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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 10:08 am
Posted By: bwelford 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca)
Category: Networking
Twitter can give instant feedback from your followers. Use it for brainstorming, like a human network version of your subconscious. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 10:50 pm
Posted By: bwelford 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Every suggestion in this is well worth considering. A must-read post on getting more traffic that should give you at least one new thought. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 13, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: bwelford 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blog.marketmou.com)
Category: Google SEO
A great interview with Aaron Wall. Sometimes I find interviews are of lesser value than you'd expect from the interviewee. In this case, you won't be disappointed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 6:39 am
Posted By: bwelford 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.staygolinks.com)
Category: Blogging
WordPress by default applies a NoFollow tag on all blog post comments. A recent Cre8asite Forums discussion suggested using the Lucia's Linky Love plugin. Using both DoFollow and Akismet plugins, it takes more work but valuable comments can get li read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 6, 2008 - 11:21 pm
Posted By: bwelford 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Blogging
John Andrews is always someone who is worth reading. Here he encourages those who care about writing in a search engine visible way to share their tips to create memorable posts. It's a good initiative to get involved with. Let's all see what we read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 6, 2008 - 5:40 pm
Posted By: bwelford 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Networking
A most thought-provoking and well presented article. This is your must-read piece of the week. Remember the answer is 150, give or take a bit. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 6, 2008 - 3:40 pm
Posted By: bwelford 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://valleywag.com)
Category: Google Other
The competition is getting ugly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 5, 2008 - 5:07 am
Posted By: bwelford 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
Recently LinkMoses seemed to have a problem listing Best Practices for Link Building that others found satisfying. His new Q&A blog may cure that. However Best Practices may be too much of a challenge.

A less demanding task is to define what read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 2, 2008 - 9:35 am
Posted By: bwelford 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
Google blog post snippets may start with the date in the searcher's language, however many characters that might require. 138 characters of the Description are then often added to complete the snippet. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 1, 2008 - 1:08 pm
Posted By: bwelford 96 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
I think there's nothing to lose and everything to gain by making Desphunn Comments just another way of making a regular Comment. If they're in the normal flow and appear in Latest Comments, then they will encourage discussion, which presumably is t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 31, 2008 - 7:49 am
Posted By: bwelford 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
Google snippets appear below each item in keyword search engine report pages (SERP). Good snippets increase clickthroughs to the Web page. It now appears that for blogs the Description should be less than 138 characters to be used as the snippet. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 11:14 am
Posted By: bwelford 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.howtospoter.com)
Category: Blogging
An excellent resource with some great reminders on how to get your blog to display fast. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 8:21 am
Posted By: bwelford 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca)
Category: Google SEO
Google adds short snippets to entries in a keyword query search engine report to help searchers find what they want. If you apply SEO to the Web page Description, then you can increase the chances that the Description becomes the snippet that Googl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 1, 2008 - 1:01 pm
Posted By: bwelford 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca)
Category: Blogging
So why were blogs in the headlines in February? There were three principal reasons:
1. Hackers
2. Google
3. Big business has noticed blogs beat traditional media read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 20, 2008 - 1:19 pm
Posted By: bwelford 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google Searching
Hacking WordPress Blogs is lucrative to a hacker as they create hundreds of online pharmaceutical blog posts that rank well and fast in Google searches. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: bwelford 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlesystem.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Searching
This is great functionality. Most useful when you'd like to know how long something has been around. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 8, 2008 - 3:42 pm
Posted By: bwelford 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.oldschoolseo.com)
Category: Blogging
From the post - As a professional, it is such a turn off to think how can this guy have this large of a following when he doesn’t respect his readers intelligence (or himself) enough to use a spell checker or a grammar checker.

At the very leas read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 3:11 pm
Posted By: bwelford 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Networking
Twitter is seeing an enormous explosion. With everyone twittering frequently will the tweat-world eventually drown under the ocean of tweats. It seemed to happen at MacWorld last week. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 8, 2008 - 1:31 am
Posted By: bwelford 181 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
If you don't think a topic deserves the Sphinns it's getting, I'm not aware of any easy way of expressing that. It's not that you want to vote the item down, but just indicate that it doesn't deserve all those perhaps knee-jerk Sphinns that some sur read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 23, 2007 - 1:22 am
Posted By: bwelford 197 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cre8asiteforums.com)
Category: Other
There may be a new and worrying malware incident via a Hallmark Card message with a spelling mistake. Be warned! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 3:52 pm
Posted By: bwelford 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google Searching
Seth Godin is recommending human-friendly URLs today. That's the non-WWW version of the URL. However if you want Google traffic, you may prefer to go with the WWW version. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 22, 2007 - 1:39 am
Posted By: bwelford 229 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Kim Berg spills a few more of the beans. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2007 - 5:27 am
Posted By: bwelford 310 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
Although the site:www.domain.com/& search no longer seems to measure the number of web pages in the Google supplemental index, the site:www.domain.com/* search may still give useful information. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2007 - 3:51 pm
Posted By: bwelford 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Water Cooler
The ever vigilant Barry Schwartz spots that it's Cre8asite Forums 5th Birthday. Many happy returns. :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2007 - 9:27 am
Posted By: bwelford 319 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
My question is not because I'm frustrated by spam or whatever. No, I was just wondering who exactly are the moderators. I can't seem to find a list anywhere and it would be nice to even read short bios. I can guess who several of them are, but it read more »
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