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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ciaran 1 day 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2008 - 9:15 pm
Posted By: ciaran 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Patrick thinks that Google is reducing the weight it puts on anchor text in setting rankings: it's not based on a huge amount of evidence, but it's an interesting proposition.. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 5:22 am
Posted By: ciaran 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google AdWords
Some nice, practical advice on how to manage competitive, high-volume keywords that can't be dumped even when the CPA is too high to fit ROI targets. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:44 pm
Posted By: ciaran 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Rand lets off about paid links:
"This perfectly explains why you have to discount perturbances like paid links. Make it about the business, and the business owners and operators in the room will respect you. Make it about the lack of morality among read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 9:41 am
Posted By: ciaran 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.distilled.co.uk)
Category: Paid Search
Will & the boys are running a competition to raise funds for the Burma cyclone appeal. All you PPC demons need to get on it now. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 3:06 pm
Posted By: ciaran 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
An interesting post that would get a Sphinn from me for the inclusion of an arse gag if nothing else (although that's not the headline they used). But it is worth reading for more than just that as it has some great info on why shorter URLs tend to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: ciaran 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Other Social Media
Charles Arthur of the UK's Guardian newspaper gives a really good overview of what Twitter is, how to get the most out of it and the various tools have grown up around it. It's great to see the MSM getting behind a site like Twitter, so let's give T read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 11:17 am
Posted By: ciaran 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: Link Building
So is there such a thing as unethical linkbait? If so, what is it? Where does one draw the line? Or the link even (sorry!) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 4:13 pm
Posted By: ciaran 129 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google Other
The Mozzers come up with some interesting things that Google should look at adding to their OneBox results... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 20, 2008 - 2:55 am
Posted By: ciaran 133 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Dear Danny,

I love Sphinn. And I really love Search Engine Land. But if the two are separate, why do you force me to submit something from SEL to Sphinn in order to comment on it?

There are times when I don't want to Sphinn a story (not becaus read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 15, 2008 - 10:15 am
Posted By: ciaran 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
Matt Inman (ex-SEOmoz) is featured in an article looking at using widgets to gain links. It (unintentionally) highlights how unclear the 'rules' around this are. And Danny, I'm sorry but how is this 'pushing it' when Mr Cutts himself praises the cre read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 8, 2008 - 11:17 am
Posted By: ciaran 204 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
We're not all the same! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 6:26 pm
Posted By: ciaran 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.97thfloor.com)
Category: Google Other
Chris over at 97th Floor makes a compelling case about Google indexing and ranking a site that seems to be clearly in violation of Google's TOS on several accounts. Intrigued? Read on.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 21, 2007 - 9:32 pm
Posted By: ciaran 407 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: News Sites
TannerC thinks this site is a popularity contest. Rand disagrees. I don't. Sort of... read more »
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