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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googleblog.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Other
A few months ago Google Sites launched exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains. Now they've opened it for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information lik read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Knowing how to charge for search engine optimisation services is the key to building a profitable agency. Keeping your clients happy and profitable should be the number 1 priority. Patrick talks about how to approach charging for SEO. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: SEO
In a move that would only shock SEOs working in 1998, a US court has deemed Meta keywords as “immaterial” as it relates to their effect on search rankings. The decision was reached during the Standard Process, Inc. v. Banks case. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Google AdSense
The idea behind the Ad Review Center is that when advertisers target your specific blog you now can see that they’re targeting it and can approve or ban and ad depending on whether you want it to appear on your site or not. This gives you more contr read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ciarannorris.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
Ciaran thinks Flickr is the key to Yahoo squeezing more money out of Microsoft:

"Where Yahoo is really ahead of the competition is with its photo (and now video) sharing site, flickr. And if they could increase the number of people paying for pre read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-news.com)
Category: Social Media
In his keynote speech for SMX Sydney, Danny Sullivan mentioned something that really resonated with me. He talked about how he sees social media marketing and SEO as reinforcing each other, like that old cartoon, the Wonder Twins where the brother a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Post by Sarah Parker of Search Engine College who talks about her experiences as a first-time conference attendee: "SMX Sydney provided me with the chance to meet several industry rock stars and to really get a feel for the search marketing industry read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Water Cooler
We now have a more appropriate anagram for SEO: the Sewage Enforcement Officer! Check the current Google SERP for "SEO Training", paying careful attention to the #3 result. Yep, you can now undertake SEO Training of the Smelly Kind. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 102 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
Is it just me, or is the SEOMoz site http://www.seomoz.org/ down? Security! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Domaining
Donna reviews a new Firefox plugin that helps us track down the million dollar domain names of the future and grab them before anyone else. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Usability
My take on Damian Conway's hilarious web site usability presentation at Webstock 2008. Includes cute kitten aversion therapy, how to use fonts as a weapon and the Grandma Usability Metric. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googleblog.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Other
Google's Gadget Maker has just rolled out in 42 languages. The Gadget Maker is a feature of iGoogle allowing you to create a personalized gadget with just a few clicks and no programming skills. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitepronews.com)
Category: Google
Part 2 of presentation coverage of Google's Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning, as he explains how Google uses science to develop more precise search techniques. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitepronews.com)
Category: Google
Google's Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning, explains how Google uses science to develop more precise search techniques. Fascinating stuff! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: SEO
Help! I’ve had my Hightower pottery website for about 4 years. On a good day I may get 20 hits and that’s during the holidays. Normally I get between 0-10 hits a day. What am I doing wrong? Is it a content issue? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jensense.com)
Category: Google AdSense
If you have been wanting to run an ad server for testing AdSense or simply to just better manage your ad inventory and available placements, you are in luck. Google has launched their new Ad Manager platform, a hosted ad management solution - free read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
For the past 3 months my site would appear on page 1 of Yahoo when my “girly party” or “girly party” was typed into the search engine. Recently I’ve noticed that I don’t even appear in the top 10 pages. How could this have happened? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: SEO
Bill got a silly grin on his face when he saw the SERPs. He said it’s kinda cool that his girlfriend ranks #8 for "learning how to make love." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 139 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitepronews.com)
Category: SEO
I didn't think it was possible to outline SEO in 45 minutes. But in her presentation for Webstock 2008, Jill Whalen proved me wrong. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Good Books New Zealand is a new not-for-profit startup that is trying to fight poverty in a very unique way. They call themselves the online bookstore with a conscience, because they plan to donate 100 percent of profits from their book sales to Oxf read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 180 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-news.com)
Category: SEO
Jaan takes webmasters through a basic checklist on how to SEO a web site: "Sure Do It Yourself SEO can seem very daunting at first sight, but once you put together a plan of SEO action steps for yourself it can be much easier than you think. One thi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 186 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Blogging
In her travels throughout the blogosphere today, our fearless Girl Wonder Kim documents her favorite "no nonsense" blog posts from Debra, Aaron, Danielle and Marty, plus one she thinks is complete nonsense. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 187 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Blogging
I was starting to despair that I’d never see much benefit from social media, despite my consistent participation. But this morning changed all that. You see, this morning, somebody found my blog post Dumbass of the Week: the Call Center Cow and deci read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 191 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
Looks like Jill has updated her site design this week (HighRankings.com) Looks great! I like the way the color changes for different pages. Very Web 2.0. Was the re-design a New Year's resolution Jill? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pandia.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Some of Pandia's regular readers may have noticed some interesting links to DVDs, MP3 files and various pharmaceutical products in two of their blog posts this week: "Indeed, we were hacked. How, we do not know, but we are definitely taking measure read more »
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