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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 8:26 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchandsocial.com)
Category: Link Building
Have you ever received an email from someone requesting a link exchange touting that they have a valuable link to offer you? Ever purchased a link from a broker at a particular cost based on metrics over negotiation? How do they usually declare that read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 3:10 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
Patrick Altoft writes, "The thing that really upsets most webmasters isn’t the fact that Google has decided to force the whole nofollow paid links issue on the web. Most people, myself included, believe that Google has every right to make up whateve read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 10:38 pm
Posted By: AffiliateDragon 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.affiliatedragon.com)
Category: Water Cooler
The world of internet marketing can be a minefield of personalities, but there are certain characters you will see over and over again. These characters range from a little naive to downright dishonest… see how many of these 11 you recognise. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 2:16 pm
Posted By: Gab 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Web Analytics
First time Youmoz poster Rob shares a tip from inside the gov't on getting gov't analytics data! Get yours while it's hot :D!! read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 11:17 am
Posted By: shansen11 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.utahwebservices.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Great review of basic SEO conversion tactics. The conversion of a visitor to a client is everything. I like the quote "A site that ranks well and doesn't capture customers/visitors is like an umbrella on a sunny day." Exactly right especially if the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 11:43 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomegacorp.com)
Category: News Sites
Want to be successful on Digg? Why not do exactly what the most successful Diggers are doing. Manish details 10 of the habits of successful Diggers.

Good read! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 12, 2008 - 1:09 am
Posted By: samirb 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Water Cooler
David from Huomah.com decides Marketer's and Reputation Managers don't work hard enough. He's come up with an anti-reputation-management company, who's singular goal is to "b*$%h slap" your competitors.

"If you’ve got a competitor (or even a fri read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 10:57 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEM
Ann Smarty looks at the world's hottest web and search trends. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 8:16 am
Posted By: Lyndon 60 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoblackhat.com)
Category: Online Marketing
"No, Seth, it doesn’t take 10 years to become a success."

I follow Seth, I have his books, but I don't agree with everything "anyone" says, SEOblackhat.com echoes my thought. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 4:06 pm
Posted By: BrendanPicha 63 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 8, 2008 - 12:10 pm
Posted By: Gab 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com)
Category: Social Media
If you are like most Social Media users, you have more than one of social media profile on the web. Letting your friends and blog readers know what sites you use will allow you to connect in more places with new and current friends. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 4:35 am
Posted By: shimsand 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
StumbleUpon has plans to finally remove their 200 friend limit. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 11:34 am
Posted By: DaveDavis 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.palmerwebmarketing.com)
Category: Usability
“Never assume.” - These 2 words represent the greatest advice ever given to me on the topic of website optimization. Here’s a list of 10 assumptions site owners make (myself included) that could cost you a ton of business. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 2:22 pm
Posted By: storyspinner 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialalerter.com)
Category: Social Media
Pierre has an interesting tale on how to Pre-classify your web pages so Eskimos don't receive refrigerators as
gifts and your hard work won't be mis-classified and given a thumbs down.

It's quite a charming tale... go on, read it, it'll make you read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 2:57 am
Posted By: TCSM 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchlightdigital.com)
Category: Google SEO
The ultimate guide to where people click. This data is the result of 36,389,567 searches and 19,434,540 clicks. The results make for interesting reading... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 9:11 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Ann Smarty writes, "HighRankings forums recently discussed a SEO case when a person had to optimize for 50 states and reviewed potential pros and cons of the following possible steps to take." read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2008 - 3:24 pm
Posted By: rhcerff 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Networking
Fake Social Media Profiles - Good, Bad or Ugly. I think Michael Gray really hits the nail on the head with this one. I guess as with so many other things it really comes down to the intent. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 11:23 am
Posted By: gyutae 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Can any start-up search engine "be the next Google?" Many have wondered this, and today's launch of Cuil (pronounced "cool') may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what appears to b read more »
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Avatar Posted By: szetela 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clickz.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Excellent article by PPC expert Kevin Lee. A must-read for all PPC advertisers. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 27, 2008 - 10:54 pm
Posted By: kelvinnewman 77 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 77 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 Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 6:17 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
The biggest list of SEO tools. Ever. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 6:35 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: News Sites
Maki writes, "So what do you do? One method that works is just to use references to heighten content relevance and styling your articles in a catchy format that is easily accessible. What this template looks like will of course, depend on the specif read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 1:55 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cracked.com)
Category: News Sites
Digg, Reddit and all the other so-called “social media” sites can be a great way to get your message out to millions of people, but with so many voices out there screaming for attention it’s hard to be heard sometimes–even if that 400,000-word poem read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 3:32 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: News Sites
Our findings show that, in general, lots of mainstream sites are very good at linking out and that there is a direct correlation between the number of links they give and the number of links they receive. read more »
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