Sebastian

Avatar Went Hot: February 1, 2008 - 7:41 am
Posted By: SexySEO 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"My somewhat sarcastic post “Avoiding the well known #4 penalty“, where I joked about a possible Google #6 filter and criticized the SEO/Webmaster community for invalid methods of dealing with SERP anomalies, reads like “Aaron Wall is a clueless dou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 7:58 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
Whatever you thought it was, Google is in the process of removing it. Sebastian has the scoop on his blog ... Matt Cutts said it wasn't a filter, but rather a unexpected by-product by the sound of it. In any case, the FIX should be rolled out over t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 27, 2008 - 6:12 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
When link building, it's important to not only know WHAT is/isn't allowed, but it's important to know WHY, and how to avoid them. This is a guide to the common penalizations within Google, how they're detected, and how to make sure your own site doe read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 164 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Defining custom error pages is a convenient way to show users a friendly page when they encounter an HTTP error such as a 404 Not Found, or a 500 Server Error. Unfortunately ASP.NET handles custom error pages by responding with a 302 Temporary redir read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted By: aimClear 165 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Sebastian’s TWISTED sense of humor...priceless. BTW, I knew nothing about this fictitious panel discussion with Danny, Barry W, and some red lobster. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SamFreedom 167 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Google SEO
How did this get overlooked? I never realized the value of this until I noticed my site getting 1000s of hits monthly from one particular image! DoshDosh has 19 awesome, incredible tips on how to help make that happen for YOU! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 23, 2008 - 8:17 am
Posted By: aimClear 167 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Other
SEOBook writes: "My site was stuck ranking at #6 in Google for a lot of keywords...on page optimization for it was done years ago. Realizing the issue might have been on-site as much as off-site I decided to tweak it a bit..." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: scottclark 168 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.w3.org)
Category: Other Online Marketing
HTML 5 A major revision of the markup language now has an official draft published by representatives from W3C Members ACCESS, AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera.

Direct URL to draft
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5- read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 7:43 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Ok it is a cute play on words I admit... I couldn't resist. And of course Sebs post has all the makings of a GB.

Sebastian's Pamphlets - Dealing with spamming content thieves / plagiarists -- Hey, outing content thieves is way more fun than filin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 5:14 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 173 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: SEO
Sebastian's next in the series on Robots Exclusion protocol. Another great post by Sebastian. Who knew there was so much to know? So educate yourself to prepare for some major changes afoot.

Great post! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 6:20 am
Posted By: annie7 173 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Tips & Tools
Very useful post on robots by Sebastian - must read! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.tellinya.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
My previous scraping algo used to get P and DIV tags and take text from them. It was simple, basic and outcome was short and not great. Not everyone uses paragraphs to contain their text slices so had to find an alternative to scrape less and get mo read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 10, 2008 - 7:12 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 180 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Sebastian is an expert on the technical side of SEO, though sometimes his more in depth posts tend to challenge the neural nodes of accomplished experts.
Shaun grabbed his ear, and in this entertaining and educational interview they go into some of read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 31, 2007 - 8:17 am
Posted By: yeepage 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEM
Heres some of the top influencing SEM sites on the net for 2007 read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 29, 2007 - 3:41 am
Posted By: danzarrella 193 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://votrs.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Votrs.com is a URL shortening service that makes it easier for your friends to vote for stories on your favorite social sites. Put in the URL of a page you think will do well in social media, select the ones you think it will do best on, and Votrs w read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 28, 2007 - 8:36 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 193 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Vote for those special blogs that made your 2007 a little brighter in SEJ's 3rd annual awards... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 28, 2007 - 10:15 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 193 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jordankasteler.com)
Category: SEM Industry
There are many great people who make the Search Engine Optimization industry a great place. There are so many honorable mentions I’d feel guilty listing my allegiance to them in fear I’d leave someone out. From my perspective, there’s three individu read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 20, 2007 - 10:23 pm
Posted By: earlpearl 201 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Blogging
This is your opportunity to contribute. You submit the blog entries for the past year that tickled your fancy, left you totally confused, or you thought were just pure nuts. Last we heard the judges have not agreed to be totally objective. LOL read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 20, 2007 - 5:18 pm
Posted By: SEMSpot 201 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Blogging
If your Technorati reputation factor sucks ass then read on, otherwise happily skip this post. Technorati calculates a blog’s reputation based on its link popularity, counting blogroll links from the linking blogs main pages as well as links within read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 20, 2007 - 5:47 pm
Posted By: IncrediBILL 202 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hybrid6.com)
Category: Blogging
Webgeek provides some very simple steps to improve your Technorati authority which should result in increased visibility and traffic. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 8:12 am
Posted By: HamletBatista 210 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joostdevalk.nl)
Category: Google SEO
I just received this SPAM from Joost :-)

"Most of you probably know my Greasemonkey script for Google Webmaster
Tools, that shows you the anchor text of that backlink, and the PR of
the page that link is on. I have now made that same script wor read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 30, 2007 - 9:03 am
Posted By: toddmintz 222 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Certainly news to me. Implications are pretty big because though MSN will likely find, spider & index the new site, the new site won't get any credit for the work done on the old site.

Scott Hendison asks why this is...I confess that I can't thi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2007 - 3:53 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: SEO
A smart robots.txt logs crawler requests, maintains the crawler IP list, serves gibberish to nosy users, helps identifying new crawlers, is lean and easy to validate because it comes with crawler directives for the requesting search engine only.

read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Sebastian 258 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
Decoding Google's toolbar broadcast:

Does Google use toolbar PR as a "change your stuff or find yourself kicked out soon" message?

Deducting toolbar PR lowers the prices, will less toolbar PR lower the amount of link purchases?

Toolbar PR read more »
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