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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Sphinn this if you think its the most stupid post you have read about the whole Flash issue.

Being indexed and being ranked highly is a totally different thing, why are people spouting so much crap about this? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
5 massive websites that appear to have some kind of PR penalty. Shows it's not just small blogs that feel the wrath of Google. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dailyblogtips.com)
Category: Blogging
The ultimate list of terms related to blogging & most aspects of online marketing. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://valleywag.com)
Category: Google Other
A source familiar with the talks says Google and Digg reached an agreement last month; it's not clear whether the offer was verbal or a formal termsheet. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: News Sites
Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of your good content and your SMO campaign. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 76 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
One commenter put it quite well after the announcement:
Wasn’t the process you went through more like this?
1/ We looked at what Google were doing
2/ We copied it read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEO
Britannica has a long way to go to catch up with Wikipedia but they can certainly start to challenge them in the long term. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEO
Ofcom claimed that there is a battle underway between search providers and marketers - namely between those focused on offering the consumer relevant results and those determined to drive valuable traffic to their commercial website. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insiders-view.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
www.kwik-fitinsurance.com with over 10,000 links no longer ranks for it's own name on Google. It still ranks 50th for "car insurance". read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.arhg.net)
Category: Bookmarking
And so I present the Yahoo Pipe for Micro Sphinn (beta 0.1) which outputs sphinn posts when two or more of the following have voted for the same story. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Blogging
April Fools day 2008 has officially started and this post will be updated for the next 36 hours with the latest pranks. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: Link Building
It's saying something when the owner of diy.com starts resorting to buying links. The links they are buying aren't even pointing to the right pages. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Do we all log into our Google Webmaster consoles and start reporting. Buying links has never been so cheap and never been so risky… read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://aprilfools2008.com)
Category: Blogging
Get your linkbait hats on.
April Fools day isn’t just a day to play pranks on your friends and readers - in recent years it has become an amazingly effective method of driving traffic and building natural links to your website as well. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: News Sites
Google is the top referral source and consistently drives a significant share of Digg’s traffic. For example, Google provided 39% of Digg’s upstream traffic for the week ending March 8, 2008 and Yahoo followed as the next largest source of traffic. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://valleywag.com)
Category: Google Other
115,000 copies of San Francisco magazine, on newsstands throughout the city, name Marissa Mayer as Google's "Googirl." But on the Web, the article has gone missing. Could the editors have belatedly Googled "googirl"? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://selfmademinds.com)
Category: Blogging
Here are a few ideas on ways to extend a site in a different direction by adding new features. For the following features many are available as scripts (both paid and free), or alternatively can be coded. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Blogging
"I thought I’d give the blogging community a little refresher on the best new plugins available to jazz up your blog through social media optimization." Everybody should use these. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.lingscars.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Ling, of Dragons Den fame, supplied £28m of new cars in 2007 from her website. Here she gives a masterclass in offline website marketing. A must read for any webmaster. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Google, as ever, is spot on already. In fact Google is already hard at work indexing the search results from BigSnapSearch.com because Microsoft forgot to add a robots.txt file. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.niallkennedy.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Intelligent websites should tune-in to the content preferences of their visitors, tailoring a specific experience based on each visitor's favorite sites and services across the social web. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mconsulting.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
"The Search division of digital advertising specialist, DoubleClick, will work with gocompare.com on natural search optimisation." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: SEO
The best of the best. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: patrickaltoft 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://selfmademinds.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
Ling became a legend when she pitched for investment on Dragons Den and famously turned down 2 different offers from the Dragons, you can see a video of her pitch over on the Dragons’ Den site which includes the classic line “Chinese eats dragons fo read more »
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