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Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Ask.com
Lisa Barone writes "Oh my poor disgraced Ask.com bag. I wish I could rescue you from the back of my closet but I still can't bring myself to look at you.

I didn't intend to blog about the recent phone call I had with Ask CEO Jim Safka and the PR read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: martinbowling 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cartoonbarry.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Barry Schwartz writes "Many of you already saw the article from the Wall Street Journal named Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan.

If not, in short it says, the company that manages the domain names, ICANN, said they will be offering read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 9:02 am
Posted By: martinbowling 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Social Media
Lisa Barone writes "Li Evans had a stellar post over at SEM Clubhouse entitled What Is Social Media's Purpose? Honestly, It's Not About Links. Li's post was inspired by some of the social media advice that was presented at last week's SES Toronto th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 10:29 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEO
Last year, we looked at the impacts, if any, of negative SEO on websites, a discussion which arose from a Forbes article on the saboteurs of search. One year later, we're still discussing the consequences and seeing if negative SEO is still possible read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 21, 2008 - 8:18 am
Posted By: martinbowling 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
As I watch search marketers often continue to obsess about things like PageRank, I wanted to do a personal post / wake-up call related to our SMX Local & Mobile Search Marketing show happening next month in San Francisco, July 24-25. Because for all read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 21, 2008 - 7:49 am
Posted By: martinbowling 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Michael Gray writes "Today Google released an new feature that gives away traffic stats and keywords for most websites on the internet. However what everyone failed to notice is that Google laid everyone else bare, naked and exposed but kept their o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Link Building
Jennifer Laycock writes "When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there's a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder how read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 2:38 am
Posted By: martinbowling 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Ron Tovbin writes "Let’s start with the an overview of the basics. When you go to a web page, say, cnn.com , there is a lot going on behind the scenes to make that page show up in your browser. Remember, before anything can happen, a TCP/IP connecti read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 8:54 am
Posted By: martinbowling 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Social Media
David Wallace writes "Besides just hoping that Twitter runs consistently without experiencing outages all the time, there are a few things I would love to see the micro-blogging service add that would make the Twitter even more useful than it alread read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 14, 2008 - 4:52 am
Posted By: martinbowling 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Search Marketing
Patrick Altoft writes "What the hell does Lyndon Antcliff Know about Linkbait

Lyndon Antcliff has become one of the most notorious linkbait experts after a recent high profile project involving a hoax story was publicly “outed”.

The fallout fr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 10:02 am
Posted By: martinbowling 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Brian Carter writes "Previously a fashion choice made only by engineers and MIT students, graph paper shirts are now all the rage in the hot, young, explosive search marketing industry. Coincidence? I think not." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 12:18 am
Posted By: martinbowling 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Search Marketing
Rishil writes "As I have often stated, I work with many small clients, especially in the medical field. There are few problems associated with this market, none of them unique, but they're a pain to deal with for the revenue that you make on taking read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 1, 2008 - 3:51 am
Posted By: martinbowling 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Blogging
Jennifer Laycock writes "I've read a lot of posts lately tearing down the public relations industry for what a poor job they do when pitching bloggers. I've also read (and written) quite a few posts about what a terrible job companies do relating to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 9:53 am
Posted By: martinbowling 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Social Media
Brian Wallace writes "Today, I gave a social media presentation for the American Marketing Association, Louisville’s monthly seminar. There was a great backdrop at the University Club, part of the University of Louisville where attendance was in upw read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 9:02 am
Posted By: martinbowling 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Social Media
Sometimes as global audiences we get inundated with "causes" that we ignore those "Donate" buttons because we see them over and over again. Unfortunately for Non-Profits, the offline blindness they have to overcome has now really become the same is read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 8:37 am
Posted By: martinbowling 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://danzarrella.com)
Category: Social Media
Dan Zarrella writes "I’d like to debunk a myth that has gone on, rampant and unchallenged in marketing circles, especially viral and social marketing, for some time now, but first I feel a few caveats are in order." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2008 - 10:01 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: Paid Search
Dave Synder writes "I had an epiphany while working on a site yesteray, and as most lessons come from life, I thought I might as well turn it into a blog post.

The reality of SEM is that creating PPC accounts that yield a high ROI can often be mo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2008 - 11:02 am
Posted By: martinbowling 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Loren Baker Recently I was contacted by a site owner who wanted to know why their site is not ranking highly on Google for certain terms, despite years of building relevant and valuable links, and wanted some tips on building better links. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 3:16 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Loren Barker writes "SMX Advanced is right around the corner and if you are still thinking of attending the intimate search conference and learning everything you can from the masterminds of the search marketing industry; and have not yet registered read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 1:36 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Link Building
Melanie Nathan writes "This post is a follow up to my creating and managing your link campaign article.

These are not techniques for gaining natural links rather they are methods of contacting other sites about your business and getting them to l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 11:16 am
Posted By: martinbowling 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copybrighter.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Brett Borders writes "When negative or unflattering information about you or your company appears in the search engines, it's easy to panic. But before you rush to make a slew of new pages and profiles, you should be aware there is a more effective read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 26, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: martinbowling 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Link Building
lyndoman writes "As long as Google uses links to a website to help it rank its search results, people will develop content to attract links. We know that when trying to rank for a competitive keyword things can get a little dirty in the SERPS. Peopl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 10:52 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://broadcasting-brain.com)
Category: Social Media
Mark Dykeman writes "Social media used to carry a lot of talk about social networking apps Facebook, and MySpace before that.Twitter started to catch on in 2007 and became a potentially indispensible (although not irreplaceable) communication channe read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 11:39 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Social Media
Marty from aimClear writes "One person’s defensive reputation management maneuver is another’s ghastly crises. In search marketing blogs and communities, social media reputation management experts inadvertently teach losers to build nightmarish nucl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 3:01 am
Posted By: martinbowling 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEO
A few weeks ago Tim Nash started an experiment with two of his clients on ways he might increase click throughs in the SERPs. well here is his first batch of results. And the results, might surprise you! read more »
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