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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 5:39 am
Posted By: toddmintz 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google Other
Effective 9/1/2008, John Andrews will be working for Google. He explains why in his post. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2008 - 9:15 pm
Posted By: ciaran 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: SEO
Patrick thinks that Google is reducing the weight it puts on anchor text in setting rankings: it's not based on a huge amount of evidence, but it's an interesting proposition.. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 17, 2008 - 7:00 am
Posted By: Guillaume 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: News Sites
It just couldn't get worse. I mean, the top banner, all the wasted space (when I say wasted, it is really because it is, I do like clean and minimalist designs).

Well, what do you guys think about it, after having played with is a couple weeks? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 15, 2008 - 2:44 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Great post from Jill Whalen, looking at six common SEO issues which effect a website's performance. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 11:38 pm
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 102 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Bookmarking
What do you do when your blog covers more than one topic (let's say SEO and Gadgets..) and your audiences are likely to hang around on different social media sites?

Seeing a Sphinn logo in the top left of your content isn’t exactly appropriate w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Harith 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://twitter.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts has posted on Twitter today(http://twitter.com/mattcutts/statuses/866824220):
"Unsubscribing to seomoz for a bit. Read http://bit.ly/3ABPRk right after http://bit.ly/2ZbJjy . "Tree hugger SEO publicly bitching"? Sheesh."

The two artic read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 12, 2008 - 10:36 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Social Media
There was a recent study on popfail which showed the last 500 stories to hit the front page of Digg. An impressive 1/3 of the 500 were controlled by 10 users. Of those 10 users many are recognized in the SEO industry. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 10:44 am
Posted By: martinbowling 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Dave Synder writes "Maybe this will become all that Snydey Sense is. One list after another of people I like.If that happens someone put a pillow over my face while I’m sleeping.The reality of the situation is that I wrote the last piece with six sp read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 11:34 pm
Posted By: ZakNicola 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: SEO
"Cease and desist with the 3 way links and arrest the development of your satellite sites" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 10:29 am
Posted By: deadsetchamp 138 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchblog.tamar.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google keyword tool reporting numbers, not blue bars. It has changed back but have screenshots - is this a Google blunder or a sign of things to come? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: tamar 139 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://en.wikipedia.org)
Category: Other Social Media
Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 1:44 pm
Posted By: JGFox 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bramblog.com)
Category: SEO
From the story: This is pretty cut/dry - we found a couple of cloaked redirects on Trulia’s site. It looks like they’re doing it simply to pump the PR of specific pages, and to get some good sitewide one-way links. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:37 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 7:53 am
Posted By: dedmond29 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkedin.com)
Category: SEO
There are many examples of genuine disdain being expressed for SEO on LinkedIn. Why? Interesting read through (right now) 21 responses on why there is distrust or people have commentary on SEO practices via LinkedIn Answers. What do you think? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 6:47 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jonathancrossfield.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Does online marketing need a code of conduct to protect the integrity of online information? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Avinio 195 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://prstore.typepad.com)
Category: Social Media
Nice list of 25 things you should and can help your PR promotion. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: thinkingserious 212 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://davidmoyle.wordpress.com)
Category: SEO
How much of it is the responsibility of the web developer? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 11:33 pm
Posted By: kichus 213 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kichus.in)
Category: SEO
Google now indexes some aspects of flash content but not everything. This article describes exactly what Google tells us it can index and its limits. Before spending thousands of your or your client's funds on a full flash site, here is a checklist read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 10:16 pm
Posted By: everett 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Search Marketing
If you're a small business–or one that operates only in a particular geographic region–you might be forgiven for seeing "online reputation management" and think it doesn't apply to you. You're not a big brand, you don't have to worry about the Wall read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 7:10 pm
Posted By: miketighe 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seminsights.com)
Category: SEO
A good and fair article on why big brands downplay SEO dealing with everything from brand politics to the sites technology. It seems that the bigger you get the harder it gets to do good SEO. What do you think? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 1:29 pm
Posted By: WebGeek 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hybrid6.com)
Category: Blogging
I have to strongly disagree with Technorati's recent forced upgrades. I dislike strong-arming tactics like this, and think it's dangerous, for several reasons. At the risk of voicing a potentially unpopular opinion, I feel strongly that this needs t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bhartzer 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vizioninteractive.com)
Category: Searching
IAC has launched Rushmore Drive, a search engine that is the first of its kind to attempt to deliver more relevant search results to the black community. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 10, 2008 - 11:52 am
Posted By: rustybrick 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: SEM
I love videos! I have been messing around with them for a few months now and yesterday, I officially launched a video podcast. For now, I will likely just do weekly video recaps, 10 minutes or less, on the past week's search news/tips.

I have d read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 7, 2008 - 10:26 am
Posted By: gyutae 229 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: SEO
I had the privilege of attending Elite Retreat last week and somehow found myself seated between Andy Liu and Aaron Wall at the dinner table. Both are great classy guys and I definitely learned a lot from them. More to come on that later. For now, h read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 6:39 am
Posted By: bwelford 231 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.staygolinks.com)
Category: Blogging
WordPress by default applies a NoFollow tag on all blog post comments. A recent Cre8asite Forums discussion suggested using the Lucia's Linky Love plugin. Using both DoFollow and Akismet plugins, it takes more work but valuable comments can get li read more »
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