scottclark

Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 3:25 am
Posted By: scottclark 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Other Social Media
iEntry (Webpronews) fires up a categorized twitter directory with over 300,000 Twitter users. An Alpha launch, it looks pretty good from the get-go.

I just hope that Twitter recovers from its current technical troubles in time to make all of th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 3:27 am
Posted By: scottclark 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts posts lots of new docs, links about IP delivery/geolocation/cloaking, Nofollow documentation, Better definition for doorway pages, Robots.txt. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 7:00 pm
Posted By: scottclark 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google AdWords
A Florida court made judgment that requires including negative keywords in search advertising to ensure broad match does not include their trademarked term. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 26, 2008 - 8:52 am
Posted By: scottclark 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdWords
This changes things for some adwords advertisers who were struggling with their messages. I'm going to be assembling vids in expectation of this change! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 8:14 am
Posted By: scottclark 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEO
A thoughtful write up about the dynamics between SEO activities, online PR, Journalism, and social media. SEO and online PR w/Social media are not good candidates for immediate traffic, leads and sales - but as Lee's writeup outlines - there are di read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 6:22 am
Posted By: scottclark 216 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
While brochure sites and static sites make up a huge percent of all sites out there there is evidence they are taking on new life as the colorful palette of social media offers new options. An injection of renewed interest, the functions and featur read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 1, 2008 - 8:00 pm
Posted By: scottclark 222 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
A great overview of gender-preference issues of web customers and what web designers and marketers need to remember. Color and design preferences are affected by a variety of factors other than gender including age, personal bias, and culture. Wom read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 27, 2008 - 6:28 am
Posted By: scottclark 224 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Social Media
Esteban Panzera over at Nowsourcing posts a terrific run-down of the Town Hall Meeting last night. If you missed it, this will bring you up to date! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 31, 2008 - 10:57 am
Posted By: scottclark 250 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Lisa talks about the side effects from the launch of Sphinn, both for Search Engine Land and the search engine optimization community as a whole. SearchCap loses traffic. Comments are down for sphunn entries. Less people are visiting blogs directly. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 9:28 am
Posted By: scottclark 256 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google
Michael's call to arms digs into the issue of how Google's influence and policies affect the future of monetized web properties in a "top-down, dictatorial manner." Is Google scaring people into a particular way of doing business that benefits Goog read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 23, 2008 - 5:39 pm
Posted By: scottclark 260 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pcworld.com)
Category: Water Cooler
At its current growth rate, China will become the world's top Internet market sometime in the next few months.

The implication for web marketers and entrepreneurs is clear. If you want to tap into the world's largest consumer base, you better st read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 5, 2008 - 8:11 am
Posted By: scottclark 279 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Sphinn time-stamps things when you START a submission rather than when you finish. But sometimes I get interrupted during the submit (or I forget that last bloody "confirm" click) and my submits end up starting halfway down the "what's new" page.
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Avatar Went Hot: January 1, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: scottclark 281 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://online.wsj.com)
Category: Water Cooler
The chief financial officer of Chinese search engine Baidu.com has died after an accident while on vacation in China, the company said. Baidu.com is the dominant search engine in China, with a 60.7% market share, according to research firm Analysys read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 24, 2007 - 8:52 am
Posted By: scottclark 290 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Joe Barton's 24 Privacy Questions. Google's now replied to the letter with a 19-page response with answers. Data retention, personal data, geolocation, anonymousization of IP addresses, and behavioral search are all included. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 22, 2007 - 7:33 am
Posted By: scottclark 291 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
If you're new to the field you'll face an uphill battle against floods of incorrect information being put out by inexperienced people anxious to make their mark in a saturated SEO community. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 17, 2007 - 10:24 pm
Posted By: scottclark 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sethgodin.typepad.com)
Category: Google Other
Seth talks about the ups and downs of having Google create something that mimics your business model, and what it means for those plans.

It turns out to be good news, he says, as it legitimizes the original idea and reduces the friction of growth read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 15, 2007 - 7:12 am
Posted By: scottclark 298 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
Graywolf Asks: You buy another website/domain with link equity and excellent SERP representation, but you don't want to run two separate sites. Or you add a new TLD to your site. And now you'd like to consolidate them in Google's good graces

Bef read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 6:44 am
Posted By: scottclark 301 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
The reason I write this is that a story on Mixx from my website was receiving votes even while the page was offline. Users were voting for an article they didn't/couldn't read.

Do you vote without reading?
Do you cast votes for people you like read more »
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