: Wiep 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: SEO
If you build web pages, and you want an idea of how a search engine might be looking at and weighing the content of your pages, you may want to check out this post.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 2, 2008 - 9:18 pm
Posted By: Wiep 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copybrighter.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
It's important to act quickly - the moment an online reputation issue is first detected. The longer you leave an undesirable search result to sit in the open, unchallenged, the more likely it will get "cemented" into place with links. Brett analyzes read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 1, 2008 - 3:38 pm
Posted By: Wiep 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Although big companies usually have big budgets, a broad range of knowledge, huge networks, lots of content and also a brand advantage, smaller companies and even individuals have shown that these benefits are not always the key to success. Besides read more »
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