theGypsy

Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 10:12 am
Posted By: theGypsy 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: SEM Industry
| Squareoak Social Media Blog | It’s incredible the deluge of junk and spam out there originating from hack SEO and SEM service providers. If you’re a business owner or a marketing director who’s new to search engine optimization and marketing it’s read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2008 - 1:35 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Jobs Offered
Barry asks the question... Go give him an answer.

I for one wouldn't be worried about what some turd says. You Sphinners that did should meet me in a dark alley, ok? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 9:15 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
SER (supplier of juicy topics lately;0) - Does this surprise anyone? Well, we know a few things. We know Matt Cutts of Google, a very influential person at Google, has wanted Google to remove PageRank from the toolbar for a while now. We know Adam L read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 2:16 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Interestingly I was watching some threads over the weekend where peeps were losing it on a few boards... now we know...

Search Engine Round Table - I decided to wait on reporting on this thread until Monday morning, to see if things settle. In sh read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 3, 2008 - 11:04 am
Posted By: theGypsy 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Social Media
| SEO Scoop | Shortly before Marty caused a ruckus with his avatar theory post, I had embarked upon an experiment of my own. I’d been taking careful note of the “popularity” of the hot chick avatars/personas that had been sweeping the social network read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2008 - 3:55 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: Social Media
Lisa Barone via WBP - What the hell has happened to me? When did I become such a social media addict that the computer is where I turn to for advice, solace and pats on the back? I used to be an intelligent, independent woman. Then came social media read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2008 - 4:00 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
SNIP - The ethnographic method is an approach of studying a person or group of people by participating in the culture of interest while still remaining a bit of an outsider. At its core is the focus on cultural relativism, which is seeing something read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2008 - 1:49 am
Posted By: theGypsy 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Search Engine Land - here has been a lot of talk and speculation recently about eBay wanting to get rid of StumbleUpon
, but until anything happens I am not going to stop using it. With over 6 million users contributing to over 350 million stumbles read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 2:15 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
SEL - Someone’s trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent and Trademark Office, claiming to have coined the term “SEO” (for Search Engine Op read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2008 - 6:07 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
the Link Spiel - Your link marketing plan is a valuable piece of information and should only be seen by the people you contract to do your work. Don't let it become a piece of information passed around assembly line style. Protect your competitive l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 24, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: theGypsy 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
SEL - "So I audited the website, made all kinds of great SEO recommendations, and nothing. None of them got implemented. Not a single one."

Sound familiar? This story is told all too often, at search industry events, cocktail parties and around w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 17, 2008 - 12:17 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchandsocial.com)
Category: SEO
SNIP - There needs to be a massive amount of inbound links to a site for it to become one of the seo black holes. A working example of such a site is Wikipedia, who NoFollowed links and has had content pages steadily at the top of SERPs ever since. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 3:55 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 132 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 131 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 137 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 136 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 137 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 149 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 149 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 150 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 Posted By: theGypsy 150 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 150 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 150 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 149 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 151 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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