BritAlex

Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 5:19 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.domainnamenews.com)
Category: Domaining
Whoa. This is big news for anyone who owns a domain, and certainly for folks who buy and sell them. "The California Federal Court decision should make it crystal clear to would-be domain name purchasers that true ownership of a domain name is not ba read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Google Other
In a feat of incredible cunning, Colin Cochrane stole the Google Algorithm from Matt Cutts, the popular Googler who recently was promoted to moral compass at the search giant. The following pictures show the daring feat as it happened at the SEOmoz read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: ColinCochrane 186 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Google Searching
Just like the title says, this may be the greatest sitelink that Google has ever generated for a site.

Be warned, however, because it is quite offensive. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Amusing anti-Hillary Clinton sentiments in a AdSense presentation. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jakeshaffer 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gettingmorevisitors.com)
Category: SEO
Some common SEO myths busted read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jimhedger 222 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: SEO
Somewhere in America the Webmaster Central teams from Google and Microsoft Live will face each other head to head in quasi-athletic competition. The rival search-squads will be squaring off in public against each other in one of the few forums their read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 244 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft
A patent application from Microsoft explores the use of anchor text to define the context of a page and terms that it might rank for that don’t appear upon that page. It also discusses how the search engine might generate snippets for those pages wh read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 261 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google
Amusing guide as to how the Googlebot goes about its business. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 25, 2008 - 6:16 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: SEO
A new patent application on near duplicate content from Google explores using a combination of document similarity techniques to keep searchers from finding redundant content in search results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 278 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: SEO
Comedy alt attribute, as seen in an article on a major UK newspaper's website. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: ColinCochrane 280 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
It appears that within the past 2-3 days the popular social book-marking site del.icio.us has started blocking the major search engine spiders from crawling their site.

This isn't a simple robots.txt exclusion either, but rather a 404 response t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 285 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fadtastic.net)
Category: SEM
Some examples of call-to-action buttons in order to entice a click thru'. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 305 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
“Don’t Break the Web” is a rule that the Internet Explorer development team has been applied to six major versions of IE over the past decade, with each of these versions seeing the application of this rule in a different way.

It is a rule may a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.etisales.com)
Category: Search Marketing
How good are the leads generated from your landing pages or forms? This article gives some interesting findings, including:
"We found that people have a tendency to answer questions online in the manner they feel will get them better attention and read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Are Microsoft aiming to topple Google's dominance with this acquisition? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: hobsdv 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.1stchoicetraffic.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
any people do not like writing articles they feel it takes too long and soon get fed up when nobody reads it. Some people don’t even like to read them but that is what articles are there for or it’s just a complete waste of time writing them. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 24, 2007 - 3:47 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 336 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Back in July, Matt Cutts made the announcement at the Wordpress Wordcamp that underscores are now treated as spaces in Google.

Blogs, webmaster communities, and SEO professionals rejoiced – but why does it seem Google DOES NOT treat underscores a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: prabhu 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: Google SEO
Hi,

I have recently found that google webmaster tool is showing errors in all most all my website xml sitemaps. This is a google internal problem or I should submit my entire xml site map again. Go to your webmaster tool account and check, is it read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 367 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.mediapost.com)
Category: SEO
Amusing post that explains that when writing page content the needs of search engines should not reduce readability. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 22, 2007 - 8:56 pm
Posted By: pops 368 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seorefugee.com)
Category: SEO
Why we should all be glad that Google isn't running heaven...

Yet. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2007 - 7:17 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 368 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
Forgotten –and, until recently, ignored– not standardized statements in your robots.txt might change Googlebot's behavior all of a sudden, without notice.

I don't know for sure which experimental crawler directives Google has implemented yet, bu read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 380 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Google SEO
In the latest Webmaster Central blog post, Google explains that dealing with Ajax is pretty much just the same as what SEOs have been doing for Javascript and Flash all along. They suggest checking pages for spiderability, by disabling JavaScript or read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 388 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Has anyone else seen this increase in competition on MSN? As MSN has been in 'no mans land' for a while, this may be a precursor to a MSN update, perhaps? read more »
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