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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2008 - 5:34 am
Posted By: toddmintz 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.hitwise.com)
Category: SEM
Dustin Woodard does a guest post at the Hitwise blog which shows that the Long Tail of Search could actually be 90+ % of natural search traffic--meaning the tail could be without much of a head or body. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 6:21 am
Posted By: jfj3rd 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: SEO
Rand Outs a company ranking for SEO Company in Google sighting poor links and Aaron disagrees with the decision to write such a post. Who / where do you stand in this argument? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mdjensen 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.97thfloor.com)
Category: Link Building
Chris details some great tips for internal link building (old school) and inbound contextual links (new school), well worth the read and he gives some practical ways to go about optimizing internal links and getting inbound links with more success. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2008 - 11:34 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidmihm.com)
Category: Local & Maps
David Mihm talks with BOTW's Greg Hartnett about BOTW Local -- and Greg shares some good insights based on the first few months it's been open, and thoughts on where it's going next. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 11, 2008 - 8:02 pm
Posted By: graywolf 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.1938media.com)
Category: Social Media
Straight talk from Loren Feldman of 1938 on why personal branding is a made up term and a complete waste of your time. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BrentCsutoras 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.quicksprout.com)
Category: Water Cooler
For each person success means a different thing. For Neil, it was when Pamela Lund tattooed my name on her body. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vbin 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.elance.com)
Category: Networking
Just building a feature-filled social networking site with a sound infrastructure is only the start of your website journey. Don’t fret, though, because it’s an exciting journey: social networking sites are the most visited area of the Internet. Acc read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2008 - 8:03 am
Posted By: andrewsho 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.localseoguide.com)
Category: SEO
What the coming (or already upon us) economic downturn means for small business websites & SEO. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 25, 2008 - 1:57 am
Posted By: Rhea 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cesarserna.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Cesar Serna has been trying to pimp his newest project, Soxialize (which rocks), and he took the time to detail some tests he did with StumbleUpon. Great insight and figures that show where the real value in SU comes from. Not a surprise to most of read more »
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Avatar Posted By: shocs 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Networking
Would you trust a social media friend with your money? Your home? Your significant other? Your children? Your life? Your answer to those questions will determine whether or not you feel that friends, as used in social media, are friends like you had read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 9:04 am
Posted By: ChrisLang 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.keywebdata.com)
Category: Social Media
Digg bans Zaibatsu as Digg goes into a massive cleanup effort to try and still sell the place. Many have already been banned from Digg and everyone is laying low right now, even Digg to 10. Can you hear Kevin crying in his sleep, "Google come back, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: vbin 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialnewscentral.ning.com)
Category: News Sites
Here's the full text of the e-mail from Digg and my response:

Hello R.J.,

Thanks for contacting us at Digg.com. At this time, we are unable to remove the ban on your account.

--Digg Support read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 7:20 am
Posted By: planetc1 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://devbasu.com)
Category: Social Media
Dev Basu writes... Sometimes it can be pretty hard to come up with creative social media link bait ideas for otherwise un-interesting small businesses. After brainstorming for a bit, I think I’ve come up with some ideas that can be applied to almost read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 10:45 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: SEO
Organic search engine optimization expert Rhea Drysdale will be joining Jim Boykin's We Build Pages team as SEO & Social Media Coordinator.

Congrats to Rhea and the WBP team! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 21, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: Lyndon 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Dipping my toe into the seo recruitment world a few prejudices have surfaced and it's created a very interesting discussion. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: SEO
Marty Weintraub writes, "A timeless truth of online marketing is that a substantial percentage of online leads and sales result from “direct brand” searches. This simply means customers often Google the actual name of your business or branded produ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 18, 2008 - 12:19 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Blogging
David Naylor does the Calcanis dance, saying "I Quit!", but of course he then mentions he'll be back later. His frustration with whatever Google glitch / penalty / error / ban is affecting his blog's indexing has prompted him to throw in the towel. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JoshuaSciarrino 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Water Cooler
An outstanding professional and positive message from Michael Gray. Honestly, my hat is off to him for this post. I spoke against him, publicly on sphinn, but now, I'd like to publicly praise Michael Gray. Good job!!! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 18, 2008 - 11:44 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Turned down on a link request? Loren Baker: "...even though they may have said no, there are still ways to bring value from these connections which will help with your website marketing." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 7:21 am
Posted By: BrentCsutoras 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://tonyadam.com)
Category: Search Marketing
At a large organization, setting and managing expectations can be crucial to your growth as a marketer. Along those same lines, having some basic understanding of managing projects can also make or break your campaigns and the overall success of it. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 9:00 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Lee Odden writes, "With search engine optimization a challenge for most company marketers to stay current with, how exactly are businesses supposed to confidently hire a SEO consultant? Google has an opinion on this if you haven’t noticed." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 9:04 am
Posted By: DanielMcskelly 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
Quick run down of the three types of "super affiliates" as we see them and the one thing they all share - a work ethic that would make James Brown blush. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 19, 2008 - 9:07 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Link Building
There is absolutely nothing wrong with earning a link from a blog post you decide to comment on. In fact, if you comment often on blogs, it is a good way to increase the amount of inbound links pointing to your site's pages. However, there is a "rig read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 18, 2008 - 4:24 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Usability
Ann Smarty writes, "As a sitewide element, footers used to be a widely used way to both interlink your own pages and add external sitewide links. It was then so much used and abused that it turned into a some kind of "red flag" for search engines (e read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 18, 2008 - 12:02 pm
Posted By: JoshuaSciarrino 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jimboykin.com)
Category: Google Searching
Yesterday QualityGal gave a few thoughts on the recent comments about Michael Gray’s take on Guy Kawasaki accepting a camera for the review…and how they feel Google should treat this (the ole paid link debate stuff). read more »
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