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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoish.com)
Category: Social Media
Pat with a great article: " I don’t believe Google is just fighting for YouTube revenue.

I believe Google is fighting for an entire new ad revenue sector and for the survival of YouTube’s dominance.

Google allowed an entire internet advertisin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google
Aaron's take on the whole "We swear, this deal with Yahoo won't allow us to raise prices for advertisers" comment to the DOJ.
Typically cynical, but typically a great read :)

SEObook: "Aspects of that statement are categorically untrue, perhaps read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smartcompany.com.au)
Category: Google
Pretty interesting news for anyone involved in the travel industry and local SEO: Expedia has signed a deal with Google Maps which will see it's hotel inventory and attractions listed on G Maps. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media
Talk about link baiting... Mike Arrington is suing Facebook for $25 Million for their advertising product’s incorporation of his image.






Ps. I think this might have been posted a day early :P read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 207 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
So I just thought I would drop a quick line and get a feel for who else here will be headed to SMX Sydney? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.calacanis.com)
Category: Google
Heh. Has no one submitted this yet, purely because it's a JC post? Still, I think it's worth a read... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
A great post from Michael Martinez, discussing three contemporary SEO posts... 2 right, and 1 flat-out wrong (in MM's opinion).
Also touches on Shari's recent "no-follow this piece of advice" post. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 224 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
Ok... just a quick question, but is anyone else seeing any MAJOR fluctuations in the TBPR of their stable of sites? Some of mine are jumping up and down for no apparent reason... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 224 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.networkworld.com)
Category: Domaining
Just a bit of a follow-up submission here, regarding the numerous posts on Network Solutions and their nefarious ways last month (ish):

"This one was as predictable as lawsuits ever get: A Los Angeles firm this afternoon has announced a class act read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Search Marketing
As always... a great post from Aaron.

"Search engineers can't stop everything, but by the time a technique is cheaply and reliably outsourced the value has already been diminished or will soon become worthless.

* lower cost and automation read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
"So Andy Beard called me out yesterday on the subject of whether SEO Theory is really better indexed than most SEO blogs. He resorted to a smoke-and-mirror tactic of implying that articles on SEO Theory are not indexed because some date archive page read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 256 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: News Sites
Interesting post from MA dealing with traditional media losing out to online media.
"When the business model of “real journalism” fails, what should society do in response? When things are considered important, but can’t be supported with a busines read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 257 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Does anyone else ever have a problem when messaging your friends on Sphinn?
Sometimes, there won't be a problem. But the majority of the time when I try to send messages through, it will come back with "There was an error. Error number 1."

Is th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 257 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoegghead.com)
Category: Social Media
"When myspace decided to protect your 14 year old daughter from the "Army of Pedophiles," they initially only prevented level "1." from being viewed. So if a user contrived a method to guess or derive the latter type of URL, nothing stopped that fro read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 258 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
Is it just me, or does it look like Google has reshuffled the options under their "more" drop down section on a search? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.scoreboard-media.com)
Category: Water Cooler
A great inspirational post from Brian over at Scoreboard Media:
"I don’t know about y’all, but I’m sick and tired of this “make money online” ecosystem that is monopolizing the online marketing blogosphere. I spent some time this weekend catching read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 265 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google AdSense
"What makes Proximic different is that it does not come up with contextual matches based on keyword search like Google or Yahoo would. It doesn’t use semantic or statistical methods either to figure out what a page is about. “Semantic systems are no read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 270 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
"If you’re in the real estate business one of the best things you can do for yourself is to pick a few queries related to the care and feeding of bears and watch them.

If you spend most of your search results page analysis time looking at your ow read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 270 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joostdevalk.nl)
Category: SEO
Joost releases another great Wordpress plugin:
"It was actually a plugin requested by Shoemoney, who wanted to make the scrapers work for him too, by getting some more backlinks from them. I thought it was a great idea, and this is actually quite a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 271 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: Link Building
"Links are not THAT important to SEO. If you find yourself agonizing over how to build links to your Web site, you’re not engaged in search engine optimization.

I’ve said that many times before. Some people are struggling with their search placem read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 272 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Google
Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, the world's largest consumer electronics maker, has teamed up with Google Inc and YouTube to commercialize flat panel television sets that allow users to access and view videos online, the Nikkei reported o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 278 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google
I know, I know... yet another?
But could Rick Skrenta (who created the first computer virus [Elk Cloner], co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix) be the person to take on Google? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 293 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
A jumbled post from Jeremy today, but the bit that made me smile? Microsoft has stepped up to the plate after Yahoo closed it's doors on Shoemoney:
"I got pinged a while back from Microsoft people that they were firing up a affiliate program. Then read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 294 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
Can't get enough of Michael Martinez? Then check out Seo Theory's most popular posts by month (with links to each post):

"January 2007 - What Does Google Tell You About Your Site?.

February 2007 - Yesteryday’s SEO advice at today’s prices.

read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Burgo 298 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google
All John wants for Christmas is a competitive search engine to rival Google...
"And since we all know doorway pages are the defacto standard for capturing an audience’s attention (they work, consumers like them, they are affordable and flexible), i read more »
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