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Looking for August Information on: U.S. search engine rankings, online advertising spending predictions, Search % of total online ad spending, Top 10 industry search terms, the top 10 fast moving search terms, or the average search CPC data by categ read more »
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Bill Macaitis is the SVP of Online Marketing for Fox Interactive Media (FIM) which runs a network of entertainment sites which include MySpace, Fox Sports, IGN, Photobucket, AskMen, Rotten Tomatoes and American Idol, GameSpy, Scout and Flektor offer read more »
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A new survey from ClipBlast! asked 1000 online consumers if they had a preferred method for finding video content on the Web.Among the 530 respondents who had a definite opinion:

28% Discovery
27% Recommendations from friends
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If you don't want images included on your page to appear in Google, you can use the noimageindex value in the head portion of your HTML page, as shown below (note this value is not new – quite the opposite, it's been around for years – though it's o read more »
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On TweeterBoard - http://tweeterboard.com/ - From the Web Strategist Blog:

"I’ve been watching the various twitter ranking, measuring, mashups appear, and most have little utility (other than some of the search tools). I’m pleased to finally ru read more »
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"Digg The Candidates is a new area on Digg that allows you to see what US presidential candidates are digging and doing on Digg. That's right, you can check out what Barack Obama (with about 3,200 Digg friends) and Ron Paul (with about 6,000 friends read more »
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From the article:

"Anne Wojcicki wife of Sergey Brin who is in charge of is set to bring the company live this week. Here are the details via techcrunch: 23andMe will offer a genetic screening service for $999. In return you will be told your gen read more »
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"Yahoo Mail will also be extended to display other information about your friends as well. This can be a link to a profile page, and also what Yahoo calls “vitality” –- updated information much like the news feed on Facebook. There could also be sim read more »
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David Berkowitz of 360i takes the New FaceBook Targeted Ads for a spin and asks the users who are targeted by his ad to reply on his blog.

Ad Copy:
Subject: 1984 Fan, how's this ad?
Body: you're being targeted as a fan of 1984. what do you thin read more »
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When an Engineer showed me Microsoft Silverlight a few months ago, I had an "Ohh, cool" moment. So now that I see they are using that technology to allow people to create Mash-ups and Widgets, I'm even more excited.

From the Popfly site - http:/ read more »
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"Every major search engine has launched some form of blended search results. Images, news, video and local information is now being delivered in one easy-to-use and sometimes personalized interface. The "new and improved" search dynamic is aimed at read more »
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Laura Lippay of Yahoo! and Cindy Turrietta of EMarketing Talk Show, are interviewed.

BTW: Shouldn't Laura be writing marriage vows instead of doing interviews? ;) read more »
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While doing a search today, I noticed that Google link to "Search Within Results" in the footer nav.

Screenshot of the SERP:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1553968070&size=l

When you select this, you are taken to a page with the foll read more »
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"Crisis Communications 2.0 will have a plan, ready to go, that combines traditional and social activity that each place people at the center of the discussion - the rest are just the tools to execute. But nothing can go live without first listening read more »
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Since the Women of SEO are having a lunch... so are the boys... unofficially :

"Speaking of lunch, last year Bill Slawski, Dave Zuls, Carsten & I had a nice lunch at The Taqueria, which was a block or two from the Conference Hall, and if anyone’s read more »
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Tired of bad Snippets? DaveN's shows us his method of Snippet Re-Writing using SEOMoz as an example. read more »
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"This post is a focus on the very front end of the adoption curve, long before the masses come, there’s many different groups inside of the “early adopter” persona. There’s been many extensive studies on the adoption curve and the different personas read more »
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A little Friday Fun from Lauren Weinstein's Blog:

"I am the very model of a modern major Googler,
We're going to organize the world's information to be sure.
The PageRank secrets that I know there's no way that I will expose,
Not even if they read more »
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"When it comes to SEM, certainly the SEO part of it specifically, probably the most common pop culture reference made in association is that of George Lucas’s Star Wars saga.... White Hat = Jedi, Black Hat = Sith, & Traffic = The Force."

I absolu read more »
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Ok, as someone who has not updated their blog since December(?), I should not be complaining about the lack of regularly updated SEO podcasts; but I will anyway.

What the heck! Can a girl get her regular fix of SEO news again? I need my regular read more »
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Dear God,

It's me Natasha. I just finished reading Sphinn for the last hour, and I'm Sphunn out on stories about Sphinn being Sphunn (now say that 5x fast). At least 30% (guesstimate) of the stories I saw here were about Sphinn; and I can't tak read more »
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