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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 168 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
Has anyone else seen this? I know I've only been gone for a week on vacation, but I thought maybe I missed a rollout of this from Google. After returning to the office and playing the catch up game, I noticed in Google that when I came to a search read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 371 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com)
Category: Blogging
Skellie over at Daily Blog Tips does a fantastic job assembling 9 tips you can use to develop long-term success with you blog. We sometimes lose focus with our blogging, much less our long-term strategy for progress. This post will get you back on read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 385 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Arnold Zafra over at Search Engine Journal informs us that Live Search has released their webmaster tools to the public in beta. Now that it's available, is it meeting everyone's expectations? Does it hold a torch next to Google's Webmaster Tools read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 387 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://publications.mediapost.com)
Category: Social Media
Mark Walsh at MediaPost Publications gives us an inside scoop on how Facebook's new "under the radar" presence in NY hasn't been the warmest (legally speaking). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 388 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.news.com)
Category: Blogging
I constantly hear from bloggers & editors "Why aren't my articles appearing in search?" For starters, you may want to make sure that you're headlines are written for search. To understand how your audience will find you in search (young grasshopper) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 399 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google
Arnold Zafra at Search Engine Journal outlines the announcement of OpenSocial; common API's that will set the standard for the development of social applications. Founding members include Friendster, hi5, LinkedIn, Six Apart, & Orkut.

Poor Face read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.forbes.com)
Category: Google Other
Forbes reports on an interesting technology by Blinkx that is able to "listen" and "watch" video content in order to algorithmically place text ads above video content, where as Google's attempt to display ads from YouTube will be based on Video tit read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 422 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.news.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Stephen Spencer talks about a FREE online virtual trade show for eCommerce Marketers that started yesterday and going on through tomorrow. Today (Weds, Oct. 10) at 1:30(PDT), there will be a session about SEO and Wikipedia (I know I'm going to check read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Searching
Shor made this must-read post on SEOmoz that I find quite intriguing. Borrowing from Koreas' dominant search engine "Naver", can services like Yahoo Answers become the foundation for they type of searches that users are really looking for; Answers f read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 427 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seochat.com)
Category: Google
Terri Wells at SEO Chat reports on the Google-DoubleClick merger possibly coming to a halt. **Important read for advertisers utilizing the DoubleClick platform.** read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 428 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ajaxflakes.com)
Category: Social Media
Here's a compilation of over 300 social bookmarking sites from ajaxflakes.com. Complete with PR values, features and tools of each site, and even sites in foreign languages (71 are foreign). This is one page to bookmark. Thanx ajaxflakes.

Enjoy! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 429 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.urlwire.com)
Category: Searching
Sweet! Specialized search engine from Fusa Consumer Search Network allows users to access thousands of internet radio stations from around the world. I thought we could all benefit from this one.

Enjoy! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 430 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Carrie Hill with the ClickZ network does a nice job of outlining what businesses should consider when bringing their company into an online environment. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 430 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media
Here's a new kid on the block; FriendFeed. Founded by four ex-Googlers, (Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh) FriendFeed beta launched today which will aggregate social network data into a single feed?

Will this be a succe read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 430 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Other Social Media
This is an interesting one. So what happens when someone snaps a picture of you, uploads it to Flickr, then weeks later is being used by an ad agency in another country? Here's a hint; someone's suing somebody...

What do you think? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 431 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Here's a quick summary from Search Engine Roundtable of what to expect from Live Search since Microsoft has beefed up their search engine:
- Relevance
- Load Times
- User Experience
- More "high interest" content read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 434 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
I've decided to reserve my Friday's as my days to post water color discussions. (I mean hey, it's Friday, we can all breath a little easier, look forward to the weekend, all that good stuff).

So I thought, why not ask all the Sphinn Doctors on h read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 435 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.micropersuasion.com)
Category: Other Social Media
An interesting "out of the box" approach by Steve Rubel on using your Gmail and Twitter accounts as another way to keep the "lifebase" alive with social networking.

(This is one of those articles that makes you go "Hmmmmmm?") read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 436 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO
Rand Fishkin over at SEOmoz gives his two cents as to what 4 factors equate to 90% of how keywords are ranked in search. He seems to make a great point with great illustrations. (Way to go Rand). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 438 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mozila.pl)
Category: SEO
Here's a great round up of the top 7 extensions for Firefox according to "tojan3" on the Mozilla Firefox Blog.  I have several of these extensions myself, however I'm going to try out the "Kgen" extension which tojan3 descri read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 443 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google
Concerned that your site may be vulnerable to hackers or deceptive malware? The folks over at the Google Webmaster Blog have assembled some helpful tips to help keep your site safe and secure. A nice read. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 444 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: News Sites
The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site which goes into effect at midnight Tuesday night.

It's mentioned in the article that "many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other si read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 448 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google
So I just logged into Webmaster Tools, and to my surprise, it has a nice new clean look. (I would provide screen shots, but it looks like we can't do that on here....."yet")

Left-hand navigation flows easily to all of the webmaster tools, which read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 450 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Social Media
Now we've all seen how presidential candidates are leveraging the internet to attract the masses with their campaigns (YouTube, etc). All seems to make sense. Heck, if I were running for the pres spot, I'd probably do the same. But for some reason u read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 450 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
To end this day on a lighter note, let's see what kind of creative names everyone can come up with if you had your own social networking site. Give the theme of your site, and what you would call it. I'll start this one...

This would be a social read more »
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