BrendanPicha

Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 8:12 pm
Posted By: ViperChill 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Recently Google started blocking several of the big-name rank checking software used by many in the SEO industry. This, of course, sparked the debate on whether SEO firms should be bothering with providing ranking reports to their clients. I have to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 4:06 pm
Posted By: BrendanPicha 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://hamletbatista.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Hamlet Batista has a great write up here about how automatic ranking software (WPG, WebCEO, SEO Studio) is being blocked by Google. He goes on to say why you shouldn't fixate on ranking reports and offers a solution(s). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: tonyadam 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoworld.entrepreneur.com)
Category: Social Media
Entrepreneur.com's Jon Rognerud interviews Brent Csutoras on Social Media in Entrepreneur.com SEO World Blog... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 12:49 am
Posted By: ThirstyPony 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
WebCEO, WebPositionGold and other automated rank reporting software may be going the way of the Dodo. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 2:33 pm
Posted By: vangogh 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
Whenever there’s a big shift in the search results, you need to know what the search engines see, and what they could possibly be changing, to try and find the source of your troubles or success. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 3, 2008 - 10:15 am
Posted By: nowsourcing 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
Collective Thoughts announces new blogger Brendan Picha of Squareoak, and also trying out a new format where the CT team shares a thought for the week as well. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 27, 2008 - 10:54 pm
Posted By: kelvinnewman 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Social Media
The Beeb cover the rise of online hoaxes and even mention SEO's very own Lyndon from Cornwall SEO read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 27, 2008 - 10:02 pm
Posted By: YoungMaster 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: SEM
3 nice tips from Gabriel Goldenberg on how you can make use of Archive.org read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Blogging
This post is mainly about a ranking experiment but contained within there is a huge list of pinging services and Wordpress plugins that will assist in content distribution when publishing WP posts. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 2:33 pm
Posted By: nowsourcing 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
A discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of letting employees use social media at work, and how to make it work in the benefit of employers. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: Social Media
We are seeing some significant discrepancies between what we've paid SU ads to show and what our analytics is recording. Has anyone else noticed issues with this? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 7:31 am
Posted By: dedmond29 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: SEM
SEO and SEM are challenging tasks for B2B companies, particularly in industries such as Manufacturing and Industrial Technology. Here are 7 examples of how these types of companies can increase leads and revenue through creative search engine market read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 2:15 pm
Posted By: dedmond29 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.komarketingassociates.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Here is a checklist of valuable questions and details to look for in a web analytics package related to your search engine marketing efforts, regardless of website size or company budget. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ThirstyPony 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thirstypony.com)
Category: Social Media
Is it a business directory, a networking site or an overambitious hybrid destined to over-extend itself and die on the vine? Regardless, LinkedIn and Plaxo have a bunch of lesser-known red headed stepchildren you should be using for online reputatio read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 4:17 am
Posted By: WayneSmallman 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Tim Nash weighs in on the recent controversy surrounding Danny Sullivian's comments regarding SEO... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: parp 95 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Tim has looked at the placement of links from 100 SEO websites and the results make interesting viewing. Using a simple red, orange and blue shading scheme, it is possible to see where popular spots are for links. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 1, 2008 - 5:40 pm
Posted By: SeoDesignSolutions 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.timnash.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Tim Nash provides a great overview of link worth in this must read post.

From the Page: A link is a link is link, a common mantra but not all links are equal, indeed inbound links from the same page are not always equal. Most Search Engines reco read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.squareoak.com)
Category: News Sites
A successful Digg submission considers an appropriately written title, good references, and your influence within the network read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google
The robotic nature of the Google SERPs can occasionally paint a personally damaging picture, especially in the case of Rep. John Breaux, D-La. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gyutae 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Link Building
While I’ve long held that Google duplicate content filters are easily defeated, I’ve never truly examined the implications of them on a large scale link building effort. First, it may help to examine the large issues google has with link building at read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Blogging
"...Ariel Waldman started receiving "multiple accounts of harassment" from another user of the microblogging service and that when she petitioned to Twitter's community manager, he opted to remove the Twitter posts in question from the site's "publi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: beussery 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googleblog.blogspot.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google's latest post is a great read for anyone interested in "search"! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrendanPicha 119 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://baltimoreseo-by-murph.com)
Category: Social Media
George Murphy, an SEO from Baltimore has a great article here about how large corporations are successfully embracing Twitter as a means for customer feedback management read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 2:22 pm
Posted By: shimsand 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://danzarrella.com)
Category: Online Marketing
This first graph shows the differences between the types of content non-Twitter users share individually and what Twitter-addicts share. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 10:10 am
Posted By: Rachel 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Social Media
David Wallace provides an impressive and informative look at what is appropriate when submitting articles to social media sites. He explains proper title, description and category selection etiquette, giving clear examples and elucidating on why th read more »
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