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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 6:39 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Searching
A Google patent granted this week explores how a search engine might look at queries that contain stopwords or stop-phrases, and determine whether or not the stopword or stop-phrase is meaningful enough to include in search results shown to a search read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 8:48 am
Posted By: kwegner 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://unclepeppers.com)
Category: SEO
Uncle Peppers talks about how Sphinn has taken the fun out of being an SEO blogger. From regurgitated headlines to pointless topics, the SEO space has become completely clogged. This isn't the fault of Sphinn, but it just shows the severity of it al read more »
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Avatar Posted By: thegoldenhat 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thegoldenhat.com)
Category: Search Marketing
One would think that the PPC ads found in the Google SERP for keyword searches like "SEO" would be higher quality than your typical PPC ad. WRONG! It turns out that SEO'ers are some of the worst perpetrators of crappy PPC campaigns. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 9:54 am
Posted By: Maing 78 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
SEOs look at the source code of almost every page - I do even when I am not analyzing the page and just browsing. That’s quite natural, I’ve been looking for tools that can represent the information in a better way or allow for more valuable options read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: northrock 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Twice now I have have personally seen private conversations that Matt has had with web masters appear on the net, personally I’m in two minds on this.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 6:28 am
Posted By: theGypsy 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Water Cooler
DaveN - Now call me cynical but with all this false stories and linkbait, can we trust you Matt :O - ... at the moment it’s just a holding page on pair, so my guess it a WP hack again seeing loads of that or a Pair attack.

theGypsy - in the end read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ColinCochrane 129 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: June 6, 2008 - 2:25 pm
Posted By: Susan 130 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Lisa Barone returns from SMX with a question: "But at the same time, I couldn't help but notice that this year's Advanced show seemed to lean a whole lot more to the grey/black hat side of things. I couldn't help but wonder: When did advanced search read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 5, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Jaan has a poll and I want ya'll to get over and vote for your fav Web Gypsy - I shall send gifts and much Plurk Karma your way.... bwaaa ha ha ha ha.... (oh it is too early for this...) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: ColinCochrane 146 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 Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 9:44 pm
Posted By: MelissaF 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoaware.com)
Category: SEO
Some thoughts on SEO ethics by some industry experts- Matt McGee, Michael Gray, Jeff Quipp, Jim Hedger and more. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jimhedger 182 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 Went Hot: March 13, 2008 - 1:24 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 215 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seosmarty.com)
Category: Google Searching
A simple analysis on Annie7's (SEOSMARTY) site on how the new search within search (teleportation) is not necessarily the best thing for brands. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 11:12 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stuntdubl.com)
Category: SEM Industry
(Ahem. Don't blame me. I didn't write the headline!) So, as Todd Malicoat tells us ... "here is what you should do if you really want to be a total outcast douchebag at an SEO Conference." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 8, 2008 - 3:11 pm
Posted By: Gab 220 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://promote-my-site.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Just what the title says. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 8, 2008 - 9:21 pm
Posted By: Gamermk 220 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
We've had the DeSphinn feature live for a while and I think it's time it gets more power.

What do you guys think 1 to 1 ratio on Sphinn/DeSphinn or not? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 9, 2008 - 7:24 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Paid Search
If you're spending money on pay per click marketing, you must buy your brand name! Ignore those who say otherwise. Make damned sure you're bidding on the name, mispellings, and the like. Even if you rank #1 for your own name. Do it anyway. Here's wh read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 8, 2008 - 4:48 am
Posted By: discuit 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google AdWords
A WebmasterWorld thread tipped both Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Roundtable (that's me) off on the fact that Google has added an additional quality score factor to the AdWords ranking algorithm. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 10:39 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semclubhouse.com)
Category: Other Searching
There are 3 major parts to what a search engine does. What are some of the problems facing crawling programs? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 27, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 229 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jenniferslegg.com)
Category: SEO
When doing keyword research it is important not to get in a rut and simply look at keyword research as “consumer” only… or worse, from the business point of view rather than the potential customer’s point of view. But smart keyword researchers reali read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 27, 2008 - 11:34 am
Posted By: Sebastian 230 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google said they ignore reconsideration requests unless the link spammer has removed all traces on the Web. Unfortunately, getting inserted links deleted at all places is impossible. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 29, 2008 - 6:25 am
Posted By: nowsourcing 230 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emomsathome.com)
Category: Social Media
Wendy Piersall puts out a fine open letter to StumbleUpon, addressing things that may have worked before but weren't meant for the 4 million+ community that it has amassed. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 25, 2008 - 6:16 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 233 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 Went Hot: February 22, 2008 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 236 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: SEO
For many people, a manifesto is something to think about. For some people it defines a way of life. For a very few people it may become an object to be feared, disputed, and opposed. Like art, a good manifesto evokes some sort of reaction in people. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: BritAlex 238 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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