theGypsy

Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 3:55 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://leftthebox.com)
Category: Blogging
A great post on getting up and running with a Blog for the uninitiated. While it's certainly for the noob, a good article to pass on to peeps in need.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 1:02 am
Posted By: theGypsy 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialtimes.com)
Category: Social Media
The Social Times » What is social discovery exactly? Well social discovery is the usage of social tools to find relevant content. A social tool is a system which enables the sharing of content with other users. That content can be as simple as the a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 2:01 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
The Link Spiel: That old saying "it's not what you say, it's how you say it" is spot on in this situation. If you send out the old "swap with me for PageRank" type letter you'll find lower results than if you offer an incentive to act and develop yo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 10:49 am
Posted By: theGypsy 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
A great little guest post on SD from Mark Hayward - I noticed the words 'Hell' and $hit in my reader... knew it had to be a guest post...lol read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 3:04 am
Posted By: theGypsy 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Some interesting forward thinking from the folks at Yahoo as translated by the one and only Bill Slawski

SEO by the Sea - With an increase in recent years of social sites that contain lists of sites or songs or videos, search engines may be cons read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 10:38 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sucomments.com)
Category: Networking
This is part three of a GREAT series on Plurk - this edition is one cliques, but I suggest reading Part I and II as well - I have been using cliques increasingly and they have a value... Check your Privates!! (lol) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 6:38 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
Wiep - The most important factors of a successful campaign, however, are planning and dedication. If you can manage to think one step ahead, you’ll manage to stay ahead of your competition as well. And sure, you might have success with something tha read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 4:32 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanseodesign.com)
Category: SEO
Steven Bradley (aka VanGogh) Holy optimization Batman! Are search geeks no longer relevant in the world of SEO? Nothing of the sort my caped companion in ranking. Search geeks are still highly relevant and likely will be as long as search engines ex read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 1:11 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I invite you all to hop on over to Donna's blog, grab a piece of cake and chat it up in the comments - it's a party after all.

MODS - this is a dupe... please nuke it ;0) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Search Engine Land - So what am I trying to accomplish with this article? Honestly, I would really like the search industry to re-evaluate what they consider to be advanced SEO skills. I do not believe that advanced SEO skills are necessarily "black read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: theGypsy 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://plurkable.com)
Category: Networking
For those that are playing in PlurkWorld here are some toys and tools to start broadening your experience. I haven't played with them all much yet, so do share any experiences here if you could... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 10:28 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Social Media
A great rant from Li towards the social media spammers... Does SMM = Social Spamming? Or is it about building relationships?

Search Marketing Gurus - Along with that, I was just flabbergasted at a submission on Sphinn about gaming Twitter for " read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 9:50 am
Posted By: theGypsy 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Blogging
Tis' time for a story; Set in a far, far away land. So, snuggle up get cosy and I'll tell you how being a serial blogger has been the most financially rewarding move I have ever made.

Guest Post from Paul Steven read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 7:35 am
Posted By: theGypsy 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chris-hooley.com)
Category: Water Cooler
In preparation for the greatly anticipated (tongue firmly planted in cheek) - SEO Superlatives Contest - the committee members have been announced. Leave nominations in this thread for consideration

Some of the hardware up for grabs include;

S read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 22, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vanseodesign.com)
Category: SEO
Guest post from James Duthie - at TheVanBlog this time out - seems he's becomming quite a Gypsy himself!

SNIP - Riddle me this… If I asked you to imagine a picture of a stereotypical SEO what would they look like…? Glasses, buck teeth, bald, badl read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: theGypsy 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
A nice stats round up from Danny

Search Engine Land - Ouch. Again, Google is stomping on everyone else in terms of number of searches it handles (the scale shows billions of searches handled per month). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: theGypsy 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://plurkable.com)
Category: Networking
Love it, hate it or indifference; Karma is talked about more than enough - some perspective on the road to Nirvana

- Plurkable - Now, real quick, I would like to say that I think the ALGO is good for new Plurkers, but I think it stinks for more e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 3:34 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
| Collective Thoughts | Today, we’re going to have a little fun with it. We’re going to take the web 1.0 metric of time on site and go a little more touchy feely with it for a web 2.0 world. Trust me, this will be fun. Here is a list of my top 10 fa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:42 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Google SEO
Dazzlin D - Don’t get me wrong. I know that “the world” (meaning the government and the marketing world, specifically) has tons of information on all of us, and I don’t really spend time worrying about trying to keep much of anything private. Still, read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 5:56 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gonzo-seo.com)
Category: Water Cooler
| Gonzo SEO | Put on your white hat or black hat and get back to marketing! If you don’t like the way something is, be the leader and take the steps to fight back. It’s going to be hard, and it would be a lot easier to just write about it – but noth read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 6:28 am
Posted By: theGypsy 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Water Cooler
DaveN - Now call me cynical but with all this false stories and linkbait, can we trust you Matt :O - ... at the moment it’s just a holding page on pair, so my guess it a WP hack again seeing loads of that or a Pair attack.

theGypsy - in the end read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 5:27 am
Posted By: theGypsy 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Networking
Funny that this quote/title was first spotted (for me at least) on Plurk... (dats 2 in one day Li!! woot)

Search Gurus - Twitter, you just got funding. Twitter, you really need to wake up and realize, people will go where the conversations are h read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://plurkable.com)
Category: Networking
Kinda interesting as I was just whining about the double edged sword that is *Karma* - nice to see some activity from the developers

Plurkable - Many dedicated plurkers will attest the Karma system is cool but at the moment it basically just rewa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 12:35 am
Posted By: theGypsy 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Water Cooler
James, James, James my bud... what have U been drinking this weekend? .... well, some fun on a Monday morning.

| Online Marketing Banter | Perhaps looking to avoid the fallout from the money.co.uk linkbait scandal, rumours are rife that Lyndon h read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 4:36 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
Love him or hate him.... MM does make some damn fine posts and I agree with much of this!!

- SEO Theory and Analysis Blog - Do people really think that sneaky redirects and buying links are advanced search engine optimization? What utter crap and read more »
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