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Avatar Went Hot: June 15, 2008 - 11:35 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
BlackHat SEO has a reputation, and it’s usually not a good one. Case in point: the recent SMX Advanced conference in Seattle apparently had a lot of blackhat emphasis this year, much to the shock and horror of some. But is it really as evil and bad read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 6:52 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Domaining
At SMX yesterday Shoemoney and others talked about buying expired or established domains for SEO. But how do you know if those domains have value? Annie Smarty looks at ways to give a domain a background check to make sure it passes the mustard. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 2, 2008 - 8:06 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty looks at four free tools for tracking the anchor text used in your backlinks, and the inbound links to your competition. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 7:18 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
With today’s high Internet connection rates webmasters don’t think they should bother much about their web page size and load time. Still this parameter remains essential both for SEO and usability and these tools will help you trim down your page s read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 7:15 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Most webmasters don’t see any difference between image alt text and title mostly keeping them the same. Here is some in depth information from Annie Smarty on the differences between an image Alt attribute and an image title and standard recommendat read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 14, 2008 - 7:00 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Keyword research block got you down? Here's 5 tools to help you brainstorm for new unique keywords in your and neighboring niches. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 12, 2008 - 5:46 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Networking
Sphinn is made up search engine marketers. Search engine marketers are search engine marketers, They know PPC, they know SEO, they know how to get links to sites. Search engine marketers, the majority of Sphinn users, are not social networking exper read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 22, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Here is an in depth look at three backlink checkers which do much more than just report on Yahoo Backlinks, they help categorize and organize backlinks based on anchor text, site age, whois info and much much more. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
BOTW snagged over 30 ex-DMOZ original editors as their newest group of employees, affectionately dubbed "The Nerd Herd" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 27, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 103 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
In an effort to raise energy awareness, Google Israel has issued a black out for the day; serving a black screen with white letters instead of an all white screen with black letters. The results pages however, are still in classic Google white. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 4:11 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
When launching a new website its best to think SEO from the beginning, but in some situations, you're going to want to cast SEO and search engines aside for core website marketing. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 1:56 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
If you are commenting in blogs as a part of your link building strategy, look to the spam filtering system of the SpamKarma WP Plugin for red flags which the search engines are probably also using to identify comment spam. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 10, 2008 - 1:43 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Monitoring Google rankings you with your most important SEO campaign challenges. By tracking your targeted keyword search engine results, you will:

* learn new emerging SEO techniques;
* keep track of your well established competitors;
* time read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 8:52 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ericlander.com)
Category: Local & Maps
For the first time many have witnessed, Google is now serving unverified local listings in its blended local result plus boxes. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 11, 2008 - 2:48 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 148 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Does using NoFollow for internal navigation and outbound linking expose your site to search engine spam teams to look deeper into your internal practices? Eric feels that nofollow with the purpose of controlling the flow of links or link juice is a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 11, 2008 - 7:47 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 180 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
Yahoo is testing the serving of images within their sponsored search results by placing them within their Yahoo Directory listings. Many third party publishers use this technique to enhnace click thru, funny to see Yahoo doing the same. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 9:54 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Domaining
Can I register a .edu domain? Are the links more valuable? Why are some just spam pages? Julie Kent dishes out the answers to these questions on .edu domains. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 6, 2007 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 215 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
The rules and guidance on how to add your content & links to Wikipedia without spamming it, and make that content stick. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2007 - 9:59 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 217 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Keyword research is a dynamic practice which can not be defined by one research product or one report. Here are some tips on keeping keyword research up to date and relevant for paid search and organic SEO efforts. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2007 - 2:07 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 238 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
PageRank & paid links got you down? Here are 10 ways to diversify your site's monetization strategy so your not so dependent upon link advertising (or any one form of advertising for that matter). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2007 - 1:46 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 239 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Great article by Miles on making it in the SEO community and sticking out from the crowd, which can bring in better leads, referrals and clients. Along with a major list of blogs and forums to read and contibute to. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2007 - 8:32 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
Matt Cutts on last week's Google Toolbar PageRank Changes : "The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding PageRank selling and the forward links of sites. So paid links that pass PageRank would affect o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 26, 2007 - 2:22 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 256 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Eric Lander has put together a nice video of Google serving irrelevant advertising in AdWords which may be putting advertisers at risk by costing them money and decreasing their quality score. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 18, 2007 - 2:42 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Is Wikipedia sharing a spammer blacklist with Yahoo and Google? Search Marketer and Wikipedia volunteer Jonathan Hochman says yes. And what makes someone a Wikipedia spammer? Content? Automated Links? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2007 - 12:17 pm
Posted By: lorenbaker 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Social Media
Eric Lander reviews the Linkbait - Chumming for Traffic on Social Media Sites session at SMX Social which featured tips from Rebecca Kelley, Brent Csutoras and Cameron Olthuis. read more »
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